Re: I am an idiot. Did I fry my v. 5 board?
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Thank you, Mark. I do have the 4.7k ohm resistor installed and I will try to adjust the contrast as well. Perhaps that will fix the issue, save for my switch, which is not functioning and needs to be
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gustav316@...
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
I can imagine what that was like. I did not work in the space race, but, as a kid, a friends father worked for Autonetics and he would bring us to their employee open house events and we would get to
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: I am an idiot. Did I fry my v. 5 board?
#ubitx-help
#ubitx40help
Hi Gus, Well, if you smelled something then likely something got a bit too hot! A couple notes: The black squares on the display is normal if you haven't adjusted the contrast for the diplay yet
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Mark - N7EKU <n7eku@...>
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Re: Graphics files for Nextion LCD displays.
Thanks much Mark.. -- John - N0CTL - Fulltime RV in a 40' motorhome
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John Scherer
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
That is an interesting circuit. So it looks like the series resonate circuit is a low impedance at 40 meters passing the received RF to the receiver amplifiers. Then, when the transmitter is keyed up
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Tom, wb6b
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I am an idiot. Did I fry my v. 5 board?
#ubitx-help
#ubitx40help
i was excited to put together my Ubitx today after finally getting a roll of .5 mm solder yesterday. I¡¯m not an expert by any means in electronics assembly - I¡¯d say that my proficiency is
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gustav316@...
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Re: T/R Relay sticking!
I really could use a good reference for a long lasting replacement relay for the uBitix transimit/receive relay, what say you ?
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ChuckR
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Re: Graphics files for Nextion LCD displays.
John, If you are looking at the 5" Nextion files under AJ6CU, then I was probably the last person to touch them. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of the graphic files either when I made all my mods
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Mark Hatch
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
As John, K0JD pointed out in post /g/BITX20/message/70894 the TenTec Argosy was using rectified RF to create the high DC voltage required for a PIN diode T/R switch.? As proposed in
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
Correction: Second paragraph here mentions it plus a couple other options with regard to TR switches: /g/BITX20/message/39746 Jerry, KE7ER
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
Tom, You need to poke around a bit further on qrpkits.com https://www.qrpkits.com/bitx20a.html Schematic is in that first assembly manual listed. Second paragraph here mentions it plus a couple other
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Jerry Gaffke
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Bill Meara
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
Same here Tom. I lived near Huntsville when I was first licensed, WN4CCA. I sent off for a NASA technical bulletin ¨C ¡°Telemetry¡±. Latest in high tech. Interviewed at IBM Huntsville, they showed
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Jim Willis
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Re: Builder for Disabled
Eric, i have a couple of display protection boards left when you do your JackAl display de n2aie vince
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Vince N2AIE
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BITX40
I would appreciate assistance with the 40 please. After triple checking connections, I fired up. The display was blocks which adjusted with the pot on the Rad board. It was drawing 140ma on idle
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Roger Tuffin <roger.tuffin@...>
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
Cool site. Fun to look once again, in the context of the era of Heathkit kits and the early space race technology, the electronic designs I poured over learning electronics design. Then think of now,
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
Hi, I found some reviews of the bitx20a. Did not find a schematic, yet. However, I found this CW transceiver designed by Dan Tayloe that has a couple of mosfets to cut off the RF to the receiver
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Tom, wb6b
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
https://www.vintage-radio.info/heathkit/
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Thomas Sharka
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
If you guys can locate, look for the bitx20a manual. It has a Tayloe T/R switching system. The other mod will be to keep the lpf relays powered up. The heaviest lifting is what we can do to avoid the
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Ashhar Farhan
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Re: BitX HW-16: full break-in high power ri
Interesting, I was looking around at sites that featured old Heathkit photos and product information. Found this link. Looks like someone is reviving Heathkit in Santa Cruz California. Maybe a
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Tom, wb6b
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