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Re: Let out the magic smoke...
Maybe the fuse, its holder, dc cable maybe? I would check first the DC, than the rest. Il 27/ago/2018 02:08, "Gwen Patton" <ardrhi@...> ha scritto: I was tuning up on 160m, and the poor thing went dead. Won't power back up, either. Looks like I need to tear it down and find what mischief I did. |
Re: uBITX on CW
Dave Dixon
I am 100% cw and have been using my version 3 ubitx and use G3cwi outboard dual band filter with good effect,Ihave added a 5k1 resistor on the keying line and now the cw keying works as it should do I am also using KD8 CEC 1.09 firmware. I have not carried out any further mods on my radio and had 40 contacts around europe.. Ihave 2 more ubitx radios one fitted with colour screen a 2.4 and the other is a version 3 with a blue screen all work brilliantly..Dave G0AYD. |
Re: Let out the magic smoke...
The amplifier as is does not tolerate high SWR at power well.
With high power and high SWR the Mosfets get drain to gate punch through. Easy way to lower power, turn the power supply down as it will work at 10V maybe lower.? Don't operate that way as the rest of the radio may be unhappy. The heat sinks are actually adequate if are can circulate freely. Problem is often its a closed box and in that case heat rise can be remarkable as it has no ware to go save to warm the closed oven.? Vents and tiny fan can really help. Allison |
Re: Let out the magic smoke...
That's a good suggestion, Adrian. I DO have a fuse in it. But perhaps not where you believe I should have one. I have one in the main power line. Where else do I need one? I fully expect the finals are now a crisp, tasty waffle from what you've just said. But that's ok, this is an experimenter's radio. I did an experiment and it poofed in my face, exactly what some experiments DO. But I also want to know what poofed, and why...and it'd be silly not to ask for advice from those who have had things go poof before.
Sorry I don't have much additional evidence to go by yet, but it had JUST happened. The heat sinks were a tad warm, and I smelled that nasty slightly fishy odor from a chip that has let out its magic smoke, so I expect the FETs are toast. Come to think of it, though...the fuse. I think I'll check the fuse before I check the finals. Thank you for suggesting a fuse, because I DO have one, and hopefully that's all that went poof. I don't know why it didn't occur to me at the time. 73, Gwen NG3P |
TFT-Touch-VFO-BFOfor-uBitxv3.1U
Hi
Thanks for adding me to the group. I'm new to the group and the Arduino. My friend has a Ubitx? and has asked me to look into upgrading the display. He has bought a MCUfriend (4532 label) on the back and ordered a Arduino Mega and Si5351 breakout board. . We have downloaded TFT-Touch-VFO-BFOfor-uBitxv3.1U software manuals? etc.? I found the attached diagram for the? pin defines for encoder, step , band etc going to the? Mega? but? I was wondering about the Keyer , PTT etc. I looked in? userdefs.h and could see the duplication for the touch screen but couldn't see PTT , Keyer etc.? Thanks in advance? Alan |
Re: Harmonics measured by Warren. How bad?
Interesting...I researched the Industry Canada documents this morning, and could not find any actual numbers for harmonics and spurious as applied to amateur radio. BASIC license holders are not allowed to home brew, except from a kit, and all I could find was 'must not cause harmful interference'. So I wonder were that leaves us Advanced guys with respect to home brew stuff? Any other VE hams want to weigh in?
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Re: kd8cec sketch
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I compiled and installed the software on my Linux computer. I just followed the directions and corrected a couple of typos along the way. 73, Bill KU8H On 08/27/2018 10:39 AM, Dennis Yancey wrote:
It works fine in Linux for me. --
bark less - wag more |
Re: Keyer
What is the issue you're having? I'm guessing it's not working. From your description it seems like you have it wired up in the right way.
First, I would verify the paddle is mechanically functioning by verifying connectivity through the jack, i.e. one side of the paddle connects the "dit" terminal on the jack to ground and vice versa for "dah". Once that is verified, I would make sure that the ground pin of the jack is connected to the raduino ground. I had a similar problem. If you don't ground the jack the bottom of the voltage divider used to determine whether the paddle has been keyed is floating. If this is the case (enclosure pun intended), when you key either side of the paddle nothing will happen. Reversing the resistors will only swap dit for dah. |
Keyer
Bill Robbins
I have Sunil's case with the front panel board.? The 4.7K resister is included on that? board.? I fashioned a plug/cable with the other two resistors as part of it.
I have the KD8CEC software installed on the uBitx v4.? I'm fairly certain of the wiring, but also reversed the leads on the key just to be sure.?? Also, I have been in the software and changed the setting from straight key to to paddle. What am I missing??? Bill WA8CDU |
Re: End Fed antennas w/ uBITX
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Jim,?
think about feeding it with ladder line into the balanced wire input to your tuner. Read ARRL antenna book chapt 7, pgs 1-3...? -- 72 and God bless KD4EPG |
Re: End Fed antennas w/ uBITX
#ubitx
Those that missed out on the previous posts of this epic thread
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might look over this one:? ??/g/BITX20/message/55641 My conclusion (opinions vary): With careful design and perhaps a little blind luck, it is possible to build an untuned impedance transformer for an EFHW?that works well from 3.5mhz to 30mhz. With even more luck, this won't kick off another 340 posts here. If you want to argue about it, perhaps a brief response here with a pointer into another group that was created to deal with this thread:? ??/g/antennas? Specifically, to topic??/g/antennas/topic/end_fed_wires/24160941 Jerry, KE7ER On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 06:55 PM, Chuck, N1KGY wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:24 AM, iz oos wrote: |
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