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I have not heard of the inverted L. If it is what I imagine from the name, I "might" be able to get away with one of those, though it would have to be against, literally up to and touching, my building. Dunno if that would work. Ahh, more research, the joys of this hobby! ;-)

73, Richard

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:59 AM, philip yates <phil@...> wrote:

Hi Richard.

Could be your aerial, sounds like it gets out, but as for RX ? I have an inverted L up, small garden so not room for anything big.

I did start to listen for the nets last night, as here its a holiday today, but we had another night with thunderstorms. Typical long weekend, weather is crap and not radio friendly.

Anyone else have any other suggestions.

Phil - G7BZD

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:50 PM, richard kappler <richkappler@...> wrote:

I have set LSB drive level to 2ma, this made barely noticeable improvement, if any at all. I can hear strong signals, but no one can hear me, and I'm quite sure the radio needs to be calibrated. We had our weekly net last night for my club, and one of my colleagues was kind enough to come up on 7.280 for me. I heard nothing, she could not hear my calls of CQ. We were concurrently on 2m through the local repeater to coordinate our efforts and she described to me the traffic she was hearing and I got nary a whiff of it. I think my cal might be well out. Going to try to come up with a scheme today to correct that. Beyond that, I think my problems are not the radio, I think it's my locale. When I run the B40 without an antenna connected, she's pretty quiet. Just enough static to let me know she's running. As soon as I attach the antenna it's a blast of RF static. Once I figure out how to verify and set my calibration, I plan to go out to someplace that's fairly rf "quiet" to see what there is to see. There's a state forest just north of me that ought to suit my purposes. The additional benefit there is I can run a dipole, whereas here I'm running a tapped coil whip, which I realize is not the best antenna. It is, however, what I am allowed to put up.

73, Richard

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:45 AM, philip yates <phil@...> wrote:

Hi Richard.

As detailed by Allard...

Running Raduino v1.10 here at the moment, requires the function push to make button connected, as detailed in the instructions.

The VFO drive levels for LSB and USB can be set from the front panel with
the function button (SETTINGS menu).

See the operating instructions at

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W2KAP

In any given circuit, the most expensive part will always sacrifice itself to protect the fuse.

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W2KAP

In any given circuit, the most expensive part will always sacrifice itself to protect the fuse.

My wife and I had a discussion last night. She was very concerned that I have yet to find any real success with the B40 or this hobby at all other than through the local repeater on my HT. She was worried that I was going to get to discouraged and walk away from the hobby, which I have only been in for a few months now.

?I was unemployed for quite some time as well as had some health issues, so there hasn't been much money to divert to ham radio, which is what drew me to the BitX in the first place. I told her on the contrary that, had I had a butt ton (metric, not standard) of money to throw at the hobby from the beginning, I might well have gotten bored. It would have been too easy (Plug cord A into slot B, turn switch C to the D position, Bob's yer Uncle, you're on HF!)

Having had to try to do this on less than a shoestring, I have had to learn so much more than I most likely would with commercial rigs and fancy accessories. I have had my radio's guts all over the desk numerous times. I have had to build tools to help troubleshoot it and learn how to use them. I've made horrifying mistakes and learned loads from each and every one, I've had miniscule successes that felt like monumental victories. I have yet to make a contact on my BitX or arguably even get it running right, but I sure have had fun trying, and have learned so much in the process!

73, Richard

--

W2KAP

In any given circuit, the most expensive part will always sacrifice itself to protect the fuse.

Hi Richard.

Could be your aerial, sounds like it gets out, but as for RX ? I have an inverted L up, small garden so not room for anything big.

I did start to listen for the nets last night, as here its a holiday today, but we had another night with thunderstorms. Typical long weekend, weather is crap and not radio friendly.

Anyone else have any other suggestions.

Phil - G7BZD

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:50 PM, richard kappler <richkappler@...> wrote:

I have set LSB drive level to 2ma, this made barely noticeable improvement, if any at all. I can hear strong signals, but no one can hear me, and I'm quite sure the radio needs to be calibrated. We had our weekly net last night for my club, and one of my colleagues was kind enough to come up on 7.280 for me. I heard nothing, she could not hear my calls of CQ. We were concurrently on 2m through the local repeater to coordinate our efforts and she described to me the traffic she was hearing and I got nary a whiff of it. I think my cal might be well out. Going to try to come up with a scheme today to correct that. Beyond that, I think my problems are not the radio, I think it's my locale. When I run the B40 without an antenna connected, she's pretty quiet. Just enough static to let me know she's running. As soon as I attach the antenna it's a blast of RF static. Once I figure out how to verify and set my calibration, I plan to go out to someplace that's fairly rf "quiet" to see what there is to see. There's a state forest just north of me that ought to suit my purposes. The additional benefit there is I can run a dipole, whereas here I'm running a tapped coil whip, which I realize is not the best antenna. It is, however, what I am allowed to put up.

73, Richard

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:45 AM, philip yates <phil@...> wrote:

Hi Richard.

As detailed by Allard...

Running Raduino v1.10 here at the moment, requires the function push to make button connected, as detailed in the instructions.

The VFO drive levels for LSB and USB can be set from the front panel with
the function button (SETTINGS menu).

See the operating instructions at

--

W2KAP

In any given circuit, the most expensive part will always sacrifice itself to protect the fuse.

I have set LSB drive level to 2ma, this made barely noticeable improvement, if any at all. I can hear strong signals, but no one can hear me, and I'm quite sure the radio needs to be calibrated. We had our weekly net last night for my club, and one of my colleagues was kind enough to come up on 7.280 for me. I heard nothing, she could not hear my calls of CQ. We were concurrently on 2m through the local repeater to coordinate our efforts and she described to me the traffic she was hearing and I got nary a whiff of it. I think my cal might be well out. Going to try to come up with a scheme today to correct that. Beyond that, I think my problems are not the radio, I think it's my locale. When I run the B40 without an antenna connected, she's pretty quiet. Just enough static to let me know she's running. As soon as I attach the antenna it's a blast of RF static. Once I figure out how to verify and set my calibration, I plan to go out to someplace that's fairly rf "quiet" to see what there is to see. There's a state forest just north of me that ought to suit my purposes. The additional benefit there is I can run a dipole, whereas here I'm running a tapped coil whip, which I realize is not the best antenna. It is, however, what I am allowed to put up.

73, Richard

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:45 AM, philip yates <phil@...> wrote:

Hi Richard.

As detailed by Allard...

Running Raduino v1.10 here at the moment, requires the function push to make button connected, as detailed in the instructions.

The VFO drive levels for LSB and USB can be set from the front panel with
the function button (SETTINGS menu).

See the operating instructions at

--

W2KAP

In any given circuit, the most expensive part will always sacrifice itself to protect the fuse.

Hi Richard.

As detailed by Allard...

Running Raduino v1.10 here at the moment, requires the function push to make button connected, as detailed in the instructions.

The VFO drive levels for LSB and USB can be set from the front panel with
the function button (SETTINGS menu).

See the operating instructions at

Phil,

You might already have the answers, but regardless, here's my blog post and vid on this circuit:



FWIW, the first LDR I used from the junk box was 40-400k and did not work.? I sourced a 4-40k LDR from Jaycar (here in VK) and it worked fine. I didn't even bother to tape it for ambient light penetration.? Day or night on the bench seemed to make no discernible difference. ?

73 VK3HN

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