WFView and USB Controllers
I’m frugal… well, ok… I’m cheap. I’ve been running WFView for a while – and I like it because of the cost. you know.. free. In previous posts, I’ve posted…
Ramblings of yet another nerd...
I’m frugal… well, ok… I’m cheap. I’ve been running WFView for a while – and I like it because of the cost. you know.. free. In previous posts, I’ve posted…
Last time I discussed getting the X6100 working with logging software, and a computer-based display (Wfview). It worked with the 7300 and the Xeigu when plugged into my MacBook Pro…
Recently, I had reason to try and check performance on a radio I had acquired, but I had neither a service monitor, nor a second radio like it available (I’m…
I know that linux in the ham shack is not a new topic, and has been beat to death. I’ll keep beating that dead horse and document the issues I’ve…
Well, the original configuration (SteppIR controller passing commands between the radio and PW-1) worked… for a while. I suspect there was some collision or synchronization that fell out of timing…
I’ll spare the reader yet another glowing review for the Mini1300 analyzer. No I won’t – I’m still going to spew my thoughts on this thing. I picked one up…
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…
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…
Many years ago, Sam, K9SD, added some interesting functionality to his Icom 781 radios – an external encoder wired in parallel to the VFO control. This may seem trivial, but…