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Show us your build ! #99

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penfold42 opened this issue Sep 30, 2024 · 7 comments
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Show us your build ! #99

penfold42 opened this issue Sep 30, 2024 · 7 comments

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@penfold42
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penfold42 commented Sep 30, 2024

No matter how modern, steampunked or deviated from the recommended design :)

I'll kick things off...
Mine has a few substitutions based on what was to hand:
TL072 for the opamp
74HC4052 scavenged from a Pace set top box :)
The four tayloe caps are 27nF cos the 74HC4052 has a higher Ron
Small proto area that I can use for band low pass filters (the green wire.
This board runs at 5v so there's a pair of 1.8k/3.3k resistors to drop the amp outputs to 3.3v max
No preamp.

Its good for about 10MHz, FT8 on 14MHz is buried in noise.
Local AM stations are fine on an old skool wire loop antenna and some will totally overload the radio when on my EFHW.
The EFHW works well for 40m stuff.

Top view with SH1106 and buttons - the 2 boards could be folded back to back
front

Close up of the RF front end board
4052

And some pretty average soldering...
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@dawsonjon
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Brilliant 👍 I love this stuff 😁

@mryndzionek
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My first build was similar, but I fried some components while experimenting with random wire antenna and grounding. The second one is a little bit tidier 😄

@penfold42
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My first build was similar, but I fried some components while experimenting with random wire antenna and grounding. The second one is a little bit tidier 😄

pictures or yours doesn't exist...

you dissen my neatness bro??
When I get around to ordering, ill probably just replace the RF board with the 3253 and an smd 6022 both on the green breakout.
At least it'll be mostly 2 dimensional

@mryndzionek
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This is my current build. I run out of toner transfer paper, so had to draw it using a sharpie 😮‍💨
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@dawsonjon
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Nice! Love the hand etched PCB 👍

@MrSVCD
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MrSVCD commented Oct 2, 2024

PicoRX on breadboard
My first build. It's needs 5v for the analog switch chip and I have had bad luck with power banks giving noisy output so I went with 6 ni-mh and a LDO linear regulator.
The next one is going to be a experiment in Manhattan PCB design.

@dawsonjon
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Very neat!

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