uSDX SDR - Setting the “settings in the menus”

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Published 2021-11-20
A 30 minute video of how I set my Chinese built uSDX v2.7.1 up.
Namely...
How to tune easily band to band using just the encoder.
TX Drive
Noise Gate
PS Bias Max & Min
Referrnce Frequency
Volume
Attenuator.
CW settings.

All Comments (21)
  • @martinsmith8732
    No Mark, you are not an expert. You are the only expert on the uSDX from what I've seen. Keep up the good work. By the way, I've noticed a pretty good spike in your subscriptions.
  • @Simon-qn5wm
    Thanks for this. Very distorted tx audio on my uSDX that arrived today. Your settings have made it a lot better.
  • Hi Mark, many thanks for this clear and thorough test. Greetings from Italy, 72 de IK2RGV 👋
  • @markh995
    Thank you. This was an excellent introductory walkthrough for the usdx and I've learned a ton from you already.
  • @guyhornbeck8940
    Thanks for the suggestions. Just received mine - I appreciate the guidance on both the setting levels and translating the setting definitions. Good work! De AE6FE
  • @rudylopezmachin
    Congratulations, it's one of the most coherent videos I've seen about these Chinese QRP's, there are people who don't understand that for less than 100 U$S, you can't have a device with the features and quality of an Elecraft.😏 73
  • @garycowger9579
    Got My uSDR today and set it up like You said I was on 40m Made 2 contacts the first time I keyed the Mic My Ant is a 65 foot long wire no tuner and got a 5-8 report one station was 50 miles and the other was 178 miles away this was at 7:30 pm EST works grate ! and I was running only 3.6 watts
  • @MrParaFreak
    Hi, Thanks for nice videos! A tip (don’t know if you have fiund out yet): Push the function knob in and then turn while pushing and you have instant volume control! Cheers from an SWL (soon to be livensed) in Sweden
  • @terrybell8805
    I found that if you hold the main button on whilst connecting up the supply it restores the radio back to original. It fixed the USB/LSB problem I had.
  • 17:05 Menu option 1.7 RIT - The “RIT” refers to “Receiver Incremental Tuning”. It’s a feature that allows you to slightly adjust the receive frequency without changing the transmit frequency, which can be useful for tuning in a station that’s slightly off frequency.
  • Very helpful. My uSDX board has just arrived from Romania.. EI6AU
  • @alan4cars
    Very helpful. Thank you sir. 73 WA6MOW in Los Angeles
  • thank u for u intruction explications whis my antenna 20 watts just changed whis de cable modification on my antenna my connection perfect u setting thank u cool
  • Hej Mark, ist's a real pleasure to listen, watch and try to understand what u are telling! It's funny, I was OFF for 40 years and one week ago I tried to check if amateur radio still exists (hi)... Just few hours before I found your channel I ordered this uSDX TODAY from china, and now I can learn a lot from u to start with - when hopefully it arrives in day's week's...year's...lightyear's... And who knows if my yeasu FT-221R (2m) and my FT-101E somewhere in a box in the house still work when I try to plug them in again..? So, u are doing a great job I think, and for oldschool OM's like me it feels very very well! Hope to hear u soon - from uSDX to uSDX / OM to OM :-) 73, DF7RO (Michael)
  • @terrybell8805
    Yeah it’s strange it was ok. I found if you hit the main button twice quick it steps up through the bands.