Aaron,
The radio works out of the box, have no doubts. However, you can tinker with it if you want to, but no one insists on it.
The sbitx wouldnt be what it is without the contributions of so many folks who have tinkered with it. The aim of making it programmable is just that.
You can use this like a traditional radio that works all the modes like SSB, CW. What makes the sbitx and the zbitx different is that it keeps getting better with age as folks keep adding features and modes to it. Just look at JJ's team's mind blowing port of QSSTV and FreeDV as an examplr
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:46 AM David T-- VE3TOS via <digiital=
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From what I understood the email from Farhan was explaining that in the future should there be any need to update the firmware to the raspberry pico that to avoid issues with end users needed to install the software to update the pico on their PC that he was working on a work around where you will connect a cable from the raspberry zero W2 to the pico and update the firmware that way.??
No radio is perfect out of the box and especially sdr like radios where software/firmware is always changing .
I would assume that the radio would be radio to go out of the box . What he explained was to make things easier to upgrade the firmware in the future when they need to fix bugs.??
Also the bitx radios are to be expected some hacking around will be required at some point.?
I'm confused with all this. When I open the package, install the batteries I want it to work. I'm not interested in jumping through a bunch of hoops like the DX FT-8. Please don't ship until it works.
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Aaron
W4AAN?
