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If youve got any connections to mike, let me know i need schematics, pix, anything. Plugged into an outlet the red charging light goes on but it never seems to progress beyond red. Redraw the michigan mighty mite so that it conforms to the pierce oscillator circuit. It offers extreme versatility and unmatched precision across a wide range of materials and bending scenarios. It is capable of climbing an 87% grade and can do 57 miles an hour on the highway. What puzzles me is the mechanism how the feedback output from the transistor amplifier is fed. The basic mightymite outputs a pretty dirty signal w2aews scope revealed 5. Emetteur et recepteur cw 72 mhz radio amateur, dc circuit, ham radio, electronics. Electrical engineering stack exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts.
Knowing that it has tons of spurious emissions due to the harmonics of the crystal, i know i need to filter the output to be legal im a general class ham. The michigan mighty mite grows a user interface, and steps. Do you have to use a real ground for the ground connection or can it also be a so called counterpoise. If you like the way it sounds then you really succeeded.
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Here are a couple of variations on this simple circuit. Uses the easy to use sdradio software developed by i2phd see. Lowimpedance tap in this oscillator circuit electrical. Then, he did a very nice job of packaging it into a candle tin. The tone isnt stable and neither is the frequency, but its very exciting to work cw on a rig that consists of 7.
We have 1 eureka mighty mite manual available for free pdf download. Here is the schematic of michigan mighty mite, a popular transmitter circuit design. Your guess is correct, t6 and t7 secondary windings are the inductors. This was a fun home brew project that i found in an old magazine called michigan mighty mite. The michigan mighty mite is a very simple 7 component transmitter that is easy to build. The mighty car mods guys investigate budget performance chips. It seems to be quite close to a regular feedback oscillator, with a few peculiarities. I currently have a 7040 crystal and the rig seems to put out just about 500mw at 7. Cw transmitter for 160, 80, 40 or 30 meters originated by ed knoll, w3fqj and developed by tom jurgens, ky8i. He also changed the 27 ohm resistor to 15 ohms and the 10 kohm resistor to 18kohms.
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