[hpsdr] Alex

[Graham / KE9H]

Steve:

The ribbon cable should come with the ALEX package, too.

Just stock up on BNC to BNC jumpers to connect everything up, as Chris said.

--- Graham

==

On 3/27/2011 7:51 AM, Steve Nance wrote:
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> Thanks Chris, that's what I was looking for. I missed the document link at
> the bottom.
>
> 73, Steve K5FR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Smith [mailto:chris at vspl.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 4:21 AM
> To: Steve Nance
> Cc: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Alex
>
> Steve
>
> The block diagram of Alex on the wiki page indicates all that is required:
>
> A coax patch lead from "Out to Rx" to the input of Mercury.
>
> A coax patch lead from "Tx in" to Penny(lane)/Pennywhistle or an amplifier
> up to 100w,
>
> A coax connection from "Ant 1/2/3" to your antenna(e).
>
> The "Rx in (Internal)" to  "Out to Rx (Internal)" is provided by an SMA/B
> patch lead that I'm told will be provided with Alex.
>
> As far as I can see that is all that is required apart from the ribbon cable
> looped from the Tx board to the Rx board then to Mercury (I think) which
> provides the SPI bus to control the band switching and ALC feedback.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris G4NUX
>
>
> On 27 Mar 2011, at 00:47, Steve Nance wrote:
>
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>> Being that Alex is *SOON* to be released I would like to get a head start
>> building the cabling needed to hook it up. Do documents exist, a manual
>> perhaps, that list the connection data and parts list for plugs,
> connectors,
>> etc.?
>>
>> 73, Steve K5FR
>>
>>
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