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Here are the specs from VK6APH Phil:
09/07/08 Tennessee QSO Party 2008. 3 counties while 'House Boat mobile'! more to come...

08/22/08 Dual receive test system! Here I'm listening to the Ohio Qso Party on both 40M and 75M CW. Pretty impressive...
08/16/08 Test interface just released by Cathy. Here I'm monitoring 20CW. Very interesting audio. Sounds great!!!
07/13/08 SDRMAXII version .91 on 10 meters with a couple of Beacon Markers I've added for monitoring purposes.
06/29/08 Field Day on Sunday morning using CW Skimmer. I'm listening to W4PL the local TVDXA Field Day site.
06/28/08 Field Day 20M style!
06/22/08 Here's Alex's just released v1.2 CW Skimmer program running on my QS1R in the CW Beacon portion of 10M. This
is something I've been looking forward to as a tool to monitor 10M beacons and capture the calls for logging purposes, etc...
More to come!
06/21/08 Plenty of strong JA's in the AA Contest this morning.
06/19/08 Shane and Dave in QSO on 28.555. 10M is quite tonight...
06/15/08 6M wide-open today!
06/14/08 Here's a schematic of my home 'HPSDR' network. I'm fortunate to have high-speed Internet at this QTH.
Uploads average about 5MB & downloads average around 25MB! My network is 100MB based, with wireless at
54MB / 11MB. PC's are controlled with Microsoft Remote Desktop, Vista & XP SP3 version works very well. Sound
moves throughout the network with VAC and IP-Sound. Bluetooth devices are used extensively to reduce cabling!
06/12/08 10 Meters wide-open tonight! Lots of CW beacons in there...
06/11/08 K1WHS in Maine on 6M over s9 at times. QS1R great for checking band openings.
06/10/08 Great job Phil & Cathy! QS1R working great on XP, XP Tablet, Vista Business, etc... Remote audio with VAC & IP-Sound is excellent!
05/21/08 I've just ordered my own QS1R from N8VB today. My first test will be with the '555' gang on 10 meters!
05/18/08 Full Five Watt Plus Amplifier de W5USJ. A Compact Basic Design For 80, 40 and 20 Meters — No Bells or Whistles
05/18/08 JUMA PA100 is a 100 W linear amplifier for 1.8 MHz - 28 MHz bands. It can be used with JUMA and other 5 W...10 W transceivers.
05/09/08 First contact with Penny today!
Talked to Shane WA4SM on 28.555 USB using Janus for the microphone input, Penny as the transmitter, and FT-857 receiver.
Power output was around 500mw with quality audio per Shane. I also made a contact with KS4X that same evening.
05/09/08 Mercury 'EU' style! Great job Gerd.
05/06/08 Penny is on the way! Should be receiving mine any day now.
04/05/08 Latest HPSDR 'Mercury' and 'Penelope' diagrams.

03/08/08 QS1R RevC by Phil Covington N8VB.
03/08/08 QS1R RevC by Phil Covington N8VB.
2/9/8 Updated TAPR membership and placed TAPR order for assembled and tested Penelope!
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