{"id":10578,"date":"2016-12-13T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/beauty-and-the-beast-petes-beautiful-bitx-40-module-and-my-ugly-version\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:46:06","slug":"beauty-and-the-beast-petes-beautiful-bitx-40-module-and-my-ugly-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/beauty-and-the-beast-petes-beautiful-bitx-40-module-and-my-ugly-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Beast:  Pete&#8217;s Beautiful BITX 40 Module and My Ugly Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtwaNoZvCq37DxR9uDjz3OjBIbG2ECi6ijLmjrZYqv3sicGHpLUX2Cvgr6LocSQTO_1pKT7wtQqp4fYzeUY76B1i76_yyNpkPgEIqsKew-fZJCX0OJ6Wnn-3pdT2lRNJfYYI6qLlHt8XQ\/s1600\/N6QW+Module+1.bmp\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/N6QWModule1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>As the proud owner of what has to be one of the world&#8217;s UGLIEST BITX 40 Modules. I feel somehow qualified to declare Pete&#8217;s version of this rig to be one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful. His is resplendent in Juliano Blue &#8212; mine has no paint at all. His features glowing numerals &#8212; mine has nothing but Dymo stickers and an arrow drawn with a Sharpie marker. Bravo Pete! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bitxmodule.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bitxmodule.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhXv21oquVuBxpeTZxuX4o39B1Fp9v8T63oV74Ejb8rfq_Ox2ctJN-T8Qzsv-RNS6EfkgvW7_DgWN-UId5pCOJb-Jgh_RNEsYI9eXchMqa3EjJSCQ75s_Z1D2D1LkPCajamuI4S-v5-j1k\/s1600\/N6QW+Module+2.bmp\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/N6QWModule2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/N6QWmodule3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/N6QWmodule3.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the proud owner of what has to be one of the world&#8217;s UGLIEST BITX 40 Modules. I feel somehow qualified to declare Pete&#8217;s version of this rig to be one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful. His is resplendent in Juliano Blue &#8212; mine has no paint at all. His features glowing numerals &#8212; mine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/beauty-and-the-beast-petes-beautiful-bitx-40-module-and-my-ugly-version\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beauty and the Beast:  Pete&#8217;s Beautiful BITX 40 Module and My Ugly Version&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx40module","category-juliano-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","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=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10583,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}