{"id":6487,"date":"2014-01-20T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/soldersmoke-podcast-158-bitx-20-40-farhans-minima-bitx-bandsweep\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:05:20","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-158-bitx-20-40-farhans-minima-bitx-bandsweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/soldersmoke-podcast-158-bitx-20-40-farhans-minima-bitx-bandsweep\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #158: BITX 20\/40, Farhan’s “Minima”, BITX Bandsweep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolderSmoke Podcast #158 is available: <\/strong>
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http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke158.mp3<\/strong><\/a>
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January 20, 2014<\/strong>
MLK Day. Tough winter. Shack heated by Heathkit.<\/strong>
BITX 20\/40 Almost done:<\/strong>
Bandswitching arrangement.<\/strong>
VFO construction using spreadsheets.<\/strong>
2N2222s wired in backwards! (CBE not EBC! Who knew?)<\/strong>
Other amusing building errors.<\/strong>
Crystal filter evaluation — the G3UUR method.<\/strong>
Sweeping a filter with an Arduino DDS.<\/strong>
Building a BITX in LTSpice.<\/strong>
New Rigol ‘scope (now 100 MHz).<\/strong>
Tek 465 REBORN!<\/strong>
QRP HATERS — They are out there! <\/strong>
MAILBAG. <\/strong>
BITX 20\/40 dual band bandsweep<\/strong>
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Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” <\/strong>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/strong><\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/strong><\/a> Our Book Store: <\/strong>http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SolderSmoke Podcast #158 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke158.mp3 January 20, 2014 MLK Day. Tough winter. Shack heated by Heathkit. BITX 20\/40 Almost done: Bandswitching arrangement. VFO construction using spreadsheets. 2N2222s wired in backwards! (CBE not EBC! Who knew?) Other amusing building errors. Crystal filter evaluation — the G3UUR method. Sweeping a filter with an Arduino DDS. Building … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #158: BITX 20\/40, Farhan’s “Minima”, BITX Bandsweep”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,49,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","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=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}