HF Beacon for MIT Atlantic Balloon Program

Published on 2008-12-04 by Mark VandeWettering

Courtesy of Bill Meara over at SolderSmoke, check out this link to the HF Beacon for MIT Atlantic Balloon Program. It’s a pretty simple 1.5w transmitter for 30m that could be built for about $25. It’s heart is a 74HC540 octal inverter chip, and uses two 2n7000 transistors. Very neat!