{"id":357,"date":"2014-01-08T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T23:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?page_id=357"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:37:25","slug":"the-cdg2000-tx-exciter-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?page_id=357","title":{"rendered":"The CDG2000 TX Exciter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The CDG2000 TX Exciter 1<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the simpler boards. It is a transmit exciter using analogue techniques. If you do not want to go digital with either a digital exciter or a 15 KHz DSP generator, this is an easy way to get going.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways to build this. If, like George, you wanted a plethora of manual controls, use it as it is. If however you want it controlled by the PIC controller, then there is a small add-on board that may be used to interface it to the I2C bus.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the PCB and schematic have been updated as of June 2005<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"627\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tx_exciter.doc\">Description and parts list<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"35%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/top_component_layout2.pdf\">PCB Component Layout<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bottom_copper.pdf\">PCB Tracking\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"35%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bottom_copper_reversed.pdf\">PCB Tracking reversed\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/schematic_page_1_of_2.pdf\">Schematic part 1<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/schematic_page_2_of_2.pdf\">Schematic part 2<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"35%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/schematic1.pdf\">Control circuit schematic<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/transmit_exciter_control.doc\">Control circuit description and parts list<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bottom_copper.pdf\">Control PCB Bottom Tracking<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"35%\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ground_plane1.pdf\">Control PCB Ground Plane<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/top_component_layout2.pdf\">Control PCB Component Layout<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"32%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bottom_copper_reversed1.pdf\">Control PCB Bottom Tracking reversed\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"35%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tracking_errata.pdf\">Control PCB Tracking Errata (previous PCB layouts)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tx_exciter.zip\">PCB CAD download\u00a0 &#8211; TX Exciter <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CDG2000 Transceiver\" href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?page_id=81\">Return to CDG2000 Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDG2000 TX Exciter 1 This is one of the simpler boards. 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