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Hi there I got my bitx40 v3 and I have hooked up a homemade dipole, i layed it out on the floor.. powered on (did not yet hook up PA).. I get an odd noise:





I also at minimum volume am picking up 92.3mhz FM Station..?


Is there something wrong with the bitx or is this noise more related to my throw on the floor dipole? I dont have the xmit pieces setup yet, so I didnt hook up the PA.. Should I hook up the PA and that can fix it? I tried to adjust the tuning and the whole band was like this.. I did notice?


I am running on a 12v SLA battery.. into headphone jack into normal earbuds.?


Any help would be appreciated!
 

First thought is to get the dipole off the floor. Unless you are in the 2nd story of a wood building. But generally antennas on the ground don't do much.

Does tuning it do anything? Maybe the oscillator isn't running?

KC9DZT Mark



On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:50 PM, chriscoel@... [BITX20] <BITX20@...> wrote:
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Hi there I got my bitx40 v3 and I have hooked up a homemade dipole, i layed it out on the floor.. powered on (did not yet hook up PA).. I get an odd noise:





I also at minimum volume am picking up 92.3mhz FM Station..?


Is there something wrong with the bitx or is this noise more related to my throw on the floor dipole? I dont have the xmit pieces setup yet, so I didnt hook up the PA.. Should I hook up the PA and that can fix it? I tried to adjust the tuning and the whole band was like this.. I did notice?


I am running on a 12v SLA battery.. into headphone jack into normal earbuds.?


Any help would be appreciated!




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Mark Baldridge
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