Greetings, All!
I assembled my bitx40 and operated with it several times without any problems.? I then unhooked all the wires (just the ones with plugs) and set it aside so I could build an enclosure for it.? After finally getting it into a case, when I turned it on, the display was nothing but black boxes (two rows) and no sound came out of the radio.? I noticed the USB connector on the side of the arduino in the radio and tried to get it to connect to my computer.? It wouldn't communicate at all even though the red LED on it was illuminated.
I bought a new arduino nano, loaded up the raduino sketch, removed the old arduino, and soldered the new one in its place (if I were smart, I would've put in pin headers).? When I power up the radio now, I still get two rows of black bars but if I view the screen from an angle, the display reads Raduino v1.27.7 and I do hear some "noise" coming out of the speaker but it doesn't sound like radio noise.? It's a sort of noisy hum.? The radio never displays a frequency at this point, it just stays on that version display.
Does anyone have an idea of what might have gone wrong here?
Thanks for your time!
73 DE KD5RYO
