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    Operation Manual For Universal VFO/BFO

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    This document provides an operation manual for a universal VFO/BFO device. It describes the design which uses an Arduino chip to control Si5351 oscillators with a 2x16 LCD display and 7 pushbuttons. The buttons are used to select VFOs, bands, sidebands, tune the BFO, and save settings to EEPROM. Circuit diagrams and PCB designs created in KiCad are available from the author. The manual is a work in progress and may be updated based on user feedback.

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    This document provides an operation manual for a universal VFO/BFO device. It describes the design which uses an Arduino chip to control Si5351 oscillators with a 2x16 LCD display and 7 pushbuttons. The buttons are used to select VFOs, bands, sidebands, tune the BFO, and save settings to EEPROM. Circuit diagrams and PCB designs created in KiCad are available from the author. The manual is a work in progress and may be updated based on user feedback.

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    This document provides an operation manual for a universal VFO/BFO device. It describes the design which uses an Arduino chip to control Si5351 oscillators with a 2x16 LCD display and 7 pushbuttons. The buttons are used to select VFOs, bands, sidebands, tune the BFO, and save settings to EEPROM. Circuit diagrams and PCB designs created in KiCad are available from the author. The manual is a work in progress and may be updated based on user feedback.

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    Operation Manual For Universal VFO/BFO

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    SPrakash Bhatnagar
    This document provides an operation manual for a universal VFO/BFO device. It describes the design which uses an Arduino chip to control Si5351 oscillators with a 2x16 LCD display and 7 pushbuttons. The buttons are used to select VFOs, bands, sidebands, tune the BFO, and save settings to EEPROM. Circuit diagrams and PCB designs created in KiCad are available from the author. The manual is a work in progress and may be updated based on user feedback.

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    Operation Manual for Universal VFO/BFO

    by VUSPF, SP Bhatnagar

    ver 1.1

    Aug 2018

    Important Note: This is a work in progress and based on usage and the suggestions from users
    updation may be done in software and manual. Please refer to latest copies of both as and when
    available.
    This work is combined fruit of efforts by many hams who have contributed to the development of ham
    community with their projects and experiences.

    Design:
    Arduino (At Mega 328P) chip controls the Si5351 Ocillators. The display is simple 2X16 character
    LCD. There are 7 pushbuttons connected to a divider network which can be read through Analog input
    of Arduino. A normal Rotary Encoder is used to adjust the frequency.

    The action of switches are defined as follows :


    Switches 0 & 1. Left (<) and Right (>) for shifting the underscore on the frequency display. Rotary
    encoder will change that digit under which the cursor is located. It is effectively the step size for rotary
    encoder.

    Switch 2. VFO Selection : There are three choices of VFOs called as A, B and Memory. A and B are
    standard VFOs which can be tuned with rotary encoder. There are 20 memory channels where we can
    store frequencies of our choice for retrieving directly. Any of the three can be saved on EEPROM for
    getting back later.

    Initaially the A VFO is selected and on LCD “ VFOA” is displayed. On pressing the VFO button once
    the B VFO is selected and “VFOB” appears on the display. The next press will select the Memory
    VFO and go to Memory channel 1 . The memory channel is selected by < and > keys and the
    frequency is varied as usual by Rotary enoder.

    Switch 3. Band Select: By pressing this button one can move from one band to the next . The Bands are
    defined in the program and can be selected as per our requirement there by providing the two extreme
    frequencies of the band. Initially 40,20,15 m and a BC band are programmed. Very easy to change in
    program.

    Switch 4.Side band select: One can select USB, LSB, BC and CW by repetively pressing this button for
    any frequency. Automatically the LSB is selected below 10MHz and USB above it. Both can be forced
    to any of the four.

    Switch 5. BFO Tune: Tuning the BFO is very interesting as one can select the best RX and will get the
    best TX. On pressing this buttom BFO is displayed and its frequency is shown. Using Rotary encoder
    and < , > keys one can change its frequency and immediately feel the effect in audio of received
    signals.
    Switch 6. Save : This button saves all the relevant current parameters on the EEPROM. A + sign is
    displayed when storing. VFOA, B and Mem are saved at their own seprate locations in EEPROM.

    S Meter input, may be given for display as bars


    One of the VFO/BFO front Panel. Volume control on Top right, Mic/PTT input Bottom Right.

    Circuit Diagram: Done in KiCad.


    The PCB: Also created in KiCad.

    Gerbers/PDF’s for the PCB and the Arduino Sketch are available from [email protected]

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