{"id":10276,"date":"2013-06-03T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/1-29-mhz-in-one-small-box\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:09:33","slug":"1-29-mhz-in-one-small-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/1-29-mhz-in-one-small-box\/","title":{"rendered":"1-29 MHz  In One Small Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010154.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010154.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>This weekend I put the Arduino\/AD9850 Direct Digital Synthesis device into a box this weekend. It is sort of evolving into a general purpose HF signal generator and\/or VFO. It is really kind of neat that this little collection of boards can generate RF across that range, with accurate digital readout. Thanks again to Richard Visokey, AD7C, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ad7c.com\/projects\/ad9850-dds-vfo\/\">for the circuit and the code<\/a>. As you can see, my cabinet making skills will never land me a job on the Discovery Channel, but I&#8217;m kind of pleased with the box. I picked up the wood panels from a hobby\/craft shop.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> \ufeff<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010157.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010157.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>I left a lot of space in the box. I envision an amplifier taking the output from its current .4 milliwatts up to around 10 milliwatts, followed by step attenuators (pads).<\/strong> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010158.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1010158.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Here is the other end. Of course, I could have just taken the ATMega chip out and avoided putting the whole Arduino board inside the box, but I&#8217;ll leave that exciting digital adventure for a future project.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I put the Arduino\/AD9850 Direct Digital Synthesis device into a box this weekend. It is sort of evolving into a general purpose HF signal generator and\/or VFO. It is really kind of neat that this little collection of boards can generate RF across that range, with accurate digital readout. Thanks again to Richard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/1-29-mhz-in-one-small-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1-29 MHz  In One Small Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,142,113,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-digital-logic","category-microcontrollers","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10280,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions\/10280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}