{"id":3261,"date":"2014-01-30T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/bitx-20-40-update-7-cabinetry-and-socketry\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:49:10","slug":"bitx-20-40-update-7-cabinetry-and-socketry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/bitx-20-40-update-7-cabinetry-and-socketry\/","title":{"rendered":"BITX 20\/40 Update #7:  Cabinetry and Socketry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/P1010020.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/P1010020.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>With the 20 Meter Oscillation Exorcism behind me, I have decided to take a break from electronics and do bit of woodwork. I took the walnut (I think) box that I bought via Amazon and cut out a big piece of the wood on the front. That&#8217;s where the rectangular piece of copper clad board will go &#8212; it will be the front panel, supporting the AF gain control, the bandswitch, the main tuning control, and the mic jack. A similar copper clad board will be on the back, this one supporting the antenna jack, speaker jack and 12V input jack (with space for a linear amplifier T\/R control jack). (George Dobbs, G3RJV, calls this the &#8220;socketry.&#8221;)<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>That beautiful copper sheeting will line the inside of the box. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I found the soft wood on this box to be very easy to work with. The little saw pictured above made the woodwork easy. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I have boiled linseed oil and clear polyurethane for the finish. <\/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>With the 20 Meter Oscillation Exorcism behind me, I have decided to take a break from electronics and do bit of woodwork. I took the walnut (I think) box that I bought via Amazon and cut out a big piece of the wood on the front. That&#8217;s where the rectangular piece of copper clad board &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/bitx-20-40-update-7-cabinetry-and-socketry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BITX 20\/40 Update #7:  Cabinetry and Socketry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}