Dear Friend,
Rex Harper, W1REX, returns to the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo on Saturday March 25th at 10:00 AM PDT or 1800 UTC with his live build-a-thon, “Build A Simple Station and GOTA (Get On The Air!), where he will build, with his audience, a simple 40 meter transceiver kit, available from Rex’s kit company, QRP-ME. Once the transceivers are built, the builders will attempt to contact each other on the air that afternoon. A follow-up on Sunday, March 26th, called “We all GOTA-ed…So what happened? What worked and what didn’t? A wrap up… will finish off the weekend’s build-a-thon.
Based on our Expo theme: New Amateur License - Now What? Rex’s build-a-thon is one option of many that will be displayed at the Expo, where a new ham licensee with a very limited budget and a desire to take a step forward, can build a new, very simple, transceiver in two hours or less with Rex’s help on the Expo’s vFairs virtual platform. This 40 meter CW transceiver, will allow any ham radio licensee, including Technician class, to discover home building and CW as one of the more exciting and re-emerging ham radio operating modes.
“We hope to increase the odds that one of our kit builders will make a successful contact by putting the transceiver on the same 7110 KHz Novice frequency as all of the other kit builders. If we get 100 plus hams to build the kit over the weekend, we may be making contacts if band conditions, propagation, and other factors are favorable”, said Rex, W1REX.
"We are encouraging every ham radio licensee, from beginner and unskilled to old timers, with years of expertise, to come together at the Expo to share, learn, and mentor each other while contributing to our mutual ham radio success", said Eric Guth, 4Z1UG, creator of the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo and the QSO Today Podcast. “Imagine an opportunity, over the weekend, attend over 40 interactive presentations, and to sit with other hams, at our virtual round-tables for conversation and discussions, to strengthen our amateur radio community not only in North America, but around the world”.
For more information on the Simple Transceiver and how to order it before the Expo, go to: http://qrpme.com/?p=product&id=QSO9
| | Here are the riviteing presentations accepted so far: 10 Meter Band Fun For All, with Anthony Luscre K8ZT 20 Things I've Learned While Curating the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, with Kay Savetz K6KJN An Introduction and Overview of Ham Radio Digital Modes, with Jon Marler K4CHN Become a Magnet Club for Newcomers to Our Hobby, with Dave Jensen W7DGJ, Martin Buehring KB4MG Build a Simple Station and GOTA (Get On The Air!), with Rex Harper W1REX Can Learning Morse Code Be More Fun and Easier with Music? The MorseBass Project, with Lauren Speeth KK6NGE, Mike Padron N1CC CQ DX Marathon Program- A DX Program for Everybody, with Mark Wohlschlegel WC3W Creating a Radio Go-Kit That's Right for YOU, with Dan Lundwall N7XDL Creating Your first Ham Radio Workbench, with Joe Eisenberg K0NEB Getting Started in the CQ WAZ (Worked All Zones) Awards, with Jose Castillo N4BAA Having fun with activities on a geo-stationay satellite QO-100, with Baris Dinc OH2UDS / TA7W How Beginners can use the FT-8 Digital Mode with Success, with Desiree Baccus N3DEZ How to be a Successful Ham Operator With Cheaper Older Equipment, even in an HOA!, with David Christie WB5KFP How to beg, borrow, buy and operate an old fashioned Novice CW Rig for 80, 40, and 15, with Ed Mohrman WA7EM How to Build An AI-powered Transcription Bot for FM Transmissions, with Brian Callahan AD2BA How to Build and Operate a QRP Earth-Moon-Earth Radio Station, with William Keicher KC1HTT How To Build Simple Wire Antennas for 15M to 2M & 70cm., , with Robert Glorioso W1IS How to build the “Optimum” Magnetic Loop Antenna Using Unusual and Inexpensive Materials, with John Portune W6NBC How to Build The Radio Rocket, with Vance Martin N3VEM How to Build Your First Amateur Radio Station, with Tim Staley K5TGS How to Choose Coaxial Cable for Beginners, with Bob Witte K0NR How to Get More Hams On Air, with Ken Alan WU6I How to Install Ham Station Grounding and Lightning Protection, with Mark Persons W0MH How to Operate SOTA and POTA When Traveling Abroad, with Paul Mower VA6MPM, Peter Shmerko VE6FPV How to use the Open Source Repeater-START software to find the local repeaters in your area to get on the air, with Luke Bryan KJ7BKH HT's Across America - Updated, with Geoffrey MArk KM6TVJ Introduction to Ham Nets 101, with Jon Marler K4CHN Microwave Rain-Scatter Communications, An Introduction, with Gedas Vysniauskas W8BYA Opening Presentation - Technician License - What are the Possibilities, with Anthony Luscre K8ZT QRP Operating on the Microwave Bands - Frequencies, Equipment, and Propagation, with Thomas Henderson WD5AGO Satellite Tracking using Astronomy Telescope Mounts, with Dwayne Sinclair AB6A SDR Rover Kit: The Next Generation Setup for Amateur Radio Contesting, with Zhemin Zhang KD2TAI We all GOTA-ed.... So what happened? What worked and what didn't? A wrap up..., with Rex Harper W1REX What is uSDX and how it got me on the air!, with Sajjad Golchin Poor EP6DSP What’s new with Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, with Randy Berger WA0D
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