Re: How will I know if I’ve overloaded my TinySA Ultra?
If in doubt, run the built-in self test. If that fails when it once
passed, you might consider replacing the unit.
Dave - W?LEV
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W0LEV
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How will I know if I’ve overloaded my TinySA Ultra?
I work in film/TV sound production and was tooling around with my Tiny SA yesterday. ?I realized that I was getting pretty close to 0dBm at some point on a few UHF carriers. We use a 250mW
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Derek H
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Re: Made Impossible to repair on purpose?
Thanks for all the feedback.
Topic closed
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: Made Impossible to repair on purpose?
If stay away from YouToob
Then stay away from books?
Cull the herd?
For a one that was never blessed with a stellar intellect, I find that my limited ability to think in? a critical manner has
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Fred Murray
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Hi Dave,
Thank you for your post.
I'm sure there are many of us who bit their lips, myself included, every
day, at remarking how LAZY some people have gotten in doing their own
resurch and work.
They
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Clyde Lambert
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OK.... I've resisted hitting the keyboard with the following frustration:
The newbies want everything handed to them on a velvet pillow. When it
isn't there, they just complain.
Think for
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W0LEV
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Steve,
old school way if you dont have a scope, and such, use the scratch test. uninsulated paperclip or whatever small enough to introduce random noise into the circuit. you can actually use the
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Rich,
Sounds good to me. If TinySA would put into the front end a switchable attenuator in the antenna path, you would have loads of units saved from like you stated, overloaded front end. and such.
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Steve,.
I own the TinySA. and it was failing the step three or whatever procedure. i also found i was not doing the self test procedure correctly. the main menu is small and i was hitting the wrong
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It's called an attenuator, and it has been discussed almost constantly on this and other forums.
Given that the TinySA and NanoVNA have been pirated so much, I'd say it was sensible not to publish
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Martin
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From a Tek Scopes groups forum:
I have a 492 (on my to-be-repaired list).? It came with full schematics, and was cost effective to repair.? I don't think any real engineering firm or even advanced
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rich
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MFJ did introduce inovation products such as the Antenna Analyzer. Monitoring Times had an interview with Martin Jue. He mentioned that the low cost product line market line was copied and taken over
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or MFJ, where no one would want to clone it. :-)
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mike
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More specific to the hooby try to get a schematic for products produced by a company such as DX Engineering. Once it is released it would be cloned by the Chinese.
Mike N2MS
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Mike N2MS
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Not so, Steve.? Can you get a schematic or block diagram and instructions to repair your cell phone?? Only to a very limited extent from hackers who have figured it out.? It is very common in
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Stan Dye
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If this were a more mainstream product like a John Deere tractor the Right
To Repair people would be all over it! LOL
kaashoek.com@groups.io> wrote:
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steve c
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Ah, the tinySA Basic is even simpler.
Just follow the block diagram as can be found on the wiki: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.TechnicalDescription
I found it by googling for "tinysa block
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Erik Kaashoek
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If there is no schematic, no block diagram, no physical layout, how do the
cloners manage?
We should be thankful Eric has given hamdom (and the schools and
professionals) such a capable instrument
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W0LEV
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Thanks but that video is for the tiny SA ultra, not like mine.
kaashoek.com@groups.io> wrote:
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This should give you enough information to trace the signal to the mixer
https://youtu.be/ypqJMcVC-z8?t=1483
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Erik Kaashoek
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