Why A Project?

If you find your club continuing to doing the same activities over and over, meetings never really go anywhere, or members are bored finding a small project to build may spice up your meetings. A simple electronic circuit that fit's the average club members buget opens many possibilities. Setting up a club project can be simple, low-cost, and provide a way for newcomers to learn to solder. There are many resources for kits that fit all bugets and interests, if your advetourus enough maybe your club will design thier own kit!

Below are a few links to sites that offer electronics kits as well as schematics for many different projects.

Commercial Kits

• Ramsey Electronics
  • http://www.ramseyelectronics.com
    
  • Ramsey Electronics offers a good variety of electronic kits that range from begginer to advanced, including amateur radio kits.

• Quality Kits
  • http://qkits.com
    
  • Quality Kits offer's a huge selection of kits at very resonable prices. Although not specificaly for amatuer radio, many kits that amateur radio clubs or others interested people in electronics will catch their attension. Kit's to keep in mind are the MP3 FM transmitter kits, the simple version cost about $5 as the more advanced kit costs $40. A nice feature of http://qkits.com is their wide vareity of under $10!

Project Article/Schematics

• ARRL Technical Information Service
  • http://www.arrl.org/tis/tismenu.html
    
  • By-far one of the best references for technical information articles and projects written and tested in a preffesional document. Many articles can be freely downloaded without being an ARRL member, it is well worth the subscription which gets you more that just access on the website!

• Discover Circuits
  • http://www.discovercircuits.com
    
  • Discover Circuits offers a rediculous amount of schematics! You will find nearly every possible topic from  this website, content includes both "editors" schematics and user submitted links. You will find a mixture of well explained projects and some that may be a bit more confusing, but none-the-less a great resource!

• AC6V QRP Project Links
  • http://ac6v.com/qrp.htm#Projects
    
  • The AC6V website is renowned for the number of links to good content for amateur radio. Although you will find many more homebrew (Electronic Projects) articles on his site I have linked to the QRP section.