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The sale includes an original user manual and sales brochure. With this in mind, it is being sold 100% as-is. Also, it's missing the octal accessory plug that is required to operate the radio. However, the digits do not change when the tuning knob is turned. It powers up and all display digits illuminate. Overall, I'd rate it as an 8-out-of-10, but needs some servicing to get it operational. This transceiver looks good with relatively minimal wear. If you did this, or if you think you know who did this, please send an e-mail to me at I think being able to pinpoint the prankster will help Pete deal with this whole thing, and hopefully get him back into the SolderSmoke.Item: 174781644283 Ten-Tec 544 Triton IV Digital Ham Radio Transceiver w/ Manual (needs work). Pete is so upset that he has vowed to drop out of the podcast and shut down his blog.
And worst yet, he thinks this malicious code came to him because of this involvement in the podcast and his blog - that participation resulted in the widespread exposure that got him into this mess. To him this is another intrusion of computer/hacker noob hazing into the ham radio world. Pete sees this as yet another violation of the unwritten ham code of conduct. He feels like he has been played for a sucker by some ham who was pretending to collaborate with him. Now I know some of you guys are thinking that this was just a bit of harmless fun. Pete then removed this code and - BINGO - no more drift.
Luigi quickly found the problem: He found several lines of malicious code " embedded in the Si5351.h and si5351.cpp files –sort of lurking out there and not easy to spot." Pete gave him remote access to his computer and he began to poke around. This was REALLY strange.Īt this point we had to turn to a real Arduino expert, a guy who I had met during my time in Italy: Luigi Bugiardo from the Arduino research center in Bocalupo, Calabria. We immediately began to see if others were getting the same results. Wow! Why? Pete was really pulling his hair out on this one. Sitting on his bench, all by itself, THE DAMN THING EXHIBITED ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ANALOG VFO THERMAL DRIFT.
Pete then completely removed the Si5351 VFO from the old boatanchor.
That had Pete and a number of us scratching our heads. Pete complained that -oddly - in spite of replacing the old analog tube-type VFO, the rig with a modern, rock-stable Si5351 VFO, the old rig CONTINUED TO DRIFT. Those of you who have been reading Pete N6QW's blog (and all of you should be reading it!) will have seen a recent post about his efforts to modernize (digitize) the VFO in an old tube-type Ten Tec Triton IV model 544.