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Re: Bitx40 Specifications?

Gordon Gibby
 

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Quick answer: Michael, you can set that frequency range anyway you want. ?It¡¯s been along time since mine was stock, but I think it easily did the 40 m band.

I quickly took information from others and created my own little sketch that allows me to do 80 m as well, made a few hardware changes for that and bought an output low pass filter. ?

Turn it on¡ª-learning starts!

Gordon

On Aug 20, 2018, at 19:56, Michael Monteith via Groups.Io <michael_r_monteith@...> wrote:

?I built my Bit40,? but was looking to find some specifications.? Is there a good list of specifications???? The HF Sigs site has some for the uBitx but missing on the Bitx40.?? For instance what should be the frequency range, bottom to top end???? I wanted to know if it goes to the right limits on both end.? Just some verification before I do any mods.

Thanks
73, KM4OLT
Michael


Bitx40 Specifications?

 

?I built my Bit40,? but was looking to find some specifications.? Is there a good list of specifications???? The HF Sigs site has some for the uBitx but missing on the Bitx40.?? For instance what should be the frequency range, bottom to top end???? I wanted to know if it goes to the right limits on both end.? Just some verification before I do any mods.

Thanks
73, KM4OLT
Michael


Re: 80 meter bandpass filter

 

Hi,

If I recall correctly the forty meter filter also passes 30 meters, and the 20 meter filter includes 17 meters. The materials are starting to arrive for my external filters and I intend to build one for each band and not include two bands per filter.

73,

Bill KU8H

On 08/20/2018 06:11 PM, jim via Groups.Io wrote:


On Monday, August 20, 2018, 3:03:15 PM PDT, Jerry Gaffke via Groups.Io
<jgaffke@...> wrote:


Yes, corner is set a high so it can be used on 60m too.


On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 02:45 PM, Jim Tibbits wrote:

Aha!!!! photo of "80 meter" bandpass filter on my ubitx ...L20, L21,
L22 as swept ..corner frequency is closer to 6 mhz than 4

--
bark less - wag more


Re: 80 meter bandpass filter

jim
 



On Monday, August 20, 2018, 3:03:15 PM PDT, Jerry Gaffke via Groups.Io <jgaffke@...> wrote:


Yes, corner is set a high so it can be used on 60m too.


On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 02:45 PM, Jim Tibbits wrote:
Aha!!!! photo of "80 meter" bandpass filter on my ubitx ...L20, L21, L22 as swept? ..corner frequency is closer to 6 mhz than 4
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Meh on 60?? ..I'm moving it

JIm


40 meter lowpass

 

sweep of L17, L18, L19?


Re: 80 meter bandpass filter

 

Yes, corner is set a high so it can be used on 60m too.


On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 02:45 PM, Jim Tibbits wrote:
Aha!!!! photo of "80 meter" bandpass filter on my ubitx ...L20, L21, L22 as swept? ..corner frequency is closer to 6 mhz than 4


80 meter bandpass filter

 

Aha!!!! photo of "80 meter" bandpass filter on my ubitx ...L20, L21, L22 as swept? ..corner frequency is closer to 6 mhz than 4

Jim


Ubitx los noise #ubitx-help

Miguel Villamor
 

Hi, I try to explain that happend to my uBitx, in 40 m dont have trouble , the signal its strong, but when advance in superior bands 20, 15, 10, the noise its very low, I supose was the antenna, but prove with ft-817 and have a strong signal in this bands, I try the BFO settings, gain some signal streng in 20 m no more, any ideas??, Sorry for my English, 73 from Chile.


Re: BITX QSO Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, August 19, 3PM & 7PM Local Time, 7277 kHz in North America, 7177 kHz elsewhere.

 

Punctuation, lad! For lack of a comma, it reads as JW4JM. Still, a neat call. My previous, a selection from those available, was ZL3LH (different region, and vanity calls not implemented in regulations), 'Left Hand' to balance me (dexter being Latin for the right side/hand/arm: skill and sword-arm strength). Present call is a 'vanity', and quite pleasantly fluid to the 'fist'...
73 de ZL2DEX


Re: Intermodulation Performance

Warren Allgyer
 

Allison

I may have needed to define my terms better. It was not -30 dBc but -24 dB referenced to one of the two tones used for testing. That is a figure of merit that I normally use to set drive levels and I consider it the maximum acceptable although, as you point out, there is no spec for most modern equipment and no FCC level other than "must not cause interference outside the signal bandwidth". Modern equipment like the Icom 7300 uses a general specification of -50 dBc for all unwanted emissions and this presumably includes IMD products outside the filter bandpass.

Maybe another way of looking at it: Testing on 80 meters, through a very sharp bandpass filter that limits harmonics and spurs to -60 dBc or better, I set the Drive level to produce +37 dBm on CW. I then put a single tone at -43 dBV into the audio input to get +30 dBm output on SSB. I then increased the tone input in 1 dB increments until I achieved 1 dB of compression. That happened at an audio level of -34 dBV, 9 dB higher than the level to make one watt, and the RF output with that input was +38 dBm. An increase of 9 dB of audio produced an increase of 8 dB in RF output; 1 dB of compression.

I then added a second tone at the same level and measured the difference between one of the tones and the first adjacent product: -15 dB. Opposite sideband products were less than 30 dB down from the primary tone level.

Operation of my radio at the 1 dB compression point results in unacceptable (to me) IMD as well as unacceptable (to everyone) splatter in the opposite sideband and outside the filter sideband on the desired sideband. I could not achieve my desire for -24 dB for the first IMD product with any more than -41 dBV of audio drive which produced an RF output of 1.6 watts.

WA8TOD


Re: How to use cheap Chinese Arduinos that come with with CH340G / CH341G Serial/USB chip (Windows & Mac OS-X) ¡¤ by Konstantin Gredeskoul (@kig)

 

Though there is no problem using any Arduino board as a programmer (with proper external wiring), I highly recommend using one of the cheap USB-ISP with the 6-pin connectors
(see photo below).
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I got mine through ebay and used it on a variety of AVR boards, without a glitch.I am using the programmer in conjunction with a 6-wire flat cable and header connectors that match the 2x3 ICSP connector available on the "nano", as well as most other models of Arduino boards. When using the Arduino studio, specify the programmer type (not he target platform type) as "USBtinyISP".?

?Here is a link to the product that I used (though it is available from many sources for under $4, including S&H):

BTW--while experimenting with software changes to my uBitx V4 rig I discovered that the "nano" module, included with my kit did not have the boot loader burnt-in. I will not be surprised if this is the common case. Therefor, it is safe to assume that anyone intent on tweaking the "factory" version of the software, will have to add the boot loader to the Raduino in order to utilize the Arduino Studio for updating the firmware.

73's
--Ron? ?N7FTZ

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:19 PM ajparent1/KB1GMX <kb1gmx@...> wrote:
There is a design out there to use any Arduino as ICSP ( I have one I made up)
and that can be used to load a boot loader or entire program as desired.

Also I have a commercial in circuit programmer "Arduino ISP" which I believe
is just a USB to serial adapter.

I tossed in the Atmel Atmega in system programming AVR910 ap note.


Allison


Re: Audio feedback during transmit? #ubitx

Ian Reeve
 

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The cap you fitted is acting as a top cut tone control so you will loose some top end clarity.you could try different values as there will be a trade off between feedback from transmission being killed and audio loosing it's top.For Ssb you only need audio between 300 hz and 3000hz.Probably the supplied speaker is not the best and you may find replacing that brings back some of the lost crispness.For me using screened wire for audio and twisting the wire harnesses has given me no issues.I put a small ferrite core on the leads to the led and screened the speaker wiring.? Ian M0IDR

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Daniel Conklin <danconklin2@...>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 9:44:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Audio feedback during transmit? #ubitx
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I wasn't having that problem until I installed the AGC board.? Then, when it happened, I soldered a 10nF ceramic capacitor across the audio pot from high side to ground.? The feedback went away, but I noticed the audio has less high response.
Dan, W2DLC


Re: How to use cheap Chinese Arduinos that come with with CH340G / CH341G Serial/USB chip (Windows & Mac OS-X) ¡¤ by Konstantin Gredeskoul (@kig)

 

HI,

Here is a picture of my Nano a Nano ISP programming setup. I used the ISP headers with the pins connected one to one, except for the orange wire connected to pin 10 on the Nano programmed as an ISP to reset on the Nano being programmed.

The ISP header pins are connected internally to pins 11, 12, and 13. Because the Nano on my uBITX does not have the ISP header installed, I described the actual pins used rather than the ISP header pins. The brown wire from reset on the ISP programmer Nano to +5V is the (use with caution) direct short disable reset fix.

Be advised on some boards (Uno vs Nano) pin 1 of the ISP header is rotated by 180 degrees. So double check if you use the ISP headers.?



Tom, wb6b


Re: Audio feedback during transmit? #ubitx

Daniel Conklin
 

I wasn't having that problem until I installed the AGC board.? Then, when it happened, I soldered a 10nF ceramic capacitor across the audio pot from high side to ground.? The feedback went away, but I noticed the audio has less high response.
Dan, W2DLC


Re: Modular uBitx - "Ex: Harmonics"

 

Glad you're back Gordon.

Bet of luck with your recovery.

73
Dennis W7DRW


Re: uBITX new build, quiet audio #ubitx

Daniel Conklin
 

"brown lead to the center"


Re: uBITX new build, quiet audio #ubitx

Daniel Conklin
 

Benjamin,
The wall warts are not all well filtered, so that probably accounts for the hum.? It seems like you audio may not be the problem, because the receiver is naturally quiet if the grounding is good.? You should check the connection of the antenna to the board, because maybe you have a bad solder joint or broken wire. The brwon lead should go to the center of the antenna connector.? Also, there have been reports of poor quality BNC connectors, so you may want to test that or just replace it with a better one.
Dan, W2DLC


Re: uBITX new build, quiet audio #ubitx

 

Check the potentiometer wiring, there is some mistake on first wiring (inverting high and middle)
73 - remi f1mqj
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v¨¦rifier le c?blage du Potentiom¨¨tre, un sch¨¦ma de c?blage inversait le milieu et le point chaud


Re: How to use cheap Chinese Arduinos that come with with CH340G / CH341G Serial/USB chip (Windows & Mac OS-X) ¡¤ by Konstantin Gredeskoul (@kig)

 

I ve at least 3 Chinese nano boards from various sellers, working fine with arduino ide and windows 8.1 (the only problem I have : it need to be run as administrator -giving strange messages when standard user mode).
73 - R¨¦mi -F1mqj?
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j¡¯ai au moins 3 cartes nano chinoises de vendeurs divers, programm¨¦es sans probl¨¨me avec Windows 8.1 et l¡¯ide Arduino (le seul probl¨¨me est qu¡¯il faut le faire en administrateur- il envoie des messages ¨¦tranges en mode utilisateur standard).


Re: Modular uBitx - "Ex: Harmonics"

Gordon Gibby
 

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I have come out of surgery now, and I think I¡¯ll be home tonight and may be able to construct voltage divider on my Heathkit Cantenna to get a attenuated signal that I can further attenuate on toward a ICOM 718 S-meter. ? I have about 4 ?fixed attenuator pads. ?Using those, Setting the baseband signal about the same for each test?I should be able to get a ¡°baseline¡± on a mostly UNmodified version three, I think it has diode to protect Q90

Then I can build my little relay daughter board and repeat the measurements which should give relative indications of any improvement or degradation

If not tomorrow, probably Wednesday.

Gordon




On Aug 20, 2018, at 15:06, ajparent1/KB1GMX <kb1gmx@...> wrote:

Alan,

You hit the high and low points well.?

The biggest thing is we have a known fail.
We believe its due to layout.
Its not easily fixed for most.
?
Your not the only one that wrote that as well but your correct.

>>The LPF's work. The physical relay device chosen works, the problem was how it was all put together<<

Bottom line is all that said whats the fix.

My cut is bypass the filters on the board so their losses are not additive.
Create a better board layout that can mount over the existing filters.
Make it so the existing relay control signals are usable, simple wires from a to b.

Cheap as now one will fix it otherwise and many will not bother anyway.

Production boards have the best fix applied to prevent more with this.

Allison