{"id":9963,"date":"2018-06-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/09\/another-wood-box-bitx-kc1fsz-abandons-al-fresco-but-continues-with-wood\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:37:26","slug":"another-wood-box-bitx-kc1fsz-abandons-al-fresco-but-continues-with-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/06\/09\/another-wood-box-bitx-kc1fsz-abandons-al-fresco-but-continues-with-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Wood Box BITX! KC1FSZ Abandons Al-Fresco but Continues with Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Tis a thing of beauty. I like the wood. And I like the hood. The handles are a nice touch. A fitting follow-up to its al fresco organic origins. <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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I know there was a view that my giant BITX was supposed to be left out in the open, but I\u2019m going to try to attend my local club\u2019s Field Day festivities this year and the 4 foot long \u201cplanker\u201d was pressing the limits of portability. So I moved from the shack to the wood shop and built myself some custom cabinetry. I think it looks a bit like an IC-73000 now don\u2019t you think? OK, maybe not. <\/b><\/div>\n

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There is a hinged door at the top and shelf levels inside for the different parts of the circuit. The power supply and PA section are mounted on the bottom which can be removed for accessibility\/serviceability. The whole thing weighs about 10 pounds!!<\/b><\/div>\n

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73s,<\/b><\/div>\n

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‘Tis a thing of beauty. I like the wood. And I like the hood. The handles are a nice touch. A fitting follow-up to its al fresco organic origins. Hi Guys: I know there was a view that my giant BITX was supposed to be left out in the open, but I\u2019m going to try … Continue reading “Another Wood Box BITX! KC1FSZ Abandons Al-Fresco but Continues with Wood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubitx","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","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=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9967,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/9967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}