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Re: Minitiouner

Post by G8GKQ » Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:16 pm

Hi Russ

The Portsdown 4 (latest update) already supports the PicoTuner. Once fully tested, the capability will be extended to the Portsdown 2020.

The Portsdown will only support a single transport stream.

Dave

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Re: Minitiouner

Post by g4saq » Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:10 pm

Thank you Dave & Mike. Good point re redundant FTDI modules, Mike.
73, Russ

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Re: Minitiouner

Post by g8lce » Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:38 pm

Built Minituioner with a pico but it would lockup intermittently! It was a USB cable that was causing it. So once that was changed it worked well in Opentuner and Portsdown 4. Both of these have extra settings as now you have two tuners and two inputs to get wrong.
Very pleased with it.
Now all I want is a RPi to work with both channels and give two HDMI outputs and two GPIO pins giving received signal output. If that came about GB3NQ could double it's received frequencies from three to six with not too much spent on hardware apart from metalwork on the mast! (and other repeaters could do the same )

Martin G8LCE

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