Ge all I like Woody, have some radios that I like but just Don't use. I bought the KX-1 about a year ago. It's the 4 bander, with internal tuner and the filter board. It has the nb also. The bands

Nope. L4 is just marked wrong on the PC board. Use the value from the Bill Of Materials which indicates 470 microhenries for L4. This IS the correct value. Jim, W0EB Sent from my iPad

Hi, Jim KD0MXD, Starting on my radio. So L2 and L4 are to be switched? Thanks, 73/KD0MXD/ Jim

Thanks Jim. Bought some 3/32 brass rod rather than the tubing. It cuts easier with my bandsaw. I made the jig out of a couple pieces of Poplar I had laying around. It's glued up and clamped. I'll

Nate, Get a female associate to look at the color bands. Generally their color perception is much better than for us males. My XYL claims that my box of crayons is limited to 8 colors while hers has

* On 2017 01 Jan 15:47 -0600, n5ib@... [4sqrp] wrote: I am working from manual Rev 1.1 and it notes the value of L2 is 1 uH and L4 is 470 uH and has a notice in yellow above that table that

You may have a problem with the polarity protection mosfet Q6. In a strange coincidence, Q6 failed on my Bayou Jumper today. The symptoms were these: I noticed that I had to advance the regen control

All working except SPOT and reverse polarity Mosfet is radiating heat! Tune RX to crystal frequency with external RX, TX with BJ and they match spot on. Use the tune function in RX and signal is

You are right, I also used a modelers razor saw to cut the shaft. Instead of bending the lock washer, I used a Danco #8 O-Ring (from Lowes) to retain the switch key. It fit snug enough you

Sorry, bad memory.... The instructions I am using is version 1.1 and it does say 1/4", and I stand by that dimension being too much to remove from the switch shaft. Measuring my

Finally got the rx in proper range, wow touchy on the winding's!! Noticed the reverse polarity MRF is getting quite warm, normal? Tim W4YN

The instruction manual on the website when I got my kit was version 1.1 (still the current version on the website as I write this) and it says 1/4" not 1/2" so I suspect NA1MH may have been using an

my instructions say cut off 1/4". Dick n0tgr

Brass rod also works well. That is what I used for the little VXO I posted pictures of. I chuck the rod into a hand drill after cutting to length, and then using a file round the end off.

A really good material for making the pins for the crystal adapters is the 3/32" brass tubing you can get a Hobby Lobby That's what you see in the pictures in the Photos area. I cut them to length

Walter, I agree. I read the instructions to cut off 1/2" and it looked to me to be excessive. I did some measuring and ended up cutting off less so the knobs brass insert would not bottom out on the

Regarding those PC board crystal adapters made to look like the front plate of an FT-243 crystal holder. Included is a chunk of #10 solid copper wire to make the pins with. #10 is a bit too large in

Just about finished, found some of my crystals, 7044, 7123, 7122, & 7040. Now to fiddle with regen and tuning range. Tim

Years back, in the ARRl manual, there was a circuit showing an octal tube socket. No matter which way you plugged in the crystal it worked. Sort of an "X" circuit. 73 /paul W3FIS

Builders of the Bayou Jumper........PLEASE note that you do NOT want to cut too much shaft off of the rotary switch. If you do, your chicken head selector knob is going to spin instead of select. The