{"id":6956,"date":"2016-07-17T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/hb2hb-qso-with-n6ors-min-x-to-bitx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:00:33","slug":"hb2hb-qso-with-n6ors-min-x-to-bitx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/hb2hb-qso-with-n6ors-min-x-to-bitx\/","title":{"rendered":"HB2HB QSO with N6ORS — MIN-X to BITX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That’s Keith N6ORS’s MIN-X transceiver. Keith explains that it has circuitry from the BITX, the Minima and even from the ZL2BMI DSB rig. We featured the MIN-X before, when it was still outside the box: <\/b>
http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/n6orss-min-x-crosses-pond-on-first.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I was on twenty today with my BITX, finishing up a rather disheartening contact with a fellow who told me that he is a “checkbook operator.” I was trying to encourage this fellow to build something simple — perhaps a Michigan Mighty Mite? He told me that he might give it a try, but only 16 years from now, after he retires. It was like a case of the Anti-Knack! Then Keith N6ORS saved the day by calling in with his beautiful MIN-X HOMEBREW transceiver. We had a nice talk — Keith mentioned the beauty of Pete’s “Blue Rig.” That’s HB2HB (phone) QSO #5 for me. Thanks Keith! <\/b><\/p>\n

Bill,
That was great fun!
I was just tuning around and heard you mentioned the Michigan Mighty Mite
so I stopped to listen and realized it was you!
Well here was my chance for a homebrew to homebrew with ‘the man’ himself.
I wanted to record it but missed the chance.
Here is the Min-x boxed up. the case is made from thrown away computer cases.
It runs about 70watts on 160,80 and 40 meters and about 35watts on 20 meters.
I promise to write it up, maybe even draw a schematic. hihi.
73,
Keith N6ORS<\/i><\/b> <\/p>\n

Here’ a short clip of the MINX in action:<\/b> <\/p>\n

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That’s Keith N6ORS’s MIN-X transceiver. Keith explains that it has circuitry from the BITX, the Minima and even from the ZL2BMI DSB rig. We featured the MIN-X before, when it was still outside the box: http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/n6orss-min-x-crosses-pond-on-first.html I was on twenty today with my BITX, finishing up a rather disheartening contact with a fellow who told … Continue reading “HB2HB QSO with N6ORS — MIN-X to BITX”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,33,46,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-dsb","category-hb2hb","category-minima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","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=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}