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?? Browsing the QRP-labs website, I was excited to find that Hans has released beta SSB software.? I immediately loaded it into my QMX+.?? After a few false starts, it was making power, using a Baofeng microphone from my UbitxV6.? I did have to make an adaptor becuause the tip/Ring wiring is opposite from my other radios.? The mic does behave well in the hardware microphone test.?
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?I piped the output into my FTDX10 with a bunch of attenuation:? a 30dB 500W Bird, then two 20dB inline attenuators, then 18dB inside the '10.? It's recognizably SSB.? Once I got it attenuated enough so it wasn't overloading the radio, it looked nice & clean on the bandscope.
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? Alas, with 3W output, I probably won't be making many SSB QSO's.?? What I need is to patch it into my homebrew 1kW linear.
It wouldn't drive the linear to full output, but it would make 300W or so, enough to play.
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? To do that, I need the QMX+ to output a PTT signal and also a 4-bit Yaesu band code.
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? I did buy the "dev" kit for the QMX+, it's in my junque somewhere.? But - what about the software?? Can't output that
4-bit code without software.? Hans did promise some sort of BASIC interpreter for the QMX, is there a timeline for that?
Can't hack the existing software because it's closed source & encrypted.? I suppose I could put another CPU in the box,
and patch into the band-choosing lines, but what a waste - there's a perfectly good CPU in there already.? Which surely
knows what band it's on.
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??????????????????? - Jerry, KF6VB
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