{"id":9852,"date":"2015-01-23T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/duwaynes-ad9850-arduino-tft-swr-scanner\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:26:35","slug":"duwaynes-ad9850-arduino-tft-swr-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/duwaynes-ad9850-arduino-tft-swr-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"DuWayne&#8217;s AD9850 Arduino TFT SWR Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWR-Scanr.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\/2015\/01\/SWR-Scanr.jpg\" height=\"273\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>This is really nice. DuWayne KQ4VB, has been talking to Pete about his use of digital chips, Arduinos and TFT displays in homebrew SWR analyzers. Obviously these techniques could be used to measure the passband of crystal filters. (Far superior to my pencil and paper procedures.) Nice work DuWayne!<\/b><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SWR-Scanerdisplay.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\/2015\/01\/SWR-Scanerdisplay.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Pete<br \/> Looks good, I did some playing with the TFT board I have. Did a board for the antenna analyzer using the TFT and a 9850 DDS module insted of the NOKIA and si5351. Wanted to see if there was much difference between a sine wave out and the square wave from the 5351. Appears to be very nearly the same from a couple of quick tests I have done. Want to try some different diodes and change some values for amplifier gain.<br \/> Will keep you informed. DuWayne<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Earlier&#8230; (4 November 2014)<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Pete<br \/> Really enjoy listening to you on Solder-Smoke. Saw the link to your<br \/> xcvr with the Adafruit si5351 board. I got a couple of them and have<br \/> been playing with code for them. Have been spending most of my time<br \/> working on an antenna analyzer based on the one by K6BEZ. Pleased to see<br \/> your article in the latest QQ. I have used basically the same circuit,<br \/> except am using the little NOKIA LCD display. The resolution is not the<br \/> greatest but works well for this application. I am using some of the<br \/> original code from K6BEZ to talk with his existing PC program. For<br \/> stand alone I have 2 modes, a straight tune mode where I can select the<br \/> frequency and read the SWR. Also implementing a sweep mode that scans<br \/> the whole band and after it is finished you can tune across and see the<br \/> frequency and SWR. I am attaching a couple of pictures of what I have<br \/> so far. Waiting on the correct op amp to arrive and making some changes<br \/> to the amp gain to get better results on the higher band where the<br \/> output of the DDS drops off.<br \/> Thanks for all the inspiration you give to us home builders and tinkerers<br \/> out here.<br \/> 73 <span class=\"il\">DuWayne<\/span> KV4QB<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/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>This is really nice. DuWayne KQ4VB, has been talking to Pete about his use of digital chips, Arduinos and TFT displays in homebrew SWR analyzers. Obviously these techniques could be used to measure the passband of crystal filters. (Far superior to my pencil and paper procedures.) Nice work DuWayne! Pete Looks good, I did some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/duwaynes-ad9850-arduino-tft-swr-scanner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DuWayne&#8217;s AD9850 Arduino TFT SWR Scanner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,67,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-arduino","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","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=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9855,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/9855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}