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October 10th 14, 10:50 AM
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Frequency accuracy in older RXs
Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Peter Able stuck@home wrote in news:ks2dncC5fJrIAqrJnZ2dnUVZ7s- : Fine, but first find a microcontroller with such a fast (minimum 60MHz) DAC. Even if you do you'll spend many times the cost of a simple microcontroller plus DDS chip system - and you won't rival the cheaper system's performance until your DAC can work at several times 60MHz. Good point. Almost certainly easier to just send step size from CPU to the accumulator in fast hardware. The step size needs changing far less often than it needs stepping. That is what the external DDS chip is doing. When you require only FM-modulated signals and no sinewave, existing microcontrollers can do it using their onboard timers and programmable clock dividers. For example, the Raspberry Pi has been turned into FM-broadcast and amateur radio shortwave FSK/ASK transmitter, the RF signal appears (as a square wave) directly on a GPIO pin. Just filter and amplify, or when you don't ca just connect a random wire as an antenna to transmit a couple of mW (and harmonics). |
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