{"id":6144,"date":"2020-10-11T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/11\/ryan-flowers-admirable-approach-to-the-bitx40-module\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:25:08","slug":"ryan-flowers-admirable-approach-to-the-bitx40-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/11\/ryan-flowers-admirable-approach-to-the-bitx40-module\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Flowers’ Admirable Approach to the BITX40 Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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We must remember that Farhan designed the BITX transceivers — and especially the BITX40 Module — in the hope that these rigs would encourage hams to tinker, to modify, to change and to repair. When I read Ryan Flowers’ blog post, I thought that Farhan’s mission has been accomplished. <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/miscdotgeek.com\/bitx40-rebuild-part-1-mistakes-planning-and-teardown\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I was also struck by how nice it is that Ryan has a sentimental attachment to this BITX40 module because it was a gift from his wife. That’s the kind of thing that gives a piece of electronic circuity soul.<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

Above we see Ryan’s module with many of the parts removed in the sections that he feels he messed up. This is obviously a good approach, but it reminded me of the nightmare I’ve had (and I am not the only one) where, in frustration, I take ALL the parts off a recalcitrant board. <\/b><\/p>\n

Stick with it Ryan! You are on the right track. And it sounds to me like you WILL soon be homebrewing from scratch your own SSB transceiver. <\/b><\/p>\n

A while back we built a blog with many nice mods for the BITX40 Module: <\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/bitxhacks.blogspot.com\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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We must remember that Farhan designed the BITX transceivers — and especially the BITX40 Module — in the hope that these rigs would encourage hams to tinker, to modify, to change and to repair. When I read Ryan Flowers’ blog post, I thought that Farhan’s mission has been accomplished. https:\/\/miscdotgeek.com\/bitx40-rebuild-part-1-mistakes-planning-and-teardown\/ I was also struck by … Continue reading “Ryan Flowers’ Admirable Approach to the BITX40 Module”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx40module","category-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","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=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}