{"id":16574,"date":"2026-02-21T17:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:11:23","slug":"easy-bitx-preparing-for-difficult-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/easy-bitx-preparing-for-difficult-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy BITX: Preparing for difficult steps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kO7tTQ_81-c?si=Md8SYstCbWLgOh9c\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had some difficulty in finding the last 100 nF capacitor to be soldered because the slot was a large rectangular slot for C59, unlike the small oval slots for the rest of them. 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