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W1REX

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 05:11 AM PDT
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Episode 102 - Rex harper - W1REX
Rex Harper, W1REX, became an amateur radio
operator from his early memories of radio as a kid and his desire to do
electronics as a hobby. His love for QRP and later QRP kit building came
from wanting to build electronic devices in an evening or two that just
worked. Rex shares his ham radio story and the development of his
business, QRPme, with Eric, 4Z1UG, in this episode of QSO Today.
Show Notes
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First Elmer: Father, former US Navy, Fire control technician

Allied tube tester

Education: University of Maine, BSEE

Dartmouth National Science Foundation Grant

Harper Electronics, Maine - First Apple retail computer store in Maine.

Super Simon Game

First License: 1995 Technician, N1SYZ

Why QRP? : instant gratification from building a project in one or two
nights.

First Rig: Swan HF-700 TransceiverTenTec PM1Collins R390A - prolyfic post
WW2 receiver
Doug Demaw, May 1976 - first tuna can radio

Four Days in May (FDIM) Convention

Doug Hendricks KI6DS - Norcal Tuna Tin 2

Fort Smith QRP Group

Norcal Magazine

Norcal Sardine Sender

Sardine Canning Museum, Main

Dave Benson K1SWL, - founder of the Small Wonder Labs, now closed designed
the Rockmite series of kit transceivers.

Hans Summer - for wsprnet

Manhattan style of electronic fabrication.

MeSquares - 300 squares on a panel for Manhattan constructions

MePad

Limerick construction - example of this surface mount design for through
hole parts.

Picaxe Microprocessor

QRP Amateur Radio Club International - Steve Fletcher, G4GXL , President
Build a thon

Dave Ingram, K4TWJ (SK) - CQ magazine author of "How it Works" and World of
Ideas".
ARCI Hall of Fame

Hamfest Buddy - designed by Dave Ingram, K4TWJ, then adapted by Rex into a
solderless kit developed for FDIM.

QRP Ham Radio Station Setup and Operation - a video by Jeff Tranter,
VE3ICH, about using the Tuna Tin QRP devices into a transceiver.

Tuna Tin Mojo into N2CQRs BitX17 at Dayton

Chuck Carpenter, W5USJ - Rexs friend and elmer

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Complete Tuna Tin Station Rockmite Single Band
Transmitter MeSquares for Manhattan Construction Hamfest
Buddy
Single band transmitter with no soldering