2014 Chevy Truck Accessory Power
I’m not the first person to need accessory power in a Chevy truck – but it took a while to find a solution. One possible solution is to just put…
Motorola MTR2000 Band Change
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…
CI-V EXTERNAL VFO CONTROL, PART 4
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…
CI-V EXTERNAL VFO CONTROL, PART 3
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…
CI-V External VFO Control, Part 2
OK, this update won’t have any videos… those will come shortly, so you’ll need to take my word for it. I learned a few things since the last post… so…
CI-V External VFO Control, Part 1
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…
Soundcard Interface Update
after much work, I got the VX1700 interface working. It would appear that the connection convention is a bit strange. From the service manual, Data OUT on the Data Jack…
SDR# as a visual panadaptor
It was a fun contest – this year’s sweepstakes threatened to not be a sweep for me – then again, i didn’t put a serious effort into it. I used…
USB Soundcard Interface
So, after much fussing and messing around with a rigblaster, I had had enough – I knew there must be a better way to interface to my FT1000. First, with…
Connectors… BNC, N, TNC, UHF, SMA… what?
OK, so everyone has their favorite type and installation method for RF connectors. While I’m not going to address everything, I’m going to describe my setup a bit, and the…