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An Arduino frequency counter

An Arduino frequency counter by WA5BDU       Introduction This is going to be a fairly long description of the frequency counter and the ICs and circuits that make it go. That’s for people who might want to roll their own or modify this one. Otherwise, if you’re mainly interested in building one, gloss …

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Programming the Si5351a synthesizer

  What is being discussed here   I’m going to discuss how a program, or my Arduino program specifically, calculates register values for the Si5351a to put it on a specific frequency. I’m not going into details of how the register values are formatted into bit fields and actually sent to the chip via I2C. …

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An Arduino Si5351a quadrature VFO controller

https://github.com/nick6502/Si5351a_quad I’ve decided to start keeping my files on github.com because updating and maintaining posts on dreamhost using WordPress is just too complicated for me. But isn’t github also complicated?  Yes, it is. But if you just want to download the files, it’s easy. Just go to that green button that says “Code” and click …

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