Chinese Pixie QRP Kit - An Actual QSO?! 業餘無線電QRP 

Thanks, nice to see an actual QSO on a Pixie. Lots of videos of the build and testing but none showing it actually making a contact.

That's a nice job of blending your end of the QSO with what I was hearing up here. You have to be happy with the way you sounded with that Pixie. As you saw/heard, you were adequately above the background noise and I did not have to use any of the more advanced Orion DSP to do it. 73 Carl - WB0CFF

Nice video and great QSO demo with your Pixie II. Plenty of Pixie II's on RU-vid, but very few demonstrating this tiny rig in an actual QSO. Congrats for another great video, Lynn! 73's de W B 3 B I Q.

Lynn, I see you and Carl are at it again! Thought you might like to know that John, kc9on, has a 'pixie switch' kit available for about six bucks or so. It includes three 40m crystals, a PCB, and a four position switch. It plugs into the xtal socket of the pixie and gives you four frequencies. You use your 7.023 crystal along with his supplied 7.030, 7.055, and 7.110 crystals. Kinda neat! de Bill, k6whp dit dit

I've got one of these to build for my portable operations, first video of seeing one work , looks like I'm going to have some fun with it, thank you for sharing the video.

Great Vid, good to see contacts being made on these. Great for simple project for new trainee hams.

Looks like a definitive ham experience! Thank you!

You need a good antenna for qso. Otherwise you listen to yourself.

A funny thing happened to me when building this kit... I overheated one of the ceramic capacitors when i was desoldering it to put it in the right place. After that, the capacitor was extremely microphonic. If you touch the circuit board very gently you can hear it in the transmitted signal.

When the internet and cell phones go down the Pixie will get through! Good how you can send without a side tone..

Hi again... I bought the other versions.. with the heat sink... they both worked then failed.. Another ham had problems as well... But what I'm looking at the Pixie seems to be doing fine

all i hear is a scratch when a wire is put in the antenna jack. i am using a 7 volt battery. pge has built up a 4th wire antenna network in santa cruz. The pge voltage has got to be around 50 volts with all 35.25 feet of wire. The powers arcs across the light switches at night.

i hooked mine up to my time wave dsp599zx filter lol made it clean and loud!!!!

If Guglielmo Marconi could imaging that some day one could do with a 3$ device :-) Awesome work - i will build mine today - but first watching some YT-Videos :-)

offset is not good .drifting between rx and tx.

Could this Pixie be hooked up using a Computer CW Interface and use CwGet and CwType software ?

KE0JBL I built one of these a few weeks ago, sadly I never confirmed the plug (this came with just some wire plugs for power antenna and ground) was properly polarized, and hooked her up backwards. I tried her first with a weak 5 volt battery pack and of course she didn't work and the PS dropped from 5 volts to 1.2 immediately. I shut her down and checked then reversed the wires and hooked her up again, this time to a more powerful 12 volt battery pack I have for testing. I think I can receive, but there is no traffic here, and I have a very poor antenna system right now. My power meter shows nothing on the output from the radio, so I don't know if I nuked her completely or not. I have another on the way from a different seller.

To bad that these radios, as shipped from China, are only available in the US Extra band.

Nice video. Thanks. Working on getting my little pixie on air. Waiting for some connectors. What do you use to match the antenna? What is the antenna? 73 KM6NJQ

Hi Lynn. I just bought a Chinese Pixie 4.1, but have yet to build it. A question: Why do you have to keep adjusting trimmer W1 during the RX part of the QSO? And is the W1 trimmer an RF frequency adjust or a CW tone adjust? 73 es TNX!

Nice video. FB FIST. QRPp much fun. I have to stay above 7.025 but still much fun. 72, Terry - KB8AMZ

Lynn, I enjoy your videos. Wondering what type of 40 M antenna you have. Also, who makes the key your using? Thanks . Bob AC9MG . Carol Stream, Il.

Lynn, I suspect all Pixies are not created equal. Which transistors are used in your Pixie? By the way, I put two 6 V lantern batteries in series with a 1.5 V D cell to get a good voltage without the power supply hum. 73, Keith. KE4TH

What kind of antenna do you recommend? Does it require a tuner, swr meter, or are there simple designs that don't cost much money? If the kit is $3 I don't want to spend $50 to get on the air.

Great video

560km woooooooo

Check out the simple mods by LA3ZA to reduce the broadcast breakthrough. It just moves D3 to keying line and pin7 and considerably reduces value of R3. Also 47uF pin7 to ground helps. la3za.blogspot.com/2003/04/using-pin-7-of-lm386-to-reduce-bci-and.html

Just assembled what looks like an identical kit. Thanks for the tip on getting rid of the receive buzz by switching to a 9V battery! My power output is 5 dB down from 0.5 watt so apparently my power amplifier transistor or that part of the circuit is not working. Any ideas on cause? Have kept voltage between 9V and 12V during testing. 73, KE4TH.

Great video, tnx fr sharing! 73 N8AUM

Why did they make all of these in the Extra part of the band for? That doesn't really make sense.

VY FB Marvellous!

No side tone?

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