{"id":1163,"date":"2015-02-19T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:42:12","slug":"pixie-40m-qrp-cw-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/2015\/02\/19\/pixie-40m-qrp-cw-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixie: 40m QRP CW transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pixie_cw_qrp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pixie_cw_qrp.jpg\" alt=\"pixie_cw_qrp\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>first post of 2015. it&#8217;s a small pocket size 40m CW transceiver that i got off of eBay for a mere $8. i&#8217;ve mainly used this while i&#8217;m at school to flex my cognitive abilities and decode the communications of extra class morse pros. the transceiver has a tuning range of 7.023-7.026MHz (maybe) which puts it in that tiny 250kHz portion of the 40m band reserved for amateur extras. at 5:30pm PST, it&#8217;s virtually an endless cacophony of signals. however, i was able make out a signal 565 miles south this afternoon from KI6JD using only the support railing as an dipole antenna. i don&#8217;t think he heard my response, but i would expect that considering my total radiating output is somewhere around 0.25 watts. also, my morse skills are lackluster at the moment, so i might have just sent gibberish out on the air. who knows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>first post of 2015. it&#8217;s a small pocket size 40m CW transceiver that i got off of eBay for a mere $8. i&#8217;ve mainly used this while i&#8217;m at school to flex my cognitive abilities and decode the communications of extra class morse pros. the transceiver has a tuning range of 7.023-7.026MHz (maybe) which puts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278,227,277,275,276],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-amateur-radio","tag-cw","tag-morse-code","tag-qrp","tag-transceiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}