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uBITX V6 turns up the heat!
14 December 2019 | by Huge sales of the uBITX around the globe is one kit that has certainly raised the profile of Amateur Radio. An HF radio kit which got many back and involved in the hobby, with many interested in construction once again. It has proved easy to put together for most, with a pretested PCB, along with a simple set up procedure. Asharr Farhan and his small company HF Signals, have been credited with a huge success story of uBITX sales, on top of his now retired BITX40 single band 40m kit. It has kept a small team in employment back in India and that is also a good thing.
Where could he take the uBITX from here?
Well you have only got to blink these days and things always get updated very quick!
The new V6 uBITX could be the wolf that eat the cat meooow!
Gone is the two line 1602 display, a new 2.8" LCD touch screen is it's replacement. No soldering required is part of the new uBITX sales statement, is this a rig that now plugs together like lego? Gone are connections that once had to be soldered with wire to the 3.5mm sockets for mic, key etc. These are now attached to the new V6 PCB, along with the variable resistor for the volume control, even the encoder doesn't need a soldering iron anymore it comes already attached and soldered up with a plug ready to push into the revised board.
There are two flavours of kit, as before you can just buy the tested PCB kit with raduino, display, hardware and stuff it in a box of your choice (Basic kit) . Or there is now a second choice of a professional predrilled case, (Full kit) which really takes the uBITX to retail standard and looks the part. Both kits, even come with a fist microphone ready to plug in and a speaker for those that purchase the full kit.
Those that have purchased V5 PCB can upgrade to the 2.8" display and update the Raduino firmware, and should read these notes:
I also found the displays are available on ebay.
Further details on it all read this thread here
Head down to HF Signals here for full details about the kit.
Steve, G1KQH, is a regular contributor to AmateurRadio.com and writes from England. Contact him at [email protected].Where could he take the uBITX from here?
Well you have only got to blink these days and things always get updated very quick!
The new V6 uBITX could be the wolf that eat the cat meooow!
Gone is the two line 1602 display, a new 2.8" LCD touch screen is it's replacement. No soldering required is part of the new uBITX sales statement, is this a rig that now plugs together like lego? Gone are connections that once had to be soldered with wire to the 3.5mm sockets for mic, key etc. These are now attached to the new V6 PCB, along with the variable resistor for the volume control, even the encoder doesn't need a soldering iron anymore it comes already attached and soldered up with a plug ready to push into the revised board.
There are two flavours of kit, as before you can just buy the tested PCB kit with raduino, display, hardware and stuff it in a box of your choice (Basic kit) . Or there is now a second choice of a professional predrilled case, (Full kit) which really takes the uBITX to retail standard and looks the part. Both kits, even come with a fist microphone ready to plug in and a speaker for those that purchase the full kit.
Those that have purchased V5 PCB can upgrade to the 2.8" display and update the Raduino firmware, and should read these notes:
For those who are using the 16x2 display and you would like to upgrade, you will have to do three things:
1. Add a heatsink to the 7805 of the raduino
2. Buy https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32815224002.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.3b9548336X8T43 and hook it up as per http://www.hfsignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/raduino_tft.pdf
3. Grab the new Arduino sketch from https://github.com/afarhan/ubitxv6
I also found the displays are available on ebay.
Further details on it all read this thread here
Head down to HF Signals here for full details about the kit.
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That’s great Accomplishment of Ashar Farhan VU2ESE, we are proud of his cute baby – uBitx!
Keep it up Dear Farhan.
73
de VU2EXP Rajesh
I am getting newcomers to the hobby asking if they can build and USE the full kit as their UK FOUNDATION LICENCE – prohibits them from bbuilding and using transmitters that are not type approved ?
I see that the kits are no different to setting up a rig as they are not actualy soldering or tinkering with a transmitter
what is the position with this kit ?
PS – I am an Intermediate licence holder so building and using the kit is not a problem to me and I will probably buy myself one for Christmas
Dear Ferhan, I wish you good work and success.