Thanks to SolderSmoke hooking me with tales of uBitx joy, I had to get in the game, and the deed has been done! Ordered the uBitx kit on March 30, it shipped April 25 and arrived 3 days later, so just

In WSJT-X on the Settings dialog, Radio tab, you need to have: Rig: Yaesu FT-817 (I use DXLab Commander for CAT control and in my case, "Rig" is set to DXLab Commander") CAT control - Serial Port shou

I managed to let the smoke out of my TDA2822 this morning. I built cables yesterday to connect the uBitx to my YCCC SO2R box so I could use my common headset and paddle / Winkey, and all was well with

I did the mod (thanks Howard for the parts!) and here's what I got: 80M 11W before 13W after 40M 11W 14W 20M 7.8W 11W 17M 4.7W 6.8W 15M 4.0W 5.6W 12M 3.0W 5W 10M 2.5W 4.3W My test was using the Tune b

I know FT8 is a low power mode, but with your mod I just worked HI from NC (4800 miles) with 6.5W on 30M. Now with my souped up uBitx, I feel like a big gun on FT8 :-) . 73, Rowland K4XD

Sajid - I used a 27uh SMD inductor from Mouser, their part 535-11666-1-ND. I believe the value is non-critical and SMD or leaded components could be used as long as you kept the leads short. 73, Rowla

It is exciting! It would be great if Sunil of amateurradiokits.in could create a "deluxe" case with a cutout for the Nextion and either room or cutouts for additional switches and pots, e.g. an RF gai

I just finished installing: 1) ND6T AGC mod using Kees' kit. 2) AGC off/med/long switch as described in ND6T's instructions 3) T/R LED (Sunil's approach) 4) An RF gain control with an on/off switch so

Hi Don - thanks for your speedy assistance. To be clear - what I am hearing when I transmit SSB is RFI - loud garbled sounds from the speaker or headphones, not a clear rendition of my voice. The offe

Thanks Don, I'll try some RG-174 then. I might not have time until Wednesday, flying out tomorrow for a two day trip, but will report back when I try it. I assume one coax with shield to ground at bot

Hi Don - I tried a small RG174 cable and unfortunately it didn't solve the RFI problem. Still getting a very strong garbled RFI when I transmit SSB and the audio cable is connected. Grounded at both t

I don't have a separate power source for the PA - I assume to test this I'll have to cut one of the three wires going to the plug into the PCB? I'll try it Wednesday if it will help with troubleshooti

Don - I'll try this - do you mean leave all the wires still plugged into the AGC board, but unplug the AGC board from the main PCB? And should I then jumper the two outside pins to "restore" the RF tr

Hi Don -- here are the results of my test: 1) Unplugged AGC board from main PCB. Jumpered the header on the main PCB. Left all wires connected to the AGC board that was now "hanging in space" above th

I built my second AGC kit board to see if that helped. Unfortunately, after installing it, now I have zero RF power out on TX. No RFI either :) . I've tried CW, SSB with the mic that worked previously

I got very good results using Howard Fidel's 3 component power output mod on my V3 uBitx. Due to other changes I made to the V3 board, I am not getting any power out at all (not related to Howard's mo

Thanks Allison, that's good to know. I got good results from Howard's mod - a nice increase on most bands, so would like to install it on my V4 board, which FYI shipped the first business day after my