Saturday, June 29, 2013

BITX20 - 23. VFO working !!!!


Hello all,

Sorry for not posting a while, i wanted to do a lot , but first my gf came down with the flu and a huge cold.... and after that off-course i had to get it too , and i am still not 100% better....

A few days back i received this email which made me forget my flu/cold/headache and made me wanna jump into my shack and start to fiddle around with my bitx20 vfo again.....




I can only say one thing.... Danny , you are awesome......








As you can see , the vf0+bfo is now at a proper frequency!

I still have a tine problem to get the bandwidth (14.000 to 14.350) set correctly but i guess this is because of the coil i made (and me not having read the manual properly how to set it) . It is not the correct wire , much too thick. needed to adjust the number of winding's slightly too.

I'll do some shopping on eBay tonight to get the proper gauge... because off course ... i did not have any.... nothing near it either.... murphy's law i guess....


Again Danny, thanx for the sollution you totally made my week !!
Succes at last !!! on to the next Bitx20 battle!


73's
Alex

PA1SBM

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The person guilty of getting me excited for the BITX20... PA1ED.....

Some things you just have to share..... This one of them....

The BITX20 virus was given to me by this HAM amateur that was talking on PI3ZDM, the repeater i always use when driving from and to work....

His callsign is PA1ED, and we all call him Ed.
By now he has build 3 Bitx20's i think.....
And like me he started a blog, so without typing to much here , if you wanna see some realy cool stuff... go look at his blog! It's realy worth it !


Be warned though!! this site is highly contagious !! you will be building your own bitx20 in no time !

Don't say i did not warn you !


73's 
Alex
PA1SBM