The QSX Transceiver
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Eaton (WB9FLW), who writes:
QRP Labs has just announced the QSX an All-Band All-Mode Transceiver Kit that should be available later this year. The Target price for the 10 Band Model is $150, also available will be a 40 Meter version for $75.00.
Details from QRP Labs:
QSX (QRP Labs SSB Xcvr) is a 40m SSB transceiver with 10-band (160m-10m) and enclosure options. The kit inherits all the functionality of the famous QCX single-band CW transceiver kit but adds SSB, AM, FM, PSK31 and RTTY. This will be the lowest cost all-HF radio available but also high performance and packed with features. These are the planned features of QSX:
QSX is still in development! The above list is subject to change. The following is a FAQ with information about QSX.
More Info on QRP Labs Web Page:
https://www.qrp-labs.com/qsx.html
Check out the following video from YOTA 2018:
Click here to view on YouTube.
Fantastic! Many thanks for sharing this, Pete! This looks like a brilliant little kit for any skill level of patient kit builder.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
This is only the second Squires-Sanders rig that has appeared on the used market in decades, though it’s the amateur receiver.
The SS-IBS, the receiver pictured in a 1970s Communications Handbook in the shack of Richard Wood, the well-known SWL and linguist, is even rarer:
The white event tents that house a large number of vendors.
(Source: Southgate ARC)
CQ Magazine report there will still be tents for some commercial exhibitors at next year’s Dayton Hamvention.
In one of their first acts as leaders of the 2019 Hamvention, General Chairman Jack Gerbs, WB8SCT, and Assistant General Chairman Rick Allnutt, WS8G, announced on August 5th that they had been unable so far “to reach an agreement on a long-term contract (with Greene County officials) where both the Fairgrounds and Hamvention would feel comfortable erecting a new building.”
The announcement was made “in the spirit of being transparent,” they said. Gerbs and Allnut stressed that the overall relationship between the Dayton Amateur Radio Association and Greene County remains excellent and the Hamvention will continue to be held at the fairgrounds in Xenia. They cited improvements made for the 2018 show and promised more for 2019. However, a new commercial exhibits building will not be among them.
The 2019 Dayton Hamvention is scheduled for May 17-19.
CQ Magazine
http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/
I’ll admit: this is disappointing news. I’ve had a table in the tents the past two years at Hamvention. The first year (2017), the tents were pretty dismal–lighting was almost nonexistent and there was serious water intrusion.
This year, DARA obtained much better tents and did a proper job securing the walls and avoiding the drainage areas. Still, water intrusion was an issue. If it rained (and it did) the floors (i.e. asphalt) got wet. Vendors had to keep their inventory off of the floor at all times, else it would get soaked. Since so many products are stored in cardboard boxes, are electronic, and not waterproof, this was a serious issue. I spoke to one of the larger tent vendors who was really upset about the water intrusion and lack of security and vowed not to return unless they could get a proper indoor space.
To please outdoor tent vendors, I believe DARA ought to give discounted pricing for those spaces, increase security, and at least provide crates or pallets to help vendors keep their inventory from contacting the ground and getting soaked.
Click here to read our review of the 2017 Hamvention–the first at the Greene County Fairgrounds.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), for sharing the latest forecast from Tamitha Skov:
(Source: Southgate ARC)
Sweden’s societies the SSA and ESR both make older issues of their magazines available for free download
The Sveriges Sändareamatörer (Swedish Transmitting Amateurs) produce 11 issues a year of their magazine QTC and the archive from 2006-2016 can be downloaded from
http://www.ssa.se/ssa/medlemstidningen-qtc/The Experimenterande Svenska Radioamatörer (Experimental Swedish Radioamateurs) produce a quarterly magazine Resonans that can be downloaded from
http://resonans.esr.se/
The QRP Ranger (left) and LNR Precision LD-11 transceiver (right)
(Source: Southgate ARC)
RSGB has announced Syllabus 2019 for Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced amateur radio exams will be released during the week commencing August 13
There will be a considerable amount of work to be done by volunteers to implement the changes. It is understood there will be at least 12 month’s advance notice before the syllabus changes are implemented.
The announcement on the RSGB site says the new syllabus was approved by the RSGB Board in July. The 2018 RSGB Examination Standards Committee report indicates Ofcom approved the syllabus in May.
Read the RSGB announcement at
https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2018/07/31/syllabus-2019/2018 RSGB Examination Standards Committee report released
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2018/july/rsgb-examination-standards-committee-report-released.htmThe RSGB run an email group at groups.io to allow for regular updates, news and sharing of ideas between trainers. To join the group request membership from the web page: https://groups.io/g/RSGBtutors
