Re: QMX and SSB -- how?
If Q507 is being driven linearly then I hope it has good heat sinking. I would have thought that in order to keep the efficiency benefits if class E you'd want to switch the uc pin driving that
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Stephan Ahonen KE0WVA
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#109096
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Re: QMX Display Brightness
Without knowing your lighting conditions no one can say. ? Certainly the base designs run the backlight as ‘hot’ as possible and possibly above the backlight LED ratings in some sets/supply
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Bruce Akhurst
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Re: QMX and SSB -- how?
This is sort of the equivalent of saying "but a DAC can only produce one voltage at a time, how can you reproduce an entire waveform that way?"
The magic happens when you do it many thousands of
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Stephan Ahonen KE0WVA
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Re: #QMX FT8 Signal to noise remarkably good.
#qmx
My totally uninformed guess is that it might come down to being an advantage of the Tayloe mixer used in the QMX over the RF sampling ADC used in the 7300.
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Stephan Ahonen KE0WVA
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Re: #QMX FT8 Signal to noise remarkably good.
#qmx
Chris,
Maybe the QMX is simply better.
But I would carry out an extended test simultaneously on one antenna with a splitter.
I've done that many times using WSPR. Even then I find results are not
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#109091
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Trimming Tools
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Mike
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#QMX FT8 Signal to noise remarkably good.
#qmx
Yesterday morning, idly running FT8 on my QMX when there was a CQ from New Caledonia, and ATNO for me.
The signal to noise was 0 to -5.? That's from half way round the world!? Tried calling but
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Chris
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Re: QMX and SSB -- how?
An even more simplistic view is that the audio signal is a single wiggly line, what you would see on an oscilloscope.? The subtle changes in that generate the multiple tones of speech, even those of
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Chris
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Re: GPS disciplined oscillator.
Sid,
Yes, the problem was not addressed, going into long term stability and frequency steps.
I put my Progrock to one side, I did not think I had it good enough for a HF RX or TX reference. I used a
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#109087
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Re: QMX and SSB -- how?
As I see it, the main limitation, once you have the computing power, is the lack of linear amplification. If you had a linear amp, you would simply generate the IQ data and amplify it.
I may have a
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Colin Kaminski
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#109086
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Re: QMX Display Brightness
Are there any experiences or thoughts regarding the blue vs. yellow displays? Does the blue appear less bright to the eyes? Any opinions regarding readability with old eyes? *(They both look pretty
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Cal (AD8Q)
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#109085
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QDX on the air
A big, big thank you to Hans for a very enjoyable QDX build. Assembly and operations manual were clear and I had no problems with the assembly. QDX worked when first powered. I have made FT8 contacts
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u4ltz@...
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#109084
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Re: QMX and SSB -- how?
The STM32F446 microcontroller has two 12 bit DACs. A DAC output is used to
control the amplitude of the transmitter output; it's not done with PWM.
The current firmware only uses that to control the
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Shirley Dulcey KE1L
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#109083
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Re: QDX - protection of BS17O PA
Thanks all for your comments. I decided to solder a 1N4148 diode in parallel to L14.
Additionnally I always tune my EFHW antenna with a transmatch fed by a NanoVNA until it's perfectly tuned.
And to
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Pierre - FK8IH
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#109082
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Re: Dire need of a part
Dear Karl,
You can add my name to that pool of "lifetime supplies"? I pretty much have them and don't mind sharing.? Pretty soon I will have 200 0805 47jH inductors to add to the Millons of parts I
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David R. Hassall WA5DJJ
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#109081
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Re: FT8 for U3?
Hi Jim,
Yes. I am using a simple command line in Linux on a RaspberryPi 3+ to sent individual FT8 (and WSPR) messages. I'm not using WSJT-X for this application, so no pull down menu.
-Bob? KA5MIZ
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Robert Rabin
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#109080
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Re: FT8 for U3?
are you aware that even the 'custom' data field
in FT8 can contain NO MORE than 13 characters,
including any space characters?
and generally such custom data fields are
entered manually and
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Jim Cooper
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#109079
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Re: FT8 for U3?
I've been interested in including observations from a weather station (such as air temperature, humidity and air pressure) in the WSPR message as is done with high altitude balloons. I've considered
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Robert Rabin
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#109078
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Re: GPS disciplined oscillator.
I did extensive testing of the ProgRock2? reporting the results and starting a thread
*ProgRock2 as a GPSDO and an anomaly***
?in message #101344.? I saw essentially the same thing that did Alan
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W7QJQ
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#109077
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Re: QMX and SSB -- how?
It's pretty intuitive if you think about what an FM signal looks like in IQ representation, and what an AM signal looks like in IQ representation. You can take any signal in IQ space and determine its
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Stephan Ahonen KE0WVA
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#109076
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