Posts by DL5LF

I use 100-2700MHz splitter PCB from Ali for abt. 1€.

You shall DC isolate one output port because most receivers provide power supply for active antennas.

You may not replace the TCXO because it is not easy to remove it without damaging the PCB. Place the new one on a separate (temperature isolated) small piece of PCB near by and disable original TCXO by EN pin (check schematic).

Good luck...

Mit dem PoE Adapter hat man generell die Möglichkeit zwei Signale (DC gekoppelt) über die Netzwerk-Verbindung (LAN) zu übertragen.

Ob das plus/minus (Stromversorgung) ist oder was anderes ist egal.

Du kannst das Steuersignal vom USB-Relais über einen POE-Adapter zum Pluto bringen.

Du kannst ein USB-Relais verwenden, das wird von der SW unterstützt. Dann braucht man nicht in dem Pluto löten.

Ich meine die PTT über die GPIOs geht nur mit alternativen FW.

CMOS output?

3V might be too much, check with pluto specs.

There are a few threads in this forum discussing the same.

Try attenuator.

Chinese SMA attenuator or DIY attenuator ?!

... or lower drive power ...

mny options!

As far as I remember the 64bit OS is the problem.

Did you try fresh 32bit?

Even a TCXO is not stable within the LNB!

And there is a lack of space in the LNB, it needs a lot of soldering skills to get this done.

Preferred solution is to feed the 25MHz via cable, preferred LNB has min. two outputs, use one of these to feed the 25MHz. I use a ferrite bead as a transformer as suggested somewhere in this forum.

TCXO or later GPSDO can be placed in temperated shack

YO8SEP

I simply use a AS169-73 (RF switch). Inputs connected to internal TCXO and a added SMA connector, output connected via 47pF to AD9363ABCZ xtalin input. Appropriate control signals generated from PS_GPIO6 for the AS169 and the TCXO enable (off while external).

Important to add 20k in parallel to R91!!! This lets the (original) FW think it is a rev. D HW and the ext clock commands will work:

// this enables the internal TCXO
fw_setenv refclk_source internal

// this enables the external CLK in
fw_setenv refclk_source external

// set different ref. clocks
fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk '<40000000>'
fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk_override '<40000000>'


fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk '<45000000>'
fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk_override '<45000000>'

fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk '<25000000>'
fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk_override '<25000000>'

fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk '<40000000>'
fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk_override '<40000000>'

fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk '<50000000>'
fw_setenv ad936x_ext_refclk_override '<50000000>'

// ... reboot to take affect

reboot

DC7KG

I equipped my rev.C. pluto with a similar, more simple circuit.

OS commands for switching between external and internal clock work only if the rev. resistor is modified accordingly.

iu4gav

You are right.

I remembered some of the numerous discussions about this topic in this forum, e.g. here

YO8SEP

It shall be square wave within the specified limits: 1.3Vpp. There are also various discussions and measurement results in this forum.

Petronel,

from 10MHz OCXO (squarewave) you can extract 50MHZ harmonic with crystal and buffer this with inverters and feed into pluto.

Divided by 2 can be used for LNB!

Found this somewhere, do not remember where.

25MHz for the pluto is out of spec as far as I remember , might work or not.

In a second step you may sync the OCXO to GPS ... ... always good to have enough ham projects

I do not recommend to remove original TCXO because you have to apply a lot of heat. Disable it by EN input and place the new TCXXO elsewhere on a small PCB.

Versuche mal eine kleinere Bandbreite für den Pluto einzustellen.

No need for removal, disabling is sufficient, check schematic.

Try before modification, because modification is not easy. You need soldering equipment and skills .

Best inject from external for the rev. C!

Quote from DL3RY

..welche FW Version dieser "verträgt"? Mittlerweile gibt es ja auch eine V0.35

Es gibt einen Spanungsteiler, der je nach HW Revision anders bestückt ist. Die Spannung wird über den ADC von der SW ausgelesen. D.h. du kannst alle SW Versionen auf alte HW flashen. Alte SW auf neue HW würde ich nicht machen.

DL2GFS

Sendest du mit dem GPS gelockten Pluto direkt auf 2.4GHz?

Dann kann das mit der Ablage eigentlich nicht sein.

Die Linux Tanssceiver SW hat in der GUI links ein Button, damit sendest du einen (leisen) Ton.

Hast du im Setup alle Frequenzen richtig eingestellt?

As far as I remember the SW recognises the HW revision and rev D commands shall not work on rev C HW.

Basically the command switches a GPIO which controlls the switchi g HW. I modified my Pluto and had to add a parallel resistor to the rev resistor. The same generates an analogue value which is evaluated at startup. Check the associated schematics.

Rit: Nicht direkt, siehe meinen Post 91.