Compliments of the season to you all.
I have spent the last 3 days putting my rig together and playing around with it.
It is temporarily mounted in a plastic food container and receives very well.? It is the model before the
$59.00 Christmas one.? A couple of bad solder joints but now it's going great.
I use my 13.8V PSU adjusted to 12V and an end fed EARC 6_40 antenna (new QTH and not much room for a proper antenna).? Would it work OK on 13.8V?
I use a KW107 ATU with dummy load that has been tuned up on 40m on my FT-101E.
I feed BITX40 into the dummy load - turn on the 101E press PTT and listen for the squeal on the 101E.
Fully anti-clockwise tuning pot and the 101E squeals at about 7.010mHz.? Setting the 101E to 7.050 and turning the BITX40 I find the next squeal etc. etc.? At a little bit before the VFO tuning pot midpoint I hear
a squeal at 7.500mHz.? I stopped there.? Tuning for a clear, readable SSB signal is very touchy but when you
get it right it is rock solid.
I have made no changes or adjustments after completing assembly.? No QSOs as yet.? just getting the hang
of things? - ? and waiting for my $59.00 kit to arrive.
Thanks and regards - Noel VK2CAO
