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Re: Find RX frequency with RF generator and sweep.
There's another way to do this that might be easier: "sniff" the receiver's local oscillator with the tinySA and calculate the receive frequency from that.? It helps if you know the first IF (Intermediate Frequency) of the receiver, and you can probably find a manual for the radio and find out the first IF frequency easily enough.? If you can't look up the frequency of the first IF, you can figure it out from one of the channels you've already tracked down.? A popular first IF frequency used to be 45 MHz, with low side local oscillator injection.? Assume the desired receive frequency is 472.55 MHz, and the receiver uses low side injection.? The local oscillator will be at 427.55 MHz (472.55 - 45 MHz).? You can pick up the local oscillator with the antenna that comes with the tinySA, or with a "sniffer" loop consisting of a few turns of wire.? Look for a signal that pops up when you tune the radio to each channel, measure the frequency, add or subtract the frequency of the first IF depending whether the radio uses high or low side injection, write it down, and move on to the next channel.? All bets are off if this is a direct sampling analog to digital type receiver, of course.
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Re: My tinySA Ultra Signal level Critical
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Are you running the latest firmware? The version info is difficult to read.
The last picture seems to suggest the LNA is not amplifying and this will be detected with the latest FW -- For more info on the tinySA go to https://tinysa.org/wiki/ |
Re: My tinySA Ultra Signal level Critical
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After I replace RF switch all look ok I can LevelCal not Critical level .
But I SELF TEST? ?test 13 not pass. |
Re: Linux Mint USB
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I am able to use both my tinySA and my tinySA Ultra with Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon and tinySA-saver 0.2.2.? Are you using the latest version of tinySA-saver from github?
I have heard some have had problems connecting with USB3, but USB2 works OK.? If you have problems with one, you might try the other.? Try hitting the rescan button if saver doesn't see your tinySA. I hadn't used tinySA-saver in some time and just installed the latest version recently when I got the Ultra.? I used git clone https://github.com/erikkaashoek/tinySA-saver in a terminal to download, then used cd to switch to the newly created folder and followed the directions for Ubuntu in the README.MD file, except that I just used python3 where the instructions specified python3.7 since Mint 20.3 is using python 3.8.10 and will use that automatically when given the command python3.? Python3 and pip were already installed, so I ignored that part of the instructions to install those. |
Re: Tune a duplexer
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýguess I should've splaineed myself more gooderer, i.e. on the "referenced" page there is a LINK < > where the page goes to 404, sometimes talking (figure of speech) gets me in "HOT" water, nuxxed time I'll be most careful. :0) Mike C. On 1/16/2023 8:59 PM, Bob Snyder wrote:
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Re: Tune a duplexer
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Mike,Not sure what your problem is. I see only the post that was linked, no ads, no 404. On 1/16/23 17:54, Mike C. wrote:
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Re: Tune a duplexer
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýsure, after you skew down the page you'll find all sorts of ads, is that the idea? Mike C. Sand Mtn GA On 1/16/2023 8:50 PM, Bob Snyder wrote:
Works for me. |
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W5DET
Larry,
The topic is tuning a duplexer: You wrote: "i've done it with a TinyVNA and written it up over a year ago . My comments are all over at?[email protected]?" Searching for your post is made very difficult by group.io's poorly implemented search feature and the fact that is not a URL link but a mailto: This old man would surely appreciate seeing your write up if he could find it. 73, Doug, W5DET |
Re: New TinySA-ULTRA Case (3D print) on Thingiverse
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Hi Folks,
Here are photos of the ULTRA case as provided by spiff72 at a great price. I am very pleased with the results and will buy another! Larry AC9OX (Shows that connector protectors fit as well.) |
Re: Tune a duplexer
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Absolutely.? I no longer use SWR curver.? The Smith Chart tells you everything you need to know and then some.? SWR curves are lacking in the complex portion of impedances and circuits.? The reflection in vector form is also useful, but the Smith Chart covers all the bases. Dave - W?LEV On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM Dave VE3GSO <VE3GSO@...> wrote:
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Re: Tune a duplexer
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Am 16.01.2023 um 21:36 schrieb W0LEV:
Tracking generators coupled to an SA form a SCALAR network analyzer - no Smith Charts or measurement of the complex portion of impedances.Dave, there is an exception: one of the Advantest (former Takeda Riken) spectrum analysers with tracking generator (4167?) had the option of phase display and in addtiion with an external bridge? a smith display was possible Henning Weddig DK5LV |
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýAnd once you figure out what Smith Charts display you will wonder how you got along without them. ?Darn useful and easy to think about.Dave On Jan 16, 2023, at 15:36, W0LEV <davearea51a@...> wrote:
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Re: Tune a duplexer
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Tracking generators coupled to an SA form a SCALAR network analyzer - no Smith Charts or measurement of the complex portion of impedances. Dave - W?LEV? On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:29 PM Leif M <leif.michaelsson@...> wrote: With SA you measure signals -- Dave - W?LEV |
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With SA you measure signals
With VNA you measure circuits. And then there was a tracking generator. |