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September 9, 2026 QRPme INFO:
LATEST NEWS! May 2026 was the 50th Anniversary of the Tuna Tin 2 QRP transmitter appearing on the cover of QST. That needs to be celebrated!! I pitched a second '50th Anniversary World Tour' to my contact at the League and they gave me the thumbs up. I have taken it to Hamcon in VT, Ozarkcon in Branson MO, a TT2 POTA event scheduled outside Seattle, NearFest in NH and FDIM at 'Dayton'. The GQRP Club convention at Telford UK was on Sept. 5th & 6th and me and the ASR where there. I presentet a talk on '30 of MY Madness',THE TT2 and learning from Legacy designs. I had a room ful of die hard QRPers and Constructors and they each had a chance to hold the Ancient Sacred Relic. Just before the convention, I, along with my SOTA frienf Charley Brown, NJ7V, stayed with my long time friend Tony Fishpool. Charley's SOTA friend Kevin,MW0KXN from Wales, picked all 3 of us up and drove us to SW-004 Waun Rhydd for a SOTA activation. I took the traveling ASR hoping to do a SOTA activation with it. I failed! My hosed up battery pack failed to deliver the volts and I had no adapters to hose up anything else. Lesson LEARNED! At the convention during the meet & greet social, we were casting our net out looking for a ride to the train station to make our way up to Leeds to stay with Graham Firth, G3MFJ, we met Steve a Leeds QRPer, who offered to drive us right to Graham's door! He also offered to take us up to Rombalds Moor G/NP-28 for an England SOTA attempt. I spent Monday morning in G3MFJ's HUT addressing the battery pack issue and we struck out for the SOTA attempt at about noon. It was close by so we arrived and got set up fairly quickly. Charley made his activation QSOs using Steve L's handheld while I tusselled with the ASR. I was surprised and quite pleased when Colin Evans, M1BUU, showed up in person. It took quite a bit of fiddling and help from others but I managed to squeak out the 1st SOTA contact with the ASR to Tony, G4WIF! I let Charlie and Colin take over and we ended up with 4 activations. I was a happy camper and this singular event made my whole trip to the UK a success in my book. Colin spotted himself and quickly worked anothe 5 stations so he completed a SOTA activation using the ASR. I have about a month left before I have to return the ASR to the ARRL museum and I hope to add a couple more events as time and finances allow. In support of that effort, I've have two items on my site: a 50th Anniversary TT2 Kit and a donation link to support my efforts.

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