I forgot to mention that you don't have to ground each HC49 crystal. You can run a single wire between all them to ground. --
Jerry, AC9NM ÊÖÖеÄÄñÔÚ¹àľ´ÔÖÐÖµÁ½¸ö -- Jerry Ponko, AC9NM
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Aaron,
Type HC49/U/S cases can grounded by soldering a wire to the top of the HC49 case to ground. If they're smd crystals, they usually have a couple of ground pads.
My health is still hit-and-miss but I need to get some progress on my sBITX. I look at the schematic and wonder if I have gotten in over my head. I think that building the sBITX for my first homebrew project may be beyond my reach. I have a couple of questions (for now) concerning the crystal filter schematic above.?
1) All of the crystals that I have seen have two leads on them. In the schematic above they have 4 legs. Am I seeing this correctly?
2)What type of jack is J7?
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'72
Aaron K5ATG
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Jerry, AC9NM ÊÖÖеÄÄñÔÚ¹àľ´ÔÖÐÖµÁ½¸ö
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Jerry Ponko, AC9NM
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 My health is still hit-and-miss but I need to get some progress on my sBITX. I look at the schematic and wonder if I have gotten in over my head. I think that building the sBITX for my first homebrew project may be beyond my reach. I have a couple of questions (for now) concerning the crystal filter schematic above.? 1) All of the crystals that I have seen have two leads on them. In the schematic above they have 4 legs. Am I seeing this correctly? 2)What type of jack is J7? -- '72
Aaron K5ATG
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Glad to help. Thanks for the heads-up on DirtyPCBs - they had a different error message than OSHPark or JLC.? I can def add 'Gerbers' and 'designing feedback amplifiers' to the long list of things I don't understand!
73, Andy
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Re: #sbitx upgrade kit 2 is on the way
#sBitx
Thomas could you advise how you shipped....
just got an incorrectly delivered FedX package/..
Hope that was not the stuff you shipped....? now to drive down
the ill to properly deliver that package.
happy holidays to all
On 12/17/2022 10:28 PM, Support HF
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Hello everybody,
The upgrade kit #2 was dispatched from New
Jersey on the10th of December 2022.?
Hopefully everyone should start receiving them
soon.
Regards,
Thomas
No delivery,
yet.? Probably still in transit but the question is: were they
shipped??
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Re: Saved by the hidden fuse in ubitx V6 ;-)
One more casualty...? Just found out that the Nano A3 pin (ptt) is not 12v tolerant. :-)
When I offset the? Raduino, the 12v was connected to the PTT pin.? Replaced the Arduino, I now can transmit again via ptt.? All in all, pretty cheap lesson to be a little more careful...
73
Mark
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KD8CEC 2.0, Nextion Screens,? and open source uBITX Raduino boards for Arduino IOT, BLE, RP2040, Teensy 4.0, and Raspberry Pi Pico
https://github.com/aj6cu
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Re Run Of uBitx Enclosure
Hi Friends .
Lately I am getting inquiries for our ubitx nextion enclosures. So it's been decided to re launch them back .?
So we will have the 2.8, 5 inch and the new 7 inch nextion display case with our old popular agc circuit . We may substitute the analogue meter with the oled display meter. But the the space available could also be used for analogue meter .
We are also thinking of adding fitting for? the WA2EBY amp? and 100 watt Automatic Antenna Tuner to the enclosure.
The enclosure would be interesting with the ubitx and what ever firmware is used .?
I would be glad to hear any feedback or suggestions on the enclosure design .
It gives me immense pleasure to provide our products at inkits which we have been doing over a decade .
In this coming new year we shall be coming out with some new products .
Thanks and best wishes?
Sunil vu3sua
https://amateurradiokits.in?
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Sir, Rx is comfortable Tx is distorted I have changed microphone . but this is not solved the problem. VU3EEX Ratnabh Prasad
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 8:17 AM Ashhar Farhan < farhanbox@...> wrote: Can you please elaborate on what you mean? 1. Are bothered with rx audio or tx audio? 2. If on rx, do all signals sound distorted or only the loud ones? 3. If on rx, does it happen on speaker or headphones or both? 4. Is the distortion worse on any one sideband? Can you attach an audio clip? - f
I have ubitx v6.1
I am using this radio from June 2022. My audio gets distorted. What to do for rectification ?
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Thank you Andy, I updated the Zip in the files section with the new extension.
73
?David
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Mic preamp board SSM2167works nicely.
This preamp makes a HUGE difference. Here is my version of the SSM2167 mic preamp/compressor for the uBitx v6. I used it with the supplied Baofeng microphone and it worked well checking into the WPSS evening net on 3952 KHz. After adjusting the gain, gate and compression (not too much!) I got good audio reports, and much better that with the microphone alone. I followed the project according to KI7OJL's implementation (??but printed my own box, and used a small L78L05 I had lying around in a TO92 case. No need for a big TO220 unit.?
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Can you please elaborate on what you mean? 1. Are bothered with rx audio or tx audio? 2. If on rx, do all signals sound distorted or only the loud ones? 3. If on rx, does it happen on speaker or headphones or both? 4. Is the distortion worse on any one sideband? Can you attach an audio clip? - f
I have ubitx v6.1
I am using this radio from June 2022. My audio gets distorted. What to do for rectification ?
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Saved by the hidden fuse in ubitx V6 ;-)
I have a bunch of Raduinos with both V5 and V6 headers (2 extra pins) that I was swapping around to check that the KD8CEC LCD functionality still worked with a Pico and Teensy processors. Well, I plugged a V5 into a V6 *aligning it with the extra pins* (so everything was offset by 2 pins). Magic smoke! (Daughter thought that we had a gas leak lol). After disassembly, discovered that the copper trace to12v in to on/off switch was literally toast and had actually burned out like a fuse at one point. :-) Jumpered a wire over the virtual fuse and everything "so far" seems fine. Will check again tomorrow, but receive appears to work and I was copying some cw. :-)? Hopefully I got lucky... 73 Mark  -- AJ6CU KD8CEC 2.0, Nextion Screens,? and open source uBITX Raduino boards for Arduino IOT, BLE, RP2040, Teensy 4.0, and Raspberry Pi Pico https://github.com/aj6cu
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I have ubitx v6.1
I am using this radio from June 2022. My audio gets distorted. What to do for rectification ?
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FYI... If one opens the Gerbers for these AGC boards and renames the file "ND6T-Edge_Cuts.gbr" to have a ".gko" extension, OSHPark, JLCPCB, and Dirtypcbs are happy with the Gerbers.
73, Andy
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Re: Raspberry Pi (no longer the value proposition)
Here's an interview with Eben Upton, RasPi CEO, from Dec 18th.? Covers more ground on supply and availability than the press release.
73, Andy
Bobbin' around in Tampa Bay
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David - would you consider upgrading the Gerbers for the uBITX AGC board from 274D to 274X? I've not found a board house that will accept the old Gerber format, and so far I've been unable to manually re-work the files. (If anyone knows of a way to convert formats, or of a service that converts them, or of a board house stuck in the 1990s, I'd love to hear about it. I have about a dozen boards I'd like to have made that are in 274D.) 73, Andy
KG5RKP/MM
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Re: Questions about Nextion Upgrade
#nextion
Doug and Mark,
Thanks for the feedback. I will study Mark's work on version 2.0 before I decide what to do.
73 Mike N2MS
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On 12/20/2022 11:57 PM Mark Hatch <mark2382@...> wrote:
Functionally, v1.2 is the current peak for this software. It is restricted to Nano processors and is shoehorned into the memory of the nano. Certainly it has better ¡°eye candy¡± over the more recent software. I will leave it to others to compare functionality as I am not familiar with the latest software.
I am working on a ¡°2.0¡± version of kd8cec software that runs on non nano processors. (See GitHub link in my sig below). The hope is that these faster processors with more memory will provide greater headroom for this software. However, the first phase is just to preserve existing functionality on these newer platforms.
73
Mark
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KD8CEC 2.0, Nextion Screens, and open source uBITX Raduino boards for Arduino IOT, BLE, RP2040, Teensy 4.0, and Raspberry Pi Pico
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uBitx Version 6 lifecycle
Will the ver 6 continue for awhile or will the sBitx replace it soon? Does the sBitx have filtering for BC band interference? Thanks?
John
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Re: Questions about Nextion Upgrade
#nextion
Functionally, v1.2 is the current peak for this software. It is restricted to Nano processors and is shoehorned into the memory of the nano. Certainly it has better ¡°eye candy¡± over the more recent software. I will leave it to others to compare functionality as I am not familiar with the latest software.?
I am working on a ¡°2.0¡± version of kd8cec software that runs on non nano processors. (See GitHub link in my sig below). ?The hope is that these faster processors with more memory will provide greater headroom for this software. However, the first phase is just to preserve existing functionality on these newer platforms.?
73
Mark
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AJ6CU
KD8CEC 2.0, Nextion Screens,? and open source uBITX Raduino boards for Arduino IOT, BLE, RP2040, Teensy 4.0, and Raspberry Pi Pico
https://github.com/aj6cu
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Questions about Nextion Upgrade
#nextion
I have successfully installed version 0.2 of his excellent firmware on my uBitX V6.1
This is a vast improvement over the original for CW operation and the CAT control works well with FLRIG.
I am studying the upgrade to the Nextion TFT display.? It will require some modifications and I am studying the documentation.?
Is uBITX_CEC_V1.200.zip\uBITXV5 the latest firmware for Nextion support?? I ask because it dates back to 2019.
What additional features will the Nexion upgrade provide? over the present TFT display??
I'm satisfied with N8ME's code and want to determine of it is worth the effort.
Thanks in Advance,
Mike N2MS
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