{"id":4636,"date":"2018-04-14T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/14\/boxing-up-my-ubitx-question-for-the-group\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:31:59","slug":"boxing-up-my-ubitx-question-for-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/14\/boxing-up-my-ubitx-question-for-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing up my uBITX — Question for the Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our friend Rogier and I are involved in an East Coast — West Coast uBITX launch project — we plan to assemble our uBITXs together (more or less, via Skype) and then get them on the air. <\/b><\/div>\n

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As has been my recent practice, I have opted to put my uBITX in the same kind of wooden box that I used for my three scratch-built BITX projects. See above. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Now, due to Farhan’s wizardry the uBITX is considerably smaller than the box. This is, of course, a good thing. It leaves room in the box for many bells and whistles. <\/b><\/div>\n

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But here is my first box design question<\/b><\/div>\n


<\/b> Should I put the uBITX board to the front of the box so that the LCD can be connected to the board DIRECTLY via the connector on the Raduino board (no jumpers needed), or should I put the uBITX board to the back of the box so that I can stick the PA heat sinks out the back? In the later case I’d have to use 4 inch jumper cables to connect the LCD to the Raduino. This use of jumpers seems to increase the possibility of noise from the display. <\/b>

<\/b> What say the Knack Wizards? Back of the box with LCD jumpers, or front of the box with no jumpers but heat sinks inside the box? <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friend Rogier and I are involved in an East Coast — West Coast uBITX launch project — we plan to assemble our uBITXs together (more or less, via Skype) and then get them on the air. As has been my recent practice, I have opted to put my uBITX in the same kind of … Continue reading “Boxing up my uBITX — Question for the Group”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farhan","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","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=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}