Posts in Category ‘Projects’

NorCal 40B – It works

Well – the NorCal 40B works. I aimed for short contacts to test the little radio and it works. A SOTA contact, three POTA contacts and an SKCC contact, and the thing works. It is running ~2 watts and due to user error the first contact (SOTA in KY) was made at ~.3 watts.

I did mess up the case a bit. It is a clever way to make a case, but a bit cheesy. That is no excuse for the small mistake I made in assembling it.

NorCal 40B wired

Well, the wiring of the NorCal 40B is finished. I slow walked the process over concerns of one of the intermediate steps in the build. Good thing it’s the journey and not the destination that counts because so far the destination is not so hot! (Please see subsequent posts,)

NorCal 40B

I started the build of the NorCal 40B kit by NM0S Electronics. I am building it by circuit stage not by the normal manual method. We will see how that goes.