Re: Hans Summers/Brian Churchwell
Sorry to do it this way...
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73
Karl
KI4ZUQ
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Karl
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#136371
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
The QMX boards could be tested with some sort of bed of nails test fixture that provided the appropriate test signals for IC403 couldn't they?
Use the CLK2 signal attenuated by R513 with a suitable
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Chris
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#136370
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Re: QMX+ No transmit or receive
Those connections, (pin 9 ic 402 and pin 7/9 ic 403) are for the trifilar
toroid. Supplied voltage is from the VCC. I get 5v at R401 with 2.6v drop
across the resistor and approx 2.3 v (the
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Joel Macneill <joelmacneill1977@...>
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#136369
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
I understood that; you are handling it before it hits customers for everything except the QMX, however even you having to deal with a 15% failure rate on a component is nuts (for you to have to deal
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Kaufman, Matt - N3AR
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#136368
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Re: Hans Summers/Brian Churchwell
Hi Karl
I'll investigate now and contact you off-list about this.
73 Hans G0UPL
http://qrp-labs.com
https://buymeacoffee.com/g0upl
[email protected]> wrote:
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Hans Summers
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#136367
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firmware upload
dr operators,
Just finished the qmx plus.
Build for9 volts and try with 8 v initially.
When i connect the usb for fw i get the notice from my mac mini m2 that the usb port uses too much power and
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hanz YL3JD
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#136366
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Hans Summers/Brian Churchwell
Just had some civilian drop off a large box destined to
Brian Churchwell
350 N Main St Ste 7 Unit 856
Wharton, NJ 07885
United States/AMERIKA
Tel 8584127789
Mailed 04 June 2024? Customs
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Karl
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#136365
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Re: QMX+ No transmit or receive
meant to say pin#5 on IC408
wrote:
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Joel Macneill <joelmacneill1977@...>
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#136364
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Re: QMX+ No transmit or receive
I made some checks of the following as instructed:
IC408 pin# only has 2.5v. (idle receive)
IC402 pin#9 is 0v,
IC403 pin#7 is 0v, pin#9 is 0v
C402 pin#1 0v and pin#3 0v.
I may have a problem here.
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Joel Macneill <joelmacneill1977@...>
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#136363
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Re: QMX Rev 3 - transformer T501 check
Hi Thomas,
nice to see you here!
Dou you remember? You once gave me the name "Papa Joe" on DB0EL.
Happy new year and lots of fun with the QMX!
73 Peter DL4PJ
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Peter Jacobi
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#136362
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Re: QMX+ No transmit or receive
sorry, line 1) has a few words that were supposed to go to line 2).
wrote:
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Joel Macneill <joelmacneill1977@...>
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#136361
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Re: QMX+ No transmit or receive
Thank you Ludwig!! And a happy new year to you and your family. I actually
just saw this now. Lol, I got some time this morning. I tried again to
track down a problem in the receive path. This is what
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Joel Macneill <joelmacneill1977@...>
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#136360
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Re: How to smooth QMX+ heatsink area
#QMXplus
Evan:
The BS170 breakdown voltage actually increases with temperature.
Before wasting too much time on marginal thermal improvement you should measure the thermal increase with key down.? Many VOMs
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Chris KB1NLW
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#136359
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Re: QRM from QLG3.
Hi all
HNY!
I was wondering if there had been any further investigation into this one or whether it's a matter of either accepting the noise or fitting a toggle switch (the latter is something I'm
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Greg_2e1gw
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#136358
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
To be clear again: I'm saying 15% of the batch of 1000 QMX+ Rev 2 PCBs was
rejected during our testing here. The percentage of Rev 2 QMX+ with faulty
PCM1804 that reach actual kit builders should be
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Hans Summers
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#136357
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
Yes, remarkable that the PCM1804 saga continues. I built 4 QMX and one QMX+. Only one had an 1804 failure. First Rev 1 and Rev 3 (mini) had/have no failures. Second Rev 1 had SMPS (5V), then Mplx chip
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Daniel Walter
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#136356
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
A 15% failure rate for any semiconductor device is extremely high. Googling
PCM1804 failures shows posts about high-level audio noise that randomly
occurs and goes
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Tony Scaminaci
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#136355
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Re: QMX LDMOS finals
Hi Mateusz,
Gate input capacitance and output capacitance of any replacement transistor
must be in the same neighborhood as the BS170. The closest match I’ve found
is TN0110 which some here have
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Tony Scaminaci
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#136354
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
Hi Hans,
Yes, the problem is very strange.
In my case the PCM1804 worked almost correctly. The fault was only in the unequal amplitude of the I and Q signals. If I had not used the diagnostic tools
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Zrinko Ivan Vukoja
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#136353
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Re: QMX(+) Build experience, Poor Audio Filter Sweep/RF Filter Sweep/Image Sweep/ADC IQ test and resolution with new PCM1804
Wow - a 15% failure rate sounds exceedingly high.
73
-- Matt N3AR
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Kaufman, Matt - N3AR
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#136352
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