{"id":6185,"date":"2016-11-11T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/my-extroverted-bitx40-on-but-not-in-a-box\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:30:53","slug":"my-extroverted-bitx40-on-but-not-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/my-extroverted-bitx40-on-but-not-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"My Extroverted BITX40 — On (but not in) a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was going to put the BITX40 Module in a box today, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. That board looks too good to be hidden inside a box. So I put it topside. That’s the analog VFO to the right. You can see a fan off to the left — that is perhaps temporarily in lieu of a large heat sink for the final. You can see the two Gel cells in the background. I am indeed running 24 volts to the final, and am putting out about 20 watts. I had three nice contacts today on 40: WB2RON up on Long Island said I was “20 over”. Later I worked W1SJ in N. Vermont — I was 5-9. Then — icing on the cake — DK1NO in Stuttgart. I was 5-8. TRGHS. <\/b>

<\/b> I kind of like this arrangement — it has the “three dimensional” feel of an old tube rig. This obviously wouldn’t be good for portable operations, but I am not planning on going portable. There is a lot of room under the chassis. I could put a digital VFO in there and put in a switch so that I can easily go from digital to analog. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to put the BITX40 Module in a box today, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. That board looks too good to be hidden inside a box. So I put it topside. That’s the analog VFO to the right. You can see a fan off to the left — that … Continue reading “My Extroverted BITX40 — On (but not in) a Box”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,65,66,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-bitx40module","category-farhan","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185","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=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}