Re: Receiver Dead
My first BITX40 #66 the volume control failed. The failure happened when I resoldered one lead that came off. The plating quality is not good IMHO. Check the DC voltage on LM386 pin 6. The
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Raj vu2zap
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#33045
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 1, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
NJ ? -- John - WA2FZW
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John P <j.m.price@...>
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#33044
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Re: Receiver Dead
Dexter, It went dead over time. Looks like the horrible volume control have up the ghost. - f
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Ashhar Farhan
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#33043
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Re: Receiver Dead
... or wired AAF (Kiwi slang, arse-about-face). Measure your pot wiper-to-each-end. Rotate shaft to 'minimum' as though (or if, then as) mounted in panel. Now which end measures 0 ohms? That's the end
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Dexter N Muir
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#33042
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Re: Receiver Dead
I would imagine the vol control is suspect at this time... - f
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Ashhar Farhan
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#33041
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Re: Zero Beating Bitx40
Hi guys, I¡¯ve been tied up for a few days and just been able to revisit my original post. I have a 50 ohm 20db attenuator. If I run my RigExpert analyzer into the attenuator and then the attenuator
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Curt M.
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#33040
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Re: Receiver Dead
Excellent! Use that to follow each step thru the audio with an antenna connected to it. Doesn't matter what it's receiving, even noise will show an ever increasing waveform. Actually noise is
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Vince Vielhaber <vev@...>
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#33039
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 1, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Good conditions, but lots of stations.? Made contact with Willie, W1LY (Rhode Island) and Ken, WI1B (Massachusetts) Heard WA2FZW(?), N2CQR (VA), WA3O (PA), N8DAH (MI), KA9OOI (IN), N6ORS (WI)
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KN4AAG Kevin Estep
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#33038
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Re: Receiver Dead
I'd definitely try to remember which toroid it was. My guess is that the insulation on the magnet wire wasn't quite properly removed, and you have a very flaky solder joint there, waiting to fail
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Jerry Gaffke
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Re: Receiver Dead
I too had intermittent receive. I used the very non-technical "tap" method. One of the tiny toroids had a problem either in the winding or the soldered connections. I tapped/wiggled it so that it
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Michael Davis <maddmd818@...>
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#33036
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Re: W8TEE pending software release and port(?)
#w8tee
Put a switch on an I/O pin and use INPUT_PULLUP with pinMode(). When a NO pushbutton is pushed, the line is pulled LOW, which changes its state. Jack, W8TEE To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October
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Jack Purdum <jjpurdum@...>
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#33035
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Re: Receiver Dead
Vince I do have a scope. KG6PO
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Ken Macy <kmacy@...>
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 1, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
I had to yell to get through the noise but just managed to work W1LY with a very minimal exchange.
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Doug W
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Re: W8TEE pending software release and port(?)
#w8tee
Yes that is what they're probably trying to say. But the wording is very confusing to programmers without an EE background. Many don't understand the real purpose of pull up resistors. 73 Allard
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Allard PE1NWL
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Re: W8TEE pending software release and port(?)
#w8tee
From p66 section 14.11.6 of the datasheet at: ?http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-42735-8-bit-AVR-Microcontroller-ATmega328-328P_Datasheet.pdf (
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Jerry Gaffke
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#33031
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Re: Cw - another quirk
Yes, I suspected that might be the case. I think I'll put bypass capacitors on both the keying lines and the function switch and spot switch. It probably doesn't help that I am using a plastic
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Brent Seres/ VE3CUS
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#33030
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Re: W8TEE pending software release and port(?)
#w8tee
Wait a minnit. I think I understand what they're so horribly trying to say. When input pullup is NOT used, a floating connection is low (or presumably low). So in order to get it to do something your
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Vince Vielhaber <vev@...>
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#33029
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Re: W8TEE pending software release and port(?)
#w8tee
As I stated when I put it there, it came from the Arduino docs. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ http://www.metalworkingfun.com
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Vince Vielhaber <vev@...>
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Re: PTT Sense Issues
Ah, very nice. And 6 more bytes! ? They all count! Regarding pullups, this statement isn't exactly correct, but I think I understand where they are coming from: " This effectively inverts the
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Jerry Gaffke
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#33027
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Re: BITX QSO Night, Sunday, October 1, 7pm Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere
Exchanged call signs with W1LY, then he disappeared. Worked N2CQR in VA. Heard WA3O and N8DAH. I'm still on! -- John - WA2FZW
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John P <j.m.price@...>
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