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kit building

With the fall season beginning soon, it’s a great time to fix up your kit-building bench and get some kits on order for the long cold weather months ahead. (at least here in Nebraska, it gets very cold!)

For those anxiously awaiting my assembly of the long-awaited QMX kit from QRP Labs, I’ll continue with the assembly of that kit in an upcoming issue. I decided to wait a few weeks to allow certain problems with the first run of these kits to be sorted out. As of press time, Hans Summers, GØUPL, has come up with a solution to remedy a problem with performance on the

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