A Big Grumble this morning! A personal experience from my brief time on the air yesterday. A station on 20M was calling CQ and had a bit of a pileup. I responded with my call, and he said QW go ahead. A station from 5 land with a 20kHz wide over driven signal who's last two letters were AC jumps in and starts yakking.
AC is not even close to QW and basically, I was stepped on. I have an inkling as to his political sway but basically not a good operator and totally inconsiderate. He is an affront to the tenets of our beloved hobby. May his coax fail and he blows his final!
But in a glass half full a reminder to us all about on the air courtesy and the need for each of us to practice civility.
I understand that on hackaday today there is featured a simple SDR circuit. Take a look. With a bit of rearranging, it can be made into a transceiver.
Now for the mandatory required photo so readers will look at this blog. An example of a QST project. I hope he didn't build it like shown in the ARRL article as it lacks some critical safety features. But it sure looks so cool! Oh and again Oh, that wasn't very civil of me. But I do have genuine concerns about things like fuses in power supplies and Cathode versus Plate metering in open chassis rigs.
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TYGNYBNT. Be courteous and display civility.
73's
Pete N6QW