Digital Voice
Transceiver Project
This Project began to explore the use of the DVSI
AMBE 2020 voice compression chip and also the ADF7021 single chip VHF RF
Transceiver from Analog Devices. It appeared that this radio could be made
to talk D-Star and that turned into yet another adventure trying to fill in the
many holes in the published "Open" D-Star Specification. From there it
turned into a nearly complete D-Star format 2 meter transceiver. A paper
on this project was presented at the SVHFS Conference in Atlanta on April 28,
2007. Link to SVHS web
site
Below are some photos of the "Guts" of the
experimental radio.
A link to a paper describing this project in more
detail.
DVX Project
Paper(1.8Meg .pdf)
Experimenter Board
Schematic:
dvxschematic.pdf(766KB)
DVX
Demo Source Code:
dvxsrc100.zip(174KB)
Note: This project was a proof of concept project and as such is
NOT USEFUL AS A DSTAR RADIO.
There are several problems with the design, the biggest is the inability of the
Analog Devices RF transceiver chip to lock onto the data in time to get the
header packet. So far no resolution of the issue has been
found.
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2009-08-15 A resolution to the data locking has
been found involving some code changes as well as a new -L version of
the Analog Devices chip. This project in its present form is
still not a viable radio due to sensitivity/selectivity and power
limitations.
Future Directions:
The most likely direction is a
re-spin of the board to add more user inputs like a key pad as well as split the
RF section onto another board and add preamp and PA.
Another output from this project will be a more detailed low
level D-Star format description and open source code that others can use or
build upon for their own projects.
Credits: