{"id":88690,"date":"2020-03-16T03:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/88690\/celebrity\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T03:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T03:27:06","slug":"building-the-v6-1-micro-bitx-from-india-251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/88690\/celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the v6.1 Micro BITX from India (#251)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcN5pKxawbU?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI build the new version 6.1 uBITX HF QRP SSB\/CW transceiver fromm www.hfsigs.com in India. For an extra US$50, they include a case, another extra US$10 to ship via DHL, for a total of US$210. It came quickly and took me only an hour to put together. The power output varies from band to band. I look forward to using it as a QRP rig.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:  Ask Dave Playlist:  Tip Jar: <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about me, visit:<br \/>\nTip jar (on my website):  (provides a method to use your credit card via PayPal, Also describes Patreon)<br \/>\nTo pose an Ask Dave question:  or<br \/>\nTo order the most recent and up-to-date Amateur Extra videos on a thumb drive: <\/p>\n<p>Theme music is &#8220;Sour Tennessee Red,&#8221; by John Deley and the 41 Players, courtesy YouTube Music Library.<br \/>\nI use drawings from OpenClipArt.org, including the &#8220;walking man&#8221;<br \/>\nTechnician training videos, see<br \/>\nGeneral training videos, see<br \/>\nAmateur Extra training videos, see<br \/>\nList of the Ask Dave videos, see<br \/>\nThanks to my sweet wife, Loretta, KB\u00d8VWW, for both audio and video assistance! (Her website is www.aldea-art.com.)<\/p>\n<p>My primary website:<br \/>\nThe ham radio part of my website (direct link):<br \/>\nMy publishing website:  where you can find my fantasy and science fiction books, as well as some local history books I publish for the Ridgway Railroad Museum and the Ouray County Historical Society<br \/>\nMy Amazon author page, which lists my print and Kindle books: <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m often asked what equipment I use to create the videos. The devices include the Panasonic DMC-G7 camera, Panasonic HDC-TM90 video camera, GoPro Hero2 HD camera, Tascam DR-05 audio recorder, Audio-Technica ATR-3350 lapel microphone, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W560 digital camera, the Kodak Zi-8 video camera, my iPhone 5S. Software used: CyberLink PowerDirector 17 on an HP Gaming Pavilion, also using Smoothdraw 4.0.5.0, FastStone Image Viewer 5.3, FastStone Capture 8.0, Audacity 2.1.1, LibreOffice 5.0.4.2, and Ink2Go 1.7.2. You can see how my studio is set up by viewing <\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @dcasler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I build the new version 6.1 uBITX HF QRP SSB\/CW transceiver fromm www.hfsigs.com in India. For an extra US$50,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21045],"tags":[103521,88982,103522,21047,21046,103520,3602,50810,26866,103523,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-88690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-amateur-radio","9":"tag-bitx","10":"tag-building","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrity","13":"tag-ham-radio","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-micro","16":"tag-v6-band","17":"tag-v61","18":"tag-vlog"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}