Icom 706 mkIIg IF tap
just my experience using the PAT IF buffer from SDR-KITS.COM. power pick off point… 7.8VDC on recieve First IF tap point and coax connection to the PAT board. Note the…
Ramblings of yet another nerd...
just my experience using the PAT IF buffer from SDR-KITS.COM. power pick off point… 7.8VDC on recieve First IF tap point and coax connection to the PAT board. Note the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The VX1700 is a fairly nice radio, but it has one shortcoming from a flexibility standpoint – the VFO is not enabled by default, nor is it a simple software…