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[mister_electronico]

Hi Rodney, I looked at your link and you have a pet siggen that I did in:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92068

It runs through terminal # siggen

but it is equally effective.

The others I'm checking, tuner1v3.exe I have not seen yet for Linux, but if we can not find the sources, sure are very easy to run this programs under wine.

Regards.

[Rodney Byne]

To mister_electronico,

Thanks I have siggen pet on board and the approx spectrum
response at 1khz ref 77.5mV RMS input (-20dB)
to sound card, shown on Baudline is:

2nd harmonic -48db (rel)
3rd harmonic -55db (rel)
and the rest of the pop-ups spread to 10khz is gradually decaying.

As attached.


Regards.

[Rodney Byne]

It seems one of the requirements is to keep the
file size well below 100kb, so here goes.
That's better, practice makes perfect.

[mister_electronico]

good job.

See you.

[Rodney Byne]

Hi mister_electronico,

Thanks, just for fun, have attached another pic
showing xoscope with siggen pet and same 1khz sine wave.

Yes I have continued interest in your idea to design a high frequency
s/w scope. Good luck with that.
All that stuff was right up my street while working as a test engineer
plus radio and broadcast engineer. (now retired)

From the suggested article "Frequency Multiplier For LF Measurements",
of course it's obvious that any s/w down-conversion would have to be external to the pc mic input socket, in order to be processed by the
sound card's natural bandwidth of only 20khz.

Skiing off-piste a bit to your efforts at recording Psicofonia on Baudline, yes I read what I could understand of the long Wikipedia article on this
subject - spooky and deep for me, but raises the point I was unaware that voices of the dead might be audible in the audio range.

All I hear at night is my wife snoring and the gentle roar of distant
traffic on the motorway near here, but no ghosts or spectres.
Perhaps you could enhance the chances of detecting "the other side",
by resting your laptop on a tomb in the local graveyard.
Beware though the voice from within, saying like actor Christopher Lee
"I am Dracula, I bid you welcome"

Back to reality, here's the picture.
Bye for now,

[mister_electronico]

Hi Rodney Byne

Maybe perhaps are not snoring are voices that want to say something ..... LOL... LOL... LOL.


I am work Spanish Broadcasting Electronic Technician I work in the maintenance and operation in A.M and FM transmitters, RF links...

The psicofonias are phenomena that have no explanation, but it is true that there are


Sorry for all this is out of the scope this forum, but good is always sympathetic to skip the rules to laugh a little.

Last summer I was in Peru and I pass through a town where people told me that there was a haunted house.

Well leave the recorder to record hours in the night and record voices of children laughing and crying too .

I have one psiconia here, in my house in the village , the village is tiny no noise , no sound, all is silent , stone house with walls the 1 meter wide.

This small psicofonia I did when I was there, the recorder stops recording all night, I and another player to questions,


In the audio I send my voice can be heard asking in Spanish ....
What is your name ? and the sudden shock and begin to hear a voice responds .


I know that I just converted to the forum buffoon .


Other voices I have recorded elsewhere, always checking that they could not come from external sources .

Good does not have any explanation , but .... this is there real.

I'll leave the full audio.

And they answered me again but this time the voice cleared by program audio with Puppy.

Anyway Puppy is even useful for all this.

Greetings and happy weekend.

[Rodney Byne]

Hi to All.

I will listen to the above interesting sound files and comment shortly.

First a serious tech contribution to complement the use
of xoscope, siggen and Baudline on a pc, laptop or netbook.
I have one of these always to hand on my test bench.

For those people who want a simple audio lab on their pc using
these and similar programs, I suggest including the attached mic
or line socket protection circuit to prevent accidental overload
of the sound card or motherboard sound module.

A sudden instantaneous high amplitude pulse signal will do
total expensive damage to these devices without protection,
so normal signal inputs should not exceed about 150mv RMS,
before top and bottom clipping occurs.

The Mic fader should be up about 1/3rd and Mic s/w boost must be off.

This is an easy safety project to construct on say veroboard
or tagboard, at very little component cost for big savings in
potential repair bills.

For those interested, the four diodes clamp the input
signal at top and bottom to about half a volt pk-pk.
The 470n capacitor blocks the phantom +3v dc coming OUT of the
mic socket, which would normally supply a fet microphone insert.

Believe me, inclusion of this circuit is well worth the effort.

Regards.

[mister_electronico]

Very good observation, Only one thing to consider with the with the capacitor 470 nF.

The impedance the capacitor 470n F

Zc = 1 / (2*pi*f*C)


With 20 Hz Zc near to 17 Kohm

With 20.000 Hz Zc near to 17 ohm

Is a high pass filter.

So maybe the cheap way is for example:

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_8/4.html

The next scheme not tested but may be a solution.

It would be better with a band pass filter operational but this would complicate the circuit.





regards

[Rodney Byne]

I listened to the sound files, if a bit short so couldn't
form an impression without being there, but a paranormal
expert might be interested.
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Thanks for the added equalizer section but as you say,
better to keep the protection circuit simple.
The component values and configuration could
be useful though in another, different application.

Besides I want to discourage the lf response.
Lf should be rolled off downwards, don't like it.
Lf is a nuisance, having possibility of earth hum loop
disturbance and power supply breakthrough.
If anything it might be better to reduce the 470n to 100n
and also run the laptop from batteries.
Final cap value rests with the user, but 470n is a good start.

For the purpose of meaningful analyzer examination
of audio circuits, I think it better to concentrate
on frequencies above 1khz.

Cheers

[mister_electronico]

Hi Rodney Byne

Psiconia:

The small audio file belongs to a recording of may be 10 hours or so.
My recorder Sony is not very expensive, I think it cost me about 70 euros, but records clean sound. The voices are low and lose quality when I raise them by mhWaveEdit volume.

During the 10 hours nothing happens except in small moments that appear voices.

I have not devoted much time to this.

Anyway as I said this topic is out of this forum and the only thing interesting is that Puppy programs can also be useful for things like this.

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With respect to the schema you're right, it is better to focus on frequencies above 1khz.

So your scheme is perfect.

If I have time and could get with some frequency converter circuit for xoscope and multiplier for siggen.

Anyway there internet projects.

I want to retire soon, but my government is just the opposite.

This is illusions I still have much.

Right now I'm also involved with a project for Puppy.

| Microcontroller -- RS232| < == > | Program C | <==> | Gtkdialog|

For data aquisition and presentation.


Thanks Rodney Byne quite enjoy chatting with you about these issues.

See you.

[Rodney Byne]

Hi again mister_electronico,

Quickly going back to your previous post,
IF I wanted to lift the lf end of the audio spectrum
I would just increase the value of a coupling cap
from a smaller value to about 10microfarads
to pass 20hz.
For this simple application, I wouldn't bother with
a bandpass filter at all.

The insertion loss of any such filter into its
termination Z would be self-defeating,
unless the facility exists to compensate by
amplification.
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Now, my last thought to complete a self-contained pc
set of audio lab analysis programs in Puppy, is an
absolute input audio level meter in millivolts of 10 to 100,

Although there are plenty of Windows programs
for this purpose which can run in Wine, could you
write a pet having an indicator and simple front panel
gui to calibrate against an external millivoltmeter?
Sorry, I'm a practical man knowing nothing of code,
it's way over my head.

No pressure just have a think, could it be done
at all. I will leave that with you.

Cheers.

[mister_electronico]

I forgot one thing leave your scheme in Spanish forum for people to see, I hope you do not mind.

I hope you do not ask copyrights.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=765275#765275

Thanks .. see you.

[mister_electronico]

Regarding the filters think your scheme is a good base, and then according to the needs of signal levels or frequency as may be modified according to the needs.

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Regarding millivoltmeter the only way that I have the do now:

| Microcontroller -- RS232| < == > | Program C | <==> | Gtkdialog|


At this time I managed to capture the data with the microcontroller and entirely by the program in C to pass gtkdialog program.

But I have problems with the C program that is not stable with the reception of data.

And this is the last thing I'm debugging.

But this way you would have to use microcontroller and maybe this will complicate your project.


Another way you could do serious thinking about it entirely by the sound card.

I have no experience in this, or how to aquire data from the sound card.


But as the sound card does not collect stable DC voltage values​​, you could mount a VCO, which CC values ​​changed frequency and using the card values ​​captured by presenting them as voltage values​​.

But as I say I have no experience in this.

Anyway when I finish my project I will put an example to capture data for microcontroller Puppy.

See you Rodney Byne

[Moose On The Loose]

[mister_electronico]

Hi Moose On The Loose .

Yesterday I found a program that I think I can do everything much easier.

this Frecuenty.py program written in python captures the signal and displays the frequency microphone.

My idea is this.

A voltage converter Frequency (Hardware) ==> PC microphone ==> Frecuenty.py + Program C ==> gtkdialog for presentation.


The voltage converter Frequency can be for example a LM131

http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bucek.name%2Fpdf%2Flm331.pdf&ei=n0YrU4XlDM6k0AWqgYGoDg&usg=AFQjCNGFDBPIhlfiSpUoqlz09_BqOrhOyw&bvm=bv.62922401,d.Yms&cad=rja

Or maybe the 4046

http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC4QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ti.com%2Flit%2Fds%2Fsymlink%2Fcd4046b.pdf&ei=YkkrU8qBFYHU0QXbo4HIDA&usg=AFQjCNG0blAhoHw_xU-TxoWQNAmbM5k1lg&bvm=bv.62922401,d.Yms&cad=rja


Once converted to frequency the voltage gets to adapting it to microphone input, the program detects Frecuenty.py frequency, and a Program C will converting the frequency again in voltage.

Finally the program presented in a gtkdialog display the value of the voltage.

With this method will later be able to measure amps, resistance, Farad, .......

Here is the program.