2013
> Next Meeting: June 22
Our next monthly meeting will be on June 22 at the Brooklawn Community Center. As usual we will meet at about 7:45 for breakfast at the Metro Diner, and we usually wrap up afterwards with lunch there too! See our meeting page for directions and maps info.
Note that we are having this month's meeting date coincide with the annual ARRL Field Day activity and our theme is "going to the field"! While FD actually starts at 2pm, we will be discussing preparation, equipment, antennas and setup for portable operating during our morning meeting. Joe and George will also be setting up the main station (Elecraft K2 and FT-817ND with a multi-band dipole) out in the Community Center parking lot. We'll provide instruction and opportunity for each person to sit at the station and tune around (or even operate if you wish! :o) during the meeting. Then after a brief lunch break, Joe and George will be staying on to work the FD event from there for the rest of the afternoon and we certainly invite any/all to join in the fun with us then too!
> 2013 Meeting Recaps: Most recent ... April 20 (See links below for others.)
January 19th, February __, March 26
> "Hands-On Homebrewing" presented at TCF 2013 by N2APB & N2CX
We had fun presenting at the TCF conference in Trenton
on March 16 ...
despite the snow storm encountered on the way home! We showed and discussed
more than 50 simple homebrew projects that we've designed or used over the
years here among the NJQRP gang. We also brought some nifty serial
displays (app and
data notes) which may be
useful in some of our projects going forward.
> Weekly TeamSpeak Sessions: "Chat With The Designers"
We are conducting bi-weekly TeamSpeak "Chat with the Designers" sessions every other Tuesday night at 8 PM Eastern (0000z Wed). You can join us live or catch up with previous sessions at any time with the podcasts that we post. Our TeamSpeak Session Home Page has instructions as well as links to the "whiteboard material" and podcasts of our previous topics and discussions!
> NJQRP Yahoo! Group
Click the image on the left or see this page for instructions on signing up for our Yahoo! email group.
> NJQRP Resource Page
We have collected some great sources of information and posted them in a web page called "NJQRP Resources", check it out at http://www.njqrp.org/resources/index.php.
> Micro908 Kit
The Micro908 is a multi-function, handheld computing platform that has a growing number of real useful purposes around the shack: Antenna Analyzer, DSP-based Audio Filter, and (soon) PSK31 modem and a Software Defined Radio receiver. All details and options can be found on the project web page at http://www.amqrp.org/kits/micro908.
> Elmer 160 Course - learn how to program PICs!
John McDonough, WB8RCR has designed an on line introductory course for learning how to program and use PIC micro controllers. As course instructor, he will start off with very basic principles, and take students to the point of designing their own PIC applications. While the focus will be on the PIC16F84 chip, principles are applicable to the entire range of micro controllers from Microchip.
> Inaugural NJQRP Skeeter Hunt
What a wonderful success! The very first annual NJQRP Skeeter Hunt was arranged and coordinated by Larry, w2LJ. See the official NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Webpage or Larry's blog for all of the details.
> In-Person Meeting Notes Archive
If you are looking for some info that you heard about at one of our in-person meetings (in Princeton or Brooklawn) or just want to see what we have been up to, check out our Meeting Notes Archive
> See Notes & photos of our Group Build
We had a great group build "Workshop" on Dec 11, 2011 at the Armstrong Hall Engineering Lab at the College of New Jersey. Great thanks to Professor Al Katz (the famous UHF ham) who let us use the engineering lab to continue the build-up of our Ensemble RX-II kits. A big thanks also to Joe Jesson, KC2VGL for arranging this venue. The Ensemble RX II is an all-HF band receiver kit that includes the components for building the receiver for HF operation (1.8 MHz through 30 MHz). We're looking forward to getting this compact little receiver working first with the PC, and then sometime later with a small project board (our follow-on group build) to eliminate the need for the PC. "We don't need no stinkin' PC!
> Club Counter Kit
If you were lucky enough to pick up one of the NJQRP Counter Kits at one of our past meetings (sorry no more kits are available), all of the construction info is available here.
> Homebrewer Sprint Results
Check out the results from our QRP contests sponsored in past years:
2007: Fall
and Spring
2006: Fall
and Spring
2005: Fall
and Spring
2004: Fall
and Spring
2003: Fall
and Spring
2002: Fall
and Spring
2001: Fall
and Spring
REFERENCE, PROJECTS & ARTICLES
GEO: Good Enough Oscillator
Check out this simple-and-useful "mini-kit" produced for members who attended the August 2003 club meeting
SNAP Transmitter Application Notes
N2CX describes how to enhance a simple 2-stage transmitter
