BitX-20 SSB Transceiver
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Introduction
The BitX20 is a 14MHz QRP (low power) SSB Transceiver that was designed in 1994 by Ashhar Farhan[1].
The new BitX-20 digital connections website is being developed.
Check out 147.120 projects YahooGroup to follow the building of this project. We got our BitX-20 project of kits from Sunil Lakhani [2], India.
Suggested Tools needed
- Soldering pencil and holder
- Solder (63/37) in a dispenser
- Solder Flux
- Needle nose pliers
- Diagonal cutters
- Wire Strippers
- Solder puller / desolder braid
- Tool bag (to carry all this stuff)
- VOM/DVM meter (optional)
Farhan's input on the Homebrew's Lab.
Limor "Lady Ada" input on the topic of basic tools.
Audio section
BFO
Post IF Amp
1st IF Amp
First Mixer
RF Amplifier
Band Pass Filter
RF Driver
VFO
FLL and Display
Tracy's blog [3] post.
David's pics of BitX-20 project.
Power Supply
Case, Connectors and Knobs
References
External Links
- Farhan's Homebrew QRP (VU2FAX)
- The BITX20 Yahoo!Group
- BitX SSB QRP for Ham Radio by Sunil Lakhani (p.c. boards/kits)
- Building the BITX20A
- Constructing the BITX20A
- BitXon FaceBook
- BitX-20 from Far Circuits
- KC0WOX Leonad Leeper's Homebrew Video Heaven
- BitX ver 3 assembly manual -- suggested for this project