CC1101 Wireless Transceiver 868/915MHZ + U.FL Whip Antenna w/ FCC/EC Certification, Assembled and Shipped from US 


Description:

Don’t Be Fooled: It is NOT possible to use the same passive components for 433MHz and 868/915MHz operation using the Texas Instruments CC1101 transceiver chip (read the Texas Instruments CC1101 documentation!). The passive components in the transceiver module we integrate are correctly tuned for 868/915MHz operation. PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR TRANSCEIVER FOR OTHER WAVEBANDS; YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE RANGE PERFORMANCE.

FCC/EC Certified: We use an FCC/EC certified 868/915MHz transceiver module (the certification is on the module - we paid for the FCC/EC certification!); other CC1101-based transceivers modules are NOT FCC/EC certified. If you transmit with them, you are possibly in violation of the law.

Note: The transceiver chip uses a 26MHz crystal. Please use this crystal frequency when determining the initialization data for the CC1101, which is usually done with Texas Instruments' RF Studio. 

RFI Protected: Our transceiver module has a metal RF Interference (RFI) cover, making our transceiver module somewhat larger than others: 0.8” x 1.13” (20.5mm x 28.7mm). Other transceiver modules are bare components that are subject to producing or receiving RF Interference.

Standard 8-Pin Connector: Our transceiver uses the “standard” 8-pinouts others CC1101 transceivers use, so you are “plug compatible” with other offerings.

Versatile Antenna Connector: No bulky antenna connector! The very small, industry-standard U.FL RF connector (originally developed by Hirose) provides many antenna connection options. The U.FL RF connector is used by millions of consumer RF devices.


High Quality Antenna: No bulky antenna! We provide a tiny, high-quality U.FL whip antenna that is 82mm long for North American customers and 86mm for EU customers. This length is the correct 1/4 wavelength for 915MHz (NA) or 868-869MHz (EU). There is no magic in a passive antenna, and the simple whip provides a very light-weight, reasonably-efficient transmitter or receiver. You can’t make or buy a much better general-purpose small antenna than a whip, and you can easily make or buy a much poorer one.


A Genuine Texas Instruments CC1101 Transceiver Chip: It has the following features:

  1. Working voltage: 1.8-3.6V. Please do NOT use +5V power or +5V logic! If you do, you will destroy the CC1101!
  2. Operating frequency: the 868 and 915MHz ISM (Instrumentation, Scientific, and Industrial) bands.
  3. Instantaneous maximum working current: <30mA.
  4. Maximum transmit power: +10dBm.
  5. Supports 2-FSK, 4-FSK, GFSK, MSK, and OOK modulation.
  6. Receiver sensitivity of -110dBm at 1200 baud.
  7. Minimum operating speed 1.2kbps, the highest 500kbps.
  8. Separate 64-byte RX and TX data FIFO buffer.
  9. Built-in hardware CRC error detection ensures reliable data transmission.
  10. Supports RSSI signal strength detection and carrier sense function.
  11. 256 mailing addresses. 
  12. Convenient SPI interface.
  13. Operating frequency, power, and modulation type are programmed via SPI.
  14. Programmable output power up to +10 dBm for all supported frequencies.
  15. The Wake-on-Radio (WOR) feature can be set to standby for low power consumption (typical: 500nA).
  16. Fast frequency synthesizer for implementing a frequency hopping system.


We Use and Test What We Make: Our application for this transceiver module is battery-power, radio-control of model railroad locomotives (bprc or Dead-Rail) where reliability and range performance matter. You can Google OScaleDeadRail for our application. But, this is a general-purpose device for your applications, too! All transceiver boards are tested with our application before we send it to you.