I see someone else asked this question before, but the thread wandered off into BFO settings, shipping issues, and other things and never resolved this that I can tell. I built a BitX40 last winter and was thrilled with it. I made some hardware changes and some software changes to the Amunter sketch and have had a blast with that very capable radio on SSB, both fixed and mobile. Now I am finally getting some time to start work on a uBitX and I have one that was delivered to me last summer and is a v.4 board. It powers up showing it is v4.3 and sort of worked (only trying receive at this point), but the audio sounded terrible and was fairly weak. I made a slight adjustment to the BFO that helped a little with the pitch, then noted that everything was 1kHz off frequency as compared to another rig. The posted alignment instructions on the HFSignals website seem to refer to an older version of the software. This is what another user observed:
V3:
Menu: "Setup on?"
Menu: "Set?Calibration?"?
If button-
Print "Set to Zero-beat,"
Print "press PTT to save"
V4:
Menu:? "Settings on?"
Menu: "Set Calibration"
If Button -
Print: "Press PTT & tune"
Print: "to exactly 10 MHz"
delay -
Then it goes into TX - and the PTT Delivers a sidetone -
and this is similar to what I am seeing. If I tune to 10MHz, and I supposed to zero beat with another receiver tuned to 10mHz? If I ground the orange line labeled as PTT, nothing happens. So...??
=Vic=
Vic WA4THR