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This will be a straight out of the box build guide any optional or suggestions can be linked to, but should not be in this main description.
Getting Started
What you will need (Required)
- uBITX
- Soldering Iron & Solder
- Wire cutters. strippers or knife
- 12VDC Power Supply
What you probably should have (Optional)
- Enclosure - Not 100% necessary, but most will like have one, see Ubitx Enclosures for more ideas
- Low SWR Antenna for a specific band or a multiband antenna and a Tuner
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Wiring Diagram
Download HD PDF file:? Wiring Diagram Ubitx V3/V4/V5 V2.0??
*correction: mainboard fuse should be rated 0.5A not 5A as labeled on the above diagram (Original non-modified diagram V1 - 2.2 showed .5 amp fuse. The original diagram was scanned by a French ham. The scanning process changed the original diagram including the fuse text.)
Original high resolution diagram by W4RJP:?
For CAD files see:? uBITX Cad Files Folder
Main Board & Raduino Assembly
Mount 4 of the 1cm threaded standoffs to the bottom of the main board so they act as feet.
Use 4 of the 1cm standoffs to connect the LCD display to the header board.
The header board plugs into the main board.
Power
The three pin power post on the board is located in the left rear of the main board (while looking at the display) and is labeled P1.
The three wire connector with Red, Black Brown wires mounts here.
The chassis mount power plug and the 1N4007 Diode (black and silver on one end)
Wiring Instructions 1
This is if you will control the power outside your Radio and you will be putting in a 2Amp fuse in the external power supply line.
- Tin all the posts
- Cut wires to length, strip bare and tin
- Red & Brown solder to the positive (+) post
- Black solder to the negative (-) post
- The Diode is soldered across the (-) and (+) posts with the silver end of the diode on the (+) post.
Wiring Instruction 2
This is if you want the Volume knob to also be your On|Off and an inline 2Amp fuse.
- Tin all the posts
- Solder one side of your inline fuse &?Brown solder to the positive (+) post
- Black?solder to the negative?(-) post
- The Diode is soldered across the (-) and (+) posts with the silver end of the diode on the (+) post.
- Solder the other side of your inline fuse to one of the two poles on the back of the volume knob
- Solder the Red wire from your power jumper to the other pole on the back of the volume knob (you won't need any inline connections if you have the full length of your original wire.
Antenna
The two pin antenna post on the board is located on the right rear of the main board and is labeled J2
The two wire connector with Brown and Black wires mounts to J2.
The BNC connector
Wiring Instructions
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- Tin the center post and the outer ring post
- Cut wires to length (AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE), strip bare and tin
- Brown - Center of BNC
- Black - Outer ring post
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Audio Harness
The audio harness mount is located on the front right of the main board and is labeled Audio1
To Audio1, mount one of the 8 wire multi-color harnesses and then connect the following components:
- Volume Knob
- 1/8" Speaker Jack
- 2 of the microphone wires (connected later)
Wiring Instructions
Volume Knob
- Label the harness Audio
- Tin the three posts hanging off the bottom of the Volume knob & the Left, Right and Ring posts on the 1/8" headphone jack
- Volume Knob
- When looking at the display, the wires will be ordered left to right in this order: (You might actually have the board face down when you're soldering so double-check the order)
- Green (Ground)
- Yellow (Volume High)
- Orange (Volume Mid)
- When looking at the display, the wires will be ordered left to right in this order: (You might actually have the board face down when you're soldering so double-check the order)
Headphone Jack?
- Black (Ground) - The single pin on the chassis side of the connector
- Brown (Speaker Left +) If you are looking at the posts (bottom) of the jack and the the input is facing away from you, this is the right most pin.
NOTE: In this configuration you can only use a MONO cable to connect.
Raduino Harness
The Raduino harness mount is located on the top right of the header board holding the display and is labeled P1 on the front facing side of the board.
To the P1 header, mount one of the 8 wire multi-color harnesses and then connect the following components:
- Tuning Knob
- 1/8" Jack for Key
- 1/8" Jack for Microphone (2 wires from the audio + 1 from the Raduino)
Wiring Instructions
Tuning Knob
- Tin the 5 posts on the tuning knob, and the posts on the 1/8" jacks
- Tuning Knob will be wired so that when looking at the display and down onto the knob, the wires will be in following order left to right:
- Top three wires:?
- Brown (ENC_B)
- Yellow (Ground)
- Black (ENC_A)
- Bottom two wires:
- Red (F_BTN)
- Yellow (Ground)
- Top three wires:?
- Microphone
- The microphone jack should be wired as follows:
- Blue wire of audio to sleeve/ground (top lug)
- Purple wire of audio to tip (top-most lug on right)
- Orange wire of digital to ring (left-most lug)
- The microphone can then be wired as follows:
- tip and sleeve to mic
- sleeve and ring to PTT switch
- The microphone jack should be wired as follows:
- Key
- The key jack should be wired as follows:
- Use the Yellow, Green, and Blue wires on the Raduino harness
- Connect a 4.7k resistor from the Green wire to the Blue wire (some may prefer to connect the resistor to the appropriate pins on the underside of the header connector)
- Continue with the Blue wire to the tip connection of the key jack (for pin location on connector, see where Brown wire connects in Headphone Jack photo above)
- Connect the Yellow wire (same wire used for encoder ground) to the shield/ground pin of the key jack (for pin location on connector, see where the Black wire connects in Headphone Jack photo above)
- The key jack should be wired as follows:
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