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Arkansas
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Kansas
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November
2002 Meeting
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Missouri
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Oklahoma
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The photos below are "clickable"
to view a larger image file.
November's luncheon get-together
was held on Saturday, November 16th at Barney's Kitchen in Seneca, Missouri.
We had 18 in attendance for lunch today. Kansas was exceptionally well represented
with a group of 5 QRP'ers and homebrewers driving over from the Augusta and
El Dorado area to join the fun.
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Bill KØCIY from El Dorado,
KS on the left visiting with Jay KØETC. Ira, KD5AUX is on the right.
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Looks like Joe, WØMQY
is showing us the cabinet size of his next QRP rig. Russ NØQLT
is in the foreground. Gene, NØMQ and Foy, KCØOCK are on
Joe's right.
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Jay KØETC brought several DX QSL cards, including
Japan, for contacts on six meters. Jay is getting very close to DXCC on 6 meters.
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Dick NØTGR from Augusta,
KS is showing us the Warbler that Dennis KCØIFQ built and uses
on the Four State Wednesday Warble.
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Ira KD5AUX recently obtained
this beautiful 40 meter rig from the UK.
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One of the main activities is the sharing of ideas
by bringing rigs and consecution projects.
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Larry ABØAH from Augusta,
KS built this very nice Small Wonder 40+ CW transceiver.
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The innards of Larry's 40
meter rig.
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Four
of the Augusta, Kansas area QRP'ers. From left to right Dennis, KCØIFQ,
Dick NØTGR, John KBØISE and Larry ABØAH.
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Tom N2UHC is looking at the "No
Excuses" article in QST. That's Dean, NO5E over on the right. Nancy,
NØFNZ is back in the corner with Rex, KC5UVN barely visible in
the left side of the photo.
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Gene, NØMQ shows us how to make a neat tilt stand for K1 rigs.
It is a plastic picture stand with kitchen shelf covering. This makes
a very nice nonskid tilt stand for only a couple of dollars.
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Steve,
WL7YQ looking at a few of the many QRP projects that were brought for
show & tell.
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Lunch
time at Barney's is always good eating!
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Doug, this one's
for you!
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We want to publicly thank Doug Hendricks, KI6DS
for all the support he has given to the Four State QRP Group with kits, component
parts and schematics to enable our members to make many of the home constructed
projects a reality! Thank you Doug!
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Jim
WBØIYC shows us the size of the tenderloin in his sandwich while
J.C. K5DMI looks on in amazement!
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That's
Barney, checking to make sure we have enough to eat.
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Lunch time is always the high point
of the get-togethers. Barney takes good care of us and tolerates our craziness.
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Jay, KØETC shows us his home brew 20 meter transceiver that his
is building.
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Jay's Manhattan style transceiver.
The VFO is in the solid aluminum box and the main transceiver RF board
is below.
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The next group project is the construction
of 80 meter CW transceivers to enable everyone to get on 80 for an area net.
This will help improve our CW operating proficiency.
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Sharing
of ideas and having fun!
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Russ, NØQLT built this
Pixie transceiver in an Altoids tin. A prototype of a 80 meter CW transceiver
is above it and a 80 meter VXO using a ceramic resonator is in the upper
left.
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After lunch, we adjourned to a nearby
facility where Joe, WØMQY demonstrated the art of PC board fabrication.
His process took us from developing the art work on a computer, creating the
resist pattern on Blue Film, and etching the board. The finished board was
perfect. Thanks for the demonstration Joe!
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Joe
WØMQY gave us a demonstration of PC board making. First, you
need to have the bare board perfectly clean.
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Joe is using a household iron
to apply the Press and Peal Blue Film to the board.
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Our next meeting will be Saturday,
December 21th at Barney's Kitchen in Seneca. See you there!
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