{"id":8519,"date":"2018-08-06T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/va3iaws-bitx-40-box-ugly-i-dont-think-so\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:48:28","slug":"va3iaws-bitx-40-box-ugly-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/va3iaws-bitx-40-box-ugly-i-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"VA3IAW&#8217;s BITX 40 Box. Ugly?  I don&#8217;t think so."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/VE3IAWBITX40.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1126\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/VE3IAWBITX40.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>Al VA3IAW thought he had a shot at the &#8220;Ugliest BITX 40&#8221; award, but I shattered his dream by declaring it a thing of beauty. He made it from PC board material and 1\/4 inch angle brackets. That&#8217;s a paint stirrer supporting the mic element and the PTT switch. Al might want to use shielded cable for the mic if the waterfall policeman on 40 meters detect RF feedback and freak out. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al VA3IAW thought he had a shot at the &#8220;Ugliest BITX 40&#8221; award, but I shattered his dream by declaring it a thing of beauty. He made it from PC board material and 1\/4 inch angle brackets. That&#8217;s a paint stirrer supporting the mic element and the PTT switch. Al might want to use shielded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/va3iaws-bitx-40-box-ugly-i-dont-think-so\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VA3IAW&#8217;s BITX 40 Box. Ugly?  I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx40module"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","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=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions\/8521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}