SUPER SCANNER

The whole project is based on an idea of a swedish fellow, which in his page describes

the use of a TV tuner to construct a radio tuner which receives the frequencies

between 45 and 860 MHz in a step of 0.011 Hz controlled by a PC using a serial port.

I have used his idea to construct a control unit based on a PIC microcontroller to send the

control codes to the tuner, and a 2x16 LCD display, showing the frequency and mode received.

Below you will find the improved schematic of the receiver and the control unit.

superscanner schematic                                    superscanner control unit schematic

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How it all started (v.1)                        Version 2 unit                       The unit I'm working on

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The superscanner main board                                   Control unit version 5

The enclosure pre-painted and coloured

System assembled and wired for testing

Right now I am working on the code for the PIC microcontroller which will be published

when I will be satisfied by the results.