brainwagon

While over at Ham Radio Outlet the other day, I noticed a new QRP/homebrewing book on the shelf published by the RSGB:

International QRP Collection, edited by Rev. George Dobbs and Steve Telenius-Lowe.

It’s not an ideal book from the homebrewer/QRP viewpoint: it includes a bit too much operating/equipment reviews for my taste. Still, it has a number of interesting construction articles, including the “One Transistor Marvel” from Dave Ingram, K4TWJ (SK, sorely missed) which I hadn’t seen elsewhere, but obviously inspired things like G3XBM’s XBM80-2 transciever. It also includes KK7B’s articles on designing and building linear transistor amplifiers that appeared in QST recently. I’d say that’s a waste, but the articles are so good, I’d like to see them in book form (I always seem to lose magazines). It also includes details on some simple minimal rigs that I hadn’t seen before, such as G3MY’s Pippin, and some novel variations on the Pixie.

Overall, I give it an 8/10. Worth having, but not as good as DeMaw’s QRP Design Notebook.