All design ideas from the EMRFD book. Thanks to W7ZOI, KK7B, W7PUA. And i'm blessed to get this book in India at a second hand book seller. I told him to reserve any radio related books, one fine eve he called me about this book. I also bought ARRL 2011 book. If i'm not using the design concept from this book, then its a shame on having the book. So, here is my QRP Project..
1st design requirement is, front facing 4" speaker. No compromise.
I wanted this to be a self powered, no need to search for DC adapter. The transformer salvaged from old HI-FI cassette player. 15V 2A. I used 12V regulated power supply for TIA chain. Rest using unregulated 17V.
Close up view
From right >> RX/TX antenna relay >> 40m BPf >> 1st TIA amp >> VFO diode ring mixer >>10MHz ladder filter >> 2nd TIA amp >> 10MHz BFO >> 2nd diode ring mixer >> 2N2222 preamp >> audio power amp >
ULN2003 for all relay switching
Transmitter stage. >> 2N2222 >> BD139 >> 2SC1971 >> 5th order LPF . 2SC1971 gives spurr free 5 watts clean output with 17V 2A. I connect SI5351 clock output directly to 2N2222. All are TV balun cores. Cause thats what i have.
Side tone oscillator , Power supply and audio amplifier close up view
This is my own SI5351 clock generator board using ATMega8. ( I Hate arduino. ). I'm using C language in this project, but assembly version is in progress. You can find details about this PCB on this blog, look for SI5351 DDS board..
The speaker is from old National Panasonic cassette player. Excellent audio quality.
Etched TIA Amp board, i made about ten PCBs for future uses. Around 1" x 1" approx
Initial layout. Modular PCB system makes very easy to assemble and troubleshoot.
This is my project to demonstrate the simplicity of assembly language program. Usually we need lot of program size when we use Arduino compilers and its library. I'm much worried about the program size and coding efficiency. So i wanted to try my skill to make assembly language code to interface Si5351 DDS. After the introduction of mobile phones we lost our memory capacity to store the phone numbers in our brain. Similarly Arduino is spoiling our programming skills. It of-course opened up the creativity on hardware side, but on the software side most of the peoples copy-paste. The first place to look for Arduino code is google. Most of us just copy somebody's library and use it. Arduino made everybody to hesitate to study the datasheet and follow the instruction. I'm not an anti-arduino man, but i want to blow the whistle.
The challenge in this project is 1kB or less program size to interface Si5351 chip. I took the challenge myself. In arduino 1kB is just enough to blink LED with some sequence. Thats the beauty of Arduino ..LOL
Project Specification:
Use the Si5351 as variable frequency oscillator to cover CW range
Ex : 7000 to 7050 KHz
10100 to 10150 KHz
14000 to 14050 KHz
3500 to 3550 KHz etc...
To change the frequency using potentiometer
CLK2 as beat frequency oscillator for required frequency
Control the VFO or ON/OFF the CLK0 output with morse key
