I made it to the TX OpAmp installation stage of the Ensemble RXTX (20/30/40m option), where all tests in stages prior to this were fine. Upon testing the TX...
01/11/2012 14:29 I am regretting my somewhat hasty choice of bands for my ( working fine) RX/TX Ensemble. I built it for 30/20/17 meter bands, but now wish I...
Hi Tony, Do you have a record of me ordering an interface kit? I have a copy of the PayPal receipt but PayPal does not have a record of it in their history for...
02/11/2012 10:49 I am following up some ideas in a post I made regarding remote audio from a Softrock. Someone suggested using Skype. I have it set up on my ...
I just bought a used Creative X-Fi USB 5.1 sound card off eBay. It came with a USB cable but not any others (I guess even new ones don't either, except a...
I have ordered my Ensemble RX II kit and excited to get this unit to mostly learn about SDR and use it as the first phase of my longer goal. I also ordered the...
David (AE9RB), I'm able to use the latest version of PowerSDR (2.4.4) with the Peaberry but have to switch modes from USB to LSB to compensate for the reverse...
The Ensemble RXTX was working fine and then quit. So far I have check the 12v bus -- okay 5v bus 2.7 volts. Current draw in receive mode 128 ma. I removed the...
I have my ensemble II finished ( wel sort of). I hook the unit to HDSDR. HDSDR recognizes the si570 and controls the frequency. But there is apparently no I...
I'm building an RXTX for 20/30/40 meters. Since L2 and L3 are identical, I wound them exactly the same. However, I later noticed that the coils' hole...
** Hurricane & Superstorm Sandy ** Looking at the US Weather Service maps, it appears that all of the sections within the Atlantic Division have been touched...
I hope all of the East Coast members of the lists I am sending this to are safe and have the hatches battened down. We here in North East Ohio have gotten...
27/10/2012 23:15 Can someone kindly remind me how to check the cal of a si570 in a built Ensemble II receiver is spot on with a frequency counter please? I set...
I am building the Softrock RXTX Ensemble and I can not get the correct testing results while building stage 6 - RX Mixer (QDS). Test Measurements Testpoint ...
HI... I am process of building the ensemble II. I am up to testing the local oscillator.I have installed CFGSR and the associated DLL in the same folder. I...
David, I had seen the posts here on the Peaberry but did not realize it used a PSoC. I examined the Peaberry website and wonder if anyone has generated a...
Sorry, but I am not willing to spend the time to learn PSoC Creator just so I can understand in general how the Peaberry works. No wonder folks long for the...
Using HDSDR and ASUS Xonar, I get this message Windows reports that your soundcard is already in use ... Any ideas on how to get around this? The device is the...
Guys I purchased one from TAPR and it arrived this week. Work load suggests I really wont get to enjoy it any time soon. If you are interested it is available...
Hi all, I just upgraded my pc a few days ago, and the motherboard has a RealTek 889 based sound card, which can sample at 192khz, I was wondering if anyone...
Finished building last night. I'm just doing some initial testing with rx and I'm very confused. I'm new to ham radio, kit building and sdr. Basically I have...
For some time I've been working on a simple SDR program just for fun. With the recent flood of low cost AD9850 DDS oscillator boards on eBay I've written code...
Doing the standing current checks. With PTT active I'm getting. R48 - 52.9mV R49 - 102mV R46 - 2.61v I need to go clean all the flux off the board so I can see...
Tonight I finished my first Softrock 40 R, which is also my first exposure to SDR. After losing a resistor (which I simply replaced with a through-hole type) ...
Help! I'm building the ensemble rxtx. I'm building the TX mixer stage. I don't know how to wind the T2 transformer (for the 40,30,20m band) The instructions...
