Right, taken another look at the board and the good news is that I didn't reverse the polarity! There are no obvious solder bridges or damaged tracks etc either which is good, however I did notice that one of the inductors (L3) was bent over and resting against the relay side of C130A1 (photo hopefully attached). I assume that this isn't good but my expertise doesn't stretch to knowing exactly how bad it is. Probably also worth mentioning that there was no antenna/dummy load attached so maybe the L3/C130A1 short put the board into transmit but there was no load?

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On 11 Jun 2017, at 8:24 am, William R Maxwell <wrmaxwell@...> wrote:

Hi Jack

I think a little more clarification on the international order cost would be helpful.

"4 boards go for the price of 1"

That suggests that 2 or 3 boards? could also go for the price of 1. If that is so, what would be the total price be for 2 boards ..... $15.00 for first +$7.50 for the second, $22.50 in total? $30.00 total for 3, $37.50 for 4?

By the way, my earlier offer to act as a VK/ZL group distributor, at cost, stands although I fully understand if you prefer to use the direct mail approach you have outlined..

Bill, VK7MX

On 11/06/2017 3:32 AM, Jack Purdum via Groups.Io wrote:

All:

Attached is an updated assembly manual for the TFT/VFO PCB I talked about at FDIM. Read the manual completely before building the board. I am also attaching the code for the TFT display and the VFO. There are two code files and there are directions for setting up those files for the Arduino IDE in the manual. Hopefully, the code is fairly easy to read. Some things I'm happy about; others I'm not. First, even without calibrating the AD9850, the frequency error is only 0.0000087% at 7MHz. After calibration (as explained in the manual), I cannot measure the error...if there is one. It looks dead-nuts on to me. Second, the keyer is simple, but works. I haven't told how to add the CW message switches yet, but most of you know how to do that. (I will be adding it to the manual, but wanted to get this out there ASAP.) Also, you can add paddles from your keyer and use the rig as a code practice oscillator right now. Dennis is finishing up the CW (and other) mods so I will have to change the code what that gets finished. And that's what I'm not happy about: The AGC, S meter, speech compressor, and CW mode is not implemented yet. You'll have that as soon as we get it done.

Note, the code is NOT a replacement for the work done by Allard. My PCB uses the Arduino MEGA 2560 Pro Mini and the Ad9850 (Type II) board which is vastly different that the Raduino board shipped with the standard BITX40.

I have more PCB's now and can begin shipping those. If you wanted multiple boards, but only got one before, please reorder. On foreign orders, I tried sending two orders as First Class mail in an envelop to get the costs down. One came back; hopefully the other one made it through. But, I'm not going to take the chance. All boards will go Parcel Post from now on. If you are in a foreign country, 4 boards go for the price of 1, so combine orders if you have a friend who wants one. Sorry guys, but foreign orders are $15, period. The additional postage averages about $11 and I have to fill out the export forms, which is a pain in the butt. Trust me, I'm not getting rich on you guys. US orders are still $7.50. Please note:

1. My paypal account is: ? econjack@... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(please don't use any other account)
2. When you pay, there is a place where you can add a note: please write your shipping address in that note.

If you find bugs in the software, let me know as soon as possible and I'll try to correct them as fast as I can.

Jack, W8TEE

All:

Attached is an updated assembly manual for the TFT/VFO PCB I talked about at FDIM. Read the manual completely before building the board. I am also attaching the code for the TFT display and the VFO. There are two code files and there are directions for setting up those files for the Arduino IDE in the manual. Hopefully, the code is fairly easy to read. Some things I'm happy about; others I'm not. First, even without calibrating the AD9850, the frequency error is only 0.0000087% at 7MHz. After calibration (as explained in the manual), I cannot measure the error...if there is one. It looks dead-nuts on to me. Second, the keyer is simple, but works. I haven't told how to add the CW message switches yet, but most of you know how to do that. (I will be adding it to the manual, but wanted to get this out there ASAP.) Also, you can add paddles from your keyer and use the rig as a code practice oscillator right now. Dennis is finishing up the CW (and other) mods so I will have to change the code what that gets finished. And that's what I'm not happy about: The AGC, S meter, speech compressor, and CW mode is not implemented yet. You'll have that as soon as we get it done.

Note, the code is NOT a replacement for the work done by Allard. My PCB uses the Arduino MEGA 2560 Pro Mini and the Ad9850 (Type II) board which is vastly different that the Raduino board shipped with the standard BITX40.

I have more PCB's now and can begin shipping those. If you wanted multiple boards, but only got one before, please reorder. On foreign orders, I tried sending two orders as First Class mail in an envelop to get the costs down. One came back; hopefully the other one made it through. But, I'm not going to take the chance. All boards will go Parcel Post from now on. If you are in a foreign country, 4 boards go for the price of 1, so combine orders if you have a friend who wants one. Sorry guys, but foreign orders are $15, period. The additional postage averages about $11 and I have to fill out the export forms, which is a pain in the butt. Trust me, I'm not getting rich on you guys. US orders are still $7.50. Please note:

1. My paypal account is: ? econjack@... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(please don't use any other account)
2. When you pay, there is a place where you can add a note: please write your shipping address in that note.

If you find bugs in the software, let me know as soon as possible and I'll try to correct them as fast as I can.

Jack, W8TEE

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 12:18 pm, OZ9AEW wrote:

let us start with V1.14 there is a lot of functions in it I do not need and to my big surprise it produce more noise, tuning clicks and a stronger birdie then the old V1.01.

Hmm, surprising.
The sketch provides more functions, but if they are not being used they can't generate extra noise or birdies.
Did you use v1.14 or v1.14.1? There was indeed a small bug in 1.14 which caused some ticking noise, and it was corrected in 1.14.1.
And have you tried different VFO drive levels to minimize the birdie?

Another thought: Perhaps the noise comes from the hardware modifications related to the sketch. Perhaps some extra noise is picked up by the wires to/from the function button, PTTsense, CW carriers ,etc?

73 Allard PE1NWL

The processing power needed for controlling the display, Si5351, encoder, AGC, CAT, etc. is minimal and that part of the code is pretty simple anyhow. ?Things get interesting when you move into audio processing, support for RTTY/PSK31, and CW decode. ?The extra juice from the Cortex M4 is helpful. ?The thing that got me going on the Teensy 3.5 upgrade was JT65 decode, which involves some more complicated algorithms and can benefit from the faster clock and the added memory. ?I've not got that working yet, but I think it will work eventually ...