Got this put together in a box over the Tday break. It's a uBitX that's semi-assembled from an outfit in India. The enclosure was extra (20-30$, I can't recall) and make boxing it simple.
I'm mostly a CW op . First QSO was with a guy in Orlando on 40, we had a nice long ragchew. Next quick contacts were on 20m w Italy and Russia. Nice sensitive receiver. The lack of ALC will be the first thing I update. Power out is about 8W
This is sold as an open-source project and there's a TON of updates both HW and firmware, making it a really nice hackable rig. I did have to rewire the keyer jack and I'd since bundled the wiring so it's not quite so ugly.
Fun stuff. It's powered by arduino. The next upgrade will be to wire the external USB jack to allow convenient updates.
I'm mostly a CW op . First QSO was with a guy in Orlando on 40, we had a nice long ragchew. Next quick contacts were on 20m w Italy and Russia. Nice sensitive receiver. The lack of ALC will be the first thing I update. Power out is about 8W
This is sold as an open-source project and there's a TON of updates both HW and firmware, making it a really nice hackable rig. I did have to rewire the keyer jack and I'd since bundled the wiring so it's not quite so ugly.
Fun stuff. It's powered by arduino. The next upgrade will be to wire the external USB jack to allow convenient updates.
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