Re: Calling all Midwesterners.
John, AD0RW, from Coralville, Iowa. Hawkeye country, right next door to Iowa City and the U. of Iowa. I have a choice between a dipole at 30 feet and an 80 meter wire vertical (mostly, more like half
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John Pieper
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#27924
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Re: Struggling with tuning clicks and birdie sounds
Jack, thanks for your wise comment, but I believe there's no need to worry. I started my project from the following basic goals: - provide a "standard" software - some minimal hardware may have to be
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Allard PE1NWL
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#27923
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Re: Bitx connector pins
Did you see the picture. I have had to throw away ones like that. They are made for automated equipment that shears off the sides. I have had lots of them, they stink. If you don't cut perfect they
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Michael Hagen
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#27922
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Re: W8TEE TFT/VFO Board from FDIM talk
Jack, Thanks for sending the boards. Picked them up today.. Nice looking board!. I also received my atmega 2560 mini pro and the correct DDS 9850. Mars 3 etc So parts have started to roll in... 1. I
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Joe
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#27921
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Re: Dhl customs cost to the usa
I ordered my bitx40 in late May, with DHL shipping for $10, and received it in a few days. ?No customs charge.
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Ben Bangerter, K0IKR
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#27920
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Re: Bitx connector pins
Thanks to everyone who responded. ?That puts me on the right track. ?I use pliers to crimp such pins, then solder. ?A bit fussy to do, but works for me.
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Ben Bangerter, K0IKR
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#27919
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The $19 DIY DSP audio filter
I came across this superb project. I have already ordered a teensy do I can play with it. It may work?nicely inside our bitx40 It is incredibly well documented https://gi1mic.github.io/ (
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Cesar <Cesarleon@...>
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#27918
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Re: Calling all Midwesterners.
About 5 miles south of Charlevoix, Michigan. Charlevoix is on US 31, south-west of the Straits of Mackinaw. RichKC8MWG
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Richard Andrew Knack
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#27917
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Re: Struggling with tuning clicks and birdie sounds
Enjoy the vacation Pavel! Looking forward to your updated library when you're back. 73 Allard PE1NWL
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Allard PE1NWL
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#27916
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Re: Calling all Midwesterners.
South Haven, Michigan, near the shore of Lake Michigan, 80 miles Northeast of Chicago Harbor. Draw a line down 8 Mile Road all the way from Detroit to Lake Michigan, where 8 Mile Rd (Baseline Rd) hits
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KC8WBK
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#27915
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Re: Struggling with tuning clicks and birdie sounds
Yeah. I even pretend in the past to made a folk, a mix of one of my project & bitx40, but time (lack of it) move me to join my efforts to improve Allards code... That's the beauty of open source, you
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Pavel Milanes Costa <pavelmc@...>
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#27914
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Diy mic
i have to say that I managed to connect a Baofeng mic using a 4 pin connector -much more reluable and steady connection than a jack 3,5- but i decided to use original mic just for testing. So I made
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Cesar <Cesarleon@...>
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#27913
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Re: Allard's Version 1.113
Arduino IDE 1.8.x familly introduced a few code optimizations. (in fact they was tested in the 1.7.x familly but stablished on the 1.8.x familly) That's why you see 100% code size, upgrade to the
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Pavel Milanes Costa <pavelmc@...>
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#27912
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Re: Struggling with tuning clicks and birdie sounds
That's even better, as Allard's code is pretty tight. One of my worries is that we don't fragment and fracture the group with too many processor/code variations. I'm guilty of this, too, as I will
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Jack Purdum <econjack@...>
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#27911
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Re: Bitx connector pins
I use needle nose and a soldering iron! Seen too many crimp failures over time. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ http://www.metalworkingfun.com
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Vince Vielhaber <vev@...>
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#27910
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Re: Struggling with tuning clicks and birdie sounds
Allard, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continuing evolution of the Bitx40 software. You have made yourself indispensable in making this radio great! I received my Bitx40
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Richard Spohn
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#27909
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Re: Struggling with tuning clicks and birdie sounds
See inline 3. Lib's author is a bitx20 supporter and can tweak it for any of our (reasonable) weird features/whishes ;) 3. Autor can be offline in some time periods (this is Cuba, internet is a luxury
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Pavel Milanes Costa <pavelmc@...>
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#27908
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Re: Bitx connector pins
Did you look at the actual datasheet? They break off from the top. Vince.
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Vince Vielhaber <vev@...>
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#27907
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Re: Bitx connector pins
I know I am asking for two things that are typically mutually exclusive, but has anyone found a cheap and reliable crimp tool for the connectors?
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Doug W
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#27906
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Re: Calling all Midwesterners.
KD9CYF, Doug, Northern Illinois, EN52rj
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Doug W
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#27905
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