Simple, fun and versatile QRP SSB HF transceiver with embedded DSP and SDR functions;
EER Class-E driven SSB transmit-stage
Approximately 5W PEP SSB output from 13.8V supply
All-Mode support: USB, LSB, CW, AM, FM
DSP filters: 4000, 2500, 1700, 500, 200, 100, 50 Hz passband
DSP features: Automatic Gain Control (AGC), Noise-reduction (NR), Voice-triggered Xmit (VOX), RX Attentuators (ATT), TX
noise gate, TX drive control, Volume control, dBm/S-meter.
SSB opposite side-band/carrier supression Transmit: better than -45dBc, IMD3 (two-tone) -33dBc, Receive: better than -50dBc
Multiband support, continuously tunable through bands 160m-10m (and from 20kHz..99MHz with loss in performance)
Open source firmware, built with Arduino IDE; allows experimentation, new features can be added, contributions can be
shared via Github, software-complexity: 2000 lines of code
Software-based VOX that can be used as fast Full Break-In (QSK and semi-QSK operation) or assist in RX/TX switching for
operating digital modes (no CAT or PTT interface required), external PTT output/PA control with TX-delay
Simple to install modification with 8 component changes and 8 wires
Lightweight and low-cost transceiver design: because of the EER-transmitter class-E stage it is highly power-efficient (no bulky
heatsinks required), and has a simple design (no complex balanced linear power amplifier required)
Fully digital and software-based SSB transmit-stage: samples microphone-input and reconstruct a SSB-signal by controlling
the phase of the SI5351 PLL (through tiny frequency changes over 800kbits/s I2C) and the amplitude of the PA (through PWM
of the PA key-shaping circuit)
Fully digital and software-based SDR receiver-stages (optionally): samples I/Q (complex) signal from Quadrature Sampling
Detector digital mixer, and performs a 90-degree phase-shift mathematically in software (Hilbert-transform) and cancels out
one side-band by adding them
Three independent switchable analog front-end receiver attenuators (0dB, -13dB, -20dB, -33dB, -53dB, -60dB, -73dB)
Receiver Noise floor MDS: –135 dBm at 28MHz (in 200Hz BW)
Receiver Front-end selectivity: steep -45dB/decade roll-off +/-2kHz from tuned-frequency
Blocking dynamic range: 20kHz offset 123dB, 2kHz offset 78dB
CW decoder, Straight/Iambic-A/B keyer
VFO A/B + RIT and Split, and corresponding relay band-filter switching via I2C
CAT support (TS480 subset)
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