{"id":9442,"date":"2018-09-03T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/ralph-ab1op-a-new-receiver-with-mojo-and-a-new-acronym-with-attitude\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:32:41","slug":"ralph-ab1op-a-new-receiver-with-mojo-and-a-new-acronym-with-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/ralph-ab1op-a-new-receiver-with-mojo-and-a-new-acronym-with-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph AB1OP — A New Receiver (with Mojo) and A New Acronym (with Attitude)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\ud83d\ude00 Completed the wiring the LBS Part I (pics attached)<\/b><\/div>\n
I’ve said wiring completed but, it’s not really done. lt will need some peakin’ & tweakin’ and I already have made design changes to the power board. <\/b><\/div>\n

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My Summer Project took ALL Summer, had the usual excuses with Summer activities, family obligations, interruptions and days of just plain goldbricking. <\/b><\/div>\n

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At last all the LBS Part I boards were laid out, etched, populated, soldered and installed. As a novice Toroid winder it took a while to get the toroids done. (I had to do THREE DBM Transformers to get two to match.)<\/b><\/div>\n

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1. Extensive use of the recycle bin for front \/ rear panels and feet. (Tin can and bottle caps) Go Green!<\/b><\/div>\n
2. Extra Mojo was induced with using the 10K pot Farhan supplied with my first Bitx40 Kit that I did not use, (I replaced it because I could not find knobs for 4mm shafts back then) <\/b> <\/p>\n
3. Junk box speaker (8 Ohm – 0.5 W) from a cheap radio alarm clock my Mom threw away after it stopped working.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
4. Use of the RG405 coax for interstage RF connections. (No Murphy’s Whiskers)<\/b><\/div>\n

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\ud83d\ude1e My tale of woe. Apparently after connecting the LBS Part I stages together I put the AD9850 module back in it’s socket upside down — then applied power, Awaiting the replacement. HIHI<\/b><\/div>\n

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\ud83d\ude1c SITB or Stick-It-To-Bezos. Again this month my Ham stuff budget was blown on an Amazon order (replacement AD9850 modules being not cheap anymore). I started at the soldersmoke blog web page search bar so there should be a little something heading to your North Virginia QTH from Jeff.<\/b><\/div>\n

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AB1OP_Ralph<\/b><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Bill and Pete, \ud83d\ude00 Completed the wiring the LBS Part I (pics attached) I’ve said wiring completed but, it’s not really done. lt will need some peakin’ & tweakin’ and I already have made design changes to the power board. My Summer Project took ALL Summer, had the usual excuses with Summer activities, family obligations, … Continue reading “Ralph AB1OP — A New Receiver (with Mojo) and A New Acronym (with Attitude)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-juliano-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","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=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9447,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions\/9447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}