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Welcome to MiscDotGeek! If it’s geeky, it’ll be here eventually. QRP, home brewing (electronics, not beer), welding, bicycles, and more. If I’ve dabbled in it, you’re bound to find a post about it here.

BITX40 PTT Enhancement for Digital or CW

The BITX40 PTT is a simple circuit: A switch grounds out the PTT Relay and the transceiver goes into transmit. As a stripped down SSB radio, this works fine and is simple and uses few ...
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MultiBand BITX40 Conversion

MultiBand BITX40 Introduction In Several Older Posts I've touched on ways that you can make a multiband BITX40 radio. While those methods worked, they were experimental. The Dual Band option will likely work fine, but I ...
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Building an RF Probe for Fun and Measurements

Who needs an RF probe? Among the many things I've learned about ham radio, one of them is that you need test equipment. You can do a lot with a standard Digital Volt Meter, but ...
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QRP Labs VFO Review [Spoiler: we love it!]

I've had the QRP Labs VFO for many many months now and it's about time I got around to actually writing a review of it. When I originally purchased my BITX40, it did not come ...
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WordCamp LAX 2017

WordCamp LAX 2017: Travel and Luggage This will be my first work partially authored at subsonic speeds at 33,000ft. I can see Lake Tahoe from here. Well, I could a minute it's ago anyway. My ...
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