Pete,

I hope you make it to production with the MW receiver. It sounds like a
real winner, especially if it gets all the bells and whistles. In the
meantime is there any chance for offering the sync' detector as an
outboard unit which could be added to a car radio? If not, are you free
to release the schematic for homebrew projects?

Thanks

Pete KE9OA wrote:

I wish there was.....................it seems that there is always a project
ahead of mine at work. They do want to market the radio, but the software
folks are tied up in more lucrative projects. A friend of mine offered to
write the 145170 PIC code for me last Christmas.............I should have
let him do it. Originally, I just wanted to market a barebones synthesized
radio, but the boss wanted to have a spectrum analyzer display, bass and
treble controls, electronic volume, memories, automatic tracking of the
loopstick antenna...........etc. At Motorola, we used to call this "creeping
elegance". The radio is done............all we need is the uP
(arrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh) control section to be completed.
I built myself a home version of this unit that has no sync detection, no
synthesizer, and manual tuning of the loopstick. I tune the VCO with a
Spectrol 10-turn pot, and after the first 5 minutes with about a 10kHz
drift, it stays tuned all night.
Right now, the radio sits up on my shelf along with some of my other
homebrew radios.
If this thing ever gets to market, I think you will have quite a bit of fun
with it. When I get my website up again, I will post some pictures of the
prototypes up there.

Pete

"starman" wrote in message
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Thanks Pete. Anything new to report on the MW receiver?


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