To Bill G6ATO & John N3ODE. Well said! I probably had more enjoyment building a snazzy enclosure than possibly anything I can remember. Just built the V4 ubitx and yes the rx audio is horrible to say the least, but it works!! It appears to work better at night which suggests to me that it may be the ubitx does require a better than average antenna to unleash it's potential. At the moment I use a folded dipole, 12 metres long and very low, about 7 m running down to about 4m no tuner no balun and centre fed with co-ax. And I've managed 1500 miles in the early evening with my other 2 watter. By the by, my thanks to Dave G4ADY for suggesting a firmware update for keying problems, worked a treat! 73 to everyone Paul M6FEU
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On Wed, 8/8/18, Bill Bates <billy.bates@...> wrote:
Subject: Re: [BITX20] New Warning on uBITx.net
To:
[email protected] Date: Wednesday, 8 August, 2018, 13:50
My
thoughts exactly ! Less is more, so much more fun to get
contacts o a few watts than shop bought kit & a hundred
watts ?, Bill G6ATOFrom:
n3ode@...
Sent:
?08/?08/?2018 01:09
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To:
[email protected] Subject:
Re: [BITX20] New Warning on
uBITx.net
As a tech class amateur I cannot
justify a full featured radio with the limited bandwidth
available to me.? I want to upgrade to general class which
will open all bands and a dramatic amount of
bandwidth.?
This unit has allowed me to dip my toe
into HF and learn a bit more of the theory which I lacked
working UHF and VHF FM for 25 years.? I am hooked on QRP
operation and will learn much more using this radio in low
power for discovery of good antenna systems.?
Simple is beautiful and a unit with
one button, one knob, and a tuner is quite pretty to
me.?
John N3ODE
