[McHUG] Success!!!

[n3sb at qis.net]

Excellent Pete!

I hope you are able to post some photos - maybe Rich can put them on his
website. I'd love to see what this looks like!

73; Steve, N3SB

Quoting Peter Morton <mortonph at comcast.net>:

> Finished building the interface cables for the SI570 and fired 'er up.  It
> works!!  And, the frequency can be set using WinRad.  Simply right or left
> click on the LO frequency digits in the upper right corner of the WinRad
> display and the SI570 changes frequency accordingly (at 4x the LO displayed
> frequency).
> 
> Next step is to connect the SI570 to the SoftRock Lite.  I'll take a look at
> that later.  I need to decide what tests need to be run to characterize
> performance before and after.  I had trouble previously measuring sensitivity
> of the SoftRock Lite in an open environment.
> 
> I want to eventually package the two boards in a shielded box with antenna,
> DC power, I/Q audio, and control connectors.  Also, need to implement
> preselectors for desired bands and implement a means to switch them easily. 
> All the connectors and interfacing tend to dwarf the two little boards that
> are the heart of the system.
> 
> I noticed that Tony Parks uses the same PIC that is used for the PICAXE 08 to
> control the SI570 on his LITE-XTAL board.
> 
> -Pete
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