<p dir="ltr">Excellent job Ron! Thanks so much sharing this! </p>
<p dir="ltr">73, <br>
HA7DCD <br>
Zoltan </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016. szept. 10. de. 1:19 ezt írta ("Ron Ott" <<a href="mailto:ronott@sbcglobal.net">ronott@sbcglobal.net</a>>):<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><b>Update</b>: I wound a second balun with 11.5 turns of #30 insulated wire and was more careful about the bifilar windings, starting both the primary and secondary at the same point on the Amidon toroid. In addition, I potted the wound toroid with common epoxy. The measured insertion loss decreased to 0.55dB at 14.1MHz. The signal looks great on the WSJT-X waterfall display, I don't see any sidebands and I'm not getting double spots now, even with a strong signal in the receiver.</div><div><br></div><div>Ron, W6XY</div><div><br><br></div><div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <br>----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Ron Ott <<a href="mailto:ronott@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">ronott@sbcglobal.net</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> TAPR HF Modes SIG Mailing List <<a href="mailto:hfsig@tapr.org" target="_blank">hfsig@tapr.org</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 7, 2016 7:14 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [hfsig] Sidebands on Raspberry Pi WSPR carrier - how much does a homebrew 1:1 balun help?<br> </font> </div> <div><br><div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div><br clear="none"></div><div><b>Construction</b><b>:</b> I received the parts to make a 1:1 balun this afternoon and wound 5 turns each of #30 insulated wire for the primary and secondary on an Amidon FT 37-75 toroid core. The primary and secondary windings are bifilar wound (interleaved) around the toroid with leads coming from opposite sides of the "O". The balun is installed in a small plastic box with BNC connectors on each end, no potting or glue was used.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Insertion loss:</b> I measured 1dB loss at 14MHz when the balun was inserted in a coaxial line from my HP signal generator and terminated in 50ohms; with some experimentation, this loss could probably be reduced as I just guessed at the number of turns based on the AMRAD design for a LF balun. As a result, my ERP will decrease from 18dBm to 17dBm.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Effect on sidebands due to AC modulation: </b> Listening to myself on the air on 20m while transmitting with the Raspberry Pi, I still get occasional double spots due to a sideband 120Hz from the carrier frequency. However, the difference betwen the carrier and sideband signal strengths can be over 50 dB with the balun, according to WSJT-X, making the RPi WSPR transmitter apparently within FCC specs for spurious transmissions.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Looks like this is a worthwhile addition to the RPi TAPR kit setup and helps reduce the sidebands 10s of dB, at least at my station.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">73, Ron</div><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><br><div>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br clear="none">hfsig mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:hfsig@tapr.org" target="_blank">hfsig@tapr.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/hfsig" target="_blank">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/hfsig</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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