Regarding any upgrades, there is a fellow ubitxer who designed a panadapter for the ubitx, kenwood,icom and a few others too.
here is the link:
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On his landing page it shows a ubitx with a nextion display and the panadapter. pretty cool. I own several ubitxes and always looking for more that need a good home. every unit i own, i have added a lowpass filter network for each band.Still havent pulled the trigger on the sbitx since i keep reading about some of the issues the current owners are having.
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I think Marks experiments with the other boards for the ubitx is brilliant. there is alot of info for us off his website to give us ubitxers a springboard to jump onto to send us to the next level. Love the using the raspberry pi pico, and larger displays. As long as you can generate the 3 outputs of the si5351 and get it to the ubitx board along with interfacing the display, i think there is alot that can be done to give memory space to the ubitx. Im still learning like all of you but i personally think if we went another route instead of arduino, we could bust out of the limitations of memory and such. even if it means putting a small memory board to be accessed by a different CPU.Basically a CPU with a si5351 . Im still tinkering with 2 of my ubitxes with different Cpu setups. Pulling what ever hair i have off my balding head.HI HI. but have been making headway,slowly.
Ubitx has been shoved aside for the sbitx, but the ubitx has alot of possibilites . the main board, without the arduino and tft is just laying there saying"MOD me MOD me"HI HI
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Mike, i agree with Dave. Si5351 chip is very sensitive on static. I personally have removed the si5351 off the raduino board and installed a si5351 module and wired accordingly. havent fried one yet. I want to incorporate the panadapter product and a 10 inch display with one of my experimental ubitx units with a different cpu, built into a cabinet with panadapter and display all in one. wishfull thinking, but im making headway. lots of other websites on raduino replacements and such.
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Good luck on ur experiments
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73
David
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