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Re: Deleting the truth.

 

I am deeply saddened by all the negative, and hateful comments.

I appreciate What ?Farhan is doing. I like the product as a whole.

But the community kept asking for more clarification of the problem and it escalated out of control.

And as for the technical, ???Joel Caulkins?pointed out an error about the brown wire for calibration actually being the red one. As per the schematic. This is a helpful comment.
Re: Info a out buying BITX40

 

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Sara

On your first question, once you have a Paypal account, Paypal knows your shipping address and will use that as the default, although you have the opportunity to change that address for every order. You can also send the seller a message when completing the Paypal transaction.

On your second question, HFsigs will send you an email once your order is on the way via India Post. They will also give you an India Post tracking number.

The price declared for customs purposes was the purchase price, USD $59, in my case.

73

Bill, VK7MX


On 26/01/2017 3:02 PM, sara.rolle@... wrote:

Hi all,
I want to buy a Bitx40.
I live in Italy and i have seen that the site offers a direct check-out button for PayPal.?
There are no other way to insert address for expedition or other datas.?

How do you manage the sales? Do you communicate a tracking number or other info? (For example infos about the expedition date, carrier, etc..)

What is the price indicated in the package for the customs?

Waiting for a feedback.
Thanks a lot!
Kinds
Sara

Re: Low power, RV1 unresponsive

 

Thank you.

The current at the PA input does not change, the Voltage on the gate changes with VR1 change. ?This is the DC voltage. ?Is this correct?

Thank you again for the help.

Chuck/AC7QN
Re: Customer Noservice.

 

Finally, a decent and helpful comment. . Thank you.
Re: My BITX40 On The Air Experience

 

I have another enclosure to use when I'm done tinkering.?

Randy

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM JP McGinley <j.p.mcg@...> wrote:

Randy,

Looks Great. Proves that anything can be used to house these BITX in or On.?

Can¡¯t wait for the video

?

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Hall
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BITX20] My BITX40 On The Air Experience

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Hi

With so many technical messages flowing on the list I thought I would describe my BITX40 experience.

I now have it put together and operating. My BITX worked the?first time I turned it on. No problems. I finished up the wiring Saturday afternoon. I was tuning around the band, and it sounded like a contest was in full swing.

Working QRP during a contest can be a challenge. It was the North American QSO party. One of the nice things about this contest is that 100 watts is pretty much the power limit. This helps our QRP signals have a chance on the band. Being a QRP station during a contest means, you will be giving your call our many times. Many repeats on callsign and exchange. But, the other station will usually work with you as he wants the point. I tuned around for looking for the strong stations to contact.

Over a couple of hours I worked:

K0IP John ID

W1RH Bob CA

K7LVJ John WA

N7MZ John WA

K0SN Tom MT

K9CT Craig IL

WN6K Paul CA

I was really amazed that I worked all these stations from this little board sitting on my bench.

Using 13.6 V DC I was getting about 4.5 watts out, as shown on my LP-100A meter. My antenna is a PAR end fed quad band 40/20/15/10 at about 15/20 feet. My location is Gold Beach Or CN72.

The Raduino?tuning kind of drove me crazy. I would be tuning for a station. I would not know that I was reaching the end of the pot, and it would take off tuning automatically. I really had to watch the display to see where I was so that I could tune back the other direction to try and find the station again. I understand that this is the normal operation.I may try tweaking the sketch for the frequency change amount and speed. After all, experimenting is what the BITX is all about.

I should have a video of a bit of the wiring and operating the radio in the contest next week, Feb 1, on Ham Nation. And then on my YouTube channel.

Farhan, thanks for the hours of fun.

Have fun and be radio active,

Randy, K7AGE

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Re: My BITX40 On The Air Experience

 

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Randy,

Looks Great. Proves that anything can be used to house these BITX in or On.?

Can¡¯t wait for the video

?

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Hall
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BITX20] My BITX40 On The Air Experience

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Hi

With so many technical messages flowing on the list I thought I would describe my BITX40 experience.

I now have it put together and operating. My BITX worked the?first time I turned it on. No problems. I finished up the wiring Saturday afternoon. I was tuning around the band, and it sounded like a contest was in full swing.

Working QRP during a contest can be a challenge. It was the North American QSO party. One of the nice things about this contest is that 100 watts is pretty much the power limit. This helps our QRP signals have a chance on the band. Being a QRP station during a contest means, you will be giving your call our many times. Many repeats on callsign and exchange. But, the other station will usually work with you as he wants the point. I tuned around for looking for the strong stations to contact.

Over a couple of hours I worked:

K0IP John ID

W1RH Bob CA

K7LVJ John WA

N7MZ John WA

K0SN Tom MT

K9CT Craig IL

WN6K Paul CA

I was really amazed that I worked all these stations from this little board sitting on my bench.

Using 13.6 V DC I was getting about 4.5 watts out, as shown on my LP-100A meter. My antenna is a PAR end fed quad band 40/20/15/10 at about 15/20 feet. My location is Gold Beach Or CN72.

The Raduino?tuning kind of drove me crazy. I would be tuning for a station. I would not know that I was reaching the end of the pot, and it would take off tuning automatically. I really had to watch the display to see where I was so that I could tune back the other direction to try and find the station again. I understand that this is the normal operation.I may try tweaking the sketch for the frequency change amount and speed. After all, experimenting is what the BITX is all about.

I should have a video of a bit of the wiring and operating the radio in the contest next week, Feb 1, on Ham Nation. And then on my YouTube channel.

Farhan, thanks for the hours of fun.

Have fun and be radio active,

Randy, K7AGE

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Re: Click on xmit keying of mike

 

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I7IWN (Gio) supplied me with some information.
Think it is best he shares it with the community. Seems fairly simple. But would prefer the transistor setup to be closer to the last LM386 amp power supply lead. The 470uF might also be lowered, not sure why this is this value anyway.

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Ron ¨C PA3FAT

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Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Randy Hall
Verzonden: 26 January, 2017 20:17
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Onderwerp: Re: [BITX20] Click on xmit keying of mike

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Ron,

?

Farhan mentioned this during his interview with Tom, .?

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He felt it was due to the cap C114 around the audio preamp Q16, holding the amp on for a bit when that rig is switched into transmit. I wouldn't be surprised that C110 might also be holding U1 on as well.

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He thought about placing a transistor across the cap to discharge it when going into transmit. Drive the transistor from the xmit?voltage.

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I have a very large audio transient on my rig when switching between receive and transmit. I even hear a bit of my own transmit audio for about 1 second when switching into transmit out of the speaker.

?

I haven't gotten around to digging out the scope yet to see what is going with C114 and C110. Maybe others have looked into this.

?

Everyone, please keep experimenting and reporting,

?

Randy, K7AGE

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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM, <r.rking41@...> wrote:

?It's not the relay. It's rally loud.

?

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On 01/25/17, ron van doremalen<ronvandoremalen@...> wrote:

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Ralph,

You mean the click of the relay¡¯s or the delay in going into tx? The first is as it is, the last is also something I need to work at. Did not time it exactly but could be half a second¡­reducing the uF caps around the AF Amp might give some resolution as it might keep the audio on to long due to extensive capacity.

Keep us posted on your experiments please.

Ron ¨C PA3FAT

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Re: Click on xmit keying of mike

 

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Randy,

I hear a split second of my audio also when going into TX, I am going to look into solving this as well.

Joel KB6QVI

On Jan 26, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Randy Hall <listk7age@...> wrote:

Ron,

Farhan mentioned this during his interview with Tom, .?

He felt it was due to the cap C114 around the audio preamp Q16, holding the amp on for a bit when that rig is switched into transmit. I wouldn't be surprised that C110 might also be holding U1 on as well.

He thought about placing a transistor across the cap to discharge it when going into transmit. Drive the transistor from the xmit?voltage.

I have a very large audio transient on my rig when switching between receive and transmit. I even hear a bit of my own transmit audio for about 1 second when switching into transmit out of the speaker.

I haven't gotten around to digging out the scope yet to see what is going with C114 and C110. Maybe others have looked into this.

Everyone, please keep experimenting and reporting,

Randy, K7AGE




On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM, <r.rking41@...> wrote:
?It's not the relay. It's rally loud.
?
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On 01/25/17, ron van doremalen<ronvandoremalen@hotmail.com> wrote:
?

Ralph,

You mean the click of the relay¡¯s or the delay in going into tx? The first is as it is, the last is also something I need to work at. Did not time it exactly but could be half a second¡­reducing the uF caps around the AF Amp might give some resolution as it might keep the audio on to long due to extensive capacity.

Keep us posted on your experiments please.

Ron ¨C PA3FAT
Re: Click on xmit keying of mike

 

Ron,

Farhan mentioned this during his interview with Tom, .?

He felt it was due to the cap C114 around the audio preamp Q16, holding the amp on for a bit when that rig is switched into transmit. I wouldn't be surprised that C110 might also be holding U1 on as well.

He thought about placing a transistor across the cap to discharge it when going into transmit. Drive the transistor from the xmit?voltage.

I have a very large audio transient on my rig when switching between receive and transmit. I even hear a bit of my own transmit audio for about 1 second when switching into transmit out of the speaker.

I haven't gotten around to digging out the scope yet to see what is going with C114 and C110. Maybe others have looked into this.

Everyone, please keep experimenting and reporting,

Randy, K7AGE




On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM, <r.rking41@...> wrote:
?It's not the relay. It's rally loud.
?
?
On 01/25/17, ron van doremalen<ronvandoremalen@hotmail.com> wrote:
?

Ralph,

You mean the click of the relay¡¯s or the delay in going into tx? The first is as it is, the last is also something I need to work at. Did not time it exactly but could be half a second¡­reducing the uF caps around the AF Amp might give some resolution as it might keep the audio on to long due to extensive capacity.

Keep us posted on your experiments please.

Ron ¨C PA3FAT
Re: Calibrate Lead Confirmation

 

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My brown wire did not put mine into calibration. I saw the post yesterday and used the red wire and it went into calibration properly. Both wires are inputs, so grounding either one will not cause any problem.

I have had mine up for about 10 days now and have been well pleased with it. You do have to work harder to get a qso bit it is very satisfying when you get in with 6 watts.

On 1/26/2017 11:59 AM, Ion Petroianu wrote:

It is the red one, A2 on Arduino.


On Jan 26, 2017 4:13 PM, "Jim Schliestett" <aekjrs@...> wrote:

?

According to the BitX40 web pages, the brown lead of the Raduino 8 pin connector is the calibrate lead. I thought I saw a post that referred to the red lead as the calibrate lead. I want to be sure before I wire it out. Is it brown or red and which pin on the Arduino_Uno is the calibrate pin, A2? Thanks.
Re: Click on xmit keying of mike

 

?It's not the relay. It's rally loud.
?
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On 01/25/17, ron van doremalen<ronvandoremalen@...> wrote:
?

Ralph,

You mean the click of the relay¡¯s or the delay in going into tx? The first is as it is, the last is also something I need to work at. Did not time it exactly but could be half a second¡­reducing the uF caps around the AF Amp might give some resolution as it might keep the audio on to long due to extensive capacity.

Keep us posted on your experiments please.

Ron ¨C PA3FAT
Re: Calibrate Lead Confirmation

 

It is the red one, A2 on Arduino.


On Jan 26, 2017 4:13 PM, "Jim Schliestett" <aekjrs@...> wrote:

?

According to the BitX40 web pages, the brown lead of the Raduino 8 pin connector is the calibrate lead. I thought I saw a post that referred to the red lead as the calibrate lead. I want to be sure before I wire it out. Is it brown or red and which pin on the Arduino_Uno is the calibrate pin, A2? Thanks.
Re: Dot notation for transformers

 

Alan and his videos are great.
Randy, K7AGE

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Roy Appleton <twelveoclockhigh@...> wrote:
Great little video, thanks for sharing!

Roy
WA0YMH

On Jan 26, 2017 6:37 AM, "Ken KM4NFQ" <km4nfq@...> wrote:
Try this one:


#209: Basics of Phase Dots on Transformer Windings



Published on Aug 11, 2015

This video describes what the "phase dots" are that you often see adjacent to windings of a transformer. It discusses how these dots are used in certain circuits to establish a desired phase relationship between the signals on the various windings. A couple of tips are given regarding how to determine the phasing relationship on homebrew transformers. Finally, measurements are made with an oscilloscope on a trifilar wound transformer to see the phase relationship between the signals on each of the windings with respect to the phasing dots.

73




On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Bob V <rjvnyc@...> wrote:
Could someone direct me to an easy-to-understand discussion of how to interpret dots intended to clarify winding of transformers??

Perhaps there is a "transformer winding for dummies" paper somewhere?

73
Bob
WA2I
Calibrate Lead Confirmation

Jim Schliestett
 

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According to the BitX40 web pages, the brown lead of the Raduino 8 pin connector is the calibrate lead. I thought I saw a post that referred to the red lead as the calibrate lead. I want to be sure before I wire it out. Is it brown or red and which pin on the Arduino_Uno is the calibrate pin, A2? Thanks.
Re: Dot notation for transformers

 

Great little video, thanks for sharing!

Roy
WA0YMH

On Jan 26, 2017 6:37 AM, "Ken KM4NFQ" <km4nfq@...> wrote:
Try this one:


#209: Basics of Phase Dots on Transformer Windings



Published on Aug 11, 2015

This video describes what the "phase dots" are that you often see adjacent to windings of a transformer. It discusses how these dots are used in certain circuits to establish a desired phase relationship between the signals on the various windings. A couple of tips are given regarding how to determine the phasing relationship on homebrew transformers. Finally, measurements are made with an oscilloscope on a trifilar wound transformer to see the phase relationship between the signals on each of the windings with respect to the phasing dots.

73




On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Bob V <rjvnyc@...> wrote:
Could someone direct me to an easy-to-understand discussion of how to interpret dots intended to clarify winding of transformers??

Perhaps there is a "transformer winding for dummies" paper somewhere?

73
Bob
WA2I
My BITX40 On The Air Experience

 

Hi

With so many technical messages flowing on the list I thought I would describe my BITX40 experience.

I now have it put together and operating. My BITX worked the?first time I turned it on. No problems. I finished up the wiring Saturday afternoon. I was tuning around the band, and it sounded like a contest was in full swing.

Working QRP during a contest can be a challenge. It was the North American QSO party. One of the nice things about this contest is that 100 watts is pretty much the power limit. This helps our QRP signals have a chance on the band. Being a QRP station during a contest means, you will be giving your call our many times. Many repeats on callsign and exchange. But, the other station will usually work with you as he wants the point. I tuned around for looking for the strong stations to contact.

Over a couple of hours I worked:

K0IP John ID

W1RH Bob CA

K7LVJ John WA

N7MZ John WA

K0SN Tom MT

K9CT Craig IL

WN6K Paul CA

I was really amazed that I worked all these stations from this little board sitting on my bench.

Using 13.6 V DC I was getting about 4.5 watts out, as shown on my LP-100A meter. My antenna is a PAR end fed quad band 40/20/15/10 at about 15/20 feet. My location is Gold Beach Or CN72.

The Raduino?tuning kind of drove me crazy. I would be tuning for a station. I would not know that I was reaching the end of the pot, and it would take off tuning automatically. I really had to watch the display to see where I was so that I could tune back the other direction to try and find the station again. I understand that this is the normal operation.I may try tweaking the sketch for the frequency change amount and speed. After all, experimenting is what the BITX is all about.

I should have a video of a bit of the wiring and operating the radio in the contest next week, Feb 1, on Ham Nation. And then on my YouTube channel.

Farhan, thanks for the hours of fun.

Have fun and be radio active,

Randy, K7AGE


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Re: Thoughts & Questions de W8LM - 2st POST

 

Thank you for taking the time to post your photos of the case you're using. Ordered a couple!?

Roy
WA0YMH

On Jan 25, 2017 10:44 PM, "Lawrence Macionski via Groups.Io" <am_fm_radio=[email protected]> wrote:

My BITX40 Arrived INDIA to KANSAS 20 days 1/3 to 1/23. The BITX40 was my Show & Tell at the W0VFW club meeting last night. I played W5KUB's video of his BITX40 QSO- Tennessee to South Africa. In my 1st post, I mentioned these 2 items WORTH LOOKING IN TO:

Electronic Plastic Shell Cartridge Handle Project Case Desk Instrument 200x175x70mm


$9.99 USD free shipping Ordered 1/3 arrived 1/20 China to Kansas


HM100N-Microphone-for-Mobile-Radio-F121-F221-F521-F621-F5011-F5021-F1721
Shipped was an ICOM HM-118N microphone with up-down buttons.
$9.95 USD free shipping. Ordered 1/3 arrived 1/14 China to Kansas


I have posted pictures of the PROJECT CASE with BITX40 preliminary placed inside case for sizing? and the ICOM $9.95 Microphone. I now have $79 in my project.

MY PICTURE ALBUM IS----- W8LM BITX40 + RADUINO? Click on PHOTOS on the left to view 6 pictures.
Re: Deleting the truth.

 

i am not at all suggesting to boot anyone out. on the contrary, hfsignals should clearly communicate that they should be directly written to for commercial stuff and tech discussion should be on the group.
thanks all for the kinf words. i am only an editor of sorts, rolling things into the bitx. sarma has suggested that the lcd light led should be taken off the regulator and fed from 12v through a drop resistor. this will help in reducing the power dissipation of the 5v regulator which can be moved to smd format. he has suggested several other changes too, including use of BAT54s for the modulator. suggestions like this take a long time to show up as the layout to shipped board cycle is 8 weeks long.
keep the suggestions flowing guys..
john, I understand the confusion but we had to pull the plug on the raduino upgrades.
- f

On 26-Jan-2017 8:55 pm, "Jack Purdum via Groups.Io" <econjack=[email protected]> wrote:
Ashhar:

Personally, my best guess is that there is one person on the planet who thinks the current prices are unreasonable. I've purchased 3 BITX40's thus far and will be suggesting this as a club build at our next meeting. Anything I (and likely most of us here) can do to support your and HF Signals' efforts is just an email away. This is a terrific community and (virtually) all of us applaud your efforts for what you are providing.?

I agree that this venue should be kept for tech stuff. If you are the moderator, I'd boot John from here in a heartbeat.


Jack Purdum, W8TEE

P.S. John: My offer was sincere

From: Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:39 PM

Subject: Re: [BITX20] Deleting the truth.

peeps,

i will setup and announce the non technical stuff to a separate mail id. lets keep this group for all the tech stuff concerning all bitx builds.
as an aside, at 14 dollars we spend 5 dollars just shipping it. nine dollars had to cover pcb, testing, arduino, display, si5351, other components. we didnt make the break at all. which is why we had to revise the price to 25 usd.
- f
- f

On 26-Jan-2017 10:02 am, "VE7BEE" <obeebe@...> wrote:
To HF SIGS ?: Your customer service is good , the product is good , the price on the BITX board is good .
THANK YOU for offering us QRP ham guys , the ones that believe in your project , that had already bought the BITX40v3's some time to buy the Raduino's at $14 usd.
As everyone knows this does not even cover your cost for the product including shipping and handling . If some one missed it , Oh well it is still ONLY $25 bucks.
The fact that you will sell the Raduino's separately , and at only $25 usd incl shipping is amazing to say the least .?
I think every ham should be thanking your team for your efforts and the great work you have done to help move the qrp radio hobby forward in such a positive way .?
To those that are so "concerned" about the $9 us difference in price on the Raduino's ( which is less 2 drinks at Starbucks )
Give all the rest of us guys that like experimenting a break , all us hams that are THANKFUL for what the HF Sigs team and Ashhar are doing , who they are helping and what products they make available at a reasonable price . Do us all a favour , ?drink 2 less Starbuck Lattes or 2 less beers this week and just pay the difference and be quiet .

Thanks to all that support and share all the BITX info and products - VE7BEE
Re: Deleting the truth.

 

Here, here!!!
The original post is nonsensical! Would be a shame to allow 1 ruin this forum for all!!

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Ashhar:
Personally, my best guess is that there is one person on the planet who thinks the current prices are unreasonable. I've purchased 3 BITX40's thus far and will be suggesting this as a club build at our next meeting. Anything I (and likely most of us here) can do to support your and HF Signals' efforts is just an email away. This is a terrific community and (virtually) all of us applaud your efforts for what you are providing.
I agree that this venue should be kept for tech stuff. If you are the moderator, I'd boot John from here in a heartbeat.

Jack Purdum, W8TEE
P.S. John: My offer was sincere

From: Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Deleting the truth.

peeps,i will setup and announce the non technical stuff to a separate mail id. lets keep this group for all the tech stuff concerning all bitx builds.as an aside, at 14 dollars we spend 5 dollars just shipping it. nine dollars had to cover pcb, testing, arduino, display, si5351, other components. we didnt make the break at all. which is why we had to revise the price to 25 usd.- f- fOn 26-Jan-2017 10:02 am, "VE7BEE" <obeebe@...> wrote:To HF SIGS : Your customer service is good , the product is good , the price on the BITX board is good . THANK YOU for offering us QRP ham guys , the ones that believe in your project , that had already bought the BITX40v3's some time to buy the Raduino's at $14 usd. As everyone knows this does not even cover your cost for the product including shipping and handling . If some one missed it , Oh well it is still ONLY $25 bucks.The fact that you will sell the Raduino's separately , and at only $25 usd incl shipping is amazing to say the least . I think every ham should be thanking your team for your efforts and the great work you have done to help move the qrp radio hobby forward in such a positive way . To those that are so "concerned" about the $9 us difference in price on the Raduino's ( which is less 2 drinks at Starbucks ) Give all the rest of us guys that like experimenting a break , all us hams that are THANKFUL for what the HF Sigs team and Ashhar are doing , who they are helping and what products they make available at a reasonable price . Do us all a favour , drink 2 less Starbuck Lattes or 2 less beers this week and just pay the difference and be quiet .Thanks to all that support and share all the BITX info and products - VE7BEE








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Re: Deleting the truth.

Jack Purdum
 

Ashhar:

Personally, my best guess is that there is one person on the planet who thinks the current prices are unreasonable. I've purchased 3 BITX40's thus far and will be suggesting this as a club build at our next meeting. Anything I (and likely most of us here) can do to support your and HF Signals' efforts is just an email away. This is a terrific community and (virtually) all of us applaud your efforts for what you are providing.?

I agree that this venue should be kept for tech stuff. If you are the moderator, I'd boot John from here in a heartbeat.


Jack Purdum, W8TEE

P.S. John: My offer was sincere

From: Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Deleting the truth.

peeps,

i will setup and announce the non technical stuff to a separate mail id. lets keep this group for all the tech stuff concerning all bitx builds.
as an aside, at 14 dollars we spend 5 dollars just shipping it. nine dollars had to cover pcb, testing, arduino, display, si5351, other components. we didnt make the break at all. which is why we had to revise the price to 25 usd.
- f
- f

On 26-Jan-2017 10:02 am, "VE7BEE" <obeebe@...> wrote:
To HF SIGS ?: Your customer service is good , the product is good , the price on the BITX board is good .
THANK YOU for offering us QRP ham guys , the ones that believe in your project , that had already bought the BITX40v3's some time to buy the Raduino's at $14 usd.
As everyone knows this does not even cover your cost for the product including shipping and handling . If some one missed it , Oh well it is still ONLY $25 bucks.
The fact that you will sell the Raduino's separately , and at only $25 usd incl shipping is amazing to say the least .?
I think every ham should be thanking your team for your efforts and the great work you have done to help move the qrp radio hobby forward in such a positive way .?
To those that are so "concerned" about the $9 us difference in price on the Raduino's ( which is less 2 drinks at Starbucks )
Give all the rest of us guys that like experimenting a break , all us hams that are THANKFUL for what the HF Sigs team and Ashhar are doing , who they are helping and what products they make available at a reasonable price . Do us all a favour , ?drink 2 less Starbuck Lattes or 2 less beers this week and just pay the difference and be quiet .

Thanks to all that support and share all the BITX info and products - VE7BEE
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