Tuesday 12 February 2013

Finished Peabury SDR Transceiver

Finished Peabury SDR Transceiver now up and running just need to build the low pass filter.


Monday 11 February 2013

Peaberry SDR update RX working.

Just a note I had a good weekend and managed to get the transceiver to the point the RX is working and tested.



Transformers and Inductors fitted.

Sunday 10 February 2013

Peaberry SDR Kit Build So Far

I had been looking around for a while for an SDR transceiver and came across the Peaberry SDR Kit.  This is tri band sdr this just looked the ticket for me. See AE9RB's site.

http://ae9rb.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1

The kit is of excellent quality and is a good progression form the simple SDR receivers i have built.
The build program is on line via Make Projects an exelent on line build guide that you can download as a pdf as well.

http://makeprojects.com/Project/Software+Defined+Radio+Transceiver/2439/1



Stage one

Pick your band choice and wind the inductors and transformers.









 Caps on the back of PCB.
PSU components in place.
 
 Difficult bit the sound IC
 
 Connected to PC after install of sound IC and PSU
 Completed to the point of sound can be played out from PC via the peaberry