Antek QRP Transceiver

This is a good time to present Polish transceiver kit which has been released in 1998 and is on sale until today.

This simple SSB rig offers approximately 3-5 watts, superheterodyne receiver with 4-pole ladder crystal filter. Kit contains all components, PCB, how to build instruction but it's less a case. Standard version was designed for 80m band, but some SP Hams built the kit for 40m and even 20m. The most exciting part of Antek's kit is a very low price which is equiv. of  35 $. This fact allows beginners and  older Hams to undust their solder guns and start assembling. The day came also for me and after couple of weeks my "Antek" has found a special room in my "QRP  homebrewed collection".

If you are interested in having more information of this kit visit  AVT Corporation website and look for kit AVT-2310. Unfortunately this site is in Polish only.

Below you can watch how my "Antek - 80" looks alike just after assembly.

Front view (beautiful silkscreening made by VK3UX again)

(digital redout is built from another kit)

Rear view (see small heathsink)

Complete station gives 7 Watts  of clean SSB signal

Having great fun with kit on 80m I decided to build 20m version.

This attempt consumed much more time than I expected, but finally I made it !

Antek - 20m version photo tour

20m version (my design of I.F freq, VFO and PA) - mechanical assembly

The "worst"   mechanical job is completed

Building VFO (my style)  

Securing VFO components                                                                        VFO   is ready

Antek 20 - good working receiver

(14273kHz is an international Polish language calling frequency)

Antek 20 finally assembled - output 1,2W only

First contact I made on 22 June with DL9FZ. Florian gave me 44