Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Just checked my email link and I couldn't get it to work. It is @yahoo.com? with no Xes
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Randy W5ZJ
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#33833
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I talked to Willy for about 30 minutes or so. Signals were weak starting out, but picked up and became solid copy. We also worked KC1FSZ, Bruce in Massachusetts who has a great sounding bitx, and also
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Randy W5ZJ
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#33832
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Band is bad tonight up here in Barrie ON. Not hearing much other than the AM clatter. Where is everyone hanging out? Trying between 7.277 to 7.285. Also trying to work VY0RAC in Nunavut but no copy
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Tom VE3THR
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Randy WB5YYM and I were on 7.277 til about 8:30 EST worked several stations but most propagation seemed not very good but Randy in AR and my station, W1LY, in RI had a pipeline much of the time well
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Willy
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Re: Quantum Indians
Bill, that was a terrific story. I studied some physics in college, but the human source of the wisdom often went right past me, as I struggled to understand the concepts. It would have been far more
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Mark Muller
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
?I put a 10x mic preamp 1-transistor circuit in one of my bitx40's yesterday and finally it uses about the same signalink settings as my "commercial" rigs....and I can also see output without having
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Gordon Gibby <ggibby@...>
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
Good steers! Thanks.
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Had a brief QSO with W1LY tonight. We were both QRP and I was running a 30 dia loop sitting on the kitchen floor. Yelling ion the mic seemed to help. :) John KC9OJV
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John KC9OJV
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
Hi Jerry, I know all ebay switchers aren't equal, of course. But, here are some cheapo examples that are success stories; with hundreds deployed in the hamvoip.org project, etc. At less than $0.80
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David McGough
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Hearing someone talking to W1LY in and out, but can't make out who. Can't hear Willy. -- John - WA2FZW
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John P <j.m.price@...>
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I heard W1LY on earlier. ?I'm gonna move up to 7.285, it seemed clear
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N1EDC
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I'm also on. Hearing nothing in NJ -- John - WA2FZW
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John P <j.m.price@...>
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 22, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I'm on the air, but there's a lot of traffic from the Illinois QSO party at the moment...
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N1EDC
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
There are clearly a few items of ebay electronics about which some fear, uncertainty and doubt is in order. For example, good luck getting 20 AH at 12v out of this: ?
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: I made a mistake
Hi Dale, I'm hopeful that maybe you got a poorly done batch of clone boards. I'll do some more testing. Thanks for your feedback! 73, David KB4FXC
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David McGough
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
Hi Arv, Thanks for the comments. The Nano's I've got have a (clone, I'm sure) AM1117-5.0 regulator. I noticed the datasheet says the ABS MAX input voltage is 15VDC, a stark contrast to 26+ VDC MAX for
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David McGough
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Re: I made a mistake
Nope they didn't survive because the failure of the regulator meant that, when they blew, they went short circuit and slammed full 12V onto the Atmega. The ones that I have had fail were all fitted
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Master Ice <special@...>
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
David KB4FXC Regardless of what has been said about the on-board regulator being questionable, it is a pretty standard 3-terminal regulator it is usually good for at least 100 ma. I have used a couple
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Arv Evans
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
On the raduino, the si5351 is sucking as much as 35ma+5.6ma=40.6ma of 3.3v from the Nano assembly as per table 3 on p5 of ?https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/data-sheets/Si5351-B.pdf That 3.3v
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: Nano on-board regulator...was: I made a mistake
Hi Dale, I'm designing a NANO project right now that uses the on-board regulator at about +12v input. I'm only powering the atmega328p chip and? 6 digital outputs, consisting of low-current
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David McGough
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