Last week I bought a used 9 inch band saw.  I found it on Craig's List and it was a mere $20.00 and located less than 4 miles from my house.  This evening I got it cleaned up with the shop vac and did a little light maintenance.  Tomorrow I will use it to slice up some double sided PC board material I bought at Dayton about 6 years ago.  I found sheets of the stuff in the Mendelson booth for pennies on the pound and just never had a way to make it usable.  The current size these sheets are about 24 by 30 inches.  I plan on reducing them to a huge pile of 3 by 5 inch slabs that I can solder

I have just submitted a request to my local ARC to have a Group Build project in February.  The W1AW Receivers got me thinking about it because I am always trying to get them to learn some CW.  I think we're going to try and build the QRPme Rexwood 1000W Receivers.  This is a W1AW reciever for 40m W1AW broadcasts.  Looks simple enough and most of my club mates have never soldered anything, and some have only soldered the VOM's we built last February.

You can see the little rig here:  http://www.qrpme.com

I just scored a big bag of crystals, they are HC-49 and they are cut for 3.5756 Mhz - W1AW broadcasts on 3.5815 Mhz...so not sure if these can be used in the W1AW receivers but I will try an experiemnt.  Getting them to pull 6Khz in one direction may not be possible.  They can still be used in PIXIE's, Tuna Tins, Mighty Mites, and just about any rock bound transmitter or receiver you want to try.

When they arrive I'll post a note on QRP-L but these are going to be like 20c apiece.  Dirt cheap.

Now what all can we do with them.....hmmmm

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The thing that has occupied my thoughts for the most of today is how to get my Radio Shack 22-510 Switching Power Supply to stop trashing HF and keeping me from enjoying 80m and 40m.

I found a document and I have several emails now that have given me some good suggestions, so now I await parts.