{"id":6549,"date":"2013-09-04T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/bitx-build-update-5-adrift\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:02:00","slug":"bitx-build-update-5-adrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/bitx-build-update-5-adrift\/","title":{"rendered":"BITX Build UPDATE # 5:  ADRIFT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sometimes it is better to have LESS test gear. Watching my 5 MHz VFO on the frequency counter was driving me nuts. If I hadn&#8217;t had the counter, I might have been satisfied with the VFO. Ignorance is bliss! It did settle down a bit. But then it would wander off. I hated watching it drift around. I have been spoiled by Doug DeMaw&#8217;s VXOs. So, I went for the VXO. It will run around 23 MHz. I&#8217;ll build the filter at 5 MHz. That&#8217;s definitely the plan. For now. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I intend to go back and build a real VFO someday. There seems to be a lot of magic and lore involved. Bees Wax! Hot Glue! Nail Polish! Q-Dope! Air-wound coils! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>TEK 465 is still broke. I think it is the high voltage supply or (less likely) the CRT. <\/strong><\/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>Sometimes it is better to have LESS test gear. Watching my 5 MHz VFO on the frequency counter was driving me nuts. If I hadn&#8217;t had the counter, I might have been satisfied with the VFO. Ignorance is bliss! It did settle down a bit. But then it would wander off. I hated watching it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/bitx-build-update-5-adrift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BITX Build UPDATE # 5:  ADRIFT!&#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":[28,7,174,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitx20","category-demaw-doug","category-frequency-counter","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","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=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}