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On Dec 25, 2016 4:29 PM, "Joel Caulkins caulktel@... [BITX20]" wrote:

>>I have soldered RG-174 directly to both the Adafruit and Etherkit boards and had great results on the last three projects. I'm using a Etherkit board with a SMA RG-174 pigtail to connect to my BitX40 right now. In all cases I ?have not noticed any cross talk, but I always disable the unused outputs in the Sketch.<<

Thanks, Joel. Yes, that's the kind of experience I wanted to hear about. I like the idea of using the SMA connectors, and I recently bought a few dozen of male and female, but they are a bit costly relative to the Si5351 boards themselves. At $2.50 each for the PCB-edge females, they almost cost as much as the board. If they're not really necessary, others can avoid the expense.

No reflection on you, of course, but I don't find myself missing the Rogue Valley very much. I like it here in the Portland area--the land of W7ZOI and NT7S. Did you know there are still fully-stocked Radio Shack stores up here?

Once I get my BitX40 fully working, we should try for a BitX-to-BitX QSO. Even with lousy ionospherics, we ought to be able to manage 290 miles with 5 watts.

73,

Todd K7TFC