2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
5:25 p.m.
A friend of mine got an article published in the September 2005 issue of
QST Magazine describing how to build an 80M DF receiver and asked if I
would be interested in supplying kits. The supplier of the circuit
boards told me he had maybe a half dozen or so calls for the circuit
board. I sold about 40 kits of which about half were ordered assembled
and tested. FWIW, about half of those that ordered the unit were using
it for interference tracking with the remainder using it for direction
finding. Another friend of mine designed a single board computer and put
it up on his website; I don't know if anyone has ordered a board or
built it.
I am planning on being at the Dayton Hamvention this year to sell DF
equipment, and it will be *very* interesting to see what kind of a
response I get. Of course, I also plan on checking out the 2000+ vendors
for any classic computer stuff too :).
I was talking to a buddy of mine about this at
lunch. He's an old ham and
used to build a lot of stuff. We were noting how people don't buy their
kids things like Tinker Toys or Erector sets or anything that encourages
them to build things. I don't know all the reasons why but I've been
noticing for years that FEW people build or repair things. I've tried to
Joe