{"id":8243,"date":"2014-03-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/harvs-dds-function-generator\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:18:05","slug":"harvs-dds-function-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/harvs-dds-function-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Harv&#8217;s DDS Function Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image_1753107482.jpg's+DDS.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/image_1753107482.jpg's+DDS.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Nice looking DDS function generator Harv! Glad to see the HT-37 in the background. (And it appears well protected &#8212; is that some sort of digital shielding to protect it from the bits and bytes?) The eraser buttons are a nice touch. Good luck with the Minima! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2726\"> <strong><em>Hi Bill,<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2729\"> <strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2730\"> <strong><em>Well I have nearly completed my DDS Function Generator as I prepare to construct the Minima.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2722\"> <strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2721\"> <strong><em>The Function Generator was a necessity for the bench so I can tackle Tweaking and Troubleshooting my work.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2720\"> <strong><em>It is housed an aluminum box and completely self-contained.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2719\"> <strong><em>My objective was to have the choice, to either lay the unit flat on the work surface or stand it on a shelf for easy reading while seated.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2628\"> <strong><em>The Generator has both a DDS and HF-ECG output. <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2718\"> <strong><em>The buttons are fashioned from <u id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2732\">White Pencil Erasers<\/u> since finding proper buttons for the membrane keypad beneath was difficult.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2632\"> <strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2633\"> <strong><em>I have obtained a set of Farhan\u2019s Boards for the Minima but will begin my effort with a Manhattan Style Construction so I can perfect my choice of parts.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2634\"> <strong><em>The soldering iron is heating and I\u2019m ready for a new and exciting challenge.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2635\"> <strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2717\"> <strong><em>Happy Solder Melting Everyone!<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2731\"> <strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2716\"> <strong><em>Harv -=WA3EIB=-<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv6496684326MsoNormal\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_1_1396093866709_2715\"> <strong><em>Albq., NM.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\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>Nice looking DDS function generator Harv! Glad to see the HT-37 in the background. (And it appears well protected &#8212; is that some sort of digital shielding to protect it from the bits and bytes?) The eraser buttons are a nice touch. Good luck with the Minima! Hi Bill, Well I have nearly completed my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/harvs-dds-function-generator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harv&#8217;s DDS Function Generator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,343,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hallicrafters","category-minima","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243","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=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8245,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions\/8245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}