While the average users mainly use the PC to surf the web and to order every now and a book on Amazon, we, the Amateur Radio community are using PCs much more intensively. Especially in Software Defined Radio appliances, the PC is a central part of the system. So are you aware what DMA, ASM and ROM are? Do You know the difference between L1 and L2 cache? If not, I’ll show you a great way how you can gain a deep understanding without going to college again.
A couple of minutes ago I was informed by Bob 5B4AGN that he developed W3NQN style Bandpass filters. Probably the most important information is that he is taking orders for PCB.
In this article we will investigate how various Contest programms (Win-Test, N1MM and CW-Skimmer) communicate with the FT1000MP shortwave transceiver over the serial port. We will see what happens when multiple programs try to talk to the transceiver at the same time, what problems appear and how we can successfully monitor and debug them.
Today, I had the possibility to measure the performance of the well known ICE bandpass filters. Read more about the measurement results…
Lately I needed a 3dB splitter for a HF (1…30MHz) measurement project. Instead of buying me a splitter, I decided to build it on my own. After measuring the performance I am satisfied with the result…