Re: Issue with high SWR on transmit
Kurt,
I am having almost exactly the same experience; with the 20 meter D4D as
well as with the QRPGuys DSB TRXCVR. I am inclined to believe that double
side band is not a good way to go. I suspect
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Bryan Brauer
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#2999
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Issue with high SWR on transmit
Hello All,
I have a 20M D4D, and I think I may have a problem with it.
I have been a bit mystified that I have so far only had 1 contact on this
thing even though I've been on the air with in for
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Kurt Loken <kurt.loken@...>
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#2998
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Hi John,
For what it's worth, I built two D4D kits and did effectively no real
testing (my bad!): but in both cases the kits worked out perfectly. I just
followed the instructions carefully and made
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Conor Farrell
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
My bad for typo with underline.
When it is working with 15p and 27p, 15p and 27p will give about 15*27/(15+27)p capacitance in parallel and it is lower than the load capacitance of the crystal so it
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Adam Rong
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#2996
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
How the crystal is pulled:
John,
When it is working with 15p and 27p, 15p and 27p will give about 15*27/(15+27)p capacitance in parallel and it is lower than the load capacitance of the crystal so
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Adam Rong
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#2995
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Adam I hope you can forgive me but after checking the part placement for
these two capacitors at least a dozen times I just noticed I have C2 and C3
swapped. I have to go out soon but when I retire I
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
my mistake. C2 is the 150 and C3 the 27.
John K2JHU...
[email protected]> wrote:
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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#2993
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Thank you for getting back to me. My C2 in marked 27J and C3 is marked 150
which we assumed is the 15 as different manufactures have different
markings on there parts. Also the way i determined the
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
John,
Make sure the oscillator capacitors used with 14.070 crystal are 15p and 27p. If not, you are referring to the wrong part list.
Make sure the way to measure the frequency is correct. Your
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Adam Rong
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Adam this did not help. The documentation and schematic say for the 20
meter version of the kit the 14.070 crystal is pulled to the ft8 frequency
of 14.074. My unit does not pull the 14.070 crystal
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
John,
See this thread.
/g/crkits/topic/32736574#2816
14.070 crystal is okay for filter with relatively big insertion loss.
Thanks,
Adam
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Adam Rong
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Well I don't understand. They sell lots these kits. Not sure how many are
for 20 meters as the 20 meter kits are the only ones that pull the crystal
frequency. I think I will contact the owner of
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Then your out of luck. You can probably pull the oscillator crystal up 4 kHz with a series trimmer, or at least get it in the ball park. That¡¯s about the limit you can go and retain stability.
But
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Steven Weber <steve.kd1jv@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Both crystals say 14.070
K2jhu
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
What frequency is the crystal cut for?
KD1JV
OK I understand what you are saying. The problem I am having is for the 20 meter D4D kit from crkits.
There are 2 caps, one from pin 7 of the NE602 to
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Steven Weber <steve.kd1jv@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
OK I understand what you are saying. The problem I am having is for the 20
meter D4D kit from crkits.
There are 2 caps, one from pin 7 of the NE602 to ground and one going
between pins 6 and 7 and one
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: 14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Capacitive loading lowers the crystal frequency, which are typically the two caps on the SA602/612 pins 6 and 7. But if you have a 14.070 crystal but really want to be on 14.074, you need to put a
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Steven Weber <steve.kd1jv@...>
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14.070.0 not pulling to 14.074.0 for the 20 meter DSB
Hi all. Hoping someone can advise me what causes the pulling of the
14.070.0 crystal to 14.074.0 In step 3 of the manual it states by adding a
wire to the antenna termanual of your transceiver and
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: First FT8 Contact
Conor I've been using Dimension 4 to get the correct clock timing for a
while now and it works great. I t
tried Minberg but was never satisfied with it.
John
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John <johnk2jhu@...>
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Re: First FT8 Contact
When you "go live" with your radio, remember that your computer time must
be exact in order to both receive and transmit correctly. On my Windows
laptop, I could never get the in-built NTP sync to
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Conor Farrell
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