BITX15 QSO got 1000Km
Yesterday Afternoon I make contact in 21.190 with the Canary Island
Station EC8AUZ, from the south of Spain Huelva, it make more than
1000Km!! Signal reply was 55.
I am very happy. Mi BITX(15+20)
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eb7hpm
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#943
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Modulator mod and dual conversion BITX
Hello, BITXs!!
I'm sorry but the modification by Allison doesn't work in my dual band
BITX (15 and 20meters). It makes great white noise in the receiver.
Without the modification the noise is
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eb7hpm
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#942
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Re: modulator mod
Good old PSP was the tool.
Finally got DIA to crack using gunzip with no shortage
of complaints, installed it and it crashed hard after
looging a long list of errors. Apprently it has a lot
of
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#941
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Re: modulator mod
Allison
Thanks for posting the schematic of your BITX modulator modification.
With the different languages and varying skill levels involved in the
BITX forum, sometimes a picture or schematic is
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Arvid Evans <arvevans@...>
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#940
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Re: modulator mod
I posted a file to the KB1GMX folder as a quick jpeg of
the modulator turned around. It isn't pretty but saves
guessing.
Allison
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#939
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Re: modulator mod
Dia was a dud, could not get a file that would unzip from any of the
hosts.
The other two are really poor for schematic capture. I found the
libraries more suited to digital design. I'll keep Eagle
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#938
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Re: modulator mod
Allison
All can produce posting quality files. I usually use "Dia" and set it to
make .png (Portable Network Graphics) output. You have to save a copy in
native .dia format first, then "export" the
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Arv Evans <arvevans@...>
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#937
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Re: modulator mod
Ok, Looks good which one produced the most usable output
for posting?
Afterall I can post gerber files and vectorlists but they are
hardly easily seen.
Allison
KB1GMX
can be
windows
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#936
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Re: modulator mod
Allison
Free Schematic CAD software that should run on your Microsoft NT-4.x can be
obtained via the following URLs:
http://www.expresspcb.com
http://www.cadsoft.de/
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Arv Evans <arvevans@...>
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#935
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Re: modulator mod
The best I can do would be jpeg photo of hand drawn paper page.
Even that takes some effort as only one PC supports USB and this
is not that one. All my schematic capture cadd stuff runs on
VAX/VMS
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#934
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Re: modulator mod
Allison
Would it be possible for you do a quick schematic of the changes and store it
in the FILES section of this forum? That way it will be available for others
who might not understand all that
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Arv Evans <arvevans@...>
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#933
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modulator mod
One of the things I didn't like in the 20m proto BITX I'd built
was the presence of audio getting into the IF amp on transmit and IF
noise in to the audio on recieve. I'd gone the route of adding
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#932
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Re: Pre driver output
Hi,
2mw is very low from the driver. Mine I see nearly 1mw at the output
of the bandpass filter (L1, L1,L3). The driver stage brings that up
to near 300mW on mine. I don't use the IRF510 as the
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#931
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Re: Pre driver output
Hi Milarepa,
based on my measurements, it is only a few mw, so the oposite of
what Allison measured.
I searched for you in the older postings (I have often the feeling
that older messages are not
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Chris van den Berg
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#930
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Re: Pre driver output
Based on my proto 300mW is correct. If there were 300mV the power
would be about 2mW which is way to little.
Allison
KB1GMX
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#929
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BITX PA
Folks
I am working from the (c)2004 circuit on Ashar's web page and have very low
output from PA. I am using cheap general purpose transistors (ME4003) and
changed pre-driver for 2N2222. Better but
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g0fuw@...
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#928
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Pre driver output
Dear forum,
I have read somewhere from the posting messages that the output of pre
driver should be about 300 mWatts,
but I read from the article it should be about 300 mVolts.
Which is right
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MILAREPA <MILAREPA@...>
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#927
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Re: need help for vfo
Hi Chris,
Rather than guess at Gautams question it is easy to ask. Saves
giving multiple conflicting answers.
I may add my favorite "cheap" Varactor [tuning] diode is 1n4007
rectifier. It also
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ajparent1 <kb1gmx@...>
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#926
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Re: IRF510 on higher voltage?
Hi!
Arv is quite right. Here we also took a similar route. First was the need for a cheap common PSU so we selected a portable BW TV transformer sec abt 20V AC unloaded around 1.25amp. Unreg DC goes
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Rahul Srivastava <vu3wjm@...>
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#925
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Re: need help for bitx VFO & BFO
Gautam
I am assuming that you are using the same size VFO inductor and capacitors as
specified by Farhan. If you are using the original design with the 36V zener
diode as a VFO fine tuning
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Arv Evans <arvevans@...>
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#924
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