Arduino projects for amateur radio
"Boost your ham radio's capabilities using low-cost Arduino microcontroller boards! Do you want to increase the functionality and value of your ham radio without spending a lot of money? This book will show you how! Arduino™ Projects for Amateur Radio is filled with step-by-step microcontr...
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New York
McGraw-Hill Education
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Other applications of the dds vfo and additional enhancements
- Conclusion
- 17. A portable solar power source
- The solar sensor
- Solar charger controller
- Panel positioning and stepper motor
- Solar panel support structure
- Stepper motor details
- Mounting the stepper motor
- Solar panel connections
- The motor controller shield
- Altitude positioning
- The software
- Final assembly
- Assembly and disassembly
- Conclusion
- A. Suppliers and sources
- Parts and component suppliers
- Transceiver and device suppliers
- Amateur radio equipment retailers
- Test and measurement equipment
- Other suppliers and sources
- B. Substituting parts
- C. Arduino pin mapping
- D. Check out these tab books for building, tweaking, and boosting radios!
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- A. Dedication
- B. About the authors
- C. Preface
- Why should i buy this book?
- Errata and help
- D. Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Which microcontroller to use?
- What else do you need?
- Software
- 2. I don't know how to program
- I don't need no stinkin' cw!
- The five program steps
- Arduino programming essentials
- Saving memory
- Conclusion
- 3. The lcd shield project
- Libraries: lessening the software burden
- Lcd shield parts list
- Assembling the lcd shield
- Adding components using a schematic
- An alternative design
- Loading the example software and testing
- A "code walk-through" of the "helloworld" sketch
- Using your lcd display with the ten-tec rebel
- Conclusion
- 4. Station timer
- Software version of id timer
- Magic numbers
- Preprocessor directives
- Fixing flat forehead mistakes
- Encapsulation and scope
- Using a real time clock (rtc) instead of a software clock
- The i2c and the ds1307 rtc chip
- Constructing the rtc/timer shield
- Initializing the rtc
- The rtc timer program
- A software hiccup
- Conclusion
- 5. A general purpose panel meter
- Circuit description
- Construction
- Loading the example software and testing
- Testing and calibration of the meter
- Changing the meter range and scale
- Conclusion
- 6. Dummy load
- Mechanical construction
- Electronic construction
- Doing the math
- Software
- Conclusion
- 7. A cw automatic keyer
- Required software to program an attiny85
- Connecting the attiny85 to your arduino
- The proper programming sequence
- Using the digispark
- The cw keyer
- Construction
- Conclusion
- The arduino antenna rotator controller
- Connecting the rotator controller
- Software
- World beam headings
- Conclusion
- 14. A directional watt and swr meter
- Swr and how it is measured
- Obtaining the antenna system swr
- Constructing the directional watt/swr meter
- Testing the directional wattmeter/swr indicator
- Software walk-through
- Further enhancements to the directional wattmeter/swr indicator
- Conclusion
- 15. A simple frequency counter
- Circuit description
- Constructing the shield
- Code walk-through for frequency counter
- Displaying the tuned frequency of your display-less qrp rig
- Conclusion
- 16. A dds vfo
- Direct digital synthesis
- The dds vfo project
- Dds vfo circuit description
- Dds vfo functional description
- The dds vfo software
- Eeprom initialization program
- The kp vfo software (vfocontrolprogram.ino)
- Testing the dds vfo
- Using the dds vfo with your radio
- 8. A morse code decoder
- Hardware design considerations
- Decoder software
- Conclusion
- 9. A ps2 keyboard cw encoder
- The ps2 keyboard
- The ps2 keyboard encoder software
- Isolating the arduino from the transmitter
- Testing
- Other features
- Conclusion
- 10. Project integration
- Integration issues
- The real time clock (rtc) shield
- Cw decoder shield
- Ps2 keyboard keyer
- The expansion board
- Software project preparation
- C++, oop, and some software conventions
- Class declaration
- Cpp files
- Integrationcode.ino
- The loop() function
- Conclusion
- 11. Universal relay shield
- Construction
- Testing the relay shield
- Conclusion
- 12. A flexible sequencer
- Just what is a sequencer?
- The sequencer design
- Constructing the sequencer
- Programming and testing the sequencer
- Loading the sequencer program and testing
- Modifying the relay shield from chapter 11
- Conclusion
- 13. Rotator controller