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Articles and news on QRP radios, portable operations, product announcements and reviews. QRPer is a personal website administered by Tom Witherspoon - K4SWL. He's goal is to promote all things QRP.
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21h ago
Many thanks to Bill (KG4FXG) who shares the following guest post: Return to the Office: Operating portable during coffee breaks (Atlanta to England) by Bill Carter (KG4FXG) Have you ever thought about operating from your work location? Perhaps during lunch or a coffee break? What if that location was downtown in a big city? In ..read more
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2d ago
In pursuit of my 60 new-to-me park activations, I headed back to Florida for six days the first week of April. The weather forecast looked promising – high temps in the upper 70s falling to the upper 60s by the end of the week. Rain might dampen my spirits on Wednesday but otherwise, the sun ..read more
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2d ago
Many thanks to Tommy (N5DUX) who shares the following guest post: Work Trip POTA by Tommy (N5DUX) I recently had a work trip that took me to lovely Emporia, Kansas – home of Emporia State University. Prior to leaving for the trip, I did a little POTA sleuthing to see if there were any parks ..read more
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2d ago
Many thanks to Peter (YO8CDQ) who writes: “Why don’t you enter in the log the received RST and the transmitted RST. I know you’re recording with a tape recorder, but the QSOs are real. If you want to send a QSL to a hunter, what kind of RST do you enter in the QSL?” Great ..read more
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3d ago
On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, I woke up with SOTA (Summits on the Air) on my mind. That morning, I plotted to activate a local drive-up summit I’ve basically ignored the past few years. Peach Knob (W4C/CM-097) is one of the most popular summits in the Asheville area no doubt because it’s so accessible. That ..read more
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5d ago
(Note: As many of you know, I cut my spring-break Florida POTA trip short for personal reasons. However, I did not change this article and opted to leave the original itinerary intact as that was the intent of the trip.) Having two POTA trips under my belt, I thought I’d share how I plan my ..read more
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5d ago
Many thanks to Paul (W7CPP) who writes: If you haven’t seen this it is worth watching. Alan does a great job calculating the actual versus selected keyer speed on the KX2 and TR-45: Click here to watch on YouTube. Brilliant video! Thanks for sharing this, Paul. Alan’s YouTube channel is one of my favorites. If ..read more
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6d ago
As always there are lots of links within the article. Click one! Click them all! Learn all the things! You can see a full video of this activation on YouTube. Use it for CW practice as the footnotes follow the callsigns but only once I’ve gotten it correctly and have transmitted it back. Our local ..read more
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6d ago
Ten Days of QRP with Compromised Antennas by Brian (K3ES) At the end of a hard (or even a not-so-hard) winter, Becky and I really enjoy the opportunity to spend a week at the beach with friends. Even with the cooler and more unpredictable weather late in the off-season, it provides welcome relief from the ..read more
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1w ago
Sometimes, we do things for the pure nostalgia of it all! I mentioned in a previous post that I recently acquired a circa 1995 Index Labs QRP Plus transceiver. Being transparent here, this was an impulse purchase fueled by pure, unadulterated nostalgia. The QRP Plus was the first QRP transceiver that I’d ever laid my ..read more