{"id":5735,"date":"2015-02-08T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/glowing-blue-numerals-a-frequency-counter-for-the-bitx17-video\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T04:40:00","slug":"glowing-blue-numerals-a-frequency-counter-for-the-bitx17-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/glowing-blue-numerals-a-frequency-counter-for-the-bitx17-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Blue Numerals!  A Frequency Counter for the BITX17 (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jXwK1R8HcJE?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>These little frequency counters from China have a lot of potential. And they add a dash of digital color to an otherwise bland analog hamshack. I got mine on e-bay. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>My BITX17 has now been &#8220;accessorized&#8221; with <\/b><br \/> <b>1) A rotatable Moxon antenna (big improvment!)<\/b><br \/> <b>2) A 120 watt Communications Concepts Linear amplifier (another big improvement) and<\/b><br \/> <b>3) This digital frequency readout. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>What next? <\/b><\/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>These little frequency counters from China have a lot of potential. And they add a dash of digital color to an otherwise bland analog hamshack. I got mine on e-bay. My BITX17 has now been &#8220;accessorized&#8221; with 1) A rotatable Moxon antenna (big improvment!) 2) A 120 watt Communications Concepts Linear amplifier (another big improvement) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/glowing-blue-numerals-a-frequency-counter-for-the-bitx17-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glowing Blue Numerals!  A Frequency Counter for the BITX17 (VIDEO)&#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":[28,22,174,71,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitx20","category-china","category-frequency-counter","category-test-gear","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","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=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}