Fw: [QRPLabs] QMX - sockets for BS170s
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Hans,
For Reference as suggested: From Billy (N5SE), My QMX is still in Turkey!
Graham Whaley wrote on Wednesday 08/30/2023 at 06:32 CSDT titled Re: [QRPLabs] QMX - sockets for
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N5SE
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QMX won't power off and odd voltages on Q103
We are in a hurricane watch and tropical storm ?watch and tornado watch, so to take my mind off the weather, I am trying to get my QMX, Rev 1 going.
I have set my power supply at 7volts and limited
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PHILIP GRAITCER
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#108857
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
I’ll have to find someone willing to do that, I have the right tools to do it I’m sure including a scope, but I’m just really not that great with a o-scope.
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Devan Phillis
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QMX Menu Suggestions
Hans, here are a couple of minor suggestions from the Operations Manual.
4.6 - Frequency Presets - Why not have CANCEL be the EXIT button (rather than the right rotary button) and LOAD be the right
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Daniel Walter
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Hello Devan
A technique I suggested for QCX troubleshooting was to bypass the signal
generator resistor (120K in QCX, 100K R518 in QMX) with a much smaller
resistor, say 330-ohms. Then the signals
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Hans Summers
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Re: CAT port returns ` ` ` on QCXmini
Thanks, I'll try that as well.
-Jerry AC5JM
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Jerry Moyer
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Re: CAT port returns ` ` ` on QCXmini
I have a TTL to RS232 converter that was designed to interface directly with Raspberry Pie I/O pins that I will try and let you know.? It should also work in reverse to convert RS232 to
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Jerry Moyer
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Hans,
The trifiliar was one of the first things we did…. Also, I reflowed all the other places where enamel comes thru the board. I should mention that the 1804 gets warm… not hot but warm.
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Devan Phillis
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Re: #qmx QMX and waste heat from the finals
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Wayne,
I had it lying around from a Raspberry Pi 3B that I had put in a different enclosure with different cooling so the heat sink wasn't needed anymore. Wish I had more of them.
73,
Cliff,
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Cliff
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Hello Devan
The fact that it has noise along there, not flat-lined, indicates to me
that the PCM1804 is probably OK. You probably have an issue upstream of
that. Could even be toroid enamel... or
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Hans Summers
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
RF Filter Sweeps
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Devan Phillis
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Image Sweeps
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Devan Phillis
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Audio Filter Sweeps
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Devan Phillis
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Re: #qmx QMX and waste heat from the finals
#qmx
Thanks, Cliff. You've been a tremendous help on this. Where did you find
the heat sink you have on top of the finals?
Wayne KB4DSF
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Wayne KB4DSF
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Hans,
The sweeps were terrible. And I have no audio out of the 1st QMX. I worked with John Zbrozek a good bit with the 1st unit and we got it that far and we decided that the PCM1804 was likely bad.
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Devan Phillis
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Have you tried the power boards one at a time from the old unit that does power up in the new QMX?
73,
Cliff, AE5ZA
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Cliff
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Re: #qmx QMX and waste heat from the finals
#qmx
Wayne,
There is just a hole through the plate to hold it in place and a foot that you can't see almost at the left hand edge under the plate the same as the one that is visible on the right hand
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Cliff
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Re: #qmx QMX and waste heat from the finals
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The BS170 (finals) are low power devices with a thermal impedance of 150C/W.? Trying to reduce the internal chip temperature by lowering the already low external thermal impedance is pretty
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Chris KB1NLW
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Re: 2nd QMX Build and it wont power on and an update on my old unit...
Hello Devan
There's only one ADC on the main board which is the PCM1804. But I'd
suggest first checking what you see on the RF sweeps (apologies if you've
already posted that here, too many topics to
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Hans Summers
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Re: QMX - sockets for BS170s
So I think the discussion about pin headers for the PA transistors is adventurous. The most important point with all devices QCX, QDX and now QMX is absolutely the use of a tuner. The antenna needs to
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Reinhard Gr?nz
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