Arduino Nano with OLED Display

An interesting find on Aliexpress: a slightly larger Arduino Nano board with an in-built 0.91″ OLED display, 128×32, I2C. The driver chip is the SSD1306. Three libraries were needed to set it up and test it with a new sketch, but it works OK now. It could come handy for debugging comms or for monitoring…

Automatsko biranje antena – za Kenwood, Yaesu, Elecraft, Icom, za CAT, BCD i ‘Band Voltage’ // Band Decoder, Remote Antenna Switch

Gradio sam razne birače antena. Oni se po pravilu sastoje od dva dela – upravljačke i preklopne kutije, koje su povezane upravljačkim kablom. Zadnjih nekoliko godina ustalio se jedan model preklopne kutije, tj. kutije s relejima. Ona je za pet antena i predstavlja kompromis: bilo bi lepo da predviđa više antena, ali je i pet…

‘PIC-Keyer’: 2025 Edition

This is a Morse keyer by DL4YHF, who designed the circuit and wrote the software 26 years ago. I just designed a new PCB for it. The circuit is practically the same, with only a few minor changes and omissions. I wanted a tiny, low-power device that could be easily adapted for different implementations. When…

NanoVNA (jedna od verzija)

NanoVNA jeste open-source vektorski mrežni analizator – sprava za merenje radnih parametara antena i svega drugog u šta ulaze i kroz šta prolaze signali visokih frekvencija. Minijaturan je i relativno jeftin, dostupan prosečnom radio-amateru koji sam petlja oko antena, filtera, pojačavača. Pomoću NanoVNA može se meriti i analizirati impedansa, odnos stojećih talasa (SWR), meriti frekvencija…

The DigiRadioGuard

If you follow groups or forums where hams ask for help with equipment issues, you may have noticed that transmitters show a pronounced tendency to fail while they are being used for digital (data) modes. It seems that people often forget that amateur transceivers are not designed to transmit at full power for longer periods…

‘Instrument koji govori’, protokol SCPI, proba s Owon XDM-1041, na žicama…

Lepo radi i veoma mi je koristan prethodni projekt instrumenta koji govori, solidno dorađen:https://yu2zz.com/2020/06/17/instrument-koji-govori-talking-multimeter-v2-0/ Ovo sada jeste tek zanimljiv eksperiment s novim instrumentom i sa SCPI protokolom koji je danas skoro pa univerzalno podržan kod kvalitetnijih mernih instrumenata i drugih laboratorijskih uređaja: osciloskopa, analizatora spektra, izvora napajanja itd. Zavisno od modela, fizički interfejs može biti…