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Re: No uploads - support replied
Jack Purdum
All: I agree with Graham. Recently I've submitted a few docs as attachments, feeling that if they are wanted by someone, they will be download and save it by the reader. If the moderators feel it's worth it, they will upload it. (Also, I couldn't upload it even if I wanted to.) In many cases, I really appreciate having the first email that elicited a given response as part of the answer, like I'm doing here. Given that it's been posted already, it does take more space to keep Graham's and my response, but I find it helpful to have both in that it gives context. I suggest that, if the first response is in the second, the first response be deleted. Second, it's time to pony up so we don't keep "chasing our tail". There is no such thing as a free lunch. We've enjoyed the lunch, it's now time to pay the server and the company. If there is anyone in this group who doesn't feel it's worth $1 to belong here, they are free to keep their dollar and move on. I've forgotten who is tracking the subjects and doing some organization to the benefit of all of us, but with all the members here, perhaps we could even pay him to add more granularity to the search engine. Implementationwise, I'm not sure how that would work. We may even end up with our own web site with an SQL-language search engine. Something to think about. In any event, I do think it's time to start charging for the nuggets we all find here. Jack, W8TEE ? From: Graham <planophore@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [BITX20] No uploads - support replied good day all, I don't think attachments should go. They are an important and intuitive part of using groups like this. Adding attachments are easy and having them right there with the email and I can save those I want to keep. It is far better than the Yahoo model where you had to go to yahoo to view the attachments. I think we are in general missing the real issue. This group has bumped up against that limit more than once. The "limit" is the issue not what we should or shouldn't keep.? Once you start trying to trim away some of "fat" you will end up constantly chasing your tail around trying to "purge" and the more you do the more reluctant you get to delete anything. Todd and others have already suggested that the group fund itself in order to support more storage space but there seems to the be an underlying unspoken hesitation of many. If I belong to 10 (or more) such groups on io and I contributed $1 per year in order support the cost of extra storage then I would consider that $10 well spent, not only do I benefit but so do others, perhaps those others will benefit even more than I, so much the better. Hans, Ashar - I think this is the direction the group needs to move toward, not this round robin fussing over what bits of "stuff" to get rid of every time the group reaches it's limit. There have been a couple of suggestions of how the group can manage this but it doesn't appear as though there has actually been any movement in getting there. Perhaps IO groups needs to consider implementing some business model so that groups such as this can easily pay for more storage. respectfully, cheers, Graham ve3gtc On 2/27/2017, "Hans Summers" <hans.summers@...> wrote: >Hi Ken > >Yes agreed, attachments should go... it can safely be assumed that the >sender didn't particularly intend these to be stored for ever. BUT, >deleting attachments is not easy. I asked the groups.io owner and he told >me that we have to go through the messages and delete the attachments. That >doesn't seem very practical. I will email him again now and ask for some >tool to do that. > >73 Hans G0UPL > > > |
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Re: source code for the bitx40 radiuno?
Hi Stephan, congrats for your license and I wish you a lot of fun with your BITX40, when it arrives. The original source code is indeed found in the GitHub repository you mentioned. Some people in this group already started to make changes to the script and these were discussed in the messages. At the moment it's not easy to find all these things because of the amount of messages in this group and not having a wiki which would made it easier for someone joining this group. 73 de Armin - DJ2AG |
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Re: Delivery times to Canada
Hi Graham Have fun! 73 Ken VA3ABN On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Graham <planophore@...> wrote: Ordered mine towards the end of January, received on Feb 24. |
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Re: AGC performance
Jack Purdum
Wow! Thanks for providing the links to this. I've spent a lot of time with Google on this and these never showed up. It looks very interesting. Jack, W8TEE From: Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [BITX20] AGC performance RF, any day. Look at the W7ZOI's cascode IF amplifier. It is the best in the class.? This is the baby :? It is a little elaborate, but completely worth the effort.? Go here for the PCBs :? - f On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io <econjack@...> wrote:
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Re: Delivery times to Canada
Graham
Ordered mine towards the end of January, received on Feb 24.
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cheers, Graham ve3gtc On 2/25/2017, "Randy Hall" <listk7age@...> wrote:
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Re: No uploads - support replied
Graham
good day all,
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I don't think attachments should go. They are an important and intuitive part of using groups like this. Adding attachments are easy and having them right there with the email and I can save those I want to keep. It is far better than the Yahoo model where you had to go to yahoo to view the attachments. I think we are in general missing the real issue. This group has bumped up against that limit more than once. The "limit" is the issue not what we should or shouldn't keep. Once you start trying to trim away some of "fat" you will end up constantly chasing your tail around trying to "purge" and the more you do the more reluctant you get to delete anything. Todd and others have already suggested that the group fund itself in order to support more storage space but there seems to the be an underlying unspoken hesitation of many. If I belong to 10 (or more) such groups on io and I contributed $1 per year in order support the cost of extra storage then I would consider that $10 well spent, not only do I benefit but so do others, perhaps those others will benefit even more than I, so much the better. Hans, Ashar - I think this is the direction the group needs to move toward, not this round robin fussing over what bits of "stuff" to get rid of every time the group reaches it's limit. There have been a couple of suggestions of how the group can manage this but it doesn't appear as though there has actually been any movement in getting there. Perhaps IO groups needs to consider implementing some business model so that groups such as this can easily pay for more storage. respectfully, cheers, Graham ve3gtc On 2/27/2017, "Hans Summers" <hans.summers@...> wrote:
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Re: source code for the bitx40 radiuno?
Stephan Lauffer
...reply to myself... this may be the source(?)..:
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If so, would be nice if there would be a short link from for example. Am 27.02.2017 um 12:25 schrieb Stephan Lauffer: Hi all! --
Liebe Gruesse, with best regards, Stephan Lauffer Telefon: +49 7661 905216 Mobile: +49 172 7145197 Ham Radio: DC8LZ, QTH JN37XX Schulstr. 1c 79252 Stegen Germany |
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source code for the bitx40 radiuno?
Hi all!
I am new in the ham world (got my license 7 days ago) and atm I am waiting to get my 1st kw transceiver, the bitx40. Meanwhile I try learn, read, understand parts of the bitx. ATM I am interested in the "raduino-bitx-magic". On the website www.hfsigs.com I read f.e.: "The Raduino...free and open source code,..." "The Raduino is a very powerful, hackable, easy to program board that My question is: Where can I get this open source code? Is there a github repo out there with this opensouce code for the bitx? And thanks to all for the contributions! I like the idea of the new wiki very much. Hopefully it will grow... :) -- Liebe Gruesse, with best regards, Stephan Lauffer Telefon: +49 7661 905216 Mobile: +49 172 7145197 Ham Radio: DC8LZ, QTH JN37XX Schulstr. 1c 79252 Stegen Germany |
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R: Re: [BITX20] AGC performance
Giovanni Caracuta
Hi, has anyone tried this? I hav' nt yet! 73 de i7iwn
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Re: Speaker 3" round, What size speaker sounds good with your Bitx40 audio output?
you might try small ones that come on moderately sized LCD TV ?approximately 4 x 2.5inch or 3 x 1.5 etcOn Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Fred Finster via Groups.Io <wb7odyfred@...> wrote:
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Re: No uploads - support replied
Hi Ken Yes agreed, attachments should go... it can safely be assumed that the sender didn't particularly intend these to be stored for ever. BUT, deleting attachments is not easy. I asked the owner and he told me that we have to go through the messages and delete the attachments. That doesn't seem very practical. I will email him again now and ask for some tool to do that. 73 Hans G0UPL |
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Re: AGC performance
RF, any day. Look at the W7ZOI's cascode IF amplifier. It is the best in the class.? This is the baby :? It is a little elaborate, but completely worth the effort.? Go here for the PCBs :? - f On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io <econjack@...> wrote:
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Re: Getting stuck
Jack Purdum
Erik: At several places in your code you have if expressions like: ? ? if (vfo >= 10000000L & tbfo != "USB") A single ampersand is the bitwise AND operator but you probably want the logical AND operator, which is &&. My unit is in pieces so I can't test it, but see if that makes a difference. Also, it appears that a button push changes the increment by a multiple of 10. Could this switch statement block : ? ? switch (radix) ? ? { ? ? ? case 10: ? ? ? ? radix = 100; ? ? ? ? break; ? ? ? case 100: ? ? ? ? radix = 1000; ? ? ? ? break; ? ? ? case 1000: ? ? ? ? radix = 10000; ? ? ? ? break; ? ? ? case 10000: ? ? ? ? radix = 100000; ? ? ? ? break; ? ? ? case 100000: ? ? ? ? radix = 10; ? ? ? ? break; ? ? } be replaced with: ? ? radix *= 10; ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?// Multiply by 10 ? ? if (radix > 100000L) ? // Too big? ? ? ? ? radix = 10; ? ? ? ? ? ? // Wrap around to start value Also, my Fast Tune could be substituted, thus doing away with the button on pin 11. (I think I've already posted the code here.) Finally, use Ctrl-T in the Arduino IDE to reformat your code to a more common style. Sometimes that makes debugging easier. Jack, W8TEE From: Eric Torraca <eric.torraca@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 5:52 PM Subject: [BITX20] Getting stuck Good evening folks. I'm hoping someone out there can give another assist with the Arduino code. I'm getting pretty frustrated with this thing and I just can't find the part(s) of the code I'm getting wrong. I'm sure it's something basic. I just can't see it. I'm working with a non-raduino Bitx40 (#80!) and am trying to tune it with an Adafruit Si5351, rotary encoder, and a Arduino nano. I'll attach code, taken from AK2B's blog, below. The two issues I'm having are: 1) I cannot seem to put the right numbers in the code to get the rig on frequency. I've measured my Bix40 BFO at around 11.97MHz, so the Si5351 should be running around 4.97MHz on clock 0 correct? No matter where I put those numbers I cannot get in the band. I was able to receive signals today but there was nothing I could find that would give me a good fix. It's pretty much deaf to the LC VFO for the 40 DC receiver I've got in parts on the desk next to it. This is beginning to drive me up a wall. 2) while you all were kind enough to help before, and the frequency readout on the LCD does change when the encoder is turned, the actual frequency does not until the button that changes the increment is pushed (the encoder does not have an integral button). I've tried adding the display_frequency() command in a couple places (as you can probably see below) to see if the sequence made a difference, but it doesn't seem to change the behavior.? So those are the issues. Like I said, I'm sure I'm betraying my ignorance of something simple, but I've run out of ideas at this point. The code below is probably as much an illustration of that as could be. My apologies to it's original author. 73 de KB1VNA Eric |
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Re: Getting stuck
I am not able to open the code you posted. Says can't open sketch. Does this part of the Raduino code make any sense, and help at all? #define INIT_BFO_FREQ (1199800L) unsigned long baseTune = ?7100000L; unsigned long bfo_freq = 11998000L; LSB: The VFO frequency is subtracted from the BFO. Suppose the BFO is set to exactly 12 MHz ?* and the VFO is at 5 MHz. The output will be at 12.000 - 5.000 ?= 7.000 MHz |
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Re: AGC performance
Jack Purdum
Thanks to both of you. Again, I'm not an EE so I'm just trying to learn. Which is better: AGC on the audio chain or AGC on the rf chain. I think audio seems simpler, but is it better? I honestly don't know enough to judge. Jack, W8TEE From: Darryl Harvey <darryl@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [BITX20] AGC performance here it is Jack,
http://bitxhacks.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/agc-for-bitx.html
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On 2017-02-27 02:55 PM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io wrote:
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Re: AGC performance
here it is Jack, http://bitxhacks.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/agc-for-bitx.html ? ? On 2017-02-27 02:55 PM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io wrote:
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Re: AGC performance
The original is here? Search for the Gian's updated circuit in the messages. - f On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io <econjack@...> wrote:
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Re: AGC performance
Jack Purdum
I've missed Ashhar's circuit. Where is it? Jack, W8TEE From: "pierre@..." <pierre@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [BITX20] AGC performance Dear All, I may have missed this information in the flow of Bitx posts: Has anyone compared the performance of Asshar's AGC circuit against that of Peter's (VK3YE) AGC circuit using the LED + LDR. If so, how did they compare ?? Best regards, Peter VK1XP On 27-02-2017 10:05, Allard PE1NWL wrote: > I followed KV4QB?s advice and put a 10uF between 1 and 8 on the LM386. > It got the audio up again. The AGC is somewhat working, but strong > signals are still quite loud. > Any ideas how this could be improved? > I also noticed there is now an extra 10K resistor (in series with the > diode) in the updated schematic, it?s not present in Asshar?s original > design. > Why has this been added? > > 73, Allard PE1NWL > > |
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Re: No uploads - support replied
There's 553 MBytes of photos. ? Photos take up the most of the space. ?All but the last month of that is up on Yahoo. ?I suggest all photos get archived in case Yahoo disappears, then remove everything older than a year. ?And we maybe show a bit of restraint going forward. > ?It might also be worthwhile to consider combining "photos" and "files" into one section.A photo is just a file, a document like any other form. I'm not sure there's a reason to distinguish between JPG documents and PDF, DOC, XLS, or any other type. True enough. ?Except that PDF's, DOC's, and XLS are almost always much more informative. |
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