Progress is slow on this one. Besides did not update this blog regularly.
I did a few things though.
-If strip is working. But it needs some finishing touches, like using varicaps instead of trimmers for the band pass tuning.
-I found an enclosure for it. I bought it from a ham who was quitting the hobby.
-On ebay I have found cheap AD9850 dds modules. I have bought a few. One of them will be used as synthesize for this project. I know that it is not ideal with respect to phase noise. I can add cleanup oscillators later.
I made a controller for this board using a PIC processor. Now I can generate signals between 0 and 40 MHz
A band pass filter is almost ready. I had top skip 160 meters as it did not fit in the filter enclosure (tin box).