{"id":3070,"date":"2014-01-23T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/bitx-20-40-build-update-5-it-is-alive\/"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:09:00","slug":"bitx-20-40-build-update-5-it-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/bitx-20-40-build-update-5-it-is-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"BITX 20\/40 Build Update #5:  It is ALIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I got the BITX 20\/40 on the air this morning. The receiver has been working for a week or so, but as usual it was a bit of a struggle to tame the transmitter. I got up early this morning and started poking and probing. I played with the driver and final coils a bit. I had used the same trifilar toroids that I&#8217;d used in the BITX 17, but this rig didn&#8217;t seem to like them. So I went with FT-50-37 bifilars &#8212; that seemed to work better. That IRF-510 seems to put out about seven watts on 40. (I still need to tame the transmitter on 20). The 40 meter signal looked great on the &#8216;scopes (RIGOL and Tek!). Shortly before 8 am I worked AD4SY who reported that I was filling his shack with booming audio. Life is good. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the BITX 20\/40 on the air this morning. The receiver has been working for a week or so, but as usual it was a bit of a struggle to tame the transmitter. I got up early this morning and started poking and probing. I played with the driver and final coils a bit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/bitx-20-40-build-update-5-it-is-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BITX 20\/40 Build Update #5:  It is ALIVE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,162,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitx20","category-oscilloscope","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","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=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}