Re: Ideas for AM, NB FM Demod and CW filter board
And....the modified design would no longer be a BITX. There are other low power designs out there in kit or homebrewed form that would be much easier to modify for FM and/or AM.
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Arv Evans
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#51340
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Re: Oscillation problems Bitx20a
I hope you are testing with a dummy load. The bitx20/40 doesn't like reactive loads. - f
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Ashhar Farhan
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#51339
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
I have a box full of speakers from a sale. All of them work.
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Ashhar Farhan
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#51338
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Re: Ideas for AM, NB FM Demod and CW filter board
For AM you would have to derate the power output from the ubitx to about 2 watts on 80m. 2 watts on 80m would translate to about 250mw on 10m. Is that enough output for what you want? Even narrow-band
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Tim Gorman
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#51337
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Re: LCD 20x4 I2C
You can't just connect D4 and D5 to the SDA/SCL leads. You need an I2C adapter added to the back of the lcd. this is an example:
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Tim Gorman
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#51336
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
Is there going to be a nice Hi Res picture of the Ver 4 board any time soon? I would love to see what it looks like. Joel N6ALT
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Joel Caulkins/N6ALT
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#51335
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Re: Oscillation problems Bitx20a
Oscillation still occurs intermittently. mostly at an output of 3W or higher. There are a few RF leads where I could use short pieces of RG-174 coax cable. Is it best not to connect the shielding to
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Fokko PH0KKO
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#51334
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
I'd expect a 16 ohm load to be fine. And if you were to blow it out somehow (I doubt it), it's a couple $0.02 2n3904's that you will need to replace. Jerry
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Jerry Gaffke
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#51333
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Re: RF power chain mods and improvements..
Back when I was in high school my dad had an acquaintance who happened to be a ham, getting up in age.? In addition to a couple dozen 810 transmitting triodes and an appropriate plate transformer,
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: Bitx 40 source file
Arch there is no consistency in this Amateur Github stuff. Some builds like the kd8cec only worked once under Ubuntu but do on my iMac. Now its the other way arround Allards build is not working on
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kj6etl
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#51331
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
It is the audio amp in the Ver 4 board, Q72/Q73, Q71 in the following: http://www.hfsignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ubitxr4.pdf Basically it looks like a little push/pull class AB amp
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Jamie Anderson
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Re: Bitx 40 source file
Thanks Jack! I tried to replicate but I keep running into the same error. The file format and structure for Arduino should be the same across all platforms. Going to fire-up a roadkill linux machine
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kj6etl
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Re: Building homebrew ubitx: Need pre-v3 schematic PDF. Also, source for 45M15 (45 MHz IF) filter?
HFsigs gets it from a chinese manufacturer called WTL Crystals. They produce it for us. Unfortunately, the minimum quantity is 2000 pieces. We are assured that they will keep producing them as long as
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Ashhar Farhan
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#51328
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
The TDA2822 audio IC was originally used in portable devices designed to use 32 ohm headphones so a 16 ohm speaker would be a better choice than an 8 ohm and much better than a 4 ohm. The higher the
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R. E. Klaus <reklaus@...>
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Re: RF power chain mods and improvements..
Hi Jerry, I have 'some old gear' made once upon a time (1950s). I usually operate at reduced power and I also have added filtering to get the output cleaner just to be sure. This is not a *new*
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Bill Cromwell
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Re: Building homebrew ubitx: Need zxf for 45M15 %1 ;;;;;;;;`;:::::;::;:::::::::':30] (45 MHz IF) filter?
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Ashhar Farhan
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#51325
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
There are lots of small audio amplifier boards from China on ebay tht you could use just to drive an internal speaker. Here is one example
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Ralph Mowery
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#51324
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Re: RF power chain mods and improvements..
I don't have much experience around RF design. So take my opinion with a large grain of salt. But here goes anyways. On 15 meters, the spur is only 3mhz away:? 45mhz-21mhz= 24mhz That's a fairly of
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Jerry Gaffke
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#51323
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Re: The new uBITX boards are here
My micro Bitx arrived yesterday!? I'm checking to see if it has the new discreet transistor audio amp now.? I want to have some small onboard speaker in whatever box I plan that will work whenever
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Jamie Anderson
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#51322
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RF chain power mods and improvements
I put one of my Rigol spectrum analyzers on my uBITx this weekend before traveling and i can report pretty much the same as everyone else has seen. ?Im particularly interested in the performance on
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K9HZ
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#51321
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