D4D not working
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Hi,
Finished the build of the D4D kit without significant issues after a cold soldering prevented the VOX to work properly. Did some test during the build but not the receiver test. Upon finishing it doesn't seems to work neither RX nor TX. Focusing on RX first. Energy is Up, green led is lit. Audio is present at the audio out socket, a clear constant tone and a more subtle hish noise. Spectrogram is attached. No signals are decoded. My nearby transmitting beacon in 14 MHz is shown as multiple signals (probably because of overloading) but the reception is weak, no decoding can be made by WSJT-x. No other signals are decoded. Even if there are activity. D4D is working with my best antenna during the test. Before to start following the circuit step by step any general suggestion for troubleshoot based on common past issues (I look for them at the forum but found none). Thanks in advance!!! 73 de Pedro LU7DID |
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Although the power meter shows about 200-300 mW output the current is 22 mA on RX and 290 mA on TX, at 12Vcc this is 3.5W of power input, not sure what is the expected yield of the PA but even taking as low as 50% it should be a good over 1.5W of output. SWR is 1:1.2. The current is aligned with other posts I saw and being regarded as normal for 20 mts. So I can not square the meassured output power with this.
I'm doing some FB contacts at the regional level on 20 mts which isn't bad, this is not a surprise, my beacon is using 100 mW and still being reported all over the world, FT8 is an amazing mode. 73 de Pedro, LU7DID |
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No Conor I did not yet. I had only applied the input level mod but I decided later it wasn’t wise to start adding mods to a circuit I am not familiar with and then completed the building as vanilla as possible. 73 Pedro LU7DID El El mar, 15 oct. 2019 a la(s) 18:25, Conor Farrell <conchobhair.ofearghail@...> escribió:
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Thank you Adam by the suggestion, this is the way I meassure the power output of my WSPR/FT8 beacon (Vpp*0,35)^2/RL in this case ((17V*0,35)^2)/50 would yield 700 mW approx.
The initial testing has been very much satisfactory, in reception as reported in pskreporter.info the greatest distance reported so far is some well over 19K Km (JA), on TX I was able to work a couple of PY stations (some 2000 Km away) when the band wasn't quite opened yet; what else can a small device like this be asked (attached is the pskreporter.info logbook over the past day or so, reports to my station is of the permanent beacon I have, not the D4D). I'd shared in some of the experiences in building the kit, the blog is in Spanish but Google translate will yield a half decent translation give or take a couple of words. Thank you for the very good support while building the kit. 73 de Pedro, LU7DID |
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This is a double sideband signal.
Remember, there are two signals and being generated and only one is being received unless the receiver on the distant end is a phase locked DSB receiver.
The calculation assumes a single sinusoidal waveform. Since the peak voltage is twice that of that for either sideband the power for the sideband which the distant station is receiving is 1/4 that calculated, or just a under 175 mW. If a thermocouple type of
power meter was used. You would divide by the result by 2. Naturally if it was a single sideband signal the results would be the same and as calculated.
73
Bill wa4lav
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dr. Pedro E. Colla (LU7DID) via Groups.Io <lu7did@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:47 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [crkits] D4D not working ?
Thank you Adam by the suggestion, this is the way I meassure the power output of my WSPR/FT8 beacon (Vpp*0,35)^2/RL in this case ((17V*0,35)^2)/50 would yield 700 mW approx.
The initial testing has been very much satisfactory, in reception as reported in pskreporter.info the greatest distance reported so far is some well over 19K Km (JA), on TX I was able to work a couple of PY stations (some 2000 Km away) when the band wasn't quite opened yet; what else can a small device like this be asked (attached is the pskreporter.info logbook over the past day or so, reports to my station is of the permanent beacon I have, not the D4D). I'd shared in some of the experiences in building the kit, the blog is in Spanish but Google translate will yield a half decent translation give or take a couple of words. Thank you for the very good support while building the kit. 73 de Pedro, LU7DID |
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Both thermocouple and themistor type power meters measure True Power. Rather than indirectly measuring the power by measuring voltage and using a meter calibrated assuming a sinusoidal waveform.
73
Bill wa4lav
From: Fuqua, William <wlfuqu00@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:44 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [crkits] D4D not working ?
This is a double sideband signal.
Remember, there are two signals and being generated and only one is being received unless the receiver on the distant end is a phase locked DSB receiver.
The calculation assumes a single sinusoidal waveform. Since the peak voltage is twice that of that for either sideband the power for the sideband which the distant station is receiving is 1/4 that calculated, or just a under 175 mW. If a thermocouple type of
power meter was used. You would divide by the result by 2. Naturally if it was a single sideband signal the results would be the same and as calculated.
73
Bill wa4lav
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dr. Pedro E. Colla (LU7DID) via Groups.Io <lu7did@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:47 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [crkits] D4D not working ?
Thank you Adam by the suggestion, this is the way I meassure the power output of my WSPR/FT8 beacon (Vpp*0,35)^2/RL in this case ((17V*0,35)^2)/50 would yield 700 mW approx.
The initial testing has been very much satisfactory, in reception as reported in pskreporter.info the greatest distance reported so far is some well over 19K Km (JA), on TX I was able to work a couple of PY stations (some 2000 Km away) when the band wasn't quite opened yet; what else can a small device like this be asked (attached is the pskreporter.info logbook over the past day or so, reports to my station is of the permanent beacon I have, not the D4D). I'd shared in some of the experiences in building the kit, the blog is in Spanish but Google translate will yield a half decent translation give or take a couple of words. Thank you for the very good support while building the kit. 73 de Pedro, LU7DID |
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Hi Bill,
The power meter is a cheap one, I didn't opened it but I assume it's? rms voltage sensing with some assumptions on how to change it into a power meter; the value yield it's very low in my case, but I don't think it has anything to do with the waveform. My computation was using the value provided by Adam as being the typical to be found (17 Vpp) and aplying an approximation to compute the rms voltage from it and the power from it, this computation yield 700 mW over 50 Ohms. Both are approximate figures. 73 de Pedro, LU7DID |
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