@rugster I was guessing it something like that. I checked your website which I hadn't been back to in years and was blown away at how much it evolved.. I browsed and browsed and couldnt find an end to all your projects. Most all of it was over my head.
For a few years, I was very focused on building things. I wanted to prove to myself that I could build circuits to a reasonably high standard. I started with kits, then graduated to building things from scratch, using just a schematic. Once I'd done that, the urge to continue doing it slowly dissipated. I admire the folk who design circuits; I just build the ones that others have designed. Designing your own equipment is the holy grail and the ultimate skill, to my mind.
30% off select products. But...? Exactly what products? The Hurricane, evidently, but what about the Mosquito?
And where are the actual prices shown? I can't figure out what costs what on the linked website. And prices seen on Amazon for these devices doesn't state whether they are the full price or the 30% off price.
What bothers me about all four of the transmitters is that they all have 50-Ohm outputs, not ideal for a short 3-meter antenna.
The reason the Mosquito interests me is that it could be suitable to explore my curiosity about boosting nighttime power so the area of full quieting matched that achieved during the day with 100mW. But there's no power variable control so that the output could be dialed down from 1-Watt to 100mW to find the exact amount of power required to achieve the objective. Then, once the experimentation was over it could be set for ordinary 100mW legal operation.
Carl - the products that are on sale are fairly apparent from their homepage at -
Yeah, both the Mosqituo and the Tornado were designed to feed a 50 ohm load; neither were intended to be feeding the kind of short antenna just a few feet long that presents a high impedance to the transmitter. I believe the main reason for developing the Mosquito was for users in the Netherlands. There is some kind of LPAM license available there which I think is for one specific AM channel only. It sounds almost like an AM version of the 1 watt FM license in NZ, though I don't know the details.
Not sure what the higher power (5-15W) Tornado was developed for, though it can be used legally by licensed amateurs on the 1.8-2MHz (160M) amateur band.
I also find it strange that the Mosquito is labelled US and EU versions as it is illegal in North America as well as the European Union which is most of Europe including the Netherlands. It is also illegal in England where these are being made.
The price for this may be an incentive to purchase here but I compare these to the CZH Chinese transmitters that are attractive due to the price.