Another Shack Reboot
So – after moving, i was presented with a much smaller space to call my shack. Since my wife was working fomr home, we had to build her some office…
Ramblings of yet another nerd...
So – after moving, i was presented with a much smaller space to call my shack. Since my wife was working fomr home, we had to build her some office…
Well, I went on the trip…. and I couldn’t operate a single bit. The noise floor in the hotel was S9+… on ALL HF bands. It appeared to be the…
I haven’t given up on my custom PCB for a soundcard interface, because it’s a labor of love…. the first board has been populated, but needs some troubleshooting. I suspect…
I was headed out to a cub scout campout, and needed an antenna for Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). I needed something flexible, robust, and visible. After digging in the…
So, this started out as an exercise to see if could get Microsoft Excel (through VBA) to directly talk to my Uniden scanner. I’ve done this in labview quite a…
ok – this should be the final post…. I did one more batch of updates… this time I designed for EMI. Not only did I ensure I had full isolation…
Over the past couple weeks, I have been tinkering more with the soundcard interface. I started using FreePCB (http://www.freepcb.com/) – which is a VERY nice PCB drawing program with gerber…
One of the interesting things about equipment on the market today is the commonality between different models and bands of radio equipment. In years past, it was just the basic…
Today, I tackled interrupts. I’m not so sure I tackled interrupts, so much as i worked on determining the dynamic tuning step timing. I needed a routine to wait for…
well, there’s been some small progress…. I started tinkering with the rotary encoder. I found a great example here: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Encoder.html one thing, though – encoder.h must be added to the…