Re: sBitx V3 - TX output is fine but the SWR measurement is always 1.0
#sBITX_v3
#help
It sounds like most everybody's results are the same, the SWR meter does not work in V3.
Joel
N6ALT
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Joel Caulkins/N6ALT
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Re: sBitx V3 - TX output is fine but the SWR measurement is always 1.0
#sBITX_v3
#help
Interesting.? I find with my V3 it is under-reporting the output power, two different external power meters report higher values than the internal one.
Perhaps this (
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Dave, N1AI
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Re: sBitx Logging issue - and Dupe Checking
Ashar,
you say that
"2. The other station replies back with your rst. Now that the reports are exchanged, you enter this in your logger and press the LOG button. The qso is logged."
When the
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HA3HZ
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Re: sBITX Displayed Power and VSWR
@W9JES
I completely agree with you.
I only see the practice developed here, when someone needs help, then contact the forum.
When I noticed in May that I had the same problem, I didn't even try to
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HA3HZ
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Re: sBitx V3 - TX output is fine but the SWR measurement is always 1.0
#sBITX_v3
#help
The one simple potential fix is to reflow the connections to L400 through L403.? There could be an open circuit in one of the connections.? It looks like it is easy to get to the connection from the
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Evan Hand
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Re: sBitx V3 - TX output is fine but the SWR measurement is always 1.0
#sBITX_v3
#help
If you have a good 50-ohm dummy load connected, the SWR should be 1.? Do you have a well-matched antenna to verify the SWR changes with frequency from the low end of the band to the high end?? At
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Evan Hand
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Re: sBitx V3 - TX output is fine but the SWR measurement is always 1.0
#sBITX_v3
#help
My V3 is doing the exact same thing, no matter what band or antenna the VSWR shows 1.0, I changed 'bridge' from 100 to 70 with no change.
Joel
N6ALT
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Joel Caulkins/N6ALT
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Re: sBitx V3 - TX output is fine but the SWR measurement is always 1.0
#sBITX_v3
#help
With just 4W the chances you'll get only 1.0 if the antenna is more or less well matched is very high. What is the real SWR and transmitted power read in a wattmeter?
- Rafael
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Rafael Diniz
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Re: sbitx with new Raspberry Pi 5 (updates)
It's important for everyone to keep that in mind.? Pi 5 will need a newer OS than the one that comes with the sbitx boards, will need new GPIO code, etc.? Even though we're talking about it here,
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Dave, N1AI
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Re: sbitx with new Raspberry Pi 5 (updates)
Hi Mike,
Definitely you can remove that RTC board in the sbitx if using the Pi 5. I'm not using Farhan software, but I think it uses the direct i2c access to communicate with RTC for some FT-8 reason
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Rafael Diniz
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Re: sBITX Displayed Power and VSWR
@Gyula.
I completely understand the message. I just don't understand why the assembled V3 is touted as having a warranty and not getting a response from the manufacturer when there could be a
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JJ - W9JES
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Re: sbitx with new Raspberry Pi 5 (updates)
Since the Raspberry Pi 5 has its own RTC on board, could the sbitx clock board be removed and maybe some clock interface code be simplified?
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Mike - kb2ml
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Mike Johnshoy
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Re: sbitx with new Raspberry Pi 5 (updates)
Hi Dave,
Still to be done is the migration of the code to use the pinctrl's gpiolib API instead of WiringPi. I ended up testing with the command line pinctrl, but hopefully soon I'll be able to
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Rafael Diniz
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Simple SDR Add-On for uBitX V6 and others
Greetings to all. I take no credit for this. This is just a rework of KD8CEC's earlier post to add an IF-SDR output to the uBitX series of radios. The V6 provides an IF output of 45Mhz at connector P3
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Jim WB2LHP in MI
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#107449
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Re: sBITX Displayed Power and VSWR
This is the do-it-yourself movement.
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Gyula HA3HZ
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HA3HZ
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Re: explanation please
https://github.com/afarhan/sbitx/issues would be the standard place for such things.
Tags could be applied to indicate 'feature request' instead of bug.
Hopefully that would be the one...
I
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Dave, N1AI
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Re: sbitx with new Raspberry Pi 5 (updates)
I went to pishop.us yesterday looking for that ribbon cable and the RTC battery you mentioned, and found they had Pi 5 8GB in stock so I put in an order.? When all of that arrives, I'll be able to
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Dave, N1AI
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Re: explanation please
This has all be very helpful, thank you!? I'll sit back and patiently await all the great new updates that I'm seeing here!
Is there a place in github to request new features, or some tool that the
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Jeff Duce
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Re: sbitx with new Raspberry Pi 5 (updates)
Hi all,
Just giving a heads up, Wolfram codec bug in Pi 5 fixed by Phil Elwell, a Raspberry Foundation engineer:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5817
I also managed to test the i2c and
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Rafael Diniz
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Re: sBitx Logging issue
Gyula - since the files I sent you early yesterday morning had a bunch of debugging info that is no longer required, recommend you retrieve the original two files from? the sbitx github then make the
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Steve Beckman
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