It is nothing like the BITX20. With the BITX20 you have to install the Arduino environment. The project is open source and there are tons of different versions of it, so you have to figure out which version you want to install. And which hardware changes you need to make to the BITX40, to be able to run it with that firmware version. Then you have to deal with the fact that it needs some libraries too. And the libraries may not be versions which work with the version of the Arduino sketch, that you want to use... or that don't work with that version of Arduino, that you installed... the Arduino upload will compile the files and maybe you have to fix errors... etc etc. There are many opportunities for headaches, if you are newcomer to all that stuff.?
The QCX has just a single compiled .hex file. It's much more simple.?
I hope someone will write the step by step guide. Include a definition of what item to buy off eBay etc. That would be useful. We already have a guide to using the Arduino as the programmer, which is very nice. But it would be nice to have one too, for one of the $3 AVR programmers from eBay.?
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Leland L. Bahr <l@...> wrote:
I've been trying to read all this software upgrade stuff on the BITX20 reflector from members there, and I must tell you, trying to understand what they are saying is a nightmare for me.? All I see there is members having grief and interface problems trying to upgrade software.? Seems like almost everyone there has a different set of problems.? Some are hardware issues with the particular programmers being used.? Then I saw something on Hans web site about pin converters.? Going from more pins to less pins using an adapter.? After a few minutes of trying to understand what is going on gets me to want to go to my local pub!
Lee, w0vt
