Re: [Flexradio] RC2 lelease transmitt audio problems

2011-03-25 Thread Ross Stenberg
He can't help it, he is a teacher :^) On 3/24/2011 6:48 PM, DALE HANKINS wrote: Max latency is 40 us I deeply apologize for missing the u key and hitting the m key From: br...@lloyd.com [mailto:br...@lloyd.com] On Behalf Of Brian Lloyd Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:46 AM To: DALE HANKINS

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Ross Stenberg
Holy crap! Can you tolerate a latency of 6us? On 3/24/2011 9:32 PM, Neal Campbell (K3NC) wrote: SSDs are the best single component update you can do to a Vista or Win7 system. When you give Win7 the right amount of memory (4GB for x86, 6GB for x64 is what I recommend) and put the operating

Re: [Flexradio] RC2 lelease transmitt audio problems

2011-03-25 Thread William H. Fite
The question here is the extent to which this issue can be blamed on the release candidate versus some combination of characteristics in the whole hardware chain. The number of these kinds of complaints seems to be vanishingly small (h...that comment may bring others out of the woodwork,

Re: [Flexradio] RC2 lelease transmitt audio problems

2011-03-25 Thread Lee Mushel
Yes, Bill, this is something that I've observed ever since the 3000 arrived to keep the 5000A from getting lonesome. And the fact that the two radios are governed by two very different computers and versions of windows led me to conclude that your comments are absolutely correct! Lee

[Flexradio] Filters... is it just me?

2011-03-25 Thread Joe Word
Ever since i upgraded to v2.0.20 I keep thinking the Rx SSB filters are not as sharp as the were on v2.0.19 and below. I am running the DSP RX filter at 4096 as before, but does not seen as sharp. Has anyone else questioned this? Joe N9VX Flex 5000A, Lenovo Core 2 Duo, 2gig ram, XP , nothing

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Alfred Green n...@cox.net wrote: Is there any significant advantage to going with a SSD for Flex applications? There is no great advantage but, having said that, my radio computer uses an SSD. The main advantages are speed in booting, fast read access, less

Re: [Flexradio] RC2 lelease transmitt audio problems

2011-03-25 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Ross Stenberg ross.stenb...@charter.netwrote: He can't help it, he is a teacher :^) Yeah, I suppose that is true. I probably could have toned down my response tho'. I use melodrama and histrionics with the kids. I probably don't need to do it here too. :-) --

Re: [Flexradio] Filters... is it just me?

2011-03-25 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Joe Word joe.n...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since i upgraded to v2.0.20 I keep thinking the Rx SSB filters are not as sharp as the were on v2.0.19 and below. I am running the DSP RX filter at 4096 as before, but does not seen as sharp. Has anyone else questioned

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Don
Ok so here's a very basic question for you . If I purchase one of these drives, can I move (copy) the OS to the new drive or do I reinstall all the software to it? Don ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] Fwd: Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Drax Felton
I do this with a program called Norton Ghost. I also use it to back up s complete image of my c drive onto a second drive so I can back out any Windows issues cleanly. Great program. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Don kd...@sonic.net wrote: Ok so here's a

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread William H. Fite
You can move it. IT departments do it all the time. That being said...I have found it a chancy business. But then I run a bunch of bench-built statistical applications that aren't always neatly and tidily put together. Neal can give you a definitive answer. Bill On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread William H. Fite
My approach is similar to Brian's. I have the OS and the page files (is that still the right term under Win7?) on a small SSD and all the stuff on a couple of conventional HDDs. There is nothing to be gained by keeping your movies and music on SSD. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Brian

Re: [Flexradio] RC2 lelease transmitt audio problems

2011-03-25 Thread William H. Fite
Melodrama? Histrionics? Brian Oh my! On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Brian Lloyd brian-wb6...@lloyd.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Ross Stenberg ross.stenb...@charter.netwrote: He can't help it, he is a teacher :^) Yeah, I suppose that is true. I probably could

Re: [Flexradio] Filters... is it just me?

2011-03-25 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Brian Lloyd brian-wb6...@lloyd.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Joe Word joe.n...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, Thanks for the reply, so for sharp filters we need RX Buffers large and Audio/Sample Rate low. I have not experimented much with the

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Neal Campbell (K3NC)
Absolutely agree, keep windows, system functions and your applications on the SSD and move your data files to the hard drive. To do this, you can right-click on your documents folder, select Properties and then click on the Locations tab. There you can change the location of your documents

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/24/2011 7:22 PM, NU8Z wrote: I have a SSD and noticed a great improvement. You are correct. PSDR does not access the disk much. But I run a number of the DX Labs programs and it really reduces the disk access time when logging/ database accessing, etc. I really don't do much of that at

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/24/2011 7:32 PM, Mickey Baker wrote: There's a good article comparing the two technologies here: http://www.technize.com/ssd-vs-hdd-comparison/ Interesting, thanks. They're a lot faster, but remember that FLASH memory has a lifespan of 100,000 writes per cell. SSDs have dynamic

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/24/2011 7:47 PM, Neal Campbell (K3NC) wrote: \\The SSDs of (my) choice are: 1. RevoDrive 2 120GB PCIe SSD (it goes in a pci express slot and will score 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index which is the best possible score) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227578 2.

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Alfred Green
On 3/25/2011 8:34 AM, Brian Lloyd wrote: Since I only need about 6GB of storage for the radio computer I went looking for a deal on smaller SSDs. I was able to find a 32GB SSD for $110. Nowadays you might expect to get 1TB for that price but I would just end up with 994GB of free space

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Potter
A good and free and so far 100% reliable application is Easeus TodoBackup with will clone drives, backup drives to an image, restore from an image and even mount said image as another drive letter, very flexible and did I say free...obviously no connection to the company, just a user as I am of

[Flexradio] Data base

2011-03-25 Thread Ed White
Hi Gang: Question I am running Flex5000A, PSDR 2.0.20 Running MS XP: Where is the database that stores all the vac, COM-O-COM and other changes stored in PSDR? I had 2.0.16 running well now I have 2.0.20 running and have troubles with setting com ports and audio. Can the data base for 2.0,16 be

Re: [Flexradio] Data base

2011-03-25 Thread Tim Ellison
There are only three databases for PowerSDR 1. The radio / PowerSDR specific DB - located in the version specific folder in %APPDATA%\FlexRadio Systems\PowerSDR v2.x.y (x=minor version y=revision). It has the name database_A_-.XML (A = radio model / - = serial number). This

Re: [Flexradio] Solid State Drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Mike Manship
Here is a program designed specifically for moving from and HD to a SSD : http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/index.html 73 de Mike W9OJ On 3/25/2011 1:44 PM, Steve Potter wrote: A good and free and so far 100% reliable application is Easeus TodoBackup

Re: [Flexradio] Data base

2011-03-25 Thread K9DUR
Ed, Never import an entire database from one version of PowerSDR to another. You will be transferring calibration data other critical data that may vary from version to version. Look at my SDRDataTransfer utility. It was written specifically to allow you to transfer any or all of your custom

[Flexradio] S-meter Calibration Question

2011-03-25 Thread Tony
All, Is the Flex 5000A S-meter calibrated to Collin standard, i.e., S-9 = -73dbm and 6db per s-unit? Thanks, Tony -K2MO ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] S-meter Calibration Question

2011-03-25 Thread Clay W7CE
Yes. And my lab tests show that it is very accurate (better than +/- 1 dB). 73, Clay W7CE On 3/25/2011 9:45 PM, Tony wrote: All, Is the Flex 5000A S-meter calibrated to Collin standard, i.e., S-9 = -73dbm and 6db per s-unit? Thanks, Tony -K2MO