Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 04:30:25 PDT From: Ham-Homebrew Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Homebrew-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Homebrew@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #90 To: Ham-Homebrew Ham-Homebrew Digest Fri, 8 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 90 Today's Topics: Cheap skate DDS HELP : Apartment Antenna System HomeBrew FT Site How phasing SSB Exciters Work (Was: RF and AF speech processors) PIN diodes cause IMD in front end? QRP Magazines like SPRAT, etc. Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Homebrew Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-homebrew". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Apr 94 16:51:18 GMT From: hp-cv!hp-pcd!hpcvsnz!tomb@hplabs.hp.com Subject: Cheap skate DDS To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Alvin Nor Mortensen (mortense@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote: : I'm in the process of building a VHF synthesizer. I had originally : planned on using DDS to provide the reference to a PLL multiplier. : Unfortunately the chip (AD7008 -> Great chip!) doesn't seem to be available : with out a significant lead time. I'm considering just rolling my own : using the MSB of the phase word as my "DAC". Has anyone tried this? : Any problems from the spurs ... ? Any thoughts ...? Lots of spurs lurking about out there on this one. Consider a clock at 40MHz, used to generate a DDS signal at 10MHz. If it's _exactly_ 4:1 division, there won't be any jitter on the output. But if you want 10.000 + or - a little, then most of the time you divide by 4, but sometimes you divide by 3 or 5, getting to the MSB. This means that the spectral purity of the output is very poor. It may be possible to do something like the fractional-N pll to provide an incremental analog delay of the square wave edges, delaying each successive edge by a little more, till you accumulate a whole clock pulse of delay at which point you reset the delay, insert one extra pulse, and start the cycle over again. This would probably be hard to get really right (good spectral purity). ------------------------------ Date: 07 Apr 1994 11:15:34 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!chaos.dac.neu.edu!chaos.dac!dean@network.ucsd.edu Subject: HELP : Apartment Antenna System To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Hi: I just got an old SW Rx and would like to set it up w/ an antenna. I want to receive 80m (and eventually Transmit w I finally get my ticket) on 80m. My 'shack' is at least 25' from any ground (2nd floor apt.) and I have very little space! The ground is a Steam radiator pipe. I have an MFJ-16010 random wire tuner, if this helps. Could someone help w/ suggestions? -Dean ------------------------------ Date: 07 Apr 1994 11:07:58 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!noc.near.net!chaos.dac.neu.edu!chaos.dac!dean@network.ucsd.edu Subject: HomeBrew FT Site To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Hi: Is there a favorite FTP site for all the HomeBrewers out there? -Dean ------------------------------ Date: 7 Apr 94 17:07:05 GMT From: hp-cv!hp-pcd!hpcvsnz!tomb@hplabs.hp.com Subject: How phasing SSB Exciters Work (Was: RF and AF speech processors) To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Wayne Covington (wayne@fc.hp.com) wrote: : Another interesting case is to start with a conventional elliptic function : bandpass response, then proceed to the two networks with flat group delay : and 90 degree phase difference, keeping the nice elliptic magnitude response. : The finite jw-axis zeros may well wreak havoc -- with the number of poles : and zeros (for the same overall tolerances on amplitude and phase errors as : you have above) increasing significantly. If you look at this a little differently, it's easy to see that the number of poles & zeros shouldn't be significantly affected. Come up with a pair of filters for quadrature phase that you are happy with for amplitude and phase matching. Add the same zeros and/or poles to both. Then the amplitude and phase matching will be unchanged. However, it should be easier to put the frequency shaping outside the quadrature phase network, since it can then be guaranteed to be identical for both channels. Leave the quadrature network all-pass; if you wish, shape its absolute phase to compensate the frequency-shaping filter. At least, that is how I'd approach it if I were constrained to do it analog. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 12:36:55 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!sgiblab!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!psinntp!arrl.org!zlau@network.ucsd.edu Subject: PIN diodes cause IMD in front end? To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Roger Traylor (rlt@ssd.intel.com) wrote: : I am building a front end for a multiband receiver. It will : consist of two poles of bandpass filtering followed by a grounded : gate JFET amp, followed by another two poles of filtering. : My question is: if PIN diodes are used to switch between different sets : of bandpass filters will they cause increased IMD at typical (not : pathological) signal levels? I found that cheap 1N4148 switching diodes can deliver adequate 3rd order IMD performance at 2 meters--I measured an input intercept in excess of +56 dBm. Loss wasn't a factor in the application, but its probably a dB or two. It was biased with about 10 volts and 520 ohms of series resistance. However, I didn't measure the 2nd order intercept point, which might be more of a factor on HF receiver than a microwave IF radio. -- Zack Lau KH6CP/1 2 way QRP WAS 8 States on 10 GHz Internet: zlau@arrl.org 10 grids on 2304 MHz ------------------------------ Date: 07 Apr 1994 11:10:45 GMT From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!noc.near.net!chaos.dac.neu.edu!chaos.dac!dean@network.ucsd.edu Subject: QRP Magazines like SPRAT, etc. To: ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu Hi: I recently received a complimentary copy of SPRAT, the journal of the G-QRP Club. I was great reading! Anyone know of other 'zines' I could try? -Dean ------------------------------ End of Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #90 ****************************** ******************************