Re: Loss of CW Side tone When load N8ME Firmware.uBITX V6
Chuck,
What happens when you select the straight key in the configuration, select CW,? and use the mic PTT to key CW?
73
Evan
AC9TU
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
I am not really worried because the buck converter is about 5€ and one irf24 from Infineon is about 0.5€ If I buy from a standard distributor in Germany, so postage for Ashar is probably more expensive than that.? Vy73 de Rolf, DL8BAG currently away from my sBitx #66
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Am 07.09.2022 um 18:20 schrieb Stephen KO4CVU <goinfishin1952@...>:
?I am worried too, I have sBITX s/n #0052 but haven't received an upgrade kit for it yet.
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Stephen, KO4CVU
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JIm, I agree with your points and also agree with Gordons, too.
I would suggest if you can buy them for $5 from china, thats pretty cheap on the price.
And if you can bundle them into a nice price, you could buy a boatload and resell them to other hams and make some nice money. Im a tight budgeted ham who would probably either dig into my junk box . I try not to buy every? new board that comes out on the market unless its revolutional to my setup.HI HI.I can only afford so much on my fixed income. Just depends on which path we each travel down.
Also, if Gordon is releasing the gerbers and such for free, WOW. Any tech stuff thats free is great.
Anyway see you both on the bands.
By the way, My wife says IM THE ORIGINAL GRUMPY MAN .hi hi
73 David ac9xh
On Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 02:14:15 PM EDT, Gordon Gibby <docvacuumtubes@...> wrote:
Dear self-described grumpy old man!
What a hoot! ?I think you missed a few details?
I don¡¯t make these boards at all.?
I don¡¯t sell them either - so maybe that¡¯s why I don¡¯t advertise a price???
If you want these boards you¡¯ll have to go to pcbway.com and order them from them! ?(I¡¯m not crazy enough to get into the business of selling boards, I retired from being a physician and now I teach AP courses for chicken feed, for the joy of helping youngsters¡ª it¡¯s great fun. A lot of work too!! I have to create two exams by tomorrow
I¡¯m pretty sure that pcbway.com has a really attractive price for five or 10 boards and that may be what you found, but I really don¡¯t know because it¡¯s been a good time since I ordered from them. ?I bet you can find the Gerbers because I probably made those available for free also, and thus you could have these boards made in the United States for 10 times that price. ?Or you could photo resist and make them yourself. ? Or it¡¯s a simple enough project that you could just make it on any kind of perfboard
But I¡¯m sorry that you were upset that I made the Gerbers and the project available for free,.... and that you might need to join with a few other folks to take advantage of volume pricing from commercial vendors. ? ? ?
I think we ordered maybe 30 boards and have probably built 2/3 of them already to protect a slew of expensive gear here in the United States, probably well exceeding $125,000. ? Most of it not even ours! We did it to protect the gear of our county.
what a hoot! I hope you have a great day, A little humor at our own selves in our own foibles goes a long way
Gordon?
On Sep 7, 2022, at 14:02, Jim Strohm <jim.strohm@...> wrote:
?Gordon,
I clicked through all the stuff to see about getting a PCB for the reverse voltage protection device.
After a few pages, I was disappointed to see an asking price of USD$28 and change. ?Really???
A couple of points. ?First, anybody offering anything for sale online NEEDS to show the price on the first landing page. ?It's an unfortunate and objectionable trend for sellers not to do that, and personally I think it stinks, especially when I could get this PCB made in China for $5 each or less in small quantities -- like, USD$28 would pay for at least half a dozen, delivered.
Next, if something is going to cost an arm and a leg, you really ought to say so up front. ?Not all of us are millionaires these days.
This little board is an ingenious product, but if it costs nearly as much as the expensive equipment it's supposed to protect, what's the point of anybody buying it? ?We can just blow up our good stuff and replace it, if the protection circuitry costs more than what's being protected.
File me as "Grumpy Old Man". ?Thank you.
Jim N6OTQ
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Re: Best wishes to our friends in India
I know this is a year late, but i would continue to build it,stockpile it and either take it over to india,and other countries that would appreciate the medical equipment to save lives
73
David
ac9xh
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Re: Loss of CW Side tone When load N8ME Firmware.uBITX V6
Evan I have Two ubitxs and I loaded one with N8ME and one with N8ME with VU3GAO mods and I am getting the same. No side Tone for CW. I sure the CW is Selected I sent used key and my watt /swr meter is show signal out.
73 Chuck
K3CWE
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Hi? Evan,? just compiled and uploaded? the vu3gao mods? firmware, and i? get the same result.. seems to be working ok?
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
I am worried too, I have sBITX s/n #0052 but haven't received an upgrade kit for it yet.
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Stephen, KO4CVU
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Dear self-described grumpy old man!
What a hoot! ?I think you missed a few details?
I don¡¯t make these boards at all.?
I don¡¯t sell them either - so maybe that¡¯s why I don¡¯t advertise a price???
If you want these boards you¡¯ll have to go to pcbway.com and order them from them! ?(I¡¯m not crazy enough to get into the business of selling boards, I retired from being a physician and now I teach AP courses for chicken feed, for the joy of helping youngsters¡ª it¡¯s great fun. A lot of work too!! I have to create two exams by tomorrow
I¡¯m pretty sure that pcbway.com has a really attractive price for five or 10 boards and that may be what you found, but I really don¡¯t know because it¡¯s been a good time since I ordered from them. ?I bet you can find the Gerbers because I probably made those available for free also, and thus you could have these boards made in the United States for 10 times that price. ?Or you could photo resist and make them yourself. ? Or it¡¯s a simple enough project that you could just make it on any kind of perfboard
But I¡¯m sorry that you were upset that I made the Gerbers and the project available for free,.... and that you might need to join with a few other folks to take advantage of volume pricing from commercial vendors. ? ? ?
I think we ordered maybe 30 boards and have probably built 2/3 of them already to protect a slew of expensive gear here in the United States, probably well exceeding $125,000. ? Most of it not even ours! We did it to protect the gear of our county.
what a hoot! I hope you have a great day, A little humor at our own selves in our own foibles goes a long way
Gordon?
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On Sep 7, 2022, at 14:02, Jim Strohm <jim.strohm@...> wrote:
?Gordon,
I clicked through all the stuff to see about getting a PCB for the reverse voltage protection device.
After a few pages, I was disappointed to see an asking price of USD$28 and change. ?Really???
A couple of points. ?First, anybody offering anything for sale online NEEDS to show the price on the first landing page. ?It's an unfortunate and objectionable trend for sellers not to do that, and personally I think it stinks, especially when I could get this PCB made in China for $5 each or less in small quantities -- like, USD$28 would pay for at least half a dozen, delivered.
Next, if something is going to cost an arm and a leg, you really ought to say so up front. ?Not all of us are millionaires these days.
This little board is an ingenious product, but if it costs nearly as much as the expensive equipment it's supposed to protect, what's the point of anybody buying it? ?We can just blow up our good stuff and replace it, if the protection circuitry costs more than what's being protected.
File me as "Grumpy Old Man". ?Thank you.
Jim N6OTQ
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Gordon,
I clicked through all the stuff to see about getting a PCB for the reverse voltage protection device.
After a few pages, I was disappointed to see an asking price of USD$28 and change. ?Really???
A couple of points. ?First, anybody offering anything for sale online NEEDS to show the price on the first landing page. ?It's an unfortunate and objectionable trend for sellers not to do that, and personally I think it stinks, especially when I could get this PCB made in China for $5 each or less in small quantities -- like, USD$28 would pay for at least half a dozen, delivered.
Next, if something is going to cost an arm and a leg, you really ought to say so up front. ?Not all of us are millionaires these days.
This little board is an ingenious product, but if it costs nearly as much as the expensive equipment it's supposed to protect, what's the point of anybody buying it? ?We can just blow up our good stuff and replace it, if the protection circuitry costs more than what's being protected.
File me as "Grumpy Old Man". ?Thank you.
Jim N6OTQ
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THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS UP,? THANKS EVAN
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
It is concerning. If they really were shipped out by USPS last week, some people should be getting them by now, and others would have gotten the upcoming delivery notice if they're signed up for Informed Delivery.
My concern with the upgrade package is that I show no inbound packages in my USPS account at this point, and haven't received anything yet.
--Neil, W2NDG
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Re: Farhan's Analog Again The Daylight Radio
Still looking for the files for the toroids if they're available.? If not, I'll take a shot at making them myself. 73, Dean
KK4DAS
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TKS Howard, have just loaded N8ME firmware ver 0.1..
Have? boot screen which shows 3 lines of data,
1 = band - splt - 200 - finp - rf att
2 = usb? ?- rit? ? - tune - cfg - cw spd
3 = m1 - m2 - m3 - m4 - m5 (am using m1 to save 9996khz RMW )? Moscow frequency reference
top left side of screen =? primary vfo? ? ? ? top right screen = dimmed vfo b.
dont see? anything re the memories? ??
cfg brings up? a selection of hardware/software adjustments no calibration data seen ??
anyone with similar screen ??
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
My concern with the upgrade package is that I show no inbound packages in my USPS account at this point, and haven't received anything yet.
--Neil, W2NDG
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Re: Loss of CW Side tone When load N8ME Firmware.uBITX V6
Hi Chuck,
Two things come up to me as to loss in sidetone:
1 - The N8ME configuration
2 - The Nano has a hardware issue
To address problem 1, verify that CW is selected on the main page and that the Side Tone is set in the configuration menu.
Problem 2 could occur if you swapped Nanos in changing the two software programs.
NOTE: I am running the N8ME software with the VU3GAO mods available in the files section.
73
Evan
AC9TU
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Loss of CW Side tone When load N8ME Firmware.uBITX V6
Just replaced the Arduino Board and Main Radio Board.
Figured I look in to the Firmware of N8ME try something different interface.
I been doing CW so this was suppose to make the uBITX more CW worthy.
But I lost my CW side tone. going from standard Firmware to N8me Firmware.
Any ideas of what may have happened. I reloaded the original Firmware CW side tone is back.
Chuck K3CWE
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
Pulled out the finals and only Q18 was bad, Q19 survived. Probably replace both just to be safe though.
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
This is good timing, I just let the magic smoke out of #077 (accidental high swr I believe)
Burnt the large traces near C11 and C85, I'm assuming I can replace Q18 and Q19 and resolder those traces. Oddly my RPI never went off so I'm assuming (I'll verify) my U2 buck converter didn't fail.?
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Re: #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way
#sBitx
The shipment? delay was to refit the existing orders with the switching regulators. So, yes. The new orders also have the spare IRFZ24Ns anyway. - f
Will all new orders include those parts too? ('cause I almost have enough penny's saved to make an order)
-------- Original message -------- Date: 9/6/22 9:00 PM (GMT-06:00) Subject: Re: [BITX20] #sbitx - an ugprade kit is on the way #sBitx
It is not really an upgrade kit. It is more a replacment kit. It has a switching regulator as a replacement for the LM338 that heats up a lot. It also has spare IRFZ24Ns just in case.
Whats in the upgrade kit?
On 9/6/2022 7:46 PM, Gerald Sherman
wrote:
I haven't seen mine in Winnipeg as of today (Sept. 6) for
serial #64
Gerry Sherman
Sent by the Thunderbird
On 2022-09-03 01:27, Ashhar Farhan
wrote:
The packs were posted about 5 days ago via USPS
from? New York.
Haven¡¯t
seen it yet here in 3 land.
On Sep 2, 2022, at 15:41, Shirley Dulcey KE1L
< mark@...>
wrote:
Have people received the sBitx
regulator update yet? No sign of it here.
On Sun, Aug 28,
2022 at 11:44 PM John Terrell, N6LN < N6LN@...>
wrote:
I received my
package today and everything is up and running
beautifully! Thanks Ashhar. I look forward to
enjoying the development of this unique product.
Jack
N6LN
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Rolf Schroeder
Shirley Dulcey KE1L
Neil Goldstein