Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 22, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.
The band seems to be pretty good right now, but I couldn't make anyone out on 7277.? I called on 7277 and 7177 several times, both at 7:20 PM ET and at 7:35 PM ET.
Tony KB9A
Hearing someone on 7277, but can't make out a call. Lots of QRN here tonight.
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John - WA2FZW
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Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 22, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.
Hearing someone call sign ending in THR.? Also hear a NE Missouri station from here in WV.
Hearing someone on 7277, but can't make out a call. Lots of QRN here tonight.
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John - WA2FZW
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Rectifier fuse crowbar.
#ubitx
I am using 2 fuses. One for the output transistors and one for everything else.? I was thinking of using one 6 amp rectifier that points in the direction of the power switch and then a wire from the power switch back to power each fuse.? It won't crowbar the fuse with wrong polarity but just stop current flow.? Voltage drop should be around .5 to .7 volts.? I could always parallel 2 of them to cut the voltage drop to 1/2.? What do you think?
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Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 22, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.
Hearing someone on 7277, but can't make out a call. Lots of QRN here tonight.
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John - WA2FZW
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Re: Erratic tuning with my new uBitx
Hi Chris,
It surely sounds like a frequency calibration problem, but it is also uncertain as to which piece of equipment contributes more to the error, i.e. the ¦ÌBITX or your frequency counter,.
Unless your frequency counter has a high precision reference like a GPS disciplined time base, or at least, a TCXO of recent vintage (crystals age), my suspicions would fall on them both.
What I would do:
1) Use the calibration tool of WSJT-x to check my ¦ÌBITX against a frequency/time standard station at the highest frequency I could get a clean signal from (14.996 MHz here from the Russian station). Note down the offset.
2) Do the same as in 1), but this time using my other rig in TX mode as a frequency generator and adjusting the dial frequency as to get the same offset as in 1).
3) The scope of ?step 2) is to establish a local frequency source of suitable power to be measured by the frequency counter, thing to be done here.
4) By now I would have 3 numbers:
a) The dial frequency of ¦ÌBITX
b) The offset of WSJT-x calibration tool
c) The indication of the frequency counter
Enough information to allocate both (?) frequency offsets.
?
73 Nikos SV1IYF
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Re: Low mic gain, was, show your mic
My bitx40 really improved when I put a replacement mic in it. One day I was not getting any signal out of the transmitter. Tracked it back to the mic which was dead. Originally it worked for a month. The replacement seems stronger.?
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Re: Help with wiring the audio, mic, and key jacks
The thing in the instructions that many people miss is the last instruction which says push PTT to store and complete.? I? didn't see that at first.??
How to store bfo and vfo frequency on ver 2.. help plse......?
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018, 5:53 AM Michael Hagen < motdog@...> wrote:
On 2/9/2018 2:31 PM, Mike Lichtman via
Groups.Io wrote:
I am confused
wiring to the jacks. The standard jack terminal no.s do not seem
to apply to the wiring pictorial.
Do I go by the jack terminal no.s or the way the wires are
connected in the pictures? With the terminal side up and the plug
opening to the left, my reference says the terminal no.s are: ? ?
1 -terminal closest to opening, 2 single middle upper terminal, 3
back upper terminal,4 lower back terminal, 5 mid inside just next
to 4. From the wiring pictorial it does make sense.?Thank you in
advance. 73 Mike KF6KXG
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Mike Hagen, WA6ISP
10917 Bryant Street
Yucaipa, Ca. 92399
(909) 918-0058
PayPal ID "MotDog@..."
Mike@...
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In the spirit of fun, here's mine.? I can honestly say, I've never seen one like it. Made from three discarded Copenhagen cans, a junk box metric-pitch tactile switch, the supplied mic, a TRS socket, a thin piece of open cell foam in front of the mic, a thick piece of close cell foam surrounding and behind the mic, and one pop rivet to hold the PTT lever.? The mic is mounted on a circular plastic disk slightly smaller the the ID of the can which was cut from the third can and drilled to locate the mic. The PTT lever (cut with aviation snips)? works surprisingly well, and the mic is comfortable in the hand.? The socket allows the cord to be swapped out and possibly a stand in the future, where the mic can be held by a male plug. As far as sound quality, don't know yet. 
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Re: Finally made some SSB contacts!
#ubitx
I got one of the other Marconi stations w1aa. Had a nice talk with whitey
I usually get a lot of qsos in Michigan
Dave
K0MBT
Missouri
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Re: Finally made some SSB contacts!
#ubitx
Very good Dan great catch on forty. I¡¯ll be trying to get mine on tonight.
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On Apr 22, 2018, at 17:14, Bill Meara via Groups.Io < n2cqr@...> wrote:
Good going Dan!? Congratulations. 73? Bill N2CQR
On Sunday, April 22, 2018, 5:05:36 PM EDT, Daniel Conklin < danconklin2@...> wrote:
I took my time getting the radio to the stage where I felt comfortable using it.? I took apart a non-functioning $2.00 Chinese Baofeng mic and replaced the guts withe the HFsignals provided mic capsule and switch.? Yesterday I made contact with the Cape Cod Marconi's Birthday Event station, KM1CC and they gave me a 59 on 40 meters! Then I made contact with three stations in South Bend, IN and in Michigan.
Dan, W2DLC
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Re: Finally made some SSB contacts!
#ubitx
Good going Dan!? Congratulations. 73? Bill N2CQR
On Sunday, April 22, 2018, 5:05:36 PM EDT, Daniel Conklin <danconklin2@...> wrote:
I took my time getting the radio to the stage where I felt comfortable using it.? I took apart a non-functioning $2.00 Chinese Baofeng mic and replaced the guts withe the HFsignals provided mic capsule and switch.? Yesterday I made contact with the Cape Cod Marconi's Birthday Event station, KM1CC and they gave me a 59 on 40 meters! Then I made contact with three stations in South Bend, IN and in Michigan.
Dan, W2DLC
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Finally made some SSB contacts!
#ubitx
I took my time getting the radio to the stage where I felt comfortable using it.? I took apart a non-functioning $2.00 Chinese Baofeng mic and replaced the guts withe the HFsignals provided mic capsule and switch.? Yesterday I made contact with the Cape Cod Marconi's Birthday Event station, KM1CC and they gave me a 59 on 40 meters! Then I made contact with three stations in South Bend, IN and in Michigan.
Dan, W2DLC
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Re: KD8CEC 1.072 download
Rod, All
I am always thanking Rod.
And I'm sorry to interrupt Rod's work with too many changes in functionality.
1.072 will be tested and will be released as 1.073 Beta.
Several minor ones have been added.
Please wait for a day or two to download the code or firmware.?
Perhaps 1.07x will continue to be a Beta version.
Frequent formal firmware release seems to be inconvenient for some people, so I try to release it after various tests.
I think Version 1.061 is a stable version.?I know there is some nice firmware based on Version 1.061 and I will install it on my Spare uBITX.
Version 1.061 and later versions are also based on Version 1.061.
The Portable version and the various language versions are all excellent Firmware and I share code with them.
Please wait for a day or two?, I'll release version 1.073 beta after testing in various environments (including Linux).
Thank you
Ian KD8CEC
Hi All,
Ron, W7HD, points out that downloading the KD8CEC
1.072 can be a problem
because version 1.072 does not appear in the list.
It is necessary to click on the Branch button,
then use your mouse wheel to
scroll down until the version1.072 is revealed.
Best to All,
Rod KM6SN
See below for an excerpt:
Download
the CECFW source code from github
For
this example we will be using version 1.072.
Click
the ¡°Branch¡± button to select version 1.072, then click
¡°Clone or download¡± and click ¡°Download ZIP¡±. Unzip the
downloaded file and make a note of the folder location, or move
the
unzipped directory into your arduino sketch folder.
-- Best 73 KD8CEC / Ph.D ian lee kd8cec@...
(my blog)
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Re: Erratic tuning with my new uBitx
Chris. You have given the opportunity to add another great feature for uBITX Users.
Thank you.
I do not know about your External Filter.?But I know that you are doing a great job to improve your uBITX.
If you have a spare time, please introduce your External Filter. I want to make it.
I do not have much experience with such things, so I do not know if it will be the right answer.
I think there are three ways you can solve your problem.
1.Adjust the Master Calibration. ??If you use uBITX Manager, do not worry. ? Before making any adjustments, uBITX Manager can back up your uBITX information to a file.
? If you have a backup file, your uBITX can be restored at any time.
??I think you can lower your Master Calibration value a little. ??If you let me know the reference frequency (EX: 7.02Mhz, 14.03Mhz ...) you used to measure in the frequency counter, I will give you a calculation. ??If you send me your uBITX backup file, I can look into it more closely.
I'll skip it, Because you measured the 150hz error clearly through the instrument.
2.Adjust BFO 3.using split?
?Also, if you prefer to modify the code rather than the calibration setting, add 'calibration = calibration - 00000' to the end of the initSettings () function. ?Instead of 0000, try increasing the value in small increments.
Ian KD8CEC
Hi Ian
I'm compiling, uploading and running v1.070 and I still have one? issue.
I suspect I must have a calibration problem, because in order to achieve a 600Hz CW TX off-set (to match my external 600Hz AF filter) I have had to hard code the call in <ubitx_20>? at line 647
si5351bx_setfreq(2, frequency - sidetone + 150) ;
I have checked the TX frequency with a my frequency counter and it is definitely off-set from RX by nearly 800Hz when <sideTone=600>, and is correctly offset with my addition of 150.
If I just change the value of the variable <sidetone = 450>, the TX offset is then correct but the audio tone frequency is way too low for comfortable listening on RX.
With <sidetone = 600> the audio sounds perfect, however the extra 150Hz TX offset applied by the call <si5351bx_setfreq(2, 600)> takes the received signal outside the passband of my external AF filter.
Can I change/calibrate one of the program parameters/variables to achieve the same end?
I am wary of doing anything via the calibration menu without being sure of not doing something irretrievable. Eg calibrating BFO could have implications I am unaware of, as this is not the simple BFO of which I am familiar from my 1960s analogue receiver days!
The problem was the same with earlier firmware versions (eg v1.061) so am I correct to assume that this is a hardware issue requiring calibration in some form?
Chris
-- Best 73 KD8CEC / Ph.D ian lee kd8cec@...
(my blog)
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Re: Teensy 3.5/3.6 upgrade for uBITX
Phil (and others) - that adapter board I mentioned is a prototype only and was never intended for sale.? Therefore,I am not at liberty to sell even one of the very few on hand within our group and they will not be available for purchase, sorry.?
Jim Sheldon - W0EB
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Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 22, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.
Not hearing anything but noise. Not even anything on FT-8 this afternoon! I'll be on again this evening.
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John - WA2FZW
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W7PEA
Thanks for pointing this problem out.? It has now been corrected.? A number of these ¡®syntheses¡¯ need updating as new and better mods or fixes have been contributed by the community of experimenters.
Mike ZL1AXG uBITx.net
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 at 5:25 AM, W7PEA < patrick@...> wrote: The site says the wiring diagram for the volume control is incorrect. Its it now correct.
^^ that page should be pulled or updated to reflect that change.
A wiki would be a great idea for the community so we can maintain the information together.
-W7PEA
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Re: Low mic gain, was, show your mic
please see the photo here.
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The right side pin is for Ground.
if i recollect , a reverse polarity was also responding for voice but verey very lowand distorted.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 10:15 PM, MAX <max@...> wrote: Hi sarma. ? I¡¯m sure I have the polarity correct.? Someone on this list posted a drawing showing how to identify the negative terminal and I wired according to it.? I think the electret mic wouldn¡¯t work at all if polarity were reversed.? What is being powered is an ?F E T source follower.? ?I think I shouldn¡¯t have to raise my voice to get 5 watts output on 40 meters. ? Regards. ? Max K 4 O D S. ? I've Never Lost the Wonder. ? Antique Electronics Site: ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mvs Sarma
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 3:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BITX20] show your mic ? ?please check whether the mic body is connected to chasis ground. i mean the positive bias voltage for mic should come on independent pin and NOT to the body pin of the eletret element. In case you are using a dynamic mic, perhaps we need more gain and your need to shout appers logical. regards sarma vu3zmv
? On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 11:27 PM, MAX <max@...> wrote: Speaking of mics, I have to raise my voice almost to the level of shouting to get 5 watts out on 40 meters.? Is this normal or should I look for a problem? ? Regards. ? Max K 4 O D S. ? I've Never Lost the Wonder. ? Antique Electronics Site: ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mvs Sarma
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 7:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BITX20] show your mic ? I had grabed a taperecorder mic with 3.5mm mono pin.
?replaced the cable with 2+shield.had a small pushed switchmounted and wired.
?repalced the 3.5mm momo pin to stereo pin. Here is a image of my mic.The pp9 battery helps to imagine the mic size.
regards
?sarma
?vu3zmv
?
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Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 22, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.
I will be listening, but cannot transmit due to no license.? Will post to this forum if I hear anything.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 06:04 am, John 2e0eii wrote:
I would love to compete but I don't think UK stations ,can tx over 7.200. rgds John 2e0eii
Those of you who can't use 7277 use 7177 and it's not a contest, just a friendly get-together of BitX operators!
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John - WA2FZW
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Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 22, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 06:04 am, John 2e0eii wrote:
I would love to compete but I don't think UK stations ,can tx over 7.200. rgds John 2e0eii
Those of you who can't use 7277 use 7177 and it's not a contest, just a friendly get-together of BitX operators! ? -- John - WA2FZW
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_Dave_ AD0B
Michael Shreeve
Skip Davis
Jim Sheldon