{"id":29521,"date":"2017-12-08T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29521"},"modified":"2017-12-08T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T11:57:37","slug":"pete-reports-new-developments-with-the-ubitx-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/pete-reports-new-developments-with-the-ubitx-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete reports new developments with the uBITX transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Pete\u00a0Eaton (WB9FLW), who writes:<\/p>\n

Last March, Ashhar Farhan (VU2ESE) the designer of the very popular BITX20 and BITX40 series of mono-band HF Transceivers announced a new low cost rig called the uBITX (micro BITX) a full blown 80-10m 10 Watt SSB\/CW Transceiver. Now comes word that after many months of very hard development work by Ashhar this much anticipated Rig will soon be available.<\/p>\n

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For those not familiar with the project this is *not* a kit, rather like its sibling (the BITX40) it consists of two assembled and tested Circuit Boards. The RF board measures 5.5 x 6 inches and a second small plug in daughter card that takes care of the digital portion of the design including the 2X16 LCD, Arduino Nano, and Si5351 which are used in the VFO.<\/p>\n

Add a cabinet, knobs, and connectors and you have a full blown HF Rig! An added plus is that except for the Gerber PCB files everything else (including the firmware) is Open Sourced!<\/p>\n

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The original description can be found here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.phonestack.com\/farhan\/ubitx\/ubitx.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Farhan has just released the Firmware, Schematics, and Wiring Diagram for the production version on GitHub<\/p>\n

Arduino Sketch:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/afarhan\/ubitx<\/a><\/p>\n

RF Board Schematic:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/afarhan\/ubitx\/blob\/e481ea2a2457fc4e7be7a6a4bc9a0fba12bf2cde\/ubitxv3.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital (Raduino) Board Schematic:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.phonestack.com\/farhan\/ubitx\/raduino.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Wiring Diagram:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/afarhan\/ubitx\/blob\/e481ea2a2457fc4e7be7a6a4bc9a0fba12bf2cde\/ubitx_wiring.png<\/a><\/p>\n

Farhan has a social conscience as well giving several local ladies much needed employment for final assembly and checkout of the Rigs.<\/p>\n

There are still a few final tweaks being done to the design so pricing is still to be determined. But if it’s offered at a similar price point as his earlier Transceivers it should sell like hotcakes!<\/p>\n

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For the latest info check out the BITX User Group at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/BITX20<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow!\u00a0 Amazing project!\u00a0 Thanks for the tip and updates, Pete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete\u00a0Eaton (WB9FLW), who writes: Last March, Ashhar Farhan (VU2ESE) the designer of the very popular BITX20 and BITX40 series of mono-band HF Transceivers announced a new low cost rig called the uBITX (micro BITX) a full blown 80-10m 10 Watt SSB\/CW Transceiver. Now comes word that after many months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,836,3,26],"tags":[4102,6680,6681,6682],"class_list":["post-29521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","tag-ham-radio","tag-pete-eaton-wb9flw","tag-ubitx","tag-ubitx-transceiver"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7G9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29594,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-ubitx-transceiver-pricing-and-more-details\/","url_meta":{"origin":29521,"position":0},"title":"The uBITX Transceiver: Pricing and more details","author":"Thomas","date":"December 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Eaton (WB9FLW), who shares pricing and additional information about the uBITX general coverage QRP transceiver: Here are the details, if purchased before Christmas $109 delivered! http:\/\/www.hfsignals.com\/ From uBITX creator, Ashhar Farhan: 1. 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