QRP club booth (Hamfair 2010)

QRP favorite members from all Asian area are gathering at JA QRP club booth and neighboring villa-QRP booth. QRP homebrewing equipments and presented with documentation. QRP operation technique are also introduced and exchanged each other. In evening, QRP friendship party is held at pub in separate place.

TS-590 from Kenwood (Ham Fair2010)

As the blogger promised, here is the report of TS-590 shortly. Kenwood is presented 5 units of TS-590 in their booth. 3 units are displayed only and 2 units are for sound listening. Belief lecture style presentation of its magnificent performance attract people all seriously listening. A blogger tried headphone listening and felt very good Kenwood sound immediately. As a QRP gear, amazingly this is a QRPp native machine with 0 dBm output port and additional RX input. Though these are port for transverter, mW-class QRP is realized by manufactured transceiver.

ICOM released IC-9100 (Ham Fair 2010)

ICOM released IC-9100 at Ham Fair 2010. It says the first fixed type transceicer with D-STAR digital mode. This is the digital mode of no interest from QRPers who like to build anything from scratch. The classified specification negotiated under Japanese administration and university professors is no meaning to all radio amateurs. Buy the IC-9100 without D-STAR.