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  PA shematic from the BITX 40 Module Click on the diagram for a better view C.F. Rockey W9SCH (who alerted us in SPRAT 22 to the chicken sa...

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In SolderSmoke podcast #229 Pete and I were discussing my rather flaky effort to turn the Hodgepodge BITX40 Module into a CW rig by injecti...

As explained in the video, in the course of using my RTL-SDR dongle I noticed that the signal being put out by my Hodgepodge rig had some ...

This one's for Pete. My effort to add features and modes to my Hodgepodge transceiver took a dramatic turn when I connected the rig to...

More videos to follow.  I have added features, and a transmission mode.  Stay tuned.  

I had hoped to use this handy and cheap little frequency counter to add some glowing Juliano Blue to the frequency readout on my Quarantine ...

  As I continue to S tay I n T he S hack,  last week I was looking for something to do. This is what I came up with.    Left to right:  -- S...

  We must remember that Farhan designed the BITX transceivers -- and especially the BITX40 Module -- in the hope that these rigs would encou...

Check out that fancy frequency readout.   No glowing numerals here.  But it does the job. 

Main VFO board under plastic -- buffer board off to the right There is a lot of tribal knowledge in this short article by Walter KA4KXX....

Bill's uBITX with HB keys and the mic that used to be the podcast mic!  SolderSmoke Podcast #216 is available  21 December 2019 ...

When Farhan announced that BITX40 Module boards would no longer be produced,  my first thought was that it is, of course, still possi...

In my last post I put up a time lapse GIF of my BITX 17 build from about six years ago.  Above you can see my drawing explaining what...

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 1:45 PM William R Meara wrote: Dale:     I was talking to Jim W9UD on 20 SSB today.  When I told him I was r...

Al VA3IAW thought he had a shot at the "Ugliest BITX 40" award, but I shattered his dream by declaring it a thing of beauty. ...

No, this is not some on-line mail order thing.   Bruce KC1FSZ has done something that I find both amazing and horrifying:  he using a ...

 I was about an hour late for the Eastern time zone meet-up at 7 pm local on 7277 kHz Sunday night (my wife and I watch 60 Minutes at that...

I had some good luck on the ham bands last weekend.  First, I was called by Bruce KC1FSZ -- this time he was on his Al Fresco scratch-bu...

Al W8VR After a day of happy tinkering with the Direct Conversion receiver I've been working on, I turned off the soldering iron an...