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Wednesday 4 January 2023

Analogue Display Digital VFO



Following the original by JF3HZB (PW October 2022 p56) I have bodged mine sort of based on the original

https://github.com/tjlab-jf3hzb/Digital_VFO_with_analog_dial

https://tj-lab.org/2019/02/17/vfo5/

I will use for bench signal source and an older direct conversion radio setup I have.

The ESP32 I used seems to be a bit different.

The upload speed 115200, 240MHz, 40Mh flash, 4MB flash

Anyway programmed it.


I used a 2" rotary controller as per the PW article. Ruler and JLCPCB squeaky duck for size comparison.



Wednesday 8 June 2022

TE-2101 antenna analyzer

 This is tiny.



Amazing bit of homebrew.


The manual is in Japanese but the block diagram explains how it works



 

nifty bit of engineering with the case (3D printed and bent acrylic sheet). The PCB doubles up as support of the OLED and the uPC and battery charger are on separate PCB underneath. The components are gnat shite size though! This is some nice homebrew.


Looks like they are building some more...

Just fitting battery.
Mine is 180mAH so lot smaller than original.

Small battery fitted



working



at just 80grams, this will be a good one for /p operations for sure. It doesn't work without the battery inside but it will work (and keep recharging from USB if it is) so I suspect one of those USB power packs might be useful.

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Cores for baluns

 I have this printed out as I refer to it often enough so I reproduced it here (I cannot recall the original source tbh but all the values are in several reference books anyway) I got loads of torroids from GQRP club sales and W8DIZ.

The  different material works at different frequencies. These are often used in common mode chokes and wide band baluns.

Material

Common mode choke frequency range (single turn)

Common mode choke frequency range (multiple turns)

Impedance transformer

1:1 Balun (Choke)

#31

3,5 - 100 MHz

1,5 - 50 MHz

-

1,5 - 30 MHz

#43

25 - 600 MHz

2 - 60 MHz

2 - 50 MHz

2 - 30 MHz

#52

150 - 1000 MHz

4 - 150 MHz

1 - 60 MHz

1 - 60 MHz

#61

200 - 2000 MHz

5 - 200 MHz

15 - 200 MHz

10 - 100 MHz

#77

200 kHz - 10 MHz

100 kHz - 10 MHz

0,5 - 8 MHz

1 - 8 MHz

31 Material

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Initial Permeability

µi

1500


Flux Density @ Field strength

B

H

3900

5

Gauss

Oersted

Residual Flux Density

Br

3200

Gauss

Coersive force

Hc

0.28

Oersted

Loss Factor @ Frequency

Tan δ/ µi

20

1.0

10^-6

MHz

Temperature Coefficient of Initial Permeability (20 -70°C)


1.6

%/°C

Curie Temperature

Tc

>130

°C

Resistivity

ρ

3000

ohm-cm


31 Material

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Initial Permeability

µi

1500


Flux Density @ Field strength

B

H

3900

5

Gauss

Oersted

Residual Flux Density

Br

3200

Gauss

Coersive force

Hc

0.28

Oersted

Loss Factor @ Frequency

Tan δ/ µi

20

1.0

10^-6

MHz

Temperature Coefficient of Initial Permeability (20 -70°C)


1.6

%/°C

Curie Temperature

Tc

>130

°C

Resistivity

ρ

3000

ohm-cm

43 Material

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Initial Permeability

µi

800


Flux Density @ Field strength

B

H

2900

10

Gauss

Oersted

Residual Flux Density

Br

1300

Gauss

Coersive force

Hc

0.45

Oersted

Loss Factor @ Frequency

Tan δ/ µi

250

1.0

10^-6

MHz

Temperature Coefficient of Initial Permeability (20 -70°C)


1.25

%/°C

Curie Temperature

Tc

>130

°C

Resistivity

ρ

1×10^5

ohm-cm


52 Material

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Initial Permeability

µi

250


Flux Density @ Field strength

B

H

4200

10

Gauss

Oersted

Residual Flux Density

Br

3300

Gauss

Coersive force

Hc

0.6

Oersted

Loss Factor @ Frequency

Tan δ/ µi

45

1.0

10^-6

MHz

Temperature Coefficient of Initial Permeability (20 -70°C)


0.75

%/°C

Curie Temperature

Tc

>250

°C

Resistivity

ρ

1 x 10^9

ohm-cm


61 Material

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Initial Permeability

µi

125


Flux Density @ Field strength

B

H

2500

15

Gauss

Oersted

Residual Flux Density

Br

1000

Gauss

Coersive force

Hc

1.1

Oersted

Loss Factor @ Frequency

Tan δ/ µi

30

1.0

10^-6

MHz

Temperature Coefficient of Initial Permeability (20 -70°C)


0.1

%/°C

Curie Temperature

Tc

>300

°C

Resistivity

ρ

1 x 10^8

ohm-cm


77 Material

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Initial Permeability

µi

2000


Flux Density @ Field strength

B

H

5100

5

Gauss

Oersted

Residual Flux Density

Br

1800

Gauss

Coersive force

Hc

0.25

Oersted

Loss Factor @ Frequency

Tan δ/ µi

15

0.1

10^-6

MHz

Temperature Coefficient of Initial Permeability (20 -70°C)


1.2

%/°C

Curie Temperature

Tc

>200

°C

Resistivity

ρ

100

ohm-cm