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and tonight My guest is Joe Eisenberg, K -0 -N
-E -B from Lincoln, Nebraska and is well known
for his kit building expertise. Joe is also well
known for his picture shows of Hamvention and
he's the longtime kit building editor at CQ Magazine
and often makes presentations and offers kit
builds at HamFest conventions and club meetings.
Joe started Ham Radio at an early age and has
been licensed since 1969 and he's well known
for his famous Dr. Seuss hat. So Joe, it's good
to see you at Huntsville. Welcome back to the
show. Well, Neil, it was great to see you at
Huntsville and I now have one of your nice blue
shirts and ready to wear at our local meetings
in Hamfest. Glad to have that on my back. The
hat, I only wear that at Hamvention. So if you
come to Xenia, that's when you're going to see
it. I have different hats I use for Orlando and
Huntsville. We had a great crowd at the forum.
They had us in kind of a noisy speaking room,
and that will be rectified next year. So it was
always good to give a presentation at Huntsville.
I went over several new kits that are on the
market and I'd like to talk about one first and
this kit is put out by the 4 -State QRP Group.
Now for those of you who don't know it, it's
at 4SQRP .com and it's a non -profit group and
they use the money that they get from the kits
to finance putting on Ozarkon. Ozarkon is an
annual convention in early April that's held
at the Stone Castle. And the Stone Castle is
in Branson, Missouri. And Branson is a great
place to take your family and it's a wonderful
weekend to spend with Ham Radio and do some sightseeing
and take in some of Branson's famous shows and
shopping. The kits are put together by a nice
crew of people that do this for the love of amateur
radio and are very talented engineers. Dave Benson,
K1SWL, has his hands in some of these kits. AA0ZZ
has produced a receiver and a keyer, actually
a few of those. And probably our Our best contributor
to the FourState QRP group is David Kripe, NM0S,
Nancy Mike Zero Sierra. And David is an engineer
at Rockwell Collins, which is Collins Radio.
Actually, it's not Rockwell Collins anymore.
I think it's United Technologies Collins or something
like that. But he designs circuits for a living.
and he has come up with some absolutely wonderful
designs and quite often he uses printed circuit
board material to make the case. And this is
one of the greatest features of some of these
kits because instead of having to find a metal
box that fits and drill holes and paint it and
mark each of the knobs and so forth, these are
all pre -printed, pre -drilled, plated, everything.
It looks beautiful. It's all printed on the case.
And it's made out of circuit board material.
If it needs to be shielded, it makes a great
double shielded case. If it doesn't need to be
like in the Merania kit, it can be etched out
so that it allows signals to come in. So where
shall we begin? Shall I start with the new kit?
Yeah, let's let's start off with the new kit.
I know you've you're pretty excited about it.
So let's start off there Yeah, the the new kit
is different for the four -state QRP group because
it's the first kit that's designed for phone
It is a full carrier AM transceiver for 75 meters
and so it's called the nouveau 75 and it comes
with the speaker built -in plenty of audio output
It comes with a microphone and like I said, the
case, like a lot of the kits, is made out of
printed circuit board material that comes with
the kit. You don't have to do anything but take
an emery board and sand the rough edges of the
boards as you pop them apart. They just unsnap
and you just take an emery board for about two
seconds and smooth it out and you put it together.
and it makes just a neatest looking little radio.
Now this radio is not like a lot of the kits
where we have a VFO or something like that. This
is digitally synthesized and so what we do is
we have a four digit display. Now of course because
this is AM we don't care the fractions of a kilohertz
so it obviously runs in one kilohertz steps within
the ham band. Outside of the ham band, the VFO
moves in five kilohertz steps to match where
shortwave broadcast stations are. And the receive
coverage goes from three megahertz to about 6
.5 megahertz. So, of course, you can hear stations
like WBCQ, WTWW, WWCR, and so forth. that operate
in these bands. And the audio on mine when I
completed it had a bit of a problem with overload
from strong signals. And there was kind of a
problem that cropped up. in the first batch and
that's being corrected and the correction sounds
just wonderful. And then the next batch of kits
that comes out, you won't have to make any modifications
at all. But even so, it's very easy to do. And
the neat thing about this is if you're not listening
to people or trying to talk to them on like 38,
85 and so forth, which is where the AM crowd
hangs out on 75 meters, you can listen to short
way broadcast and hear the oldies on WTWW or
the ham radio related programs such as this one
on Saturday night. So the nouveau 75, of course,
runs on 12 volts. and has a microphone, it has
a jack to plug in a headset if you want that,
and of course a BNC connector on the back for
the RF output. Absolutely great kit, and I gotta
recommend another kit to go with that one, and
that is the four -state tuner. The 4S tuner is
an 80 through 10 meter antenna tuner. And it's
not just for hams, it's great for shortwave listeners.
You can hook up your random wire and your ground
to this thing and you can resonate that where
you're trying to listen. And so of course that
cuts out a band interference way down and it
allows you to optimize a random wire antenna
for shortwave listening. So the 4S tuner is another
one of those that uses the circuit board material
for the case. And it's got a red and green LED
so if you're putting out a water to on your QRP
radio you can peak it and Tune the SWR that way
for listening of course you just peak it for
the loudest signals Let's see we also have another
kit, and this is a high -pass filter And what
it is designed for is a lot of these direct conversion
kits have a problem dealing with the AM broadcast
band. Now I'm fortunate I only have two 1kW stations
three miles away and I have a 5kW about six miles
away. And so it isn't so much of a problem except
if I'm using my longer wire antenna. and this
particular kit will knock it down a minimum of
70 dB and as high as 110 dB or more and so it
will knock down signals in the AM broadcast band
so they are inaudible on these direct conversion
receivers and I hooked it to my 7610 and it took
Local broadcast signals down from a little over
40 over 9 to under S1 to the point where the
meter isn't even moving and the signals are in
the noise level so Very effective filter and
it will let you put a hundred watts back through
it. So Unless you're trying to use a hundred
and sixty in which case you can't use this filter
This is a really good deal, especially for 80
meters and up or you might have local broadcast
interference, interfering with a direct conversion
receiver. Yeah, we were talking before the show
about a bunch of stuff, and one of those was,
you know, over at the Voice of America Museum
over in Westchester, there, you know, a few,
you know, stones throws away from WLW, and and
it comes in on everything and we're using tuners
basically to filter it out and I think this would
be a good thing to look into might just take
care of that problem. Yes it might and it's a
very very easy kit to put together. I think there's
just a couple of capacitors and so forth. It's
a circuit board case and it uses the case to
make a double shielded case. It is a very easy
kit to put together. I'd say a first -time kit
builder would definitely not spend an hour with
this one. It does have coils in there, but guess
what? They're already wound for you as spiral
wound on circuit board. the coils are integral
to the kit and you don't have to wind them. Very
good. Well some cool kits, some new ones and
all kinds of cool stuff out there. Let's kind
of remind everybody, we talk about this when
you come on, but let's remind everybody about
sorting parts and soldering and You know some
things to make sure that you're Making this as
easy as possible when you're putting together
some of these new kits You bet I have a lot to
cover on that and I think the first thing would
be sorting out your parts and I found that tackle
box trays seem to work the best and that's because
the dividers in the trays can be changed so that
you have different size compartments and And
I always put the things that I use closest to
me and the things I use the least farthest from
me. So like resistors and capacitors, they're
going to be in those close cups. But the things
like screws, nuts, bolts, plugs, jacks, and things
like that, those are going to be in the back
row. And the middle row, usually your semiconductors
and other components like that. So sorting out
the parts is really essential, and that's how
I do it. And you can also use like a cupcake
tray that works as well. But if you have any
animals in the house, and I had a couple of them
giving me the meow, I have two cats here. And
they like to get into things. So those snap closed
boxes work great. Yeah, yeah, I heard one of
them complaining about Not being paid attention
to enough there at the beginning of the show
and as as mine just did the same thing here so
I don't know if you could hear it or not, but
But yeah, they do get into that stuff. So those
are always always good and then you know some
some Good soldering equipment is always is always
great. I know the other day I was working on
a speaker connector for one of my co -workers
and all I had was the little wood burner pencil
and I was wishing I had a hotter iron because
it just was a pain to try to get it. I did finally
get it but the soldering station makes all the
difference in the world. Yes, it does. And I
really prefer temperature controlled soldering
stations, not just variable, but ones that have
some kind of a display so that you know what
temperature that tip is. And that makes all the
difference in the world. If you're using something
less than that, then you're going to get less
than ideal results when you're building kits.
And it doesn't have to cost a fortune. I know
Weller puts out a couple of those that might
be $110, $120. but there's a company actually
right here in Lincoln called Extronic USA, X
-T -R -O -N -I -C -U -S -A dot com and they put
out one called the 3020 and it sells roughly
around sixty dollars and I think that's even
with free shipping on Amazon and this particular
one will hold the temperature within two degrees
Celsius It has a solder roll holder to keep your
soldering, your roll of solder in place. And
it has two different tip cleaners on it. And
if you don't use it for a while, it has a sleep
mode. And it'll go hot enough to do the lead
-free solder. And I could go on and on about
it, but it is a wonderful little soldering station
and very inexpensive. And like I said, it's...
It's thermostatically controlled so as opposed
to one you have to turn up and down all the time.
And you know you mentioned solder so let's talk
solder here for a second. Alright well the solder
I prefer to use when I'm building kits is 6337
and that is called eutectic solder, and it's
a little different than 6040 in that the melting
point is a couple of degrees lower, but it has
an almost non -existent plastic state. And what
that is, the plastic state is as it's cooling,
if something moves, it might crystallize and
you get a cold solder joint. While this type
of solder has a very short plastic state, so
it's much more rare that that would happen. I
use Rosincor NoClean so it looks nicer when I'm
done. And I don't use anything thicker than .031
inches. .025 is thinner but also works good.
dot zero two five or dot three one rosin core
no clean sixty three thirty seven yes i have
some sixty forty solder but i use that mostly
for soldering heavy antenna wires and coax connectors
and things like that very good well all great
points and we want to remind everybody of those
so If you haven't tuned in to Joe before here
on show you you get that and if you want to hear
more about that look up some of those old episodes
and we talk quite a bit about that so That's
all great stuff. So we're gonna take a break
and when we come back We'll talk more kits and
we'll take your phone calls and tweets and messages
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another kid and some other stuff. going on with
Joe, but we want to invite you to call in. So
it is time now for your calls. If you have a
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the phone number because it's Thursday night
so you won't find anywhere you won't find us
anywhere on the telephone just just virtually
so Joe, while we're waiting on the calls and
I'll check the tweets here and everything, you've
got one more kit to talk about that's a relatively
new one. Yeah, this one doesn't come from the
Force Day QRP group. It comes from qrpkits .com.
And what this kit is, is it's called the Walwart
Tamer. And what it does is it takes wall wart
type power supplies, filters them, cleans it
up and regulates the output and makes it so you
can adjust the voltage output. Now, of course,
this thing seems to work most ideally with old
laptop power supplies. Being in the IT business,
we end up with a lot of old laptops that come
back to get recycled. Well, I don't throw away
those darn power supplies. And they work wonderful
for this. Yes, it puts out 19 volts, which is
wonderful, because there's a drop of a volt and
a half or so in this circuit. And what it does,
it has a full wave bridge on the input. And so
you could even take like an 18 volt AC transformer
and hook it to the input. If you're hooking a
DC output like from a laptop supply, you don't
care what the polarity is, because it goes into
a full wave bridge. And then it goes through
a lot of filtering and regulation. And then you
have an adjustment. You can set the output voltage.
And it gives you an amp or two of filtered DC
from about, if you're using a 19 volt power supply,
from about 17 volts down to about one and a half
volts. Now adjusting that little pot on the board
is a little tricky, but you can take that off
and replace it with a panel mount pot and you
can use one of those little voltmeters and you
can have full -time monitoring of what it's putting
out. You can make a really nice little power
supply out of this and I kind of like to use
that now for a first -time build for somebody
because the spacing and the type of components
used are very very easy to work with in terms
of soldering. and they get something that they
can use with almost every other kit they make
from then on. It's a variable voltage power supply.
So it's called the wall wart tamer, and it's
available from qrpkits .com. So in fact, that's
probably gonna be the kit we're gonna be doing
in Peoria. So if you're gonna be there, we will
help you come by and say hi. All right, very
good. And the phone number here to call? is 812
-638 -4261. 812 -638 -4261. And I was looking
at my cell phone and noticed that it buzzed just
for a second. So I know that... Jocelyn was trying
to call in. So we'll give that number again.
812 -638 -4261 and we'll see if we can get some
calls in here this evening. Now you've been with
CQ doing the article for quite a while and you've
got an anniversary coming up here. Yep, the November
issue will celebrate 10 years of writing for
CQ magazine and it happened right in Don AE5DW's
car where I was given the opportunity by Rich
W2VU who is the editor of CQ and when he kind
of dropped the bomb on me of saying, how would
you like to write for CQ? I was kind of flabbergasted
and Don, who was driving the car, said, Joe,
go for it, go for it. And I said, oh yeah, you
bet. And I sent a couple samples in and he said,
okay, that's November and December, let's keep
going. And we've been going ever since. Now,
we both thought that this will last maybe about
six months, maybe at the most. And as you can
see, it's gotten more popular and it keeps going.
And so as long as they'll have me, I'm going
to keep writing and keep building kits. And the
great thing about this is it gives hams a chance
to see some of these kits in the process of being
built so they get to see them partially assembled
and actually not assembled at all. I lay out
the parts in almost all my columns so you can
see them totally unbuilt and I show some detail
if there are certain things like the corners
of a circuit board that need to be soldered together
and things like that and I try to take as good
of pictures as possible and get those in there
so that everybody can see what is inside that
kit. So yes, this is the 10th anniversary. I'm
actually working on my November column as we
speak. And 10 years of writing, I never would
have dreamed. And it's really led to some great
things. I am now also the chapter author. right
now who does the updates of the construction
techniques chapter in the ARRL handbook and I've
done that since 2014. I never thought that I'd
be a handbook author and so I'm kind of humbled
by that but everybody tells me actually they're
doing a brain dump on you. They want all that
information in their head in these books and
magazines. Yep, they do. They do, and it's good
that you can share that eloquently as you do.
Well, we do have a question here from Chris,
AA4CB. Chris says, I'm looking to pick up the
Microbiotics HFSSBCW transceiver kit. He hears
many good things about them. Have you ever put
one together? And if so, how difficult was it?
I put one together and the good thing is you
don't have to solder all those little parts on
that board. The board is pre -assembled and pre
-tuned, but you have a lot of front panel wiring
to do and I was fortunate enough to have a friend
in our local radio club here who had a 3D printer.
and he was able to 3D print a snap together three
-piece case for that. And so I was able to bolt
the front panel components to the front and back
panel. and then solder the cables together to
the ones that plug onto the board and snap it
together and there was my assembled radio. It
works pretty good. Obviously it's not going to
receive AM unless you listen to the upper or
lower sideband, but it's an excellent little
QRP radio and is surprising how well it works
and it's also very surprising how many Mods there
are including AGC and other functions for it
There are a zillion mods for it and that's that's
the fun part of it because the main board is
already done for you but like I said, you're
going to be wiring all the front panel knobs
and and so forth and the display and and putting
all that together and That's what still makes
it a kit. Somebody told me, well, that's not
really a kit. Well, it certainly is because there's
a lot of wiring that you get to do. It's just
you don't have to mess with the stuff on the
board. Okay. So there you have it, Chris. I've
heard a lot of good things about those too. So
good luck with that project and hope it goes
well for you. 812 -638 -4261 is the telephone
number if you'd like to call in 812 -NET -HAM
-1 or you can tweet us at HamTalk Live. If you're
on Spreaker, you can leave us a comment there
and it'll come into the chat window. So we'll
take a look at that and answer some more questions.
We'll go back to Huntsville, I guess. We were
talking about about Kind of getting together
with with people in Huntsville and and this is
a an anniversary for that for you, too Yeah,
this was my 20th time coming there now. I've
missed a couple of years one early around 2002
I think And then I missed it two years ago because
of the full solar eclipse, the total eclipse
that was right here in Lincoln, Nebraska. So
I missed it twice, but I've been there 20 times.
take my hats off to Mark and the whole crew of
volunteers that put together that wonderful ham
fest. And I'm really, really looking forward
to being there again next year. All right, very
good. Well, I am getting a call here, but Skype
is not letting me add it and I don't want to
hang up on you. So, I'm going to try to call
him. We got all kinds of stuff going on here,
so let me... Okay, we got it. Now let me try
this again. Thank you Skype. And we'll try to
call him if this will work. We're trying. There
we go. Did we get you Jocelyn? Yes, you did.
All right, we've got it. We've got everybody
on the phone at the same time now. So that's
what we were after. Good evening. This is Jocelyn
KD8 VRX. You have a question here for Joe? I
question the comments or first say hi to Joe
and Thank you for being on the show I was looking
at that four state qrp. You mentioned the nouveau
75. It does say that the sales are pending right
now They were suspended not pending. I'm sorry.
They say the sales are suspended. So hopefully
that's probably just a little minor shortage
and they'll be out because that looks like an
awesome radio and Neil you're right. I was trying
to call you earlier and that the issue was that
I was going to ask Joe what he uses for soldering
and if he had any advice, but he already had
given that out. So there goes that, and I know
Joe's a kit guy. So while I was at Huntsville
in the flea market, I ran across one of the flea
tables, a flea market table, sorry. There was
a Rocket City 3D, and they... 3D print a lot
of cases and stuff, but they have a 9 to 1 on
for an unfed with the case to wire it as a kit
for $20. So I got one of those. Hopefully I'll
be able to put that to use before the cold weather
kicks in. So that's, I just had a few comments
for Joe there. Well, thank you very much, Jocelyn.
And it was great to see you again and look forward
to working you on the air again, especially from
the VOA station. And yeah, they were there. There
was Nightfire Electronics, which is vakits .com.
And they had a whole bunch of little simple kits
that very few were over about 12 bucks. And they're
a great source of beginners kits as well. Yes,
I'm familiar with Nightfire. I think Angel is
the... the lead person there, the owner, and
I've talked to him several times. Actually, I
was looking for a bag of random parts that, of
course, he didn't have with him, but I was lucky
enough to send me an email, and I'll be ordering
that soon. So, Joe, thank you again for being
on the air. Nicholas, sorry, Neil, thank you
for picking up the call. Yeah, I'm putting some
kids to bed. I'll let you guess what the name
is. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna guess it's Nicholas.
All right. Anyways, thank you guys and enjoy
the show and talk to you soon again. You bet.
All right, Jocelyn. Thanks for calling in. Appreciate
it. All right. And we had another call here.
So let me, uh, let me see if we can get Mark
on the phone here. Maybe, uh, that'll work. I
saw him call. Hello, Mark. Yes, Mark from from
the Huntsville Hamfest. Good evening. You have
something for us tonight Just I wanted to say
hello because things happen so fast this weekend
I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to either
of you and I did see Jocelyn I think it was sometime
Saturday Sunday morning before he left, but I
don't know when you guys Left the Hamfest, but
we had a we had a great Sunday, too It was just
a fabulous weekend all around. And, you know,
Neil, you brought the pig costume and we got
somebody in that. Just a really memorable weekend.
I hope you guys had a good time. We had two different
people in the suit. Yeah, we had two different
people in the suit. Yeah, we had Karen in there
and then we had, oh, I forget the young lady's
name, but she was so excited about About being
in the suit and now I've forgotten her name.
Oh my goodness. That's terrible. But yeah, they,
they had a, had a great time with that. And yeah,
I, I, I have to admit, I, I, Dr. Rob Suggs gave
me a call and said, you got to come see the,
you got to come see the observatory and the ham
shack out at Marshall. So that was my Sunday
was, was I slipped out to NASA for a few minutes.
So uh... okay so you would have to worry i'm
not a sailor and then out to the marshall club
yes that that's one thing on my bucket list i've
been so busy i have not been out to the uh...
the uh... the marshall club but it's just a few
blocks away from my wife's office and i owe a
visit out there Yeah, Rob was on me last year
to go and couldn't get it worked in. So this
year we had to work it in. It was fascinating.
Very, very good. I'll tell you what guys, we
put in quite a weekend down there and I got home
Sunday from an overgrown yard and been focused
on getting caught up here at the home front,
but just an emotionally exhausting week and I'm
still in a recovery mode. And probably next week
sometime we'll get back together and talk about
what went right, what could go better, and start
looking at it next year. Well, Mark, I really
appreciate your efforts and look forward to it
again. And maybe a quieter room to speak, of
course. But other than that, I really, really,
really enjoyed it. And like everybody said, there
was a lot more people there this year. absolutely
I announced on ham nation last night Neil I'm
not sure if you heard but we reported just over
5 ,000 visitors at a 20 % increase from the year
before Wow excellent well several people were
commenting wow it's just really busy there's
there's there's a lot of people coming through
here so that that totally makes sense so congratulations
it was Yeah, it was a it was a really good weekend
and Joe to your comment about the the forum room
Yeah, I've already passed that along to Tom and
we we got to work on that for next year Sounds
great. I really look forward to it Okay, guys,
like I said, I just wanted to call in say hi
and I really really appreciate both of your Attending
and Jocelyn to he's probably listening and probably
several others that that were there and we'll
try to do it bigger and better and friendlier
next year Always the world's friendliest ham
fest. Absolutely. Okay. Thanks guys. Absolutely.
73. All right. 73 Mark. Thanks a lot. All right.
Well, we've got some activity here in the chat.
Chris says another excellent Huntsville ham fest.
And thanks to Mark and Jill. KDA. Oh, QDA. Always
mess up her call. She wants something. She want
a radio and She says it was it was it was very
busy. So but a great job. So That's that's a
good deal. Well Joe, we're just about out of
time here tonight So we and we got some some
calls, which I always like so Anything else we
need to throw in before we go? Yeah. Yeah I'd
say every kit builder should have a digital multi
meter and there's no excuse not to have one if
you've got a harbor freight nearby and They have
the coupons quite often for three dollars or
even free sometimes And those meters, you know,
they're not the they're not a fluke but actually
they do pretty good and they're more than good
enough for Beginning kit builder and so don't
don't discount those Harbor freight meters as
being not worthy of it because they they actually
work well for kit builders All right, very good.
Oh, yeah, and Jill says the TM 281 a I believe
it is She said 2801. I think it's 281. Maybe
it's typo. Not sure anyway She was a lucky winner
on that, so congratulations, Jill, and good to
see you down there, too. Well, Joe, I guess we're
going to wrap things up here tonight, but thanks
for coming on again, and we'll be talking again
on here in a few months. Oh, what do we have
to look forward to here in CQ here in the next
month? I think September issue has that high
pass filter that I talked about. We'll go ahead
and finish up tonight and been playing around
too here. We got the chat apparently fixed and
we've got Skype fixed apparently and we've got
a new audio interface too. We're working out
the bugs here with the new computer and everything
so we're kind of upgrading everything and I think
it's going to work out really well. We're getting
the last of the bugs fixed so we should be able
to take calls and get everything going again
reliably soon and it's all working now. It's
just a matter of of getting all the little bugs
worked out. So that should be improving as the
shows go on. So Joe, we'll all finish up here.
But thanks so much for coming on. All right.
Well, thank you very much for having me on. Always
glad to talk about kit building. Alright, well
that's Joe Eisenberg, KZeroNEB from CQ Magazine.
He is the kit building editor and we're going
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