{"id":4038,"date":"2016-06-05T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/re-purposed-computer-power-supply-box-provides-a-home-for-a-bitx-transceiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:28:34","slug":"re-purposed-computer-power-supply-box-provides-a-home-for-a-bitx-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/re-purposed-computer-power-supply-box-provides-a-home-for-a-bitx-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-purposed Computer Power Supply Box Provides a Home for a BITX Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BitxBox1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BitxBox1.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>Jaydip VU3JOJ came up with a really inventive way to box up his new BITX transceiver. Nicely done. I especially like the way he put the speaker in the space intended for the fan. Very nice. <\/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: left;\"> <b>This appears to be one of the new BITX 40 meter &#8220;modules&#8221; described in yesterday&#8217;s blog post. FB! How fortunate the new board fits in the power supply boxes. That&#8217;s very lucky. <\/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: left;\"> <b>You know, I had an old computer power supply in my hand just yesterday. I almost threw it out. Obviously that would have been a mistake. <\/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: left;\"> <b>Today was a BITX day. Using my BITX DIGI-TIA on 40 I had a long QSO with Rich N3TDE. Rich has a BIT20 built from a Hendricks kit acquired at Dayton. He takes it with him on the Appalachian Trail. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Bitxbox2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Bitxbox2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Bitxbox3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Bitxbox3.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaydip VU3JOJ came up with a really inventive way to box up his new BITX transceiver. Nicely done. I especially like the way he put the speaker in the space intended for the fan. Very nice. This appears to be one of the new BITX 40 meter &#8220;modules&#8221; described in yesterday&#8217;s blog post. FB! How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/re-purposed-computer-power-supply-box-provides-a-home-for-a-bitx-transceiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Re-purposed Computer Power Supply Box Provides a Home for a BITX Transceiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,66,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-farhan","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","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=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}