Feb 21
UPDATE March 1: It’s still on sale, but it’s $11.57 not $8.99. Still a great deal. This sale is on til March 15th. The sale keeps changing, but the price is still nice and low. Hey QRP Folks, I just saw that the Excellway EF01 case, so commonly used on BITX40 and uBITX builds is …
Feb 07
Last year I thought the BITX40 was “done”. It successfully worked on 80, 40, 30, and 20m. It was truly multi-band! The trick to doing that was to make the Band Pass and Low Pass filters pluggable using QRP Labs filters. One only needed to open the radio, change the filters, and retune the VFO. …
Jan 09
Cameron Tribe, KI7MNW recently posted his homebrew QRP transceiver on the Amateur QRP Radio group on Facebook. It’s completely scratch built and borrows design elements from several sources including the BITX40. Follow all the way to the bottom for a picture gallery, schematics, and source articles. Tonight I finished my homebrew 40m QRP transceiver. I’ve …
Dec 08
In this post, we’re going to show you how you can replace the relays in a BITX40 radio. You can use the same method to replace the relays in your uBITX too. Use caution and common sense when doing this. Here’s a link to the relays I used: If you’re using the Axiom relays for …
Nov 05
Recently on HackADay.com there was an article called “FT8: SAVING HAM RADIO OR KILLING IT?” which drew fire from some and praise from others. The article title itself was a little click-bait-y but justifiable. According to the source article over at flexradio.com FT8 lovers and haters are split almost 50/50. Some say its awful because FT8 …
