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<div>Good idea about using the transistor. I also use a short piece of wire wrap wire to get to the pins.</div>
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<div>It is fun soldering to those points. Luckily they are on corner pins and in the case of the current batch of green USB adapters the COR point (VOLDN) has a big pad. </div>
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<div>Of course you could just buy one of the new URI devices (<a href="http://www.dmkeng.com/Products.htm">http://www.dmkeng.com/Products.htm</a>) :) <br></div>
<div>73,</div>
<div>Steve Henke, W9SH<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:44 PM, David Powell-Williams <<a href="mailto:dpowellwilliams@shaw.ca">dpowellwilliams@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">A general FYI to those contemplating use of the USB FOB interface with COS<br>generated by hardware, as opposed to dsp:<br>
<br>I found that my receiver did not drop its COS line all the way to ground<br>potential in the no signal condition. I presume the Schottky diode (CM108<br>pin 48) was specified due to its inherently low junction voltage. However,<br>
in my case, the receiver COS still did not drop low enough to generate<br>switching.<br><br>I replaced the Schottky diode with an NPN transistor (collector to CM108 pin<br>48, emitter to ground, base to the receiver COS source through 10K). Of<br>
course, this introduces a COS polarity inversion with respect to the CM108.<br>The inversion is corrected by changing the 'carrierfrom=<usb | usbinvert>'<br>polarity selection in usbradio.conf.<br><br>One further point:<br>
The pin spacing on the CM108 is 0.5 mm. The wire diameter of resistors and<br>diodes is about 1 mm. I found it easier to attach 28 AWG wire-wrap wires to<br>the chip, nail down the wires with hot-melt glue and attach the specified<br>
components to the far ends of the wire-wrap.<br><br>Finally, soldering to the CM108 is best done before coffee.<br><br>73,<br>Dave<br>VE7MQ.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>App_rpt mailing list<br>
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