Monday, February 21, 2011

Softrock Lite II receiver for 30 m

Finally. I´ve had this SDR kit in my drawer for over 1 year, but now it´s built and seems to be working fine.

Below a few pictures. As it´s late and my antennas is nothing to talk about here in the apartment, 30 meter is dead. So I´m using the signal generator that I described earlier. I of course want to use Linux but as Rocky seems to be the software suggested to start with I wanted to lower the numbers of 'unknowns' and get it running. And it did! The mirror images was easily suppressed. Below is a picture of WRPlus that I tried after Rocky:

Here are two pictures of the temporary test setup...


The SDR-Widget is now housed in a  box, temporarily. I have not flashed the firmware yet to allow 192 kHz usage. Will do that later, when I will try to get it running in Linux.

And to end with, some close up pictures on the board. The coax connection isn´t the prettiest, but it seems to work while testing. I will have do redo that when I put in a permanent box.





My SMD soldering skills has been improved and now I feel confident to go ahead with other bigger project.  

3 comments:

  1. Hello Eric,

    It is a great moment, when a new project is ready for testing.
    Tomorrow the band will be open, so good luck in testing and using.

    73, Bert PA1B

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  2. Hi Eric, I got your comment on my blog - I didn't know I had any "anonymous" readers! Nice to meet you. I've subscribed to your blog and hope you'll continue to read and enjoy (and comment on!) mine. 73s!

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  3. Nice! And as promised, you won the "race" ;-) My RTXT ensemble still requires works to be done...
    73, Joachim pa1gsj

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