Re: Bitx40 First contact
Congrats Phil ! It would be a fun exercise to have folks post the distance covered in their first contact with the BitX. Mine was a bit over 600 miles (1000 km), quite a thrill to see this little
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Petry, Kevin <kevin.petry@...>
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#24069
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Re: smoking board
We used to say "fuses are for sissies". LoL Have fun guys, it's a toy!
This email is intended only for the use of the party to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged,
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Petry, Kevin <kevin.petry@...>
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#24068
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Re: smoking board
The wiring directions on the hfsigs website are correct when they call for the orange wire of the 5-PIN connector to go to +12 volt power (through the on/off switch).
My now painfully obvious mistake
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Petry, Kevin <kevin.petry@...>
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#24067
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Re: 80 Meters on BITX40?
What are the values of the capacitor to be used in the filter for 80 meter .
I dont want to by the filter because qrn and grm is very high in our
location .
Thanks in advance .
Vu2rjw
Soundar
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Soundararajan Ra.
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#24066
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Re: Bitx40 low volume oscillation squeal
Still no luck in resolving my "squeal".
So far, I have removed C113 across pins 1 and 8 of the LM386 in order to
reduce it's gain. Big improvement to audio, at least to my ears.
The "squeal" at low
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Graham <planophore@...>
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#24065
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Re: Trouble With Alternate Audio Inputs (BITX40 Module)
Are you using screened audio leads or simply two wires?
If you are not using screened wired between the source you are using and
the mic input you are courting all sorts of
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Lawrence Galea
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#24064
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Re: is it ok to used 2n3904c instead of 2n3904 in bitx v3 smd version
Thanks for the info john , Marco and Garza. The 2n3904c was described as a switching transistor while the 2n3904 as a small signal transistor. Thats why I had a doubt. F(t) is certainly matching. I
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K Vijayakrishnan
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#24063
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Re: Calibration route
Okay, one more chance to look dumb. What if A2 which is an analog input and has no voltage by design is actually damaged? And changing the code to A1 or A0 for calibration instead? re-up the sketch
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John Smith
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#24062
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Re: Calibration route
Hi,
"Tie High" means - via a resistor connect this wire to +5V.
Red Wire -----C---- RESISTOR ----------- +5V
Then the junction
between the red wire and resistor (Where the "C" is above) is
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Darryl Harvey
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#24061
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Re: Calibration route
Hi Darryl
Please tell me precisely how I am to do this.
What pin do I connect to the 5 v rail? What does “tie it high” mean? Where is the 5 v rail? What resistor (resistance and wattage) should
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College Professor Simon Thompson <nwccenglishprofessor@...>
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#24060
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Re: Calibration route
To elaborate on this topic;
Source: ?http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/83133/arduino-digitalread-reading-wrong
What you have is called a?Floating?pin. Digital Input pins are very
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Darryl Harvey
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#24059
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Re: Calibration route
Darryl's suggestion is good. Take a wire and temporarily apply 5v
to the pin. Careful! Watch out for grounding. Been there; done that.
If the loop stops, then there is a problem with the pin;
if not,
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John Backo
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#24058
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Re: Calibration route
Try using a 220 ohm resistor to high instead of straight to +V in case there is a short somewhere on the board causing the error. Creating a +V to GND without any resistance at all is a quick way to
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atouk
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#24057
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Re: Calibration route
That may be a key observation. The program expects that pin to be at 5v UNLESS the red wire
is grounded. It is the transition from 5v to 0v that causes the call to the calibration routine. If
the pin
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John Backo
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#24056
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Re: Calibration route
Tie it high, a floating input can be influenced by the adjacent
pin(s).
wrote:
part of the mystery.
Groups.Io <iam74@... [1]> wrote: "ominously, I got
zero volts from the
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Darryl Harvey
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#24055
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Re: Calibration route
But it’s doing it whether the pin is grounded or not. That’s part of the mystery.
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College Professor Simon Thompson <nwccenglishprofessor@...>
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#24054
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Re: Calibration route
"ominously, I got zero volts from the Arduino red wire."
P.S.
With the calibration pin at zero volts, that would also cause the program to loop. It
looks at the pin for zero volts, finds it, calls
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John Backo
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#24053
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Re: Calibration route
I might film what is happening and upload it. Maybe that would provide others with a better sense of the issues.
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College Professor Simon Thompson <nwccenglishprofessor@...>
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#24052
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Re: Calibration route
Grounding the red wire causes the menu for calibration to appear. If the red wire is attached to a pin on the Nano,
that means that pin is always at zero volts. But that is what the program expects to
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John Backo
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#24051
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Re: Calibration route
Ok. I have quite a lot of work to do, but it will be a few days before I can get to it. I did a few tests and, ominously, I got zero volts from the Arduino red wire. I suspect that, somehow, I damaged
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College Professor Simon Thompson <nwccenglishprofessor@...>
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#24050
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