We love seeing ham radios built around Teensy, but to paraphrase Xzibit, Jack (W8TEE) and Al (AC8GY) heard you like ham radio kits, so they made the JackAL (get it?) add-on kit for your µBITX transceiver kit, so you can…well we’ll get to what it lets you do…

Rewinding for a moment, the µBITX itself is a HF SSB/CW transceiver kit (that’s High Frequency, Single Side-Band/Continuous Waveform aka Morse code) with digital tuning, a Morse code keyer, and more, designed to be an approachable, understandable radio that you can build yourself. The JackAL add-on board adds a high-resolution 800×480 TFT touch screen, hardware AGC (automatic gain control), and extensive DSP audio functions. A large rotary encoder facilitates fine-tuning, and user presets for most settings are conveniently stored in EEPROM. The kit comes with SMD components pre-populated — just bring your own Teensy 3.6 and Audio Adaptor Board, plus the display of your choice. More information can be found at the µBITX enthusiast site ubitx.net, as well as a dedicated Groups.io site.