Dear BITX-homebrew-gents,
This afternoon, I made my first QSO on 17m with the BITX17 !
I am really surprised. My qrp RTTY signal from the west of Holland
reached Greece SV with RST 559.
I used MixW2.1 on a Celeron 266 MHz PC to generate RTTY. In fact my
goal has been achieved. 3 months ago I wanted to make a digimode QSO
with the BITX on this (for me) un-explored 17m WARC band.
I wrote a story about my BITX17 on my RF homebrew website:
--> zenders (tx) ---> BITX17
It is still in Dutch, but the picts might give you an idea how things
look like. Still a lot of challenges... psk31 / cw / ssb qso's and
finally make a nice front for the rig which covers my ' ugly '
building method.
After all, the BITX is a great rig. Spent only a few euro's on the X-
tal filter and used a lot of ordinary BC945 transistors (euro 0,10
each). Lots of chapeaux to the designer of this rig!!
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FIRST 17M QSO WITH HOMEBREW BITX17
22 APR 2005
17:11 UTC
18.106 MHz
CQ CQ CQ DE SV2DGH SV2DGH SV2DGH
CQ CQ CQ DE SV2DGH SV2DGH SV2DGH
PSE K
SV2DGH SV2DGH de PA2RF PA2RF PSE K
PA2RF PA2RF DE SV2DGH
GA, TNX 4 CALL,
UR RST 559 559,
NAME: CHRIS CHRIS
QTH: THESSALONIKI,
REGION: MAKEDONIA, NORTHERN GREECE
LOC: KN10LM
HW CPY ??
PA2RF DE SV2DGH BTU HPHJRHX
=====SV2DGH SV2DGH de PA2RF PA2RF
+++++++++++++++++++
Great isn't it with only 5 Watts from an MOSFET IRF510 ..
All you guys have a fb weekend !
73 de Ron
