
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Many thanks to the following 12 check-ins tonight!<div dir="ltr"></div><div><br></div><div>KA1MAP Don Burlington</div><div>AC1EV John Tewksbury</div><div>K1VK Paul Bedford</div><div>KC1KNC Joe Tewksbury</div><div>W1LPG Brendan Bedford</div><div>W1FDR Bob Chelmsford</div><div>K1OA Scott Andover</div><div>K1TW Tom Bedford</div><div>KC1KVY Bob Billerica</div><div>KC1IOK Doug in Lancaster</div><div>KC1IUK Chris Tewksbury</div><div>KC1GHR Christopher Tewksbury</div><div><br></div><div>Of note:</div><div><br></div><div>KC1KNC is hoping for recommendations on a QRP rig and right now is looking into the QRP Labs transceiver that is partly SDR. FYI I bought the $50 QCX CW transceiver (and recently ordered the enclosure) but have yet to sit down and build it. </div><div><a href="https://qrp-labs.com/qcx.html">https://qrp-labs.com/qcx.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>K1OA offered advice that the “Frog Sounds” $14 kit via </div><div><a href="https://m.banggood.com/Frog-Sounds-HAM-Radio-QRP-Kit-Telegraph-CW-Transceiver-Receiver-Radio-Station-p-980512.html">https://m.banggood.com/Frog-Sounds-HAM-Radio-QRP-Kit-Telegraph-CW-Transceiver-Receiver-Radio-Station-p-980512.html</a></div><div>Is not bad. I have built and used it and I agree. If I remember right someone does sell an extruded enclosure for it on Ebay. </div><div><br></div><div>W1FDR was looking for advice for getting ferrite cores for QRM reduction (W1HIS’s excellent talk) and several of us suggested Fair-Rite</div><div><a href="https://www.fair-rite.com/product-category/suppression-components/round-cable-emi-suppression-cores/">https://www.fair-rite.com/product-category/suppression-components/round-cable-emi-suppression-cores/</a></div><div><br></div><div>After the net KC1IOK reported he was happy to get the engineering kit of miscellaneous cores via Newark Electronics:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.newark.com/w/search/prl/results?st=Fair-rite+engineering+kit&categoryId=800000091502&krypto=i4GrXzti2KuNHQ8%2FpWDDp8FS9%2BLtGIzLJAs7osh4FDU12YL85ID49hwHWTM4cHqmhudbpiB7HEo8nstLsdRus2OrEY7ipEZpNvydoaV59JT2%2BCAq152OkIZ%2BupaBQTWI9Os%2FRj3uhm2TROjr7tSLD1jAhWMoK2CQ4kJzNBHctwmAFTarn24wCH2SIAGBX0qR1hexjK9lbFk0aNdiOA5dcAtarm2Kl0kf2VNwNSUAx5fO9A%2B7e81q6IE5sVPEcB%2FwLrjfRvG9qdFTOSYmNJ7galiHmM5%2BQWY%2FHwLgMO3SZ6%2Fzw66Pna9ncOW4OKnG4A8u&ddkey=https%3ASearch">https://www.newark.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to all for checking in, keeping it lively, and above all, helping each other. </div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div>KA1GTT</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>