Well, the HW-8 works, but it needs help.\u00a0 I guess that is to be expected for a radio of its vintage.\u00a0 The receiver is hot, but too many of the stations heard are in one spot (hi).\u00a0 I worked stations in the first hour of this past weekend’s WES, but it was difficult.\u00a0 I listened to the radio on 40 meters during the daylight hours on a web SDR receiver and the signal sounded clean.<\/p>\n
I am not sure where to go from here.\u00a0 Alignment is in order, but lack of test equipment and aging coil cores have me concerned.\u00a0 I do have the alignment tool I believe from my HW-7 build so so many years ago but am just not sure whether it is worth the risk of the cores breaking.\u00a0 Having the VFO a lot closer to frequency would be nice.\u00a0 Also, I have to get headphones that are a lot more comfortable to wear or take the plunge and modify the radio.<\/p>\n
For some reason I just feel bugs are the best keys to use with my QRP radios.\u00a0 It is not for the lack of keyers I could use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, the HW-8 works, but it needs help.\u00a0 I guess that is to be expected for a radio of its vintage.\u00a0 The receiver is hot, but too many of the stations heard are in one spot (hi).\u00a0 I worked stations in the first hour of this past weekend’s WES, but it was difficult.\u00a0 I listened\u2026 Continue Reading ‘HW-8 Update’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hw-8","category-projects","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}