Sunday 17 June 2018

Built TAURUS 40m SSB Exciter

As an advanced part of the BARSicle project the plan is to build RV3YF's TAURUS SSB Exciter and 5W PA.

I have received the kit for both, and so far built to SSB Exciter,

SSB EXciter

I have made a couple of modifications which I hope will work, these are to include input LPF for the VFO input of 4.0592 - 3.9592MHz (tuning 7.0 - 7.2MHz) and for the SSB filter input at LSB = 11.062MHz, USB = 11.056MHz. These signals will be provided by the VFO synthesiser using an Si5351, the third Si5351 output will be on 7.0-7.2MHz for our Direct Conversion RX.

Tuesday 12 June 2018

BARSICLE 2. Arduino Nano

2 Arduino S 001 2 Arduino S 002 2 Arduino S 003 2 Arduino S 004 2 Arduino S 005 2 Arduino S 006 2 Arduino S 0072 Arduino S 008

CODE

// BLINK

void setup() {
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);        // set pin 13 as an output
}

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(13, LOW);      // pin 13 LOW
  delay(1000);                // wait 1 sec
  digitalWrite(13, HIGH);     // set pin 13 HIGH
  delay(1000);                // wait 1 sec
}


// BLINK 1

#define LED 13

void setup() {
  pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);        // set pin LED as an output
}

void loop() {
  flash(100);                  // timings
  flash(100);

  flash(1000);
}

void flash(int t) {
  digitalWrite(LED, LOW);     // pin LED LOW
  delay(t);                   // wait t (ms)
  digitalWrite(LED, HIGH);    // set pin LED HIGH
  delay(t);                   // wait t (ms)
}


// VOLTS
// measure +5V output, mine was 4.62

float volts;                                          // ADC voltage read

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);                                 // start serial comms
}

void loop() {
  volts = analogRead(A0) * 4.62 / 1023;               // read ADC -> volts, "+5V" ref
  Serial.println(volts);                              // display on Monitor
  delay(100);
}

BARSICLE 1. Arduino Sketches

1 Arduino S 001 1 Arduino S 002 1 Arduino S 003 1 Arduino S 004 1 Arduino S 005 1 Arduino S 006 1 Arduino S 007 1 Arduino S 008 1 Arduino S 009 1 Arduino S 010

BARSICLE INTRO

Here's the slides I presented to introduce BARSicle

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BARSICLE BASICS

This is an outline of the BARSicle project, to build a complete homebrew 40m SSB station. The aim is to build technical know how among club members, from beginenr to advanced levels - LEARN, CODE, BUILD.

It includes a course in coding for the Arduino microcontrollers

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Input filter for SA612 mixer

We are planning to build a simple Direct Conversion RX, but with a Si5351 digital sythesiser VFO. The Si5351 has a square wave output with lots of harmonics. In order to limit these and avoid unwanted mixer products a simple filter is to be put infront of the VFO input.

IMG 0233
This is simply a 22pF capacitor and a 22uH inductor (commercial resistor-style) loaded by a 51R resistor. The Si5351 happily drives a 51R load with about the right input level for the SA612. The response of this arrangement is,

Screen Shot 2018 06 12 at 12 50 35

Which looks good. Now to try it in practice...