New England QRP Club : The Excitement is Building....

Has anyone built the NESCAF with SMD components instead of through-hole? If so, I like to hear about it.

Pete WK8S

NEQRP met at the Nashua (New Hampshire) Holiday Inn on February 9, 2008

UPDATE 20080210

The New England QRP Club Luncheon was a resounding success and everyone had many good stories, ate fine food and listened to wonderful conversations at the Nashua Holiday Inn. There were two dozen members and non-members who showed excitement for the goodies which were spread out on the tables for everyone to buy, look, sell, and just wonder at.

Emceeing the event was Dennis Marandos - K1LGQ who presented several topics to those present which were analyzed, discussed and bantered about. Members from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey were present to share the camaraderie which was true to form and enjoyed by all.

My NESCaf is building this weekend.
Just Now, Whole parts completed to solder on PCB.
I'm writing this with drinking coffee. ;-)
It sounds good and looks good, So I'm very happy.
So I'm thinking to put into my NESCaf in some chassis while remain time in this weekend.

73 de 7L3DNX

Just completed the NESCAF filter. I am very impressed with this filter. Very nice and a lot of fun to build. Thanks for offering such a nice kit.

73
Bill

W0PT

Well I been contemplating this for a while and made up my mind based on "Rave Reviews" from other qrp'ers. Now for the loooooong wait for the kit to arrive.
Alex K5uny

From today's neqrp mailing list...

Some Nescaf comments picked from the DC-40 list server...
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It seems like the receiver bandwidth is pretty wide.... I was hearing 10 QSO's going on at the same time. Maybe this will motivate me to build the NESCAF filter. I guess since there is no Xtal filter, it should be fairly wide. Dennis
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Dennis,
There is a 600 Hz audio filter built-in. Unless the signals are really strong you shouldn't hear much outside of that bandwidth. Otherwise, the front end is quite wide with only a simple tuned circuit. If you have a way to generate a low level tunable signal see if you can verify that the 600 Hz filter is working. You should hear a definite peak. The NEScaf is a good idea too. Chuck

Hi all,

Just relocated from Monterey, CA in April 2007 to Ocean Shores, a small beach town on the West side of Grays Harbor in Washington.

Love to build and experiment. Just built and love the NESCAF. Great circuit; worked immediately. Still haven't put up an antenna...winds here are gusting to 60 Knots as I type. Actually haven't had a lot of time for antennas given the move,completing build-out of the house, and many honey-doo projects. Am currently wondering if a Cobweb will stand the high wind gusts without tearing off a piece of the house or other supports hi, hi.

72/73's for now,