Re: Order confirmation
I rather agree with you Jerry, the hostility shown to you on this group is appalling. There's a lot of people who should be ashamed of themselves.
From what Hans has said on previous occasions some
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Chris, G5CTH
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#109746
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Re: Best ways to measure output power w/ an o'scope and access ground
According to the datasheet your oscilloscope is rated for up to 400 volts peak, or 800 volts peak-to-peak. The limiting factor will be the oscilloscope's ability to attenuate the signal into its
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Stephan Ahonen KE0WVA
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#109745
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Re: QMX wont boot
Just did factory reset, and its working!!!
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Nurlan
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#109744
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Re: QMX pre-flight check - incipient Q103 / Q104 short in buck regulator
I'll bow to your experience. In my case, I don't think the short would have been fixed by moving Q103--There was a genuine solder bridge that I could see, independent of Q103's position!
This was my
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Paul - AI7JR
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#109743
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Re: QMX Board pinout vs schematic and PSU voltages
Hans,
At one time I too thought that it was the current that mattered because I
believed latchup was the issue.
Later I understood that view to be wrong.
The spec is clear in that it speaks to a
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John Z
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#109742
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Re: QMX pre-flight check - incipient Q103 / Q104 short in buck regulator
Hi Paul
Moving Q103 always works. It always clears the short. I've done upward of a
hundred. It always works afterward.
However we have to accept that it's a delicate operation and not everyone
will
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Hans Summers
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#109741
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Re: QMX Board pinout vs schematic and PSU voltages
Hi John
Note that in STM32 all pins are configured as inputs at power-up by default
until you change something.
At such time as the code changes the GPIO pin to an output, it will
certainly have no
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Hans Summers
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#109740
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Re: QMX wont boot
Try adjusting the LCD brightness, turn it all the way counter clockwise.? I made same mistake when I first turned mine on.
Good luck? 73
Emory? WM3M
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Emory Haines WM3M
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#109739
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Re: QMX wont boot
Does this mean that the firmware was installed successfully? I hear radio noise in my headphones. The volume is adjustable. When I press the left encoder, the radio turns off.
What could be the cause
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Nurlan
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#109738
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Re: QMX Board pinout vs schematic and PSU voltages
Typo ...that should be section 6.3
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John Z
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#109737
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Re: QMX pre-flight check - incipient Q103 / Q104 short in buck regulator
Apparently, moving Q103 works for some people and not for others... I actually had a solder bridge, in addition to the positioning of Q103 over the pad for Q104. In my case, I used an air gun to lift
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Paul - AI7JR
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#109736
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Re: QMX Board pinout vs schematic and PSU voltages
Simon, Kees,
For those of us who do not like plowing through datasheets, STM's
application note AN4899 could be the short-cut to understanding what
happened. See section 6.30 (Voltage protection when
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John Z
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#109735
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Re: QMX wont boot
Mike--
Jeff Moore is one of several people here who often repair stuff for others. He just looked at my QMX to see if I'd missed something, and unfortunately we both agreed that my MCU got fried
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Paul - AI7JR
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#109734
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Re: QMX Board pinout vs schematic and PSU voltages
Simon,
A short between VDD and Ground is not a good sign. One individual commented that he found a short between SMPS connector pin #4 and Ground and cleared it.
It could be a bad capacitor or a bad
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Kees T
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#109733
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Re: QMX pre-flight check - incipient Q103 / Q104 short in buck regulator
The only other thing I did was reheat the Source and Gate pins on Q103 to relieve any built up stresses from twisting the part a little. I don't think any pad insulation is required.
73 Kees K5BCQ
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Kees T
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#109732
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Re: #qmx Antenna Tuner Can Kill PAs
#qmx
After I blew the finals in my 12v QDX high band (still don't know how - no antenna tuner), I replaced all 4 with VN0606's after reading many discussions here. I'm also running with reduce voltage at
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Don
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#109731
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Re: QMX - smoke - another C107/Q108 failure
The big cap limits the rate of output voltage change in response to input
changes, too, making a 1 KHz sample rate more able to cope without big
overshoots.
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John Z
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#109730
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Re: Best ways to measure output power w/ an o'scope and access ground
Re grounding
Solder some thick wires or pins from the antenna sockets ground and a few other GND points around the board
(Don’t get suckered by the idea that the impedance at the antenna is 50.0
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Bruce Akhurst
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#109729
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Re: Best ways to measure output power w/ an o'scope and access ground
Doing it fairly properly :
tx to dummy load via BNC T connector at the load end, shortest leads possible
10x scope probe into open socket port of T connector and earth clip to T connector surround. ?
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Bruce Akhurst
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#109728
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Best ways to measure output power w/ an o'scope and access ground
Greetings all,
Having recently purchased a Siglent SDS1202X-E, I am faced with 2 immediate questions.
1 – What is the safest and most accurate way to measure output power? I would think that a
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Charles Johnson
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