Me, too, since most optical encoders would cost at least 10% of the ?BITX's retail price. However, another poster pointed out that you can "convert" a mechanical encoder to a "detentless" encoder by removing the ball inside the encoder. I've never tried that.
From: Keith VE7GDH <ve7gdh@...> To:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [BITX20] It's alive!
Jack W8TEE wrote...
> It's a mess, but I have my ?BITX working now.
It's a "bunch of wires" but I'm glad to see you have it fired up and working. I just received a confirmation that mine has shipped, but I didn't go for DHL so I'm sure it will be a few weeks.
> The encoder appears to be optical (?) as there is > feel of detents when tuning.
Perhaps Ashhar can confirm that. I could be wrong, but I would have assumed it was mechanical.
