AX Elektronika 5KIT0036 User manual

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Weekend VHF/UHF radio
5KIT0036
5KIT0042 and 5KIT0043
5ELU0005
There are three basic producs:
KIT all components (code 5KIT0036) contains:
»All components that are to be soldered on the PCB
»Double sided PCB
»Nokia 5510 LCD, RGB LED & Red LED
»Preprogrammed ATmega328 DIP
»Rotary encoder
»Potentiometer
»2 buttons
»Speaker
»All wires
»Connectors:
◊ BNC for antenna
◊ 4-pole microphone connector
◊ 3.5 mm jack for external speaker
◊ DRA818 (VHF or UHF, depending from the ordered
KIT)
KIT VHF module + PCB (code 5KIT0042) contains:
»DRA818V
»PCB_VER 5.11
KIT UHF module + PCB (code 5KIT0043) contains:
»DRA818U
»PCB_VER 5.11
The KIT all components (code 5KIT0036) includes all
wires needed to wire your components and make coils. In
the KIT you will see:
»1 m of 2 wire red/black cable
»20 cm of 10 wire flat cable
»15 cm of coaxial microphone cable
»26cm of 0.8 mm CuL copper wire
Use red/black cable for powering your Weekend radio
station. Place rubber sleve to predrilled hole on the back
side of enclosure and insert cca. 10 cm of red/black cable
in it. Connect red/black cable to +12V & GND terminals
on the PCB
Cut flat cable to 15 cm lenght (to half), take 7 wires and
use them to connect Nokia 5510 LCD.
Weekend VHF/UHF radio
Assembly instruction
Thank you for purchasing Weekend VHF/UHF radio!

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3 pins are named A, B and the middle pin GND. Two pins
are Switch and GND. You can connect both GND terminals
to one wire and use 3 wires to connect terminals A, B and
Switch to PCB terminal Encoder as seen on the image.
Out of remaining 3 wires use two wires for connecting
PTT to microphone socket. One wire that is left can be
used if you need to power your electret microphone with
5V via microphone socket. Use coaxial cable to connect
microphone socket to MIC terminal on the PCB.
On the PCB you will see value of R10 to be 470k. The praxis
has shown that this value can be smaller, down to 10k.
Copper wire should be used to wind coils L1, L2 and L3.
This will leave 3 wires that you can use to connect RGB
(RX/TX) LED. Use 3 wires from the other flat cable and use
them to connect potentiometer, use 4 wires and connect
rotary encoder. On encoder you will see 3 and 2 pins.

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Fixing LCD to Front plate
Front plate is predrilled and
delivered with a protective
foil. Peel that foil before
you continue.
Fixing LCD to front plate is
easy. Use a double side red
adhesive tape that you find
among other components.
Cut this tape so that it will
be nicely aligned around
hole for LCD. Then peel off
red protective cover on all 4
lines, align LCD and gently
press it to adhesive tape.
Don't overdo that because
you may want to re-align
LCD.
When LCD is aligned as
good as possible, gently
press all sides so that LCD
glues well to front plate.

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Photo of the KIT (code 5KIT0036):
1. Predrilled PVC enclosure
2. All components that are to be placed to the PCB (including preprogrammed microcontroller)
3. BNC antenna connector
4. DRA818 module (VHF or UHF, depends of your order)
5. Nokia 5510 LCD
6. Doublesided PCB
7. Microphone 4-pin socket
8. LED holder
9. 3.5 mm jack for external speaker
10. Enclosure sleeve
11. Rotary encoder
12. 2x Metal buttons
13. Potentiometer
14. Speaker
15. 1 m of 2 wire red/black cable
16. 20 cm 10-wire flat cable
17. 15 cm Coaxial microphone cable
18. 26 cm of 0.8 mm CuL copper wire (for VHF), and 16cm for (UHF)
NOTE
There is a slight modification needed on the PCB
Ver. 5_11. Version No. may be found at the solder
side of the PCB.
Robert has suggested a small mod in case if you’re
using a small rubber duck antenna with Weekend
radio project. In this case it can happen that TX
will keep staying on although microphone PTT
switch was released. To solve that problem you
can solder one resistor and one capacitor on the
solder side as seen on the image.
Microphone 4-pin socket

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Values for VHF: L1,L2,L3 = 6 turn / 3mm C16,C20: 22 pF C17,C18: 47pF

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12V
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Weekend VHF/UHF radio Assembly
2 x 100nF Add in case of oscilation
shortest shorter long