Well – the NorCal 40B works.\u00a0 I aimed for short contacts to test the little radio and it works.\u00a0 A SOTA contact, three POTA contacts and an SKCC contact, and the thing works.\u00a0 It is running ~2 watts and due to user error the first contact (SOTA in KY) was made at ~.3 watts.<\/p>\n
I did mess up the case a bit.\u00a0 It is a clever way to make a case, but a bit cheesy.\u00a0 That is no excuse for the small mistake I made in assembling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well – the NorCal 40B works.\u00a0 I aimed for short contacts to test the little radio and it works.\u00a0 A SOTA contact, three POTA contacts and an SKCC contact, and the thing works.\u00a0 It is running ~2 watts and due to user error the first contact (SOTA in KY) was made at ~.3 watts. I\u2026 Continue Reading ‘NorCal 40B – It works’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-norcal-40b","category-operating","category-projects","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}