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Description
The SoftRock-40 is a small, low-cost, good performing 40-meter "software defined radio" receiver that plugs into a computer USB port and delivers I-Q audio signals to the computer's sound card. It was designed by Tony Parks, KB9YIG and Bill Tracey, KD5TFD as an "SDR sampler project" for hams everywhere to easily try out software defined radio.
This is the place to express your enthusiasm, ideas, experiences, modifications, extensions and maybe more ?
Announcements
May 12, 2009 SoftRock Kit Orders Now Taken Online www.kb9yig.com
Dec 21, 2008 Lite II [ docs]
Nov 30, 2008 Electronically Switched v9.0 HF BPF kit
Oct 22, 2008 v9.0 50 and 144MHz converter (Beta) [ docs]
Oct 2, 2008 v9.0 Lite+USB Xtall [ docs, notes]
Jul 29, 2008 USB I2C interface kit [ docs]
Jul 12, 2008 RXTX+Xtall v6.3 transceiver [ docs, proto] |
Re: Fried Softrock II Lite
... Subject: [softrock40] Fried Softrock II Lite ... Les, The ICs are designed to run at 5 volts and are likely to be damaged if more than just a little more
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 6:53 am
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Alan
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Re: Fried Softrock II Lite
Hi Les, Did you bypass the regulator because you suspected it was somehow faulty? It would have been interesting to measure the voltage at the output of the
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 6:50 am
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Matt Maguire
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Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 6:06 am
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andreash23y
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Re: Fried Softrock II Lite
Hi Les, Funny enough there is a very good reason why there is a 5V regulator provided on the PCB. Most or all of the IC's operate from 5V, applying 9 or 12V
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 5:58 am
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g8voip
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Re: Antenna for Ensemble RX II receiver
Alan I have not yet tried it on W7 but it runs on XP 100% because I tried some time ago. You have to change your regional setting to Germany or it won't work.
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 4:20 am
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Lawrence Galea
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