Max the wonder dog
Jacob walking Max at Dassel-Darwin park.
The pocket size camera does not do this justice <sigh> ...bring the big camera next time.
QSOs for Monday
I worked RK3ER on 17m CW (Russia)
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MTR afternoon 2
I add the smd resistors and inductors to the bottom side of the board this afternoon. The 33 parts took about 90 minutes. Most of that is removing the parts from the packaging and reading the parts placement diagram to figure out where the part is supposed to be soldered down . I am using a cookie sheet (baking tray) under my board while I am doing assembly. In theory this helps to minimize loosing pieces.
Total time: 90 minutes
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QSOs for Sunday
I worked OP2A on 17m SSB (Belgium)
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Max the wonder dog
I needed to run some errands this morning so I took Max (Maxine) with for a short road trip. We stopped at Dassel-Darwin Park and went to the south side of the park. It has been a couple of years since I have visited that side of the park for some winter geo-caching activities. Since we had a long rain yesterday everything was pretty damp combined with the proximity of the trail to swamps & stream it is a mud hike at times.
The beavers in the area look pretty active. This tree looks pretty fresh given that wood chips have not become muted/discolored yet. I wish that I had brought the dSLR... the little pocket camera does not give the scenario the proper aclaim.
We hiked about 8/10 of mile. Max did a good job and I pretty impressed for only being 11 weeks old. She did not have any disapline issues and stayed on the trails. She got a litte bored while stopped to take a couple of pictures and decided that nature is for chewing on.
Saturday & Sunday rain
Call it about 1/2" of rain between Saturday morning and Sunday morning.
MTR night 2
I spent some time attaching the smd ICs to the bottom side of the board. Most of them are not very hard to attach accept for the TI mcu and the AD9834 which are TSSOP-28 and TSSOP-20 footprints. If time permits on Sunday I will try to move on to the resistors on the bottom side of the board.
Total Time: 2 hours
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QSOs for Saturday
I worked CT1ILT on 17m PSK (Portugal)
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QSOs for Friday
I worked IH9/I2YSB on 20m CW (Patelleria Island, Italy)
It is fun to get a QSO in during a couple minutes over lunch.
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QSOs for Thursday
I worked CO2IR on 15m CW (Cuba)
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