Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Heard W1LY here in Kansas City but could not reach him.
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of bill steffey Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2017 7:17 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [BITX20] BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere hrd in western pa on dipole w1ly n2cqr k7joe
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Heard N2CQR, WA9DAH, W0OIC, W1LY, in Ottawa (quebec side). No-one seems to have heard me though. On a sloppy inverted V.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
hrd in western pa on dipole
w1ly
n2cqr
k7joe
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Constant static noise at the moment
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Hearing wbk up and down.?
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I heard WA2FZW calling CQ, 4x4.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Hearing KC8WBK in and out of the noise
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John - WA2FZW
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Re: the device is operational!
Willy W1LY wrote... The eBay number for the cable that worked for me was:
301714024488 That looks like the cable I have. Unfortunately, I don't have enough room for it between the Arduino and the tuning POT. In the next version, I'll space the pot (or perhaps rotary encoder by then) a bit further off to the side and/or a bit lower. When I started, all I was concerned with was centering the LCD display (left to right) and then equally spacing the volume and tuning controls off to the sides. This was before I even considered adding the USB extension cable. -- 73 Keith VE7GDH
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Listening but not calibrated so I am holding off on transmitting. Heard a Hallllooooo from someone, but no CQ.
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Calling CQ. So far, nothing heard.
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John - WA2FZW
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Re: the device is operational!
Hey, just use a 1/4" drill?? Be sure to take out
the set screw first!
Mike, WA6ISP
On 8/20/2017 11:24 AM, Keith VE7GDH
wrote:
I installed a 10-turn tuning pot yesterday. I borrowed a knob with a "spinner" from an old Drake VFO. It is nice to use, but it's too close to the PTT (toggle to talk) switch. I keep bumping the tuning knob. I'll be changing back to a smaller knives. The shaft on the tuning pot is 1/4" (6.35mm) and not 6mm. It's much more difficult finding a knob that I like that fits a .25" shaft.
Oh yes… the 90° USB cable doesn't fit between the Raduino and the tuning pot. On the next one, I'll change the spacing.
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73 Keith VE7GDH
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Mike Hagen, WA6ISP
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Re: Audio volume and distortion fix.
Q16 biasing is the gem here - 1A diode (1N400x) direct from +12 (available at R101) to power U1.6 permanently (llift/'tombstone' R111) overcomes all the 'pop' problem (post and thread #30470) unless Q16 powering up/down still causes some. If you go for the CW sidetone resistors there might be better stability for U1 too, and the opportunity to use the sidetone-feed to tap off some mic audio (at C116/C122 point?) as a monitor in headphones. All theoretical of course - not at home/ rig till later/tomorrow ...
73 all
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, August 20, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
As of a few minutes ago, BITX QSO night is no longer a spectator sport. Hope the T-storms go away, and ?I don't get called in to work, as has been the norm the last couple days
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I lit the little radio today, and no smoke. Made no tests on on the current, just turned it on and listened. The radio sounds really nice. I do have tuning clicks with no antenna disconnected, but with the antenna connected, I don't hear them at all. I checked the power out and thought it was down. I do not have a pep meter, but the meter would only kick up to about 1 watt on transmit. At that power, it looks to be driving the pair if irf510's to about 20 watts, maybe a little more if I had a pep meter. If it sounds decent on transmit I will be tickled pink. ?I guess I need to try and make a contact. I've got butterflies.... I kind of like the tuning. It took me a minute to catch on, but I'm slow that way. It is pretty cool 
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Re: I'm sure it is my hork up re: tft.setFont()
#w8tee
Jack, Had the Adafruit - GFX-Library..just in case i downloaded and overwrot in the directory (i just keep those all as Zip, and add them. Your suggestion was to look for it in line 85..didnt find it there, in fact only in 2 places..
? tft.setFont(); ? ? ? ? ?// Return to default size
? ? setFont(const GFXfont *f = NULL),
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? then in:
I;\B40Software\libraries\Adafruit-GFX-Library-master\Adafruit-GFX-Library-master\Adafruit_GFX.h (1 hit)
line 103; ? ?setFont(const GFXfont 8f = NULL)
hmm.
sorry for being the dumbnutz..
vince
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Re: Bitx40 with rotary encoder + CW
I came in with 8086 PC, various 6502s ... :)
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Re: the device is operational!
The Ebay ?number for the cable that worked for me was:? 301714024488Willy W1LY
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:17 PM, William Maclean <whmacleanco@...> wrote:  Keith, I had the same problem with the USB cable. The 90 degree left or right would not come close to working, a right angle up or down worked great.You need 9/16 inches between the female USB shell and the pot for it to fit if you install it and then install the pot. Just have to spend a little more time looking as they are less common.
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Re: Shortcut to Arduino VFO... please?
Hi Hans:
I'm sure you're right about the Si5351. I was doing that from memory, which I should learn by now is not a good plan!?
Jack, W8TEE
From: Hans Summers <hans.summers@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2017 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Shortcut to Arduino VFO... please?
Hi Jack
> The tradeoff is that the AD9850 can> produce output below 100KHz and the > Si5351 cannot, but the upper end of the > AD9850 is not as high as the Si5351. For > the HF bands, both work fine.
Agreed, for HF either are fine, though the Si5351A has the advantage of triple outputs and less spurs.
Minor correction: the minimum putput frequency of the Si5351A is 3.5kHz, not 100kHz. Actually 3,515Hz to be precise... which assumes 27.000MHz reference like in the QRP Labs module . If using a 25MHz reference the minimum output frequency would be proportionately less i.e. 3,255Hz.
OT: I know I owe you an email Jack, hopefully I will get to it tomorrow afternoon.
73 Hans G0UPL? ?
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Re: the device is operational!
 Keith, I had the same problem with the USB cable. The 90 degree left or right would not come close to working, a right angle up or down worked great.You need 9/16 inches between the female USB shell and the pot for it to fit if you install it and then install the pot. Just have to spend a little more time looking as they are less common.
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Keith VE7GDH <ve7gdh@...> wrote: I installed a 10-turn tuning pot yesterday. I borrowed a knob with a "spinner" from an old Drake VFO. It is nice to use, but it's too close to the PTT (toggle to talk) switch. I keep bumping the tuning knob. I'll be changing back to a smaller knives. The shaft on the tuning pot is 1/4" (6.35mm) and not 6mm. It's much more difficult finding a knob that I like that fits a .25" shaft.
Oh yes… the 90° USB cable doesn't fit between the Raduino and the tuning pot. On the next one, I'll change the spacing.
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73 Keith VE7GDH
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Vince N2AIE
Willy