Re: [Elecraft] [K3] ideas for re-purposing our old K3 synthesizers

2015-06-25 Thread Wayne Burdick
Someday, let's say in the year 2185, a restorer of warp drives and old HF radios will stumble upon your cache of pristine KSYN3 modules and make your great-great-(...)-great grand-daughter an offer she can't refuse. So go ahead. Collect 'em :) 73, Wayne N6KR On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:47 AM,

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] ideas for re-purposing our old K3 synthesizers

2015-06-25 Thread Phil Wheeler
Ah, but the original KSYN3 does have a nice chunk of Aluminum attached :-) 73, Phil W7OX On 6/24/15 10:06 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: Hi Steve, Not to throw cold water on this, but the original KSYN3 requires a ton of firmware support, including a hand-tweaked table of thousands of PLL

Re: [Elecraft] [K3] ideas for re-purposing our old K3 synthesizers

2015-06-24 Thread Wayne Burdick
Hi Steve, Not to throw cold water on this, but the original KSYN3 requires a ton of firmware support, including a hand-tweaked table of thousands of PLL divider values pre-calculated and stored in flash memory. We shoehorn the DDS reference signal through a 3-kHz wide crystal filter in