There are many things that I don't know, and I sincerely thank all of you for the resource that is growing here in this group.

I am looking for some assistance troubleshooting a Bitx40.
Go easy on me, I have very little idea of what I am doing.

Let me tell you what I do know...
-This is my first HF radio, and my first kit build radio - what could possibly go wrong, right?
-I am running this radio from a 12v Battery. (12.4v -13.2v ish)
-100' of coax to an inverted V that has been tuned to the middle of the band.
-Receive works well.? I can regularly hear folks from the western half of North America, and frequently the east coast as well as others speaking Spanish (Mexico?? South America?)
-Transmit appears to not work.? I have not made any successful QSO's.
-I have a QRP dummy load (), and the voltage measured (between ground and VRMS pin is something like 0.57) (RF power = (0.57^2)/50= .0065 watts) when the mic is keyed.
-I have tested the voltages of all of the transistors and while not exactly the same, they are very close to the values published by?Randy, K7AGE
-I never saw the "Magic smoke"
-There are very few mods to this BitX40.? Allard's code, extra heat-sink one the raduino, and larger heat-sink on the board, extra capacitor on tuning pot, (there is one other capacitor that I added, but at the moment, I cannot precisely describe where I put it), external speaker/mic by BTech
-I don't have access to test equipment beyond a multi meter, small dummy load, and an antenna analyser.
-I have tried to measure Amps drawn, but I was likely doing something incorrectly as the values were not even close tho what is described in the BitX40 write up.
-Nothing gets hot when powered on, no visually obvious defects.
-I have listened (via WebSDR) to a frequency that I was transmitting on, and received nothing.? I'm not sure if I was too far away, or if I was really not transmitting.? I live far away from most everything so popping over to the next ham meeting is non-trivial.


So what can I test?? Are there any other troubleshooting guides out there?
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions that you might have.

WA7NJB