{"id":7596,"date":"2018-04-17T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/n1aws-ubitx-cardboard-panels-and-the-mic-in-a-sharpie\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:11:46","slug":"n1aws-ubitx-cardboard-panels-and-the-mic-in-a-sharpie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/n1aws-ubitx-cardboard-panels-and-the-mic-in-a-sharpie\/","title":{"rendered":"N1AW&#8217;s uBITX &#8212; Cardboard Panels, and the Mic in a Sharpie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/N1AW_ubitx_180416.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"764\" data-original-width=\"1284\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/N1AW_ubitx_180416.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>On Sunday night at 7 pm local on 7.277 MHz BITX users gather. This week was the debut of my uBITX. I was able to make only one contact before we were over-run by the Rookie Roundup, but that contact was a good one. Above you can see N1AW&#8217;s FB uBITX. The front and back panels are made of cardboard. The mic holder is from a re-purposed Sharpie marker. FB Al. Thanks for the contact. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night at 7 pm local on 7.277 MHz BITX users gather. This week was the debut of my uBITX. I was able to make only one contact before we were over-run by the Rookie Roundup, but that contact was a good one. Above you can see N1AW&#8217;s FB uBITX. The front and back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/n1aws-ubitx-cardboard-panels-and-the-mic-in-a-sharpie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;N1AW&#8217;s uBITX &#8212; Cardboard Panels, and the Mic in a Sharpie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596","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=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}