Stellex mini YIG success!


Finally! After tracking down the final bug I got the Stellex Endwave synthesizer to phaselock.

Next step is to maybe build a bit more standalone solution, currently an ATMEGA8 residing on my STK500 controls the LMX2336 on the synthesizer. I have written a real nice piece of code to control the LMX23*6 family of PLL’s before, but I couldn’t find the source so I borrowed John Miles, KE5FX, code and modified it a bit.

Without his site I would never have been able to get it up and running!

Pictures will follow then I get some more work done.

End goal is a LO for my 10GHz transverter (and perhaps for 24G in the not too distant future…)

Before that I will replace the on-board TCXO with external OCXO.

/SA7AEN