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Has anyone found or devised a suitable tilt stand for the zBitx? The rear panel is a heat sink so likely stick-on tilt feet would become "unstuck" with the heat. I'd be interested in what users have come up with to achieve a viewing tilt stable against screen touches. Pete WK8S

I've tried all the suggestions and setting from various emails on how to get wsjtx to transmit on my zbitx. None of them work for me. Receive works just fine but when I do the "check cat" button nothing happens when I hit tune wsjtx goes thru the transmit motions. Same is true if I hit "auto cq". Wsjtx acts like it is transmitting but is not actually putting the zbitx into transmit. I am getting hamlib protocol errors. CAT is kinda working as I can change bands. I am also seeing rigctl timeout errors if I use rigctl to connect to the zbitx. Is it just me or does anyone else have these issues. FYI, I browsed the hamlib.c file and there is a comment in there about it being receive only. Much help is needed here. Leo, AI5II

So far the internet connection and use of associated utils like the browser and remote connections using my iphone (sbitx.local) have been inconsistent. When I lose internet, I can restart the zBitx and all is ok with the zBitx browser for a short time, until I connect remotely, which seems to work the first time I try. If I try to connect remotely a second time, I am unable to. I also notice the zBitx browser gives me a DNS error and will no longer access the internet. I then have to restart the zBitx again. Perhaps the attached pic gives a hint of what may be wrong? --Ed, N3CW--

So, I'd been watching another thread for resolution, but it may not be the same thing. Questions up front. 1. Any reason why 10m is 0W? 2. See my drive? it's 96, and I don't know why I can't get it to 100. When using the wheel, it won't go any higher, though it certainly goes lower. These lead me to believe both are software configuration related. The problem: I initially had the issue with FT8 locking up the zBitx. Updating the both the Zero and Pico software resolved that. I'm at 1.6 and 3.051 now. Running sBitx on the external monitor resulted in 0W out. However, I'd still get 0 watts out when transmitting FT8 on 10m. However, I remembered I get less output on my sBitx at 10m, so I setup a 20m vertical and I got power out. I haven't had time to check 12/15/17m. Could there be a problem with the calibration files that I absolutely did not backup when I did the update? Any guidance would be appreciated! Matt

Hi everyone! I was digging though the shack the other day and stumbled across this bitx40 I purchased years ago. I've lost interest in it, and most likely will never go any further than what I've done. It receiver great, but i've never even applied power to the TX stages. The original radionano (?) is there and it works, too. There is a large color display and W8TEE software loaded in the ardunio nano. For reason I have long forgotten about, the project never moved forward. So, $75 and I'll ship it within the continental USA. What you see in the box is all I have. If I find more stuff, I'll be sure to toss it into the box. contact me off list at prosolar at sss net dot com (there is only ONE DOT in there) or check out my qrz page for email link and, if no selling allowed, delete this posting I'm Mike WB8VGE

Hi! More work following the path that Ashhar suggested. I have also bought an older Icom 810H that has full duplex VHF/UHF. I'm doing initial experiments on Windows PC, but I have already demonstrated full Doppler shift control of sBitx acting as the 10m transceiver to a transverter, so this can all move to the sBitx.... GPREDICT re-installed due to better location, tracking any satellite I like. Does all the trig and doppler MATH RIGCTLD - previously studied and working; receives tcp/ip commands from GPREDIT to do doppler shift adjustments of sBitx or Icom radio Today: ROTCTLD -- figured out how to run this on a windows machine. Receives trig output of GPREDICT. Converts (in this case) to Yaesu type rotator commands for Az/ elevation and sends out serial port (in my case, COM4, 9600 baud) K3NG Rotator Controller -- I havent made a board for this yet. So I took one of my homebrew WINKEYER ARDUINO simulators, and reprogrammed it using K3NG code to "act like" the controller, handling Az, El controls, reading the CW speed control as if it were an azimuth potentiometer; running the display and activating the "key" and "PTT" to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise. The reprogramming of my Winkeyer Arduino appeard to be a huge success. I properly set the pins to run the display, which worked FINE. It was reading the speed pot as an azimuth reading, and if I pushed "buttons" it would read different elevations. ROTCLD happily connected to it at 9600 baud, and the "rotator controller" accepted commands and displayed them. I was not able on the first test to monitor whether it activated simulated motor controls (key output, etc) -- but that will come. So huge success here and soon (days, weeks?) I should be able to lay out a board (many others have done so before me, but some just did crazy wiring between variuous "shields") to put all this in a neat little package with relay outputs, possibly with PWM output (dunno)., to control available rotators for real. 73 Gordon KX4Z

Still trying to update zBitx Pi Zero. I've hooked up an external HDMI monitor and powered up the zBitx. I am presented with a pi login screen, but the default password is not working; I have not changed it to anything else. So I cannot proceed to the terminal program or do any updating. --Ed, N3CW--

I have WSJTX running nicely on a 2nd monitor on the zbitx except that it is failing to trigger Tx with a hamlib error shown in the terminal window? Can anyone share their working WSJTX radio config for the zbitx? Many Thanks Chris