Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
Hi Jack,
As you may know I have ordered 8 of the new UBITX transceivers and I¡¯m excited they will arrive tomorrow. These will be used in my high school ham class as a project for each student in
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Werner Vavken <werner.vavken@...>
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Re: uBitx power draw variation
#ubitx
From the wire-up instructions:
????????If you are using a non-metallic box, solder wires between the ground lug of each of the sockets and connect it to the DC ground.
Not sure if this
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Jack Purdum <jjpurdum@...>
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#36455
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Re: Help! I think I may have just ruined my 9 year old's Chanukah
I am reading this thread with great interest as I get my mind around diving into my bitx40 to try and get it working again. It worked when I last used it (at least I think it was working) one never
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Michael Davis <maddmd818@...>
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Re: uBitx power draw variation
#ubitx
Grounding!
Dummy 1 was not grounded. Dummy 2 is part of the antenna switch system that is well grounded. When I attached the uBitx to a battery dummy 2 read the same as dummy 1.
Now - next mystery -
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Bob Benedict, KD8CGH
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Re: Help! I think I may have just ruined my 9 year old's Chanukah
This process is also wonderful for those of us without a lot of troubleshooting knowledge. ?I've very much enjoyed following this thread and have been taking notes.? My bitx40 is in the box waiting
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Kerry
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#36452
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Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
Dr. Jack,
I have a blog post to help procrastinators, it the purpose behind this little plexiglass platform, I call a workstation. Just Build it¡.then twiddle it, then tear it apart, then put it
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Craig Thibodeaux
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#36451
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uBit build, Arduino IDE
While I applaud the Arduino IDE and run-time library for
1. largely insulating the user from the microprocessor architecture (what reg bits go to what pin, how to run timers, etc), and
2. ease of
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Rod Self <km6sn@...>
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#36450
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Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
Arvo,
I really haven¡¯t explained it, but since I have been right here a few days and likely will be another few¡.so be it¡we are where we are¡that is what I was doing¡
have to run and
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Craig Thibodeaux
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#36449
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Re: More Progress on uBit
Sadly during the long night and early morning 2 Mega Pros and 1 I2C 4x20 LCDs gave their Lives until I figured out a wiring error on the Raduino header on uBit Main Radio PCB.
Rip $$$
I 3D printed
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Michael Hagen
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#36448
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Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
Hi Craig:
I have been messing around with where I want to place the controls for over a week! Come on, Jack, just git-er done! I'm going to start drilling/cutting today!
I'm going to make a capacitive
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Jack Purdum <jjpurdum@...>
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Emailing: P1000552, P1000551, P1000550, P1000549
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P1000550
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Michael Hagen
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Re: : [BITX20] uBit Build
I'm by no means a professional programmer just a retired old business analyst who had to do some programming along the way.??
I started playing with Arduinos when I saw the article for Jack's
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Lucian AB0LV
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Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
Is it just me, Craig, or are you in the hospital?
Apologies if you've already explained this.
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Arvo W0VRA
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Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
Thank Dr. Jack,
I had four Antenna Analyzer boards, we built two, so some kind of way two are available, and we have two built two different ways to show.
I have a forty niner kit in a bag that I
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Craig Thibodeaux
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Re: uBitx power draw variation
#ubitx
Thanks for the reply. My concerns/puzzles/WTF:
My trusty old MFJ 259B antenna meter at 7.1 MHz says
???????????????? real? imaginary? SWR
dummy 1?? ? 50?????
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Bob Benedict, KD8CGH
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#36441
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Re: : [BITX20] uBit Build
Do you bring all three clocks to the connectors?
Vince.
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Vince Vielhaber <vev@...>
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Re: : [BITX20] uBit Build
Jack, that might already be possible, but requires some new hardware and some hardware hacking: The problem is that you are running the code not on your host computer, but on?the Arduino, so you need
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Karl Heinz Kremer, K5KHK
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Re: : [BITX20] uBit Build
Mike, do you have a web page that lists what you are selling??
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Karl Heinz - K5KHK
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Karl Heinz Kremer, K5KHK
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#36438
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Re: BitX40 Builders Fest opportunity (edit to:) Modders who have wares, boards, add ons, cases, what have you, BitX family
I don't have any of the AA boards (Nov., QST) as they all went to QRPGuys. Given what I sold before the article and what's been sold since, it's closing in on a thousand boards. I will bring the B40
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Jack Purdum <jjpurdum@...>
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Re: : [BITX20] uBit Build
?Remember to keep it simple for us dumb bunnies who are NOT professional programmers and last did any REAL c programmming 2 decades ago.
I was delighted that the system made it easy for me to see
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Gordon Gibby <ggibby@...>
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#36436
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