- • 12-bit ADC and DAC
• GNU Radio sink and source blocks
• List price US$150
• Introductory price US$100
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8oi6x1xpnt1dw ... 1.zip?dl=0
A nice feature that Charles has/will include is to add a Hardware-Abstraction-Layer to his software. This will allow the DATV-Express software on Windows to drive either:
- • PLUTO board (Tx/Rx)
• LimeSDR board (Tx/Rx)
• classic DATV-Express modulator board (Tx only)
PLUTO Tx/Rx SDR unit from Analog Devices being run by G4GUO’s PLUTO-Express software at 1.290 GHz DVB-S
(NOTE – the DATV-Express board is not powered up in photo.)
The only bad news is that DigiKey-USA and DigiKey-UK have currently run out of stock (as of 2017-08-31) on these ADALM-PLUTO SDR units.
Art WA8RMC reports there are only three DATV-Express boards left in inventory. Art WA8RMC also continues to “hack away” and electrically re-designing for a smaller/cheaper PCBA for the MiniTiouner V2 designed by Jean Pierre F6DZP. So far, Art has finished a finalized-draft schematic in AutoCAD and turned the design over to Tom WB6P to capture and do a gerber producing PCB layout with PADs/Designer DX. The goal is to have an assembled-and-tested version of the MiniTiouner-V2 that could be sold to hams for around USD75-to-80+shipping (+VAT where applicable).
Ken W6HHC reports that he has released an updated version 12 of the USERS GUIDE for Windows with v1.25 software. The minor changes include some:
- • Includes some new useful notes provided by Charles G4GUO on how the video formats selections work in Section 4.2.3 - VIDEO - Device Formats field
• A new Section 5.6 has been added to acknowledge that the DATV-Express board can be used as the modulator board with the BATC Portsdown Project software running on a Raspberry Pi -3.
G4GUO reports that he is working on a CAT17 presentation about using the PLUTO SDR board. The presentation will be pre-recorded for the BATC conference that is scheduled for September 9 and 10. Hopefully the BATC will provide for the video to be watchable afterwards for viewers who can not physically make the journey to the conference.
“Project speed set to slow” …. de Ken W6HHC