Re: #tinysa #ultra Leveling TinySA Ultra with damaged LNA
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So.. I received LNA's (BGA2817), but it turns out i need Zeenko's ZK10D. They are not listed on theirs aliexpress store. I wrote them, waiting for answer. Is there any way to bodge BGA2817 in there?
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morpheus
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Re: Turn off display
Correct -- Designer of the tinySA For more info go to https://tinysa.org/wiki
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: Turn off display
Is "Brightness" only on the bigger models? I don't see "Brightness" on the TinySA Basic. Brilliant device. I used to have an HP141T with all the band plugins and then replaced it with a Rigol (up to
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Mike EI9FEB
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
A GOOD PRACTICE: Whenever I pick up the end of a coaxial cable, I *always *hold a finger across the end "shorting" the center conductor to the backshell before connecting it to anything. Doesn't
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W0LEV
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Re: Hunting Spurious Emission at 154 MHz
Some years ago I helped chase down an interferer whose signal was drifting through the input frequency ranges of a bunch of 2-meter ham repeaters in our area.? It came and went, and when present had
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David Platt
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Short the SMA central pin with the outside of the SMA plug. No ground needed. -- Designer of the tinySA For more info go to https://tinysa.org/wiki
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Yup. DaveD KC0WJN [email protected]> wrote:
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Dave Daniel
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Add to this list people who routinely mix up "B" for bytes and "b" for bits, especially in the networking part of the computer world.
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Andrew Matros
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Dave, W0LEV, is correct. The metric prefixes are well-defined. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix for a list of them. One of the ones that people screw up is milli (m) vs. mega (M).
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Dave Daniel
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Yes, I have one generator that goes to ?Hz. But I'm not a typical ham by any means! If you build yourself a seismometer, you're in the mHz region. Dave - W?LEV [email protected]> wrote:
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W0LEV
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Hate to burst your bubble Dave, but the HP-3561A , in their documentation, refers to the low frequency coverage (micro Hz) as uHz, and how about kHz. So, yeah, mHz for "mili Hz" works for me but hey
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Mike C.
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Yea, Don, get the newbies to use proper abbreviations! I've called it out many times, but it seems to fall on deaf ears and clearly never reaches the gray matter. What really gets my goat is "mhz".
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W0LEV
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
One word. MOVE. Mike C. Sand Mtn GA PS Better yet, drop a #10 gauge wire straight out your window, shove it into the ground (bare) then connect the other end, 'CAREFULLY', to your ground lug on the
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Mike C.
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
I am very unfortunate in that my townhouse has both dirty electricity and dirty ground in the outlets. I had been using grounding mats/ sheets in my bed. After some testing I found out that current
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Adam Coate
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
I can attest to that for sure (discharging cables). As a lead tech, working for uncle sugar many years ago at NNSY (Norfolk Naval Shipyard), I was assigned to re hook-up a long wire antenna on top of
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Mike C.
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
My observation is that very few people use units of dbW even when working at high power, dbm (relative to 1 milliwatt) being far more common. If a colleague started using dBW I would ask them why as I
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Donald S Brant Jr
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
One of the best things you can do to prevent ESD failures is to develop a habit of discharging any cable before you mate it with any kind of equipment.? Cables can acquire a many-thousand volts
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Donald S Brant Jr
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Re: What accessories do I need for a TinySA Ultra?
Unless an input or output is marked, as happens with some very high-power attenuators, I assume they are bidirectional.? They are generally Pi or T topology and thus symmetrical. A notable exception,
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Donald S Brant Jr
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Re: True frequency band upper limit detection level of TinySA Ultra ZS-407 and corresponding signal dropoff
Agree, but not everybody has such a sensor -- Designer of the tinySA For more info go to https://tinysa.org/wiki
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: True frequency band upper limit detection level of TinySA Ultra ZS-407 and corresponding signal dropoff
M preferred method of dealing with an unknown signal is by using a wideband power sensor and slowly approaching the mating connector with the unknown signal, I can sense a whopping signal by
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Donald S Brant Jr
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