[hpsdr] Tone in 20m/15m after switching to CWL/CWR

Henry henry.vredegoor at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 11:37:28 PST 2019


Hi Ramakrishnan,

I'm not sure if you use the "LPU" board or not, but I remember there was 
an issue with the electronic fuses on the LPU-board being too light and 
they had to be bypassed.

I can also imagine another power supply could  be current-limiting / 
oscillating?

Anyway, it would be good to check first if the supply voltages are OK 
(when this happens).

Good luck,

73,

/Henry - PA0HJA/

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On 9-12-2019 13:48, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:
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> Hello:
>
> I have a good old Atlas based system with Penelope, Mercury and Ozy connected to the boards. At this point, I am just listening with Mercury as I do not yet have my pennylane setup and don't have alex boards. So, the antenna is connected to the RF in of mercury. I can listen to stations just fine (with PowerSDR mRX PS, latest available release from the Github) on SSB on every band.
>
> Now, if I switch the band to 20m and push the CWL or CWR button, I get a constant tone - like a series of dits (as if I keep the dit paddle on). If I tune around the frequency, the tone follows there too. I do not have anything connected to the DB25 port of the Ozy. I see the LEDs on Penny (at least the leds 2, 3 and 4) dancing while this is happening, so it looks like it is transmitting when I just switched the receiver to 20m CW. Pushing CWL/CWR on 40m or 80m seem fine and I don't hear the tones.
>
> Has anyone seen this? Or it is that I have setup my systems wrong? I am returning to HPSDR after a very long time, so I may have missed something.. I have latest firmware versions of Mercury and Penelope. I also have PTT explicitly disabled in the "Options" tab under the HPSDR setup. What are the other ways to disable Penny (other than physically pulling it out of the Atlas board)? I am somewhat puzzled why Penny is trying to transmit when I am not transmitting at all. (I don't have a dummy load connected to the output too, so I was a bit alarmed).
>
> Would appreciate advice.
>
> 73
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