Sara-
What a wonderful gift for your Father. I think the most important question to ask you is to ask if your father likes to make things he uses in ham radio? there is a certain amount to assembly that takes place in order to move the BITX40 from it's package to a point that it can be used daily. All though it is tested, it still needs to be connected properly to work. This is the fun part for all those that participate in this forum. We like to do things our way. So if we want to put it in a pre-made box we do so or if we want to gut a broken old radio and install it in that box, we can do that too. It can be quite an adventure as to exactly what we can do as? soon as we have it in our hands.
I suggest besides my comments and those of others here, to ask a friend of your fathers as well, you may know another ham operator in the area that knows your father's talents better than you.? In closing the radio was developed for voice, but it can be adapted to telegraphy- morse code or CW as we know it. I have a friend who made a contact from Tennessee in the USA to South Africa shortly after he assembled it. A distance of over 5000 miles or 8000+ Km..
chow chow paesano--- Larry W8LM
