Pixie CW transceiver

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Brilliant Chinese marketing eh.... assembles my ****!

Wire for antenna already covered.

I suggest that first you just listen on the thing to see what you v=can hear.

The antenna connector is what is known as a BNC connector. For listening the length of antenna wire only needs to connect to the centre connector of the socket. Length of antenna wire need only be 12ft or so to start with. This does not need a proper connector. Just push the bare conductor of the wire into the centre connector.

Headphones: ANY Walkman style headphones will do. The socket is wired for stereo three pin plug too. Long term a set of headphones with an inline volume control would be useful. Make sure that you only attache the headphones to the socket marked Phone ( printed on the circuit board)

Power supply: For receiving only, it'll work fine using a PP9 dry cell as a power source. +ve connects to the power socket centre pin. there are a couple of unused through the board connector pads on the reverse side of the board under the power socket. These piggyback the main connector and can be used as attachment points for a pair of wires leading off to the power supply. I am thinking of running a red wire (+ve) and a black wire -ve connected to a pair of choc-block connectors. This will allow any power supply wires to be connected to the radio just by screwing down the contacts in the choc-block, so avoiding the need for a bespoke power connector.

The choc-block connector strategy can be used on the antenna connector too. In both cases you will need use a continuity meter to make sure you know which connector pad is positive and which is negative, and of course 4 spots of solder would be needed too.