BitX20

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Building a BitX 20 Radio

The BitX 20 is a 20m band SSB transeiver originally designed in India by Ashar Frahan, and now supported and developed by by many people. My BitX is a version 3, built on a PCB ordered from Sunil Lakhani VU3SUA.

Band Pass Filter


The BitX bp-filter is simply constructed from three Toko coils and a handfull of NPO capacitors.

Bandpass filter under test
Bandpass filter under test


Quickly peaking up the filter response using the variable cores on the Toko coils give the following filter plots.

Bandpass response 7 - 24 Mhz
Bandpass response 7 - 24 Mhz
Bandpass response around 14 Mhz
Bandpass response around 14 Mhz