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maintenance

transcribed from rad1o++ talk at 32c3, referencing the slides starting at page 38

bugs

interferences

  • sample clocks are at 2 and 20MHz
  • doubled at 4 and 40MHz
    • ⇒ interference spikes at 80, 120, 160, 200,
  • goes away at 400MHz

missing high pass filter

  • unpopulated in big rf area (FL301)
  • RX/TX over 2.75GHz not possible
  • solution 1:
    • when only RX: just bridge it
  • solution 2:
    • populate it yourself

backlight

  • on some rad1os the backlight might stay on and drain battery
  • ⇒ unplug battery

onboard antenna

  • should be at 2.48GHz-2.5GHz
  • measured at 2.35GHz

power supply

  • 1st usb port always used to suck power (up to 700mA for TX)
  • 2nd usb port is limited to 475mA
  • solution 1: patch hackrf to use 2nd port for data
  • solition 2: build usb cable with seperate power connector

external clock input

  • clock input is wired to ground, connection below chip
  • solution: solder it on the pad of the crystal and supply with 27MHz

isp pin floating

  • under battery an isp header can be soldered on
  • one of the pins should be pulled high, but isnt (see page 52)
  • if it is low, the rad1o wont boot

reset pin

  • connecting anything to that pin will trigger reset
  • 12k pull-up is already there, but it's still touchy

maintainence

broken display

  • replace with one from a Nokia 6100

no audio input/output

  • check audio connector solder joints
  • move plug around a little bit

bad power switch

  • remove it
  • put a jumper on there

working, but no data

  • check with other/shorter usb cable

display flickering

  • charge battery

data transfer takes very long

  • yea it's just slow flash
  • wait
  • use “safe eject”/sync

rgb leds

  • resistors populated incorrectly/unpopulated
  • bug documented incorrectly
  • just bridge at 3 places (see page 60 and RGB LEDs)

antenna connector

  • when soldering on an antenna
  • dont bridge left 2 big pads
  • they are very close together
  • would bridge power supply

Bias-T

  • to power an antenna through hackrf software
  • but “large” inductor (like 10μH) onto the smaller pads below the SMA pads (see page 62) (dont bridge with antenna pads)
  • if your antenna has an DC path, it might burn out the inductor (see page 63)

protection

  • display and some inductors (especially rf area) are very fragile
  • shield it
  • put a case on it

performance improvements

PLL

  • code improved to for better performance <2.15GHz
  • just upgrade your f1rmware

interferences

  • 10MHz reference output disabled in software (because most people wont use it anyway)
  • transceiver and PLL are now both at 40MHz
  • ⇒ no extra spurs caused by 50MHz PLL clock
  • just upgrade your f1rmware
maintenance.1454156060.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016/01/30 13:14 by blueonyx