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  • Presentations and Publications
    • GNU Radio and I & Q Explained: ARRL Digital Communications Conference September 2014
    • GNU Radio Part 1 and Part 2: ARRL QEX Magazine July, September 2014
    • UHF SDR Transceiver: MicroHAMS Digital Conference March 2016
    • Digital Signal Processing: ARRL NW Division Convention, June 2016
    • UHF SDR Transceiver and Ham Radio System: ARRL NW Division Convention, June 2016
    • UHF – VHF – Microwave SDR Transceiver, ARRL Division Convention, June 2017
    • Advanced SDR Ham Radios for Microwave: Microwave Update, October 2017
    • Microwave SDR: Software and Hardware, Microwave Update, October 2018
    • 9-band VHF/Microwave SDR Station: DUBUS Vol. 47, 4/2018
    • Make The Flow Graph Work For You – Talk: Ham Radio online video seminar, January 16, 2021
    • SDR Experience: PNW Microwave Group, Microwave Update, October 4, 2024
  • Miscellanea
    • Test and Measurement Utilities using GNU Radio
    • Simple Audio Oscillator Project
    • Advanced Audio Oscillator Project with Multi-Rate Sampling and FFT Display
    • SDR Receiver DSP Project
    • DSP for an Elemental SDR Receiver
    • DSP for an Elemental SDR Transmitter
    • Quadrature Multiplier – demonstration
    • Home made mmWave mixer experiments
    • Direct RFIC Synthesizer and FPGA NCO Offset Tuning
    • “Why” and “How” of I and Q
    • ‘Click Tune’ Frequency Changes with the FFT GUI
    • DSP Frequency Memory with Preset Frequency Variables
    • Zero frequency receiver artifact

Home made mmWave mixer experiments

February 11, 2019 w7fuw7fu

The early January 2019 discussion on the WA1MBA Microwave Reflector of diode package capacitance and the impact on mmWave mixer…

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Direct RFIC Synthesizer and FPGA NCO Offset Tuning

July 1, 2018 w7fuw7fu

SDR Offset tuning can be implemented with differential shifts of the RF and baseband frequency parameters.  One method to achieve…

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“Why” and “How” of I and Q

June 29, 2018 w7fuw7fu

Why “I” and “Q”? “I” and “Q” processing is a prominent concept in discussions of Digital Signal Processing (DSP).  Why? …

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‘Click Tune’ Frequency Changes with the FFT GUI

June 27, 2018 w7fuw7fu

A useful SDR operating aid with a GNU Radio DSP is the ‘click tune’ function.  ‘Click Tune’ means that the…

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DSP Frequency Memory with Preset Frequency Variables

June 25, 2018 w7fuw7fu

A very useful feature of an operating GUI is the ability to program Preset Frequencies without editing the basic frequency…

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Zero frequency receiver artifact

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A typical situation with SDR receivers is the presence of the zero frequency or ‘DC’ artifact in the receiver output. …

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