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Quansheng Stretch ?..
So with all the Modifications being done to the Quansheng UV-K5/6 Radio like removing a chip and slapping on a Wafer Board for LW-SW All Band AM/SSB/ETC,
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Has anyone thought of if M17 could be added onto this Radio ?..
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I mean hell it's the Swiss Army Knife of Radio's I'm just Genuinely Curious ?
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Working on this... See It will require hacking the radio hardware, the firmware, and adding on an M17 baseband processor. Currently working on how to cleanly bypass the audio amp as I think it is causing some of the distortion I am seeing. Kind Regards, Rob Riggs WX9O Mobilinkd LLC On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 4:33?PM Robert Alford via <Mw1coe=[email protected]> wrote:
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Sounds good. I have the Nucleo which I have never actually used so I will be following this and looking to implement it if I?can figure out?how to use it LOL.. Thanks Rob.. On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 7:33?PM Rob Riggs via <mobilinkd=[email protected]> wrote:
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The easiest is using the NucleoTNC as a TNC for M17 packet mode. You would need 2 or more devices that speak M17 packet mode. However, packet?mode right now is hit or miss with this radio. I am trying to work through an issue with the?radio. RX shows some odd artifacts where the DC bias jumps significantly as soon as a signal is present. (Likely not an audio amp problem as I originally thought.) This happens when the radio has been in RX mode for a while. The issue seems to occur in both Wide and Narrow mode, but to a lesser extent in narrow mode. The image below shows the issue. The polarity of the drift and then sudden adjustment after ~120ms can switch (can drift up or down), and?it can be much more severe. The image below is in wide mode. In narrow mode, it is less noticeable, but still enough to cause the first few frames to get corrupted. This is not much of an issue with M17 voice, since we can recover after a few frames. That's not possible with packet mode. All of the frames must be received correctly. TX or changing the RX frequency resets it and it works well for a bit, then starts to show the behavior again. So there is likely a way to fix this or work around the issue. We just don't have good docs for the chip. If anyone wants to explore this issue, I'd be happy to point out where to start poking at the firmware. The hardware mod is pretty easy if you can do surface mount work. And the firmware is easy to modify, build and load. Kind Regards, Rob Riggs WX9O Mobilinkd LLC On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 6:48?PM Robert Alford via <Mw1coe=[email protected]> wrote:
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The Quansheng mod is some of the most exciting work in ham radio. It can become the easiest and cheapest way for a ham to dip their toes in modes requiring flat audio.
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There was only 1 (one) HT radio with flat audio for digital modes before, the TH-F6A/TH-F7E. It is expensive and unobtanium.?
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This would make portable work with digital modes more accessible and much, much cheaper than anything else. Currently, you'd be stuck with digital modes to one of the Yaesu mobiles, or a commercial mobile rig. This is not cheap, nor easy, nor practical.
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I with you the best of luck with your Quansheng modding!
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Rob: Once I chased down all the rabbit holes of your blog and your GitHub page for this work… WOW, and Kudos! I’ll be featuring an extended version of this in Zero Retries 0166 tomorrow. Thanks for this mention and doing the work to perhaps creating a good portable data radio for us higher-speed experimenters! As I say in the article, if Quansheng takes the results of your work and makes a “data” version of this radio, I’d happily pay double the $30 price of this unit. Steve N8GNJ
On Aug 19, 2024 at 17:33:03, Rob Riggs via <mobilinkd=[email protected]> wrote:
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Steve Stroh N8GNJ (he / him / his) Editor Zero Retries Newsletter - Radios are Computers - With Antennas! |
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