Familiar mantra, raoul: better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. You can travel a long way before a snowdrift. 73 de ZL2DEX

Kicad is likely the most professional PC CAD tool available for free (or even for a reasonable price). It does have a bit of a learning curve, though. I have been using Diptrace for years, but it's

I love that "Drake" spinner knob. They are pricey on ebay, so I will need to make something similar. Nice clean job overall!

Is there a schematic for this AGC ? .. I've not been able to find one so far . Gw0wvl Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Mine arrived yesterday and assembly went fairly quickly. I loaded the KD8CEC software and had a nice CW QSO with a W9 in WI who gave me a 579. This was with the rig spread across my operating desk

I checked into this AGC but it's pretty expensive to ship to the US - the dollar equivalent of £25. Has anyone found anything similar here in the US? I can build one from scratch but I would prefer

Solution? Use it until L-M tells you to stop. When/if they tell you to stop, stop. Done. I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State and the US Olympic Committee was going after everybody who

HI Jim. I'd like to add that these are my sentiments as well. I do this for the fun and for benefit of the community... Not to make a profit or out do others. BTW, I like the features you have in your

HI All. Boards arrived today, I will assemble one and test. Hoping to feed it into an audio spectrum analyzer to provide some idea of its exact performance/response. I will ship them out to folks who

There is a Ubitx on ebay unused as well as a ubitx40 if anyone is interested

...and the 8 pack of sockets just showed up from Amazon.

Just received my second uBITX #0219/4 ordered Feb 3. Opened it up to see what TDA2822 it had and was surprised to see that it's now socketed. I haven't seen anyone mention this. The chip is a UTC

I have added audio AGC to my uBITx, its a kit board from Walford Electronics (G3PCJ). Disconnected the yellow wire from the top of the Volume pot. Yellow wire to the input of the AGC board via a 10 K

Check your driver stage voltages against those given in the jpg in message 43844. See if they match at all. tim ab0wr "KE0GYC" <dragonfanatic90@...> wrote:

I would call this a scribe or a grinder. The point of a burin pushes a "v" of copper away from the surface--it literally lifts the copper out of the groove. There's an interesting video at

This seemed worth sharing with the group. https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/design-tools/kicad Introducing Digi-Key's KiCad Symbol and Footprint Library and the KiCad EDA Tool

Everybody, take a drink. I mean, this *is* a drinking game, right? Like, someone finally makes a political reference, take a drink? Something like that? Hey Jim, I'm planning/scheming a possible

Ugh. This is an international mail group focused on discussion of a particular topic, not a place for political statements or jokes. Thanks, Ken, N2VIP

Jim- old Buddy and Friend- I think Hilary will see the inside of a jail cell long before you.. Larry W8LM

Thanks for the info. So it seems possible but unlikely the electret is the culprit? What else could it be? It seems likely whatever is causing our low current draw with the PA bias at 0 is related