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Pixie (40m) build completed this evening
25 February 2015 | by  |
| Completed 40m Pixie assembly |
This evening, I completed the build of the 40m Pixie PCB assembly. It will get checked over for dry joints or shorts in the morning and air-tested shortly.
A very half-hearted attempt at the 6m UKAC this evening was aborted because of my poor voice but I only worked 3 locals in the short time I was on with my V2000 vertical.
I really wanted to crack on with the Pixie build, although I was not expecting to finish the built today. The small PCB based kit does represent very good value.
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I look forward to hearing more about the Pixie.
I had trouble with local AM broadcast stations “bleeding through” on my Pixie (original design). I would have though that the antenna tuner would have helped some, but it doesn’t seem to.
73 /paul W3FIS
An antenna tuner may or may not help with such a problem depending on its configuration. Its primary purpose is to form a conjugate match. It may, for example, form a low pass filter to provide the best match and therefore provide no relief from AM station interference.