Difference between revisions of "Serit tuner"
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As of February 2017 the Sharp and Samsung tuners are no longer available and the Minituner project will use a tuner from Serit which cover from 140MHz right through to 2650 MHz without the need for any upconverters. | As of February 2017 the Sharp and Samsung tuners are no longer available and the Minituner project will use a tuner from Serit which cover from 140MHz right through to 2650 MHz without the need for any upconverters. | ||
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This makes building a receiver for 146 or 437 much easier, although you will need a pre-amp followed by lots of filtering for each band, just like the Sharp did, and probably followed by a Satellite line amp from ebay as the Serit has less gain than the Sharp. | This makes building a receiver for 146 or 437 much easier, although you will need a pre-amp followed by lots of filtering for each band, just like the Sharp did, and probably followed by a Satellite line amp from ebay as the Serit has less gain than the Sharp. | ||
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| + | ===Adapter card=== | ||
Also, due to a different pinouts from the Sharp NIM, the Serit tuner will also need a simple adapter board to enable it to be plugged in to the Minituner standard hardware - Brian G4EWJ has designed a PCB and the board with a full set of components plus the Serit tuner is available [https://batc.org.uk/shop/minituner in the BATC shop]. | Also, due to a different pinouts from the Sharp NIM, the Serit tuner will also need a simple adapter board to enable it to be plugged in to the Minituner standard hardware - Brian G4EWJ has designed a PCB and the board with a full set of components plus the Serit tuner is available [https://batc.org.uk/shop/minituner in the BATC shop]. | ||
Revision as of 11:44, 1 March 2017
As of February 2017 the Sharp and Samsung tuners are no longer available and the Minituner project will use a tuner from Serit which cover from 140MHz right through to 2650 MHz without the need for any upconverters.
Filters and pre-amps
This makes building a receiver for 146 or 437 much easier, although you will need a pre-amp followed by lots of filtering for each band, just like the Sharp did, and probably followed by a Satellite line amp from ebay as the Serit has less gain than the Sharp.
Adapter card
Also, due to a different pinouts from the Sharp NIM, the Serit tuner will also need a simple adapter board to enable it to be plugged in to the Minituner standard hardware - Brian G4EWJ has designed a PCB and the board with a full set of components plus the Serit tuner is available in the BATC shop.
Full instructions on how to build the kit are available in this pdf: