Re: Will try 7.285 MHz with BITX
Bill,
Could hear you clearly for about 2 minutes- now it's faded.I called back to your CQ but you may not hear me 5 watts with a hamstick dipole in Winfield, IL- near Chicago. Using a Forty-2 by
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John KC9OJV
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#18969
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Re: Bitx 40 board.
so I am at a stop point and need some help from the community. Have a bitx40v3, purchased a qrp-labs vfo. All tested and seem to be working. Could someone help by leeting me know what the IF freq
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Art Olson
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#18968
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Will try 7.285 MHz with BITX
at 1930 EST? 0030Z tonight
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Bill Meara
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#18967
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
It is not just a 2 Mhz offset that you have to change. The oscillator is used to set the internal pll s in the 5351, and different divider ratios have to set depending on the oscillator frequency.
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DuWayne Schmidlkofer
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#18966
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
If you are using an Arduino to drive your vfo you should be able to write a 2 Mhz calibration offset in the code to accomodate either a 25mhz or 27mhz. Crystal. ?Typically the offset is a
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Tom Clifton
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#18965
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
There is also a hardware solution, you can easily change they 27.000 MHz crystal during the build of Hans’s Si5351a board, or install a 25 MHz TCXO as there are pads on the board for that. The TCXOs
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James Duffey <JamesDuffey@...>
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#18964
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
Pete, N6QW, is an absolute genius when it comes to building something, as his LBS rig proves. He's forgotten more about electronics than I will ever know.
In Tom VFO video, he uses a push button to
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Jack Purdum <econjack@...>
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#18963
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
Todd, I would only say that it is 'falling off a log' easy if you can and are willing to program your own code changes
The point of my post was simply to inform those amongst the group who are not au
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special@...
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#18962
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
Be careful using N6QW, Pete Juliano's code from the LBS. The libraries for
the SI5351 is incorrect. Don't get me wrong, Pete does fantastic work. Our
club did the LBS as a group build and we quickly
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Ken
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#18961
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
Self explanatory -
//initialize the Si5351
si5351.init(SI5351_CRYSTAL_LOAD_8PF, 0); //If you're using a 27Mhz crystal, put in 27000000 instead of 0
// 0 is the default crystal frequency of
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Rob Lane
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#18960
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
look at that :
http://n6qw.blogspot.hr/
http://www.n6qw.com/
http://ak2b.blogspot.hr/
here you will find many interesting stuff.
9a3xz,Mikele
2016-12-06 20:15 GMT+01:00 Jack Purdum
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Mikele Martincic <socijalizam1@...>
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#18959
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
Good to know. My mission is to see more ham projects using microcontrollers and this seems like a good fit.
Thanks!
72,73,Jack, W8TEE
To: BITX20@...
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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Jack Purdum <econjack@...>
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#18958
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
You're not missing anything, Jack. It is falling-off-a-log easy to change
the code from 25 or 27MHz. It's not an issue, other than being aware of it.
NT7S's documentation makes it very
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Todd K7TFC
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#18957
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Re: Bitx40 varactor tuning/tuning dial?
Joel
I'll build the 3.5-5 MHZ one and let you know.
73 Ken
BITX20@...> wrote:
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Ken
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#18956
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Re: Bitx40 varactor tuning/tuning dial?
Ken,
I built the one on the top of the list as it covers 3.5 to 5MHz which is the exact frequency of the VFO coverage, although being A LPF it's going to filter everything above so may not make that
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Joel Caulkins/N6ALT
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#18955
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Re: Si5351a VFO boards.
Am I missing something or can't the software be changed to account for the difference? Our VFO has a timing constant in the code that is changed to account for variations in the 125MHz crystal on the
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Jack Purdum <econjack@...>
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#18953
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Si5351a VFO boards.
Hi all.
Just a word of warning/advice.
The Si5351 based VFO (clock) boards produced by Hans (QRP Labs) and Adafruit are not directly interchangeable for use within the many Arduino based VFO
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special@...
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#18952
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Re: Bitx40 varactor tuning/tuning dial?
Joel
I built NT7S 5-8 MHZ filter and I don't hear any real difference. But the
signal into T2 is much prettier than the square wave. I'll do some more
testing later, not much can be done at 5:30 in
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Ken
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#18954
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Re: Bitx40 varactor tuning/tuning dial?
Hans,
Sorry about the ugly square wave, you are right, we can't see it properly on a regular scope, but I was looking for a sine wave which I got after the LPF.
I don't know if we need a sine wave
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Joel Caulkins/N6ALT
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#18951
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New BITX40v3 seams deaf on ssb phone signals
I just got the new 40 m version three board in the mail three weeks ago. Very pretty packaging I might add. Unfortunately this thing seems not to like S9 phone signals in the extra class portion of
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Craig Ross
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#18950
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