{"id":3058,"date":"2024-11-16T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/16\/video-mythbuster-ii-rig-gets-a-front-panel-circuit-build-almost-done\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:20","slug":"video-mythbuster-ii-rig-gets-a-front-panel-circuit-build-almost-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/16\/video-mythbuster-ii-rig-gets-a-front-panel-circuit-build-almost-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8212; Mythbuster II Rig Gets a Front Panel &#8212; Circuit Build Almost Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PvyI1KQ-9OA?si=JbzQqkt6Lhz5gVtg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Yesterday I built a front panel for my Mythbuster II 20 meter SSB transceiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I used 1\/8 inch plywood available from Amazon. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I cut holes for the main tuning knob and dial, for the AF gain control, for the mic plug and for a 6 figure PLJ PIC frequency counter. This gives me 100 Hz read capability, but I can hit the lower button on the counter to get 10 Hz reolution. This may help when the other guy complains bitterly that I am 40 Hz off frequency. The counter added noise to the receiver, but I was able to knock this down completely with a resistor and a cap on the power line to the counter. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I put copper tape on the inside of the panel. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I added a reverse polarity protection circuit. I now sleep more soundly. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I increased the size of the heat sink on my RD06 final. This decrease the danger of blowing up this device. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I added a jack for the connector that will switch the outboard .1 kW linear from R to T. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Video above. Comments welcome. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I built a front panel for my Mythbuster II 20 meter SSB transceiver. I used 1\/8 inch plywood available from Amazon. I cut holes for the main tuning knob and dial, for the AF gain control, for the mic plug and for a 6 figure PLJ PIC frequency counter. This gives me 100 Hz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/16\/video-mythbuster-ii-rig-gets-a-front-panel-circuit-build-almost-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video &#8212; Mythbuster II Rig Gets a Front Panel &#8212; Circuit Build Almost Done&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,174,21,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-meters","category-frequency-counter","category-homebrew","category-mythbuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11182,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}