6 meter activity

December 28, there was a lot of activity on 50 MHz. Unexpected winter propagation conditions if you ask me. Here you see the stations that received my 15 Watt FT-8 signal on 50.313 MHz :

Nice to see that OY1OF on the Faroer Islands caught my signal.

I made some local FT-8 QSO's with PA2J, PH2M and PB75A as well.

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                                Goedereede, January 2021

Clockgenerator

The Si5351 clockgenerator needs only 4 wires to connect to the ESP32 DEV board.

2 most left wires: I2C bus

Si5351            ESP32

SCL                IO22

SDA                IO21

GND                GND

Vin                    3V3

After uploading following Adafruit Si5351 example sketch, the clockgenerator generates 3 squarewaves of different frequencies:

Here you can see the signal of clockoutput #1 (13.55311 MHz) being received by my FT450:

Update 13 Dec 2020:

Clockgenerator with three dedicated output frequencies (144.060, 70.100 and 14.020 MHz) on veroboard. I used the Adafruit program 'Clockbuilder' to generate the parameters to be used in the sketch:

The signal of CLK0 output (144.060 MHz) being received on the UV-5R.

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10 February 2021, Bommelsedijk, Zuidzijde

Si5351

 I found this nice gadget. It is a signal generator and contains a Si5351 integrated circuit. Should be able to deliver signals in the range from 8 kHz till 160 MHz.

Hope to get it working with the ESP32 module.

Adafruit provides a program called 'Clockbuilder'. This program calculates the parameters to generate your own set of frequencies.