QCX-40 Working...Sort of...
Finished the assembly and started the tuning and adjustments.
Connect power -- No Smoke!
Adjusted contrast -- OK
Started at step 3.71
Did the "Select Band" step, OK
Pressed "Left Button", OK
Pressed
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Chuck Carpenter <w5usj@...>
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#19724
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Hi Todd
Yes... true! But the topic was DSB not AM or a comparison of every other
possible mode and how efficient it is and various other advantages and
disadvantages... Yes AM is inefficient and
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Hans Summers
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#19723
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Hans,
A very nice, well thought out description of DSB, especially relating to FT8 or similar modes. I have never used DSB for any "on the air" experience, but assumed the appeal is strictly for
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Paul NA5N
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#19722
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
The short version is two DSB with non SSB RX is, works very poorly.
Reason is the two opposing sidebands are sent and are also received.
The result is they combine and partially cancel each other in
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ajparent1/kb1gmx <kb1gmx@...>
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#19721
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
If only someone would code up a version of WSJT to do just this.
Mike
K6ESS
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K5ESS
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#19720
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
FT8 is a constant amplitude variable phase modulation. It can be generated without any filters using Si5351 or other programmable synthesizer chips, and amplified using efficient class C PAs. A
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vbifyz <3ym3ym@...>
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#19719
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
"...it is difficult or impossible for two DSB stations to work each other."
Hans, I'd heard about this in the ancient past but never paid much attention to it. Can you provide a technical
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sigcom1
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#19718
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Re: Wilderness NC40A sked?
Guys,
I have a Wilderness NC40A I can put on the air if someone wants to work Louisiana.
I am also usually available in the evenings CDT.
73 - Dave, N4ELM
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Dave Redfearn, N4ELM
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#19717
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Thank you Hans and Todd for so clearly expressing the concerns I have about
using DSB. I'll confess to having built a DSB transmitter that I have
stared at, and never quite been reckless enough to
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Mike Carden - VK1MC
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#19716
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Hans,
Your anti-vax anti-social analogy is quite apt. I don't understand the
allure of DSB (or the superstition against vaccines, for that matter). If
one is going to suppress the carrier, why not
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Todd Carney
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#19715
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Hi all
In my opinion... I don't care about the boring legal aspects... purely
technical:
1) DSB is something of an abomination in that it is difficult or impossible
for two DSB stations to work each
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Hans Summers
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#19714
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Tom,
It takes 4 crystal at a counter price of about 50 cents and 4 capacitors at pennies to
make such a filter then you have whats called a SSB radio. It was done by K1SWL
(PSK-80). It was a
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ajparent1/kb1gmx <kb1gmx@...>
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#19713
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
I'm probably showing my naivety and lack of technical knowledge, but I have been wondering why all the discussion has been focused upon the legal aspects of whether this combination of emission (DSB)
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Tom, N8TPN
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#19712
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Re: Wilderness NC40A sked?
John,
That sounds great! Though I have discovered an issue with my 40A, receive is about 1.5 kHz off my transmit frequency so I have a (hopefully easy) tweak to make to get the radio in shape. I will
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Michael Thompson
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#19711
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Re: Wilderness NC40A sked?
Michael, the antenna is up and the NC40a is working FB - I'm planning on using it a bit in the upcoming CQWW contest. Let me know when a sked would work for you - any evening after 2330Z works for me
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John AE5X <ae5x@...>
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#19710
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Re: powering an SWR meter from transceiver output
I ran some simulation of the power recovery circuit in ltspice. With the assumption, that the controller driving the LED baragraph draws 1.2mA at 2.4V, the following peak currents of the power
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Vojtech Bubnik
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#19709
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Dead (or seriously-ill) FeelTech FY3200S
Maybe some of you have had this same problem. After about a year of non use, I fired up my Feeltech FY3200S and was greeted with a lit-up but otherwise blank LCD, and a constant howl from the on-board
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Todd Carney
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#19708
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
I largely disagree.
First how your transmit digi and what mode is partially due to band plans.
If your transmitting a DSB signal in the CW segment of 40M thats not cool.
do it higher in the band then
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ajparent1/kb1gmx <kb1gmx@...>
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#19707
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
That's an interesting take on the issue, but I'm not sure I agree.
As far as I know there's no FCC (for USA hams, anyway) rule against transmitting digimodes in DSB (or AM, FM, or ISB). It's not
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Kirk, NT0Z
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#19706
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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver
Using DSB modulation to Tx a FT8 signal means that you will end up transmitting a second FT8 signal a few KHz away from your intended one.
From what I understand, this will have legal issues also with
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Christos SV1EIA
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#19705
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