OzarkCon QRP Conference
2011
Kit Building Workshop

Friday Evening, April 8, 2011
    
The Midwest Homebrewers QRP Club coordinates and supervises the OzarkCon Friday Night Build Session.  Never built a kit or have questions about building ham projects?  Here's your opportunity to learn from the experts.
 
This year the Build Session kit is a very FB minimalist 40M transceiver designed by Dave Cripe, NMØS.  During development it was dubbed the Ham Can because it will fit inside the small snacked sized deviled ham can, which is much smaller than a tuna fish can. This little transceiver is a real radio. It sports a regenerative receiver with sufficient audio to drive earbuds, and a transmitter that puts out 1/2 to 1 watt.  All connectors are mounted on the board, eliminating point to point wiring.  With only 26 parts (including connectors) it will be a quick and easy build.   As a bonus, for the Smoke Test you can work KØN and receive the special KØN QSL Card.  Four State will provide ham and crackers for a snack while you build, and you get to keep the ham cans for your enclosure, how great is that?
The instructors for the evening workshop will be Dar Piatt W9HZC and Darrel Swenson KØAWB. Dar and Darrel will guide you through the building process, starting with the "bag of parts" to the finished project. First time builders welcome!

A large room is reserved so that seating will not be a problem.  The sessions are limited to 20 persons so that the instructors can provide plenty of 1 on 1 help.   The instructors may however specify one big group rather than 2 smaller ones, depending on the project and the number of attendees.  Please check with them at the conference before the banquet.

The pre-registration cost for the Ham Can build session cost is only $15 and you can sign up when you pre-register.and guarantee your seat.  This is significantly less than the price will be when it is introduced to the kit line after OzarkCon.

The at-the-door session cost will be $20 (payable at the workshop session).  Pre-register now and save $5.

We are prepared for a large group this year, and we hope to see you in the Build Session.
For the workshop, you will need to bring your own hand tools for the session:
  • Soldering iron with a stand. A small tip on the iron is suggested. This could be a simple 25 watt iron with a bent coat hanger stand.
  • Damp sponge to clean the soldering iron tip
  • Rosin core solder - Kester "44" or similar. Note that we will have some spare solder available.
  • Small wire cutters
  • Needle nose pliers
  • Magnifier and/or light
  • Cookie sheet with upturned lip to catch stray parts, to reduce static discharge damage to components and to protect the table surface