[McHUG] Yes! Yes! Sweet 10MHz Tone!

[Rich Mitchell]

Sorry this isn't about Atmel AVRs or Si570s.  Last night I decided to get out the old Radio Motherboard (http://home.att.net/~geobra/cfr.html) that was only populated with an HC908 (Freescale).  I soldered in a socket for the DDS60 I had built a month or so ago, but never tested.  I soldered 3 wires from the socket to the HC908 and two more to V++ and ground.  Put in the DDS60 and tried to remember how to wire up the RS232.  Then I got out that sophisticated piece of test equipment called the Grundig Yachtboy 400, tuned it to 10 MHz, fired up the Exerciser program in the HC908 and selected the test DDS60 option.  Sure enough, there was the tone.  The DDS60 worked! and that @#$#@ little Analog Devices SMT chip had soldered in okay.  I guess I shouldn't have been surprized since there was no RISC involved.  

I was able to download the Linux AVR CD Steve mentioned and then use K3b (a Linux KDE utility, not a special event station) to burn the CD.  If you have dial-up don't try this!  The 600+ mB on my DSL took quite a while.  Anyway so now I will be playing from 6 untu oh dark thirty with this stuff.  (Sorry SixUntu is the name of the live Linux CD.)  Haven't tried it yet since I was playing with the DDS60.

Welcome to Jim WA3MEJ.  Glad you found us.  We are now ten.
Jim WA3MEJ
John K3YJP
John AK3Z
Dick K3KWL
Bill W3STG
John K3KWO 
Chuck KJ4GU 
Steve N3SB 
Pete W3GVX
Rich N3III

The Barebones Boards Rev D (ATmega168) with the P4 serial adapters were waiting for me when I got home.  If you want to get them before April 19th (Saturday morning workshop) let me know, perhaps breakfast April 5th?  Or sooner.  

73,
Rich, N3III
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