And , after telling you all of this,? I'm going to do additional stuff to my original raduino equipped BITX40. I? want it to be extremely low powered on rx. So I'll add a non raduino External VFO like this?
http://bitxhacks.blogspot.com/2016/11/an-vfo-for-bitx40.html?m=1 This is one of the BITX40 hacks listed at HFSIGNALS.COM and I am thinking that the current on rx will go down to 1/2 amp or less!?
Michael Shreeve