{"id":10145,"date":"2016-11-19T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/analog-to-the-max-an-old-school-readout-for-the-bitx-40\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:55:57","slug":"analog-to-the-max-an-old-school-readout-for-the-bitx-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/analog-to-the-max-an-old-school-readout-for-the-bitx-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog TO THE MAX! An Old School Readout for the BITX 40"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps this was a reaction to a frustrating morning spent trying to get a 20×4 digital display to work with an Si5351 and an Arduino Uno via an I2C bus (I feel my blood pressure rising just due to the typing of those words). After much digital fiddling, I declared a “BASTA!” and looked around the shack for an antidote for the digital frustration. There on the bench was my fully analog BITX40Module rig, with its homebrew L-C analog VFO. It needed a better frequency readout. And this morning, it got one. <\/b>

<\/b> The pointer is Sharpie ink on a bit of PC board. It is held in place by superglue, suspended by a piece of wood about 1\/4 inch off the chassis (to reduce dial parallax). The numerals are in Dymo tape — there was not enough room for the “7” but I think I will be able to remember this.<\/b> <\/p>\n

Very therapeutic and satisfying.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps this was a reaction to a frustrating morning spent trying to get a 20×4 digital display to work with an Si5351 and an Arduino Uno via an I2C bus (I feel my blood pressure rising just due to the typing of those words). After much digital fiddling, I declared a “BASTA!” and looked around … Continue reading “Analog TO THE MAX! An Old School Readout for the BITX 40”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx40module"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}