Re: QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness
Al, I had the same experience with the Nino TNC except it used multiple LEDs of different colors and at night it lit up my house like a disco.? Even worse, the LEDs used a resistor array so I couldn't easily solder in higher value resistors. In the end I added a switch on the array's ground to turn it off if I wasn't troubleshooting the radio's link.?
If Hans doesn't get around to it, add a potentiometer or resistor in series to your LED.
Joshua?
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Re: QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness
Hello Al
Why not! Sounds fun! I will take care of it with some firmware changes and a few hardware ones in the next PCB revision.?
73 Hans G0UPL http://qrp-labs.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g0upl
-------- Original message -------- From: Al Holt <grovekid2@...> Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 6:08 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness A Post-It bandaid...
--Al
WD4AH
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Re: QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness
I have some really cheap LEDs from China. I think they were $3 for 100pcs in assorted colors including shipping. They are really dim. I just swapped one in. You could also lift a leg and add a resistor.
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Colin - K6JTH?
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:43 PM, cris blak wrote:
I'm interested what was the FW you used when you rung those measurements. I think Hans fix this issue in the last one (1.05 I believe). So please check.
My QDX firmware is v1_05, and the board is PCB Rev 4.? AFAIK this is all the latest, I ordered it in late October and received it from Hans the beginning of November.? I built it on Nov 5. About the FSK issue, I would like to try repeating the tests using a longer QDX frequency measurement period than the default 100 per second.? With the WSPR symbol rate being so slow there's no reason that it couldn't measure more audio cycles and get a more precise frequency measurement.? That way we could tell if the error is due to the measurement, or to the S15351 divider setting algorithm.? (Although I believe that Hans already knows which is the case, likely the divider setting).? Certainly the default frequency measurement method *should* provide far better accuracy that my measurements were showing. ? -- Paul Elliott - WB6CXC
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Re: QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait?
#qdx
Hi Eric
How do you mean, wrong addressee?? We had over 100 U4Bs ordered since Friday. All of them have to be programmed (bootloader and application firmware), tested and calibrated. Since we had a staff change since the last batch (the person who did it last time isn't here now) I have to get another colleague to do it. And we are one person down this week as one of the team is on holiday. So it's taking a few days to get the 100+ U4Bs ready and shipped out.?
73 Hans G0UPL http://qrp-labs.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g0upl
-------- Original message -------- From: "Eric L. Johnson" <ericlee.johnson@...> Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 7:30 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait? #qdx Hans: Wrong addressee.
BTW, I am eagerly awaiting my U4B which I ordered 11/11! Eric KC1OAV
Hello Bill
It's going to take about 2 weeks until I get the toroids and capacitors from US. There's no other manufacturing because the PCB is the same. Just parts.? -------- Original message -------- From: Bill < sloper1@...> Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 4:45 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait? #qdx Hans -
Any idea when the new band version will be available?
Bill - N2OII
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Re: QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness
That looks bright enough to be one of Dr. Evil's lasers!
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Re: QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait?
#qdx
Hans: Wrong addressee.
BTW, I am eagerly awaiting my U4B which I ordered 11/11! Eric KC1OAV
Hello Bill
It's going to take about 2 weeks until I get the toroids and capacitors from US. There's no other manufacturing because the PCB is the same. Just parts.? -------- Original message -------- From: Bill < sloper1@...> Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 4:45 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait? #qdx Hans -
Any idea when the new band version will be available?
Bill - N2OII
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Re: QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait?
#qdx
Hello Bill
It's going to take about 2 weeks until I get the toroids and capacitors from US. There's no other manufacturing because the PCB is the same. Just parts.?
73 Hans G0UPL http://qrp-labs.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g0upl
-------- Original message -------- From: Bill <sloper1@...> Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 4:45 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait? #qdx Hans -
Any idea when the new band version will be available?
Bill - N2OII
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Re: QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness
A Post-It bandaid...
--Al
WD4AH
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QDX Firmware Request: LED brightness
Hans,
Something to put on the list of "wouldn't it be nice" items for future releases of firmware.
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Yes, it's very eye catching in it's present state. But, it would be nice to be able to tone it down some. Maybe something like the backlighting feature in U3S with stepped decreases, but never totally out.?
Thanking you in advance!
--Al
WD4AH
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Re: My QDX and Hardrock-50 Experience
Thanks, Bruce. On my setup, I run the QDX at 7.5V and the HR-50 at 11.5V to get the bands I'm on (40 - 15m) all around 30 - 35 Watts.
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Dan? W6AZI
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Re: QDX, JTDX audio levels
Every time I go to try to install and test JTDX I seem to get frustrated, so I haven't gone there yet.
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On Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 at 8:44 AM, Al Holt <grovekid2@...> wrote:
Mitch,?
I know what you mean about "normal," I've had the same experience with WJST and having to boost levels in QDX, especially 20m.?
For now I'm just leaving QDX levels about at the default and ignoring JTDX's level meter.?
There are a lot of little adjustments to make in JTDX. I've sort of made it act similar to WSJT. I rely on JTAlert a lot and it seems to be working very well with JTDX.?
--Al
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Re: My QDX and Hardrock-50 Experience
Thanks, Mike. You can still buy new roller inductors from Palstar: https://www.palstar.com/en/inductors/
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Dan? W6AZI
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Re: #qdx Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)
#qdx
pull the power and then plug it back in
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On Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 at 9:31 AM, ANDREW STEEN <n2gff@...> wrote:
I run into that problem on my 7300 also.? What do you mean by power cycleing the QDX? Thanks.
Andrew
K6STN
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Re: #qdx Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)
#qdx
I run into that problem on my 7300 also.? What do you mean by power cycleing the QDX? Thanks.
Andrew
K6STN
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Re: Retrofitting a QDX Rev 1 with PTT
#qdx
/g/QRPLabs/message/79479?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3ACreated%2C%2Cqdx+ptt+ta1mhs%2C20%2C2%2C0%2C88702432
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Re: QDX for 40-10m - Should I wait?
#qdx
Hans -
Any idea when the new band version will be available?
Bill - N2OII
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Re: QDX, JTDX audio levels
Mitch,?
I know what you mean about "normal," I've had the same experience with WJST and having to boost levels in QDX, especially 20m.?
For now I'm just leaving QDX levels about at the default and ignoring JTDX's level meter.?
There are a lot of little adjustments to make in JTDX. I've sort of made it act similar to WSJT. I rely on JTAlert a lot and it seems to be working very well with JTDX.?
--Al
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Re: QDX, JTDX audio levels
That sounds like a normal change to me.? Remember, each "band" is a different audio level setting.? The ambient activity will raise the overall level in my experience, so if a lot of QRM/N and a lot of user activity, that meter will rise.
I cannot comment on JTDX, only WSJT and FLDIGI which behave as "normal" in my world at around a setting of 70-75 in QDX band configs.? I usually target FLDIGI's diamond to just turn green as the base audio level.? That seems to work fine for WSJT and by extension JS8Call.
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On Monday, November 14th, 2022 at 7:29 PM, Al Holt <grovekid2@...> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 07:08 PM, Mitch Winkle wrote:
Perhaps ensure that you have done that??
MItch,?
I just now tried that, going from 54 to 40 on 80 meters in QDX. After rebooting there's really not much change. I do notice some change in the waterfall background level. It goes to black and not light blue; signals are not as distinct.?
As a test I switched frequencies in JTDX to 3.585 MHz, a frequency with absolutely no activity on it and now the Rx Level showing in JTDX is ~120. That seems crazy.
Thanks for the suggestion!
--Al
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Re: QDX sound card question
It's a lot easier to just use the Sound Control Panel.
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On Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 at 1:27 AM, Fleet Senseman <kc1qhe@...> wrote:
You need to set up your sound devices, in Windows, so that your
default speakers are the ones you want to hear you PC sounds on.
Then, by going into "App volume and device preference"
(highlighted in some contrasting color depending on your color
scheme in Windows, and found on the Volume Settings page) and then
make sure everything is set to your default speakers (the ones you
want to hear PC sounds from) *except* WSJT-X. You want that app
set to play, and listen to/from the QDX.
73, Fleet KC1QHE
On 11/14/2022 7:54 PM, Bob W7DIT wrote:
Should I be able to hear sounds from PC applications while WSJT-X
is configured for the QDX? My PC is mute while the QDX is
running. If I change the PC sound card settings from "Digital
Audio Interface(3-QDX Transceiver" to my PC's sound card then I
hear FT8 signals through the speakers.
Finished assembling my QDX v4 today and made a bunch of FT8 QSOs!
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Joshua KJ7LVZ
Colin Kaminski
Dan W6AZI
Mitch Winkle