In my last post, I went over the design of a Colpitts crystal oscillator design that put out a moderately clean 7 MHz signal. In order to match the output impedance to 50 Ω, an NPN feedback pair (at least that’s what I’m calling it) was designed. While meeting the specs for driving an ADE-1…
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7MHz Crystal Oscillator Design
After constructing a 40m wire dipole that works with my SDR setup, I needed to start working on a transmission system. At the heart of virtually any RF system lies a stable oscillator, and crystal oscillators are ubiquitous in many low-power (QRP) rigs simply because they are so stable. After some rough math and a…
Arduino: LFO Generator
here’s a treat for anyone that’s into the audio side of arduino. it’s an 8-bit two-timer based LFO Generator using timer 0/2 on an ATMega328p. i’m only using timer0 for output in this code. i’ve started implementing the LFO code into my 8-bit melotronium where timer2 is dedicated for the audio output. in the larger…