QRP in the Driftless

Category: test equipment

  • Sandwich Hamfest, and the answer to a question

    Going to Sandwich is a brief but major upheaval in life: go to bed early, get up at midnight and drive until dawn. Shop till ya drop. Drive home. (to read about this process in detail, see last years post) Does that make it sound awful? It’s really a lot of fun. People I only…

  • Simpson 260

    This was the standard of the industry in the pre-digital era: Durable, accurate, electrically rugged, utterly dependable; what’s not to love? Analog volt-ohm-milliammeters are still useful for all sorts of tasks, some of which (like finding intermittents in wire and cables) are not easily done with a DMM. I really should have taken a picture…