{"id":8999,"date":"2016-11-02T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/on-the-air-with-the-bitx-40-module-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:45:27","slug":"on-the-air-with-the-bitx-40-module-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/on-the-air-with-the-bitx-40-module-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Air with the BITX 40 Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMGP3405.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMGP3405.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>This morning I built a mic\/PTT for the BITX 40. I used the little electret element that Farhan sent with the rig. The element sits atop the plastic tube from a pen. For the push-to-talk I used a little push switch that locks down (on) until you push it again (which opens it). This is very convenient &#8212; you don&#8217;t wear your thumb muscles out on long &#8220;old buzzard&#8221; transmissions! I used some PVC pipe and some wooden dowel to make the thing a bit ergonomic. It is held together with Gorilla tape. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>It works great! I put the rig on the air this morning and very quickly worked KD3TB up in Pennsylvania &#8212; Irwin was testing his K3. Then I worked KM4LWP &#8212; James was only a mile or so from me, running 3 watts from a KX3. Then Mario, K2ZGW called in.<\/b> <b>Everyone said the rig sounds great.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p> <b>In the picture above you see the rig, the mic and (on the right) the VFO.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I built a mic\/PTT for the BITX 40. I used the little electret element that Farhan sent with the rig. The element sits atop the plastic tube from a pen. For the push-to-talk I used a little push switch that locks down (on) until you push it again (which opens it). This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/on-the-air-with-the-bitx-40-module-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Air with the BITX 40 Module&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,28,65,66,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-bitx20","category-bitx40module","category-farhan","category-microphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999","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=8999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}