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I think this is absolutely amazing!
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I absolutely agree with you!
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BITX40 got me out of the hermitage and I am having fun with the ready made boards. At 05/04/2017, you wrote:
I think this is amazing, how many people are actually getting into the nuts and bolts of these dandy little radios. In these days of appliance operators, this I find a huge breath of fresh air! And I might add.... in some cases actually learning something, maybe new to them for the first time! |
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I also agree that this board is the coolest makers radio I have seen.
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This group is awesome and the price point allows for you have fun on a small budget and use up some of those parts in the box on the shelf. Learning RF is a lot of fun and this gives you the basic foundation with which to build your radio to whatever specification you want and to increase your skillset while doing it. I am a fairly new ham radio being licensed only around 2 years. I have two HF rigs a Kenwood TS-120 which got me on the air and a TS-480SAT that I moded as soon as a received it. I added a hookup on the IF and feed that to a sdrplay which I have configured as a pan adapter. I have it configured perfectly with Simon Brown's (G4ELI) sdr-radio application to give me a full band scope with point and click tuning to any signal on 40m or any other band. I received my BITX40 last night and had it soldered together and on the air in less than 2 hours just using the basic wiring pictorial and nothing else. I had already added an additional 40 meter antenna to my shack this last weekend in anticipation of its arrival. Having a band scope on my base station I can just tune right into the signals as they are laid out in front of me and I can just pick the strongest one on my 480 and then tune the BITX40 in accordingly. Mine was right on the money right out of the box. A quick TX test with attenuation on my TS-480 showed a solid well-formed output signal. Any other issues I will enjoy working through and share with the group. I just wanted to share my positive experience with everyone else. 73's and have a great week. John. KG7UMN -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raj vu2zap Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 7:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BITX20] I think this is absolutely amazing! I absolutely agree with you! BITX40 got me out of the hermitage and I am having fun with the ready made boards. At 05/04/2017, you wrote: I think this is amazing, how many people are actually getting into the nuts and bolts of these dandy little radios. In these days of appliance operators, this I find a huge breath of fresh air! And I might add.... in some cases actually learning something, maybe new to them for the first time! |
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So true. I have a few commercial rigs. It has never been this exciting! There are quite a few interesting hacks and you end up customising a rig?that fits your requirement. Interesting learning experience too - sometimes steep like the Raduino programming - something I have never done before! 73 Sasi VK5SN |
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Hi from Uruguay. It's amazing how these little rigs have renewed the motivation. I am participating in a small group of veterans and middle aged fellows that have modified the Pixie, (~500mW - CW) to include a 700 Hz filter. We've in the process of getting all the components at local stores, and began to solder. My own circuit board is already oscillating and amplifies audio. In the coming weeks we hope to finish it and put it on the air.? Many of us don't have either an antenna to make it resonate with the little xcvr. We plan in the coming months to build a 5 W amplifier and several other projects (Noise Killer, Z-Match, loop).? And the Bitx40 will be ?pretty much our next toy. So, you can imagine the enthusiasm of renewed experience, friendship and learning. There is not only solder in those meetings , also some pizzas are usually in the afterhour.? We have the great help of a tutor in the group ?and friend, who gives his best effort in his advice.? 73 Horacio Nigro? CX3BZ? URUGUAY? El 5 abr. 2017 10:42, <dfdavis@...> escribió:
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Here's the video of the moment my Pixie started to give oscillation.? Hope to purchase the Bitx40 soon!? 73 Horacio Nigro, CX3BZ? Uruguay? El 5 abr. 2017 15:06, "hanigrodx@..." <hanigrodx@...> escribió:
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At the risk of being accused of burning bandwidth, to state that I too
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love the Bitx40 for keeping my brain jumping with new discoveries...while looking at all the ready-to-run stuff like the IC-7300, IC-7100, Yaesu's and Kenwood's etc and going....ho-hum. - Rich WB2GXM On 4/5/17, Sasi Nayar <sasinayar@...> wrote:
So true. I have a few commercial rigs. It has never been this exciting! |
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I find myself in agreement with Richard Spohn. I get really excited about trying circuit and firmware mods, and actually doing something on my own, rather than just plugging in a store-bought unit and keying the mic.? I realized from the beginning that this radio would require some tweaking and customization, and that's all part of the fun!
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Hi Horatio, ?I am also from Uruguay but living in England and my bitx40 was working ok until a moment of distraction led me to reverse the polarity of the battery with consecuence smoke in the asi cited circuit of the ptt and the fried of D7 once this was repaired the rx part work ok but no tx for now. Will replace the final RF transistors and see. Best regards Fernando G0VUF. 73s.
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quote ====== unquote =======Hi Horatio, ?I am also from Uruguay but living in England and my bitx40 was working ok until a moment of distraction led me to reverse the polarity of the battery with consecuence smoke in the asi cited circuit of the ptt and the fried of D7 once this was repaired the rx part work ok but no tx for now. Will replace the final RF transistors and see. Best regards Fernando G0VUF. 73s. On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Fernando Garcia <ferjanyen@...> wrote: Hi Horatio, ?I am also from Uruguay but living in England and my bitx40 was working ok until a moment of distraction led me to reverse the polarity of the battery with consecuence smoke in the asi cited circuit of the ptt and the fried of D7 once this was repaired the rx part work ok but no tx for now. Will replace the final RF transistors and see. Best regards Fernando G0VUF. 73s. |
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