Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
worked tonight on 7.277 @ 7 watts into OCFD Started at app. 0000 UTC?
KI4PSR Dave 55
KC1FSZ Bruce 56
WA1UQO Armand was 55 then QSB took him out
VE3RRD Al 59
VE3RDQ Jack 55
N1PMA ?Craig 55
heard but couldn't work
KM4WII
KC9CEB
AD8J not qrp
W0BOY
K0GSG not qrp
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Worked local stations VE3THR and VE3RDQ. Also worked
KC1FSZ
N1PMA
W0OIC
KD9CKB
Heard KM4WII and a couple more that I couldn't work. Not much QRN tonight for a change.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I heard one person all nite. In fact all the Sundays I've tuned in it's the only one that was half way legible (I'm not a fan of his mic). The last 3 of his call were CGH and the beginning was K? or W? might have been 4. Like I said, I'm not a fan of his mic, took 10 times to make out the word Golf when he said his cal phonetically.
Did anyone else hear him? He was in North Carolina.
Vince.
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On 07/09/2017 10:22 PM, KC8WBK via Groups.Io wrote: QSO: N0GSG
Heard
W4JLE, SC
KE5HBL, CO
Lots of static.
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Michigan VHF Corp.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Not the greatest conditions at my house but was able to work:
W4JLE?
W0BOY
Jeff
N9ARZ
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Re: W8TEE TFT/ VFO DISPLAY BOARD BOARD
Dr. Jack, W8TEE,?
I have searched just about everywhere I can think, here, there and over there¡
Are any of your boards available? Enough for a group buy??
Are the details still what they were a month or more ago, because thats the last info I can find, and I can't make sense if you ran out or have more?
We are also looking at the upcoming AA, more than serious, we are using Arduino Projects for Ham Radio, probably going to go next to that ¡®C¡¯ book.
Our group has a dozen BitX¡¯s either in hand or on order, and probably more real soon.?
I would love to be working with this, have to figure out how to get your board.
Craig KM4YEC ?( @ ) g m a i l?
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On Jul 9, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io < econjack@...> wrote:
No, it should be changing without being connected to the main board. It sounds to me like the connections from the encoder to the PCB are on the wrong pins. CHeck those and make sure they are correct. You can download the latest schematic for the board from the Files section of the group.
Jack, W8TEE
From: Charlie Morrison <charlie@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] W8TEE TFT/ VFO DISPLAY BOARD BOARD
Hi Jack
I have my board built and running with the latest code, however turning the rotary encoder does not move the frequency from 7.200 (I have tried 3 different encoders with same result). ?Pressing the encoder switch moves it to SW1, but further presses do nothing. I have not connected the VFO to the BITX yet, i dont recall seeing a connection diagram anywhere, i must have missed it. Does the VFO need to be connected to the BITX for the frequency to change and the switch to behave properly?
73, Charlie GI4FUE
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
QSO: N0GSG
Heard
W4JLE, SC
KE5HBL, CO
Lots of static.
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Re: Raduino v1.18 (improved CW performance) released
Dave KI4PSR wrote... when I tried to simply compile/verify, I get an
error message about too many decimal points. I don't know if it's the problem, but do you have the Arduino Nano selected? Also, do you have the Etherkit Si5351 library installed? I don't have the BITX40 ready to go yet, but I'm listening on 7277 KHz. I can hear a couple of stations, but I haven't caught the call signs yet. -- 73 Keith VE7GDH
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I heard several stations. I worked K0GSG who was running 1500 watts. I tried to get him to call for bitx stations and act as a net control. In spite of telling me I was 5-9 I was never able to convey my request. I did get a good audio report which was welcome. I hear? BITX stations in Boston, an 8 station who¡¯s call I never fully copied and a station portable in Colorado. Station here is running 13 watts to a G5RV at 70 feet.? Tonight I was running on an 18 Volt Mikita drill battery with a regulator for the 12 Volts. I will try again at 10 PM EDST. ? v/r Fred W4JLE Gilbert, SC ? ? ?
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick
Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 21:09
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BITX20] BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere ? No luck for me with my mag loop and bitx, called on and off for about 20 minutes before the mosquitoes got ridiculous. I did hear w3ttt but that is about it.?
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Pretty good condition this evening after the KW station below us cleared. ?Logged the following QSOs:
VE3THR?
KC8WBK
VE3RRD
N8DAH
W4JLE
73s,
Bruce KC1FSZ
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
KC8WBK heard you a few times, KM4YEC
Also heard W3TTT more, and best of the night
Heard KC1 at 8:00 pm EST on 7.277 Heard VE3HER at 8:10 pm EST?
Maybe? W2BA? at 7:31 pm ? 7.278?
Craig? KM4YEC
I recut my inverted V and raised it about a month ago. ?I was resonant out of band at 6.6xx and made multiple contact with W1LY on 3 different Sundays¡.since putting an MFJ on my antenna and ¡®tuning¡¯ it, have not made a contact, yet I took my BitX to a Field Day set up and another Ham made a out of state contact on it. ?Looks like I need to play with it on more than Sundays.
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QSos...
W3TTT
KC1FSZ
Partials or potential relays...
VE3THR
KM4?
N2DAH
W4.A?
Hearing lots of static.? Maybe things will improve later.
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Re: W8TEE TFT/ VFO DISPLAY BOARD BOARD
No, it should be changing without being connected to the main board. It sounds to me like the connections from the encoder to the PCB are on the wrong pins. CHeck those and make sure they are correct. You can download the latest schematic for the board from the Files section of the group.
Jack, W8TEE
From: Charlie Morrison <charlie@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] W8TEE TFT/ VFO DISPLAY BOARD BOARD
Hi Jack
I have my board built and running with the latest code, however turning the rotary encoder does not move the frequency from 7.200 (I have tried 3 different encoders with same result). ?Pressing the encoder switch moves it to SW1, but further presses do nothing. I have not connected the VFO to the BITX yet, i dont recall seeing a connection diagram anywhere, i must have missed it. Does the VFO need to be connected to the BITX for the frequency to change and the switch to behave properly?
73, Charlie GI4FUE
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Sounds great Dave, FB. ?
73,
Bruce KC1FSZ
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
What diameter is your loop? Building one is on my todo list.
Vince.
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On 07/09/2017 09:08 PM, Nick wrote: No luck for me with my mag loop and bitx, called on and off for about 20
minutes before the mosquitoes got ridiculous. I did hear w3ttt but that
is about it.
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Michigan VHF Corp.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
No luck for me with my mag loop and bitx, called on and off for about 20 minutes before the mosquitoes got ridiculous. I did hear w3ttt but that is about it.?
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
QSos...
W3TTT
KC1FSZ
Partials or potential relays...
VE3THR
KM4?
N2DAH
W4.A?
Hearing lots of static.? Maybe things will improve later.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Well couldn't do it barefoot but the hardrock 50 got me out to KC1FSZ Thanks Bruce 1st qso on the bitx SSB
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
going to call on 7.279 for a few
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I think I have some antenna work to do. I'm hearing nothing on 7.277.
Looks like I typed that too soon, Now I'm hearing someone from North Carolina.
Vince.
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On 07/09/2017 08:09 PM, lostfrogsrecords wrote: OK, that is VE3HTR and he has the frequency working some good contacts.
On 7/9/2017 7:00 PM, Dave Matthews wrote:
E3THR is on that frequency, I worked him! I will listen but not
interfere with him.
On 7/9/2017 6:48 PM, Dave Matthews wrote:
I will try working 7.2770 here int TN in about 12 minutes. (20W)
KI4PSR
On 7/9/2017 6:45 PM, John P wrote:
I could hear KC8WBK calling CQ. Signal was up & down though. He said
he was running 40 watts. Other than that nada!
I even tried calling CQ using my new CW capability. Again, nothing
heard.
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John - WA2FZW
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Michigan VHF Corp.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, July 9, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
OK, that is VE3HTR and he has the frequency working some good
contacts.
On 7/9/2017 7:00 PM, Dave Matthews
wrote:
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E3THR is on that frequency, I worked him!? I will listen but
not interfere with him.
On 7/9/2017 6:48 PM, Dave Matthews
wrote:
I will try working? 7.2770 here int TN in about 12 minutes.?
(20W)
KI4PSR
On 7/9/2017 6:45 PM, John P wrote:
I could hear
KC8WBK calling CQ. Signal was up & down though. He said he
was running 40 watts. Other than that nada!
I even tried calling CQ using my new CW capability. Again,
nothing heard.
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John - WA2FZW
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Jeff
Craig Thibodeaux
N8DAH