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Re: XCat NG changes

 

I really don't want to take that approach.? One of the reasons for the unavailability of the legacy Xcat is because of (assumed) soldering skills/equipment that the "average" ham has.? Of course this may be based on a bad assumption but I was/am very worried about soldering small pitch stuff.? If we stay with a module then we avoid needing to deal with a "QFN-56 7x7mm (reduced ePad size)" part.??

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My goal for Xcat NG is anyone that is interested to be able to have a PCB made from gerbers files posted on github, buy all of the parts and assemble it himself with reasonable soldering skills and equipment.

73's Skip WB6YMH



On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 7:24 PM Dennis Boone <drb@...> wrote:
?> The setting the VFO set the RX frequency, the TX frequency was also
?> set by adding a signed TX offset value to the specified receive
?> frequency.

It's also possible to shove a whole code plug mode line (or a whole
plug) into the Xcat.? I'd really like that feature to stay.

?> All of the pins are used, too bad the Pico PCB didn't bring out all
?> the rest of the GPIO lines (4) that would have made things a bit less
?> tight.

The Pico is an open source design.? We _could_ import its schematic, add
our translators and such, and lay out the result.? I mean, it's a whole
tree full, and a bunch of shiny baubles on top, but it's end up being
neater than just stapling two boards together, _and_ would let us have
the extra GPIOs easily, _and_ we could eliminate any hardware we don't
need.

De
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