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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.

Finals? Or power supply? Suggestions from the symptoms?

73,
NG3P


Re: Harmonics measured by Warren. How bad?

 

hi

what¡¯s all this about -43 db. my licence does not mention any db but simply that it should be as good as the state of amateur development permits. no mention of a spectrum analyser.

copy of the relevant part of my licence attached


Re: End Fed antennas w/ uBITX #ubitx

Guy N7BIR
 

Why are we still having discussions on End Fed Antennas? Thought that was why the Antenna email list was started.?
Cheers,

Guy WB7SZI?


Re: Harmonics measured by Warren. How bad?

 

Never mind.....I see Allison already answered this. Too many threads............

73 Kees K5BCQ?


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: Harmonics measured by Warren. How bad?

 

Has anyone tried reducing the Tx only drive levels at the 45MHz and 12MHz filters by using the "PIN diode effect" of a 1N4007 at the locations of the 10 ohm resistors, R23 and R43 ? .... to reduce the spurs.

73 Kees K5BCQ


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?


Re: kd8cec sketch

 

Hi,

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.

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72 and God bless
KD4EPG
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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 #ubitx

 

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...?
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KD4EPG


Re: End Fed antennas w/ uBITX #ubitx

 

Those that missed out on the previous posts of this epic thread
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:
I would use ferrites with permeability close to 800, not the powdered iron toroids like the red and the yellow you have selected (permeability is less than 10).
For a parallel-resonant transformer, we don't want an excessively high permeability; what we want is the core material which will provide the highest Q at the frequency(ies) of interest.? The high-side winding impedance should present a reactance which is near the geometric mean (gm) between the 50 Ohm input and the? Antenna's feed impedance at its end (1500~4500 Ohms).? A 49:1 impedance transformation (7:1 turns ratio) presents a nominal impedance at the antenna terminals of 2450 Ohms as has been previously stated, and for this case the gm is ~350 ohms.? The reactance of the coil in the parallel circuit should be equal to the gm on the lower/lowest band of intended use -

I.E. a T80-2 (red) toroid with 36 turns #24 = 7.13uH.? The reactance at 7.0Mhz is ~315 ohms... close enough for our purpose.? On 40 meters a capacitance of between 65pF and 75pF will resonate the matching unit across the band, assuming the antenna wire is resonant (presents zero reactance) at ~7.100Mhz.
On 30 Meters, the same coil will present an inductive reactance of ~450 ohms, and require 32~38pF of capacitance to resonate the system, assuming the wire is resonant (again, zero reactance point) within the 10,100 ~ 10,150Mhz band.
So, a single -Resonant- EFHW tuner can be used (with separate, resonant antenna wires) on two adjacent amateur bands, I.E. 40 & 30 Meters.

On 20 Meters, the reactance of the coil is on the order of 630 ohms and required capacitance on the order of 18pF, and both of these figures present difficulties in actual implementation.? In the first issue, a gm of 630 Ohms suggests an antenna impedance of well over 6000 Ohms, which is un-achievable in nearly all terrestrial environments; the second issue is that the 18pF figure is inclusive of stray capacitance, which may be 10pF (or more) depending on materials and physical construction...? this will make tuning on 20M very sharp, and offer only a very limited tuning range because the minimum capacitance of the variable capacitor may well be equal to the capacitance necessary to resonate the antenna system.

Having two separate [switched] coils makes it possible to cover 4 or 5 bands with a single matching unit - 40/30 Meters on Coil #1, and 20/17/15 Meters on Coil #2.? Two wires will? cover four bands: A) 40/20 Meters, and B) 30/15 Meters...? a third wire is required for 17 Meters, if desired.

The gm for 40 & 30 Meters is 8.33Mhz, so the T80-2 coil should have a reactance of 350 ohms at this frequency; which is 35 turns on a T80-2 toroid.? The total capacitance necessary to resonate the system at 7.0Mhz will be in the range of 70~80pF, and at 10.12Mhz will require 30~40pF to resonate the system, minus whatever stray capacitance is present.

The gm for 20~15 Meters is ~17.52Mhz, so the T80-6 coil should have a reactance of 350 ohms at this frequency; which is 27 turns on a T80-6 toroid.? The total capacitance necessary to resonate the system at 14.0Mhz will be in the range of 36~44pF, at 18.13Mhz in the range of 20~28pF, and 15~20pF at 21Mhz, minus whatever stray capacitance is present.? The 15pF figure at 21Mhz is very low, indicating that tuning on 15 Meters will be rather sharp, that tuning range may be limited, and that efficiency will be a bit lower on 15 Meters (depending on both stray capacitance and stray inductance in the actual construction).


Re: Encoder Behavior

 

I had exactly the same issue on a raduino signal generator project...using a cheap encoder with detents.


Re: kd8cec sketch

 

It works fine in Linux for me.

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72 and God bless
KD4EPG


Re: Encoder Behavior

 

The stock encoder doesn¡¯t have detents. Try one without the detents.?
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72 and God bless
KD4EPG


Re: Harmonics measured by Warren. How bad?

 

Thanks Gordon
Exactly what I was looking for, and validates my circuit and calculations.


Re: Raduino Pill

 

Made some progress on this. The board is now alive. The LCD and encoder sections are functioning. Testing the Si5351 is next, then see if I can convert uBitX20 firmware to run on it.



Joe