{"id":3408,"date":"2012-07-05T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/a-bitx-20-emerges-from-the-soldersmoke\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:06:58","slug":"a-bitx-20-emerges-from-the-soldersmoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/a-bitx-20-emerges-from-the-soldersmoke\/","title":{"rendered":"A BITX-20 Emerges from the SolderSmoke"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not mine — I haven’t started yet. But Robert sent us this picture and progress report on his BITX-20 project. (Nice Tek scope in the background. Is that a 465?)
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Dear Mr. Meara,<\/span>
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences in<\/span>
SolderSmoke. I found your book (kindle version), to be entertaining and<\/span>
inspirational. The amateur radio bug bit me hard early this year, earned<\/span>
my tech & general in January, extra in February. Asking myself “Where<\/span>
has this wonderful hobby been all my life”?<\/span>
Especially want you to know that because of the reference of the<\/span>
Bitx20 in your book, I built one (kit from India), and made my very<\/span>
first hf contact using a homebrew rig and homebrew dipole antenna. The<\/span>
thrill was absolutely fantastic! Attached is a picture of my bitx20<\/span>
moments after making my very first hf contact ever between northern<\/span>
Alabama (my QTH), and the Calgary Alberta radio club about 2k miles<\/span>
away.<\/span>
Please take some credit for being part of the inspiration!<\/span>
Note, my bitx20 is now packaged and portable, next project will<\/span>
is a QRP antenna tuner, and buying a commercial “fancy” HF transceiver.<\/span>
Thanks again!<\/span>
Sincerely,<\/span>
Robert Conklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not mine — I haven’t started yet. But Robert sent us this picture and progress report on his BITX-20 project. (Nice Tek scope in the background. Is that a 465?) ————————— Dear Mr. Meara, Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences inSolderSmoke. I found your book (kindle version), to be entertaining andinspirational. The … Continue reading “A BITX-20 Emerges from the SolderSmoke”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","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=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}