So I am in need of a little assistance. I'm near Portland Oregon. I got my bitx40 v3 (c) kit. And assembled it. I don't seem to receive anything. I have an antenna and a semi clean psu. It seems to tune and volume seems to work. Nothing seems to come through. :-( just alot of static?
Anybody in the area that might be willing to hop of a specific freq at a specific time and ramble a bit so I can know if I'm just doing something silly? Lol listening to static all day is no fun :-(
Don't have my licence yet so I wasn't going to hook up the mic, PA or ptt. A quick look at the schematic didn't seem to show any of those three required to receive.
?I'm feeding it 12.1vdc and limiting the psu to 0.250 amps (current draw is about 0.172 amps) do those figures sound correct? Or Atleast in an acceptable range?
Is it normal behaviour for the tuner to have to catch up towards the limits of the tuning pot? Tried replacing said pot with a bourns 10 turn 100k pot and a 10 turn 10k pot. Same issue small tuning change then I hit the limit of the pot then it tunes rapidly without touching it till it hits Max freq.
Test gear on hand is a korad psu, fluke 289 dmm, mhs5200a sig gen, and a siglent ?sds1102 oscope?
