[Flexradio] ARRL/TAPR DCC Sunday Lecture

2016-09-16 Thread Robert McGwier
Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, and I are doing the Sunday lecture on Spectrum challenges for amateur radio. That sounds boring, it won't be. I will do boring parts as quickly as possible then we will use your analog computer (brain) to do spectrum collaboration and your fun will be enhanced by

[Flexradio] Studying the Ionosphere during an Eclipse

2016-05-24 Thread Robert McGwier
http://hamsci.org/article/hamsci-eclipse-team-meets-dayton 73s N4HY -- Bob McGwier Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc Research Professor Virginia Tech Chief Scientist: The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology Senior

Re: [Flexradio] Sherwood Engineering Rates Flex 6700

2014-10-19 Thread Robert McGwier
You knew this was coming from one story. The Flex 6300 is not as rugged a receiver as the 6500 and 6700. Yet in a field day station with a couple of 6300's and a 6700 NO INTERFERENCE WAS NOTICED with THREE stations on 20 meters SIMULTANEOUSLY

[Flexradio] WTB Flex 5000

2014-01-31 Thread Robert McGwier
A friend wants to buy a fully loaded Flex 5000 in perfect condition. Price in first email and an assertion it is in perfect working condition. Please send direct to me and not to the list. Bob N4HY -- Bob McGwier Co-Owner and Technical Director, Federated Wireless, LLC Professor Virginia

Re: [Flexradio] Well, rats!

2012-10-06 Thread Robert McGwier
What is usually on display is an open box of a functional radio inside plexiglass and that done only to keep curious hands off the parts. If you didn't see that at Belton, I bet it was busy elsewhere. Bob On Oct 6, 2012 5:33 AM, Tim Samaras tsama...@ecentral.com wrote: All: At the Belton

Re: [Flexradio] Video card for flex

2012-06-21 Thread Robert McGwier
But the GPU's, which we don't really use, are really nice in the NVidia. That said, we should use best fit for us. Bob N4HY On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Tim Ellison wrote: Any ATI based video card is my first choice. The anything with an NVIDIA GPU would be next. The ATIs seem to have

Re: [Flexradio] Differences between the 5K 6K ?

2012-05-24 Thread Robert McGwier
Or tablet, pad, smartphone, or control surface... On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Ross Stenberg ross.stenb...@charter.net wrote: I would expect the PC requirements for the 6K platform to be extremely modest since all of the radio processing is done by the ARM processor in the radio and the PC

Re: [Flexradio] Differences between the 5K 6K ?

2012-05-24 Thread Robert McGwier
In the 6700, there are 8 slice receivers but each of those will be capable of supporting multiple sub RX as in PSDR. We have not decided how many software receivers to run on the DaVinci per slice and if we did, how you might use them. Right now, I want one per slice to be perfect. Bob On

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 6000 Family Dynamic Range

2012-05-18 Thread Robert McGwier
Clay : The difference is more than made up in the the fact that the new AD operates at 245 MHz and the old AD is 200 kHz and you get huge processing gain in the downsample and filter process greatly increases the dynamic range. Bob On May 18, 2012 4:46 PM, Clay W7CE w...@curtiss.net wrote:

Re: [Flexradio] Game Changer Ahead!

2012-05-14 Thread Robert McGwier
The CDRX-3200 is very capable receiver BUT it is most definitely a QSD radio. http://www.flexradio.com/Products.aspx?topic=CDRX-3200 The direct sampling receiver (if you mean a big fast A/D hooked to the front end (filters/preamps) is not on the web site yet because there is development left on

Re: [Flexradio] \Deep Impact\ By Another Name?

2012-05-14 Thread Robert McGwier
I have a consulting relationship with Flex and I continue to work on advising them on their products. I am really loving all of the build up. See you all at Dayton. I will have my flex radio shirt on.. On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Brian Lloyd brian-wb6...@lloyd.com wrote: On Sun,

Re: [Flexradio] Game Changer Ahead!

2012-05-14 Thread Robert McGwier
Doing a filter like this is typically low volume, low return, and never ever repays the non-recurring engineering costs. If someone has a fantastic filter design, tested, and ready to go, let Flex know and they might even market it. Bob N4HY On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Bill Diaz

Re: [Flexradio] Real Radios

2012-04-30 Thread Robert McGwier
Should be a world WITHOUT SDN On Monday, April 30, 2012, Bob McGwier wrote: No network protection mechanism worthy of being called such will EVER survive in the modern environment with a CDN which starts with an SDN. You need multiple innovations these days and work is already being done in

Re: [Flexradio] VAC 4.11

2012-03-17 Thread Robert McGwier
In 4.09 and worse in 4.10 were errors that seriously hampered the preferred Windows Sound Host (WDMKS). This version, 4.11, seems to have those completely fixed this and greatly improved the performance in a number of areas including the precision of the sampling rate emulation in software, and

Re: [Flexradio] CAT problem partially solved

2012-03-13 Thread Robert McGwier
On Carter Craigie's (N3AO) laptop , we finally did a clean re-install for other reasons (virus/spambot successful attack as in pay me lots of money to recover your computer which kept being reintroduced from a jump drive) and that was the only way to get rid of the dad-blasted zombie ports. It

Re: [Flexradio] Phantom Cat Ports

2012-03-13 Thread Robert McGwier
Very useful. Hope this is added to the kb (if it isn't already there) for these virtual com ports. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Bill w...@billnjudy.com wrote: I read this and it showed how to rid zombie or phantom cat ports it may or may not help you, but it did no harm to my system after

Re: [Flexradio] Damage control - designed for AM ?

2012-02-29 Thread Robert McGwier
Let me state for the record that in writing the DSP code in DttSP, no mode has received more thought or effort than AM except CW. I worked very hard on SAM, and I worked very hard thinking through and implementing synchronous carrier added DSB which allows very large modulation index compared

Re: [Flexradio] 472-479 KHz receiving and transmitting ERP and antenna models

2012-02-25 Thread Robert McGwier
This won't help with the 475 band but let us know how well you receive WWVB and other major known stations. Good luck! Bob On Friday, February 24, 2012, Jerry wa2...@verizon.net wrote: I just ordered a LF converter and we will see how it works. Jerry http://wb9kzy.com/lfconv.htm -- Bob

Re: [Flexradio] Misinformation about k3 being srd

2011-12-15 Thread Robert McGwier
Well, okay. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Dave Beumer WØDHB d...@w0dhb.net wrote: 15 days, you're allowed to have Christmas Day off :-) -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bob McGwier Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Flexradio] Optimized XP or Win7 Configuration

2011-11-24 Thread Robert McGwier
Install GBoost and let it do it for you. It is an awesome utility designed for gamers and thus is perfect for us. Bob N4HY On Nov 23, 2011 12:47 PM, J.Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT w2...@att.net wrote: Hi Folks! Is there a defined checklist of common Windows XP or 7 elements that need to be

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] filter skirt

2011-09-17 Thread Robert McGwier
And think of doing this as efficiently without the display? FORGET IT! We made as much impact when Eric and I developed the panadspter as anything else we have done. Imagine using the TNF without it. How would one do it? Bob On Sep 17, 2011 5:31 AM, G0DDX g0...@btinternet.com wrote: Totally

Re: [Flexradio] SSB is gone

2011-08-01 Thread Robert McGwier
Well! I have never done ANYTHING so dumb (since yesterday) Bob Sent from my iPad On Jul 31, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Neal Campbell abrohamn...@gmail.com wrote: I sincerely am not meaning to make fun of Greg but this is an example of my method of problem analysis! I always assume that the most

Re: [Flexradio] Reducing Latency

2011-07-21 Thread Robert McGwier
Increase the samplerate, decrease the dsp size and the audio buffer size. All contribute. Bob N4HY On Jul 21, 2011 3:59 PM, Ted Trostle ttrostl...@gmail.com wrote: When running RMSExpress or V4Chat the latency needs to very low...I think less than 300ms. What changes can be made to the PWSDR

Re: [Flexradio] Silly question / Noise floor

2011-06-29 Thread Robert McGwier
Or put another way, if the filter is 10 bins wide (117 Hz = 10*4096/48000) the noise power in that 117 Hz is the sum of the noise lower in those ten bins and thus should be ten times or 10 dB bigger than the noise floor. This is what the meter reads: all the power, noise + signal, in the ten bins

Re: [Flexradio] Silly question / Noise floor

2011-06-29 Thread Robert McGwier
Forgive the typo, 117 = 10 * 48000/4096 Hz. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Robert McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: Or put another way, if the filter is 10 bins wide (117 Hz = 10*4096/48000) the noise power in that 117 Hz is the sum of the noise lower in those ten bins and thus should

Re: [Flexradio] audiodg.exe

2011-06-21 Thread Robert McGwier
Thanks! On Jun 21, 2011 5:19 PM, David McClain d...@refined-audiometrics.com wrote: Just found a nasty little feature in Win/Vista and Win/7, named audiodg.exe. This is a required audio driver that attempts to isolate processes audio routing graphs for security purposes. Problem is, the cure

Re: [Flexradio] SDR Article

2011-03-17 Thread Robert McGwier
Color me a bad boy. I resemble that remark. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Mike Ellerson melle...@uga.edu wrote: Here is a short article I put together about SDR radio. Its called Blackbox Station Operators the “Bad Boys” of Amateur Radio? Yes its Flex related :) Its at

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Blanker Question

2011-03-17 Thread Robert McGwier
It is under active work now to make it all it can be. NR and ANF both. We fixed an ugly bug that repaired things some of the way. We are looking at it all now. Bob On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ted Trostle tctros...@gmail.com wrote: During the brief time I owned a Flex 1500, I recall

Re: [Flexradio] Help Noise Blanker

2010-11-18 Thread Robert McGwier
As an interim I am going to implement a ramp down and ramp up on the gate which will limit the key click to a bandwidth NO LARGER THAN the filter currently selected. I should have done this ages ago. This will be what everyone has mistakenly called operating behind a roofing filter for

[Flexradio] New hardware from Flex

2010-11-16 Thread Robert McGwier
Flex Radio has delivered to me the ultimate in wideband, A/D based receiver in a product called SERX (for Survey Engine Receiver). Initially delivered with the ability to stream 30 MHz of data via PCIe (4 lane) or power spectra and up to 16 channels of variable bandwidth digital downconverter

[Flexradio] Dayton SDR Forum speaker list, times

2010-05-13 Thread Robert McGwier
Dayton SDR Forum is exciting this year. 4/5 of the talks are about HPSDR-related and that is good with a great list of speakers. Friday, 2:30-5 PM Gerald Youngblood, Flex updates 2:30 Lyle Johnson, Embedded Processors for SDR 3:00 John Melton, SDR GUI 3:30 Scott Cowling, HPSDR update 4:00

Re: [Flexradio] A Most Excellent Radio

2010-04-29 Thread Robert McGwier
Tim is being kind. I totally screwed them up in 1.18 but we are hard over on getting PSDR version 2.0 out the door and supporting multiple pieces of hardware simultaneously and .. Thanks for your input! Bob On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote:

[Flexradio] Dayton SDR forum speakers sought

2010-04-07 Thread Robert McGwier
On Friday, May 14, I am the moderator (and speaker) at the SDR forum at the 2:30 PM - 5 PM session. I have two speakers (Scotty on openhpsdr, and I speak on general SDR topics). I need to fill out this time and this leaves at least 1.5 hours to fill. I would like to get this settled as soon as

Re: [Flexradio] OK now PSK31 weirdness

2010-03-30 Thread Robert McGwier
I have no trouble at all with telephone numbers. I tell my cell phone call home, etc. I never forget a number HI On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Neal Campbell nealk...@gmail.com wrote: I can't keep my own phone number straight much less the versions! Sri! Neal Campbell Abroham Neal

[Flexradio] Frank Brickle, AB2KT, XYL ... SK

2010-01-29 Thread Robert McGwier
I am sorry to report that Frank's wife has passed away following a long period of suffering from a serious accidental head injury. I know you will join me in sending Frank our sincerest condolences. I have been in contact with Frank and I will post notices here of details once they are finalized

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5KA, MixW and HRD - PTT Help

2009-06-18 Thread Robert McGwier
I want to disagree with in this rare instance. THE ONLY CODE THAT IS NOT BETA IS THE FULL RELEASE WITH AN INSTALLER ON THE WEB SITE. Any and all other code should be considered Beta or Alpha. The trunk is the ONLY Beta code. The branches are all ALPHA code. Only Eric is in charge of moving

Re: [Flexradio] Life expectancy of the relays in the 5K?

2009-06-18 Thread Robert McGwier
If you are like me, you are going to spend all of your kids and grandkids inheritance given the RIDICULOUS state of the health care for the elderly in the US so you might want it to be the centerpiece of your estate (where it belongs). ;-). Bob N4HY On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Burt

Re: [Flexradio] All using SVN 3166 or higher

2009-06-17 Thread Robert McGwier
I had to be persuaded but I believe it will benefit all of us. The use of the test branch by people running contests and hunting vital DX or worse yet, doing ARES work just sent shivers down my spine. It is time for a fork in the road. One for those who like to tinker and/or have specific

[Flexradio] WBIR, wideband image rejection

2009-06-04 Thread Robert McGwier
I have been asked what this is over and over. I will let someone with a better voice tell you: http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2009/05/wbir.html ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Amp Keying and chopped key elements

2009-06-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Hi Carl: There are settings that need to be changed and also there is recent work. I suggest you and all other CW ops go ahead and download the trunk using tortoise svn. you do not need the entire trunk, just the bin/Release directory. Several updates are in there but they include: 1) Major

[Flexradio] SDR Forum at Dayton

2009-04-24 Thread Robert McGwier
Room 5, Friday PM http://www.hamvention.org/files/2009Forums-Friday.pdf See you there. Bob N4HY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives:

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR S-Meter Power Readings

2009-04-13 Thread Robert McGwier
Since the very first C language version of the sdr, we integrated the received power in the filter (by summing the bins of the filter and relying on parseval's relation). This is indeed in do_rx_meter in sdr.c The thing to be aware of is that do_rx_meter is used for all metering in the

[Flexradio] Dayton SDR Forum so far

2009-03-27 Thread Robert McGwier
On May 16 2008 at the ARRL National Convention and the Dayton Hamvention we will have a software defined radio forum aimed at amateur radio operators. SO FAR: Bob McGwier, N4HY SDR update ( 15 minutes) Scott Cowling WA2DFI on HPSDR Project update (20 minutes) Frank Brickle, AB2KT, on VR and

[Flexradio] SDR Forum at Dayton Hamvention

2009-03-26 Thread Robert McGwier
The SDR Forum at the Dayton Hamvention is Saturday 11:15 AM to 1:30 PM May 16. This is the ARRL National convention as well so it should be well attended. Because of missed emails, etc. (I was left off the email addressees so I got none of the emails) we are now in a rush. The initial list,

Re: [Flexradio] HD radio

2009-03-25 Thread Robert McGwier
As soon as you or someone else tells us the proprietary information in the HD encoding and then pays for our attorneys and court costs in fighting off the industry as they sue us. In other words, probably not. Bob 2009/3/25 Jerry Harley wa2...@verizon.net: Are we going to be able to listen to

[Flexradio] Software Defined Radio software authors are hard at work

2009-03-21 Thread Robert McGwier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base:

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Re: FLEX-3000 OOB blog

2009-03-19 Thread Robert McGwier
The question is ill posed I think. Do you mean how many IF paths are available simultaneous for (say) the receiver? Let me do some guessing and then answer my guesses. Please correct my incorrect guesses. 5000: two up to 192 kHz wide each for RX and one for TX. 3000: one up to 96 kHz wide on

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Re: FLEX-3000 OOB blog

2009-03-19 Thread Robert McGwier
rolls out. Bob On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Robert McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: The question is ill posed I think.  Do you mean how mt any IF paths are available simultaneous for (say) the receiver?  Let me do some guessing and then answer my guesses.  Please correct my incorrect

[Flexradio] IQTest code

2009-03-18 Thread Robert McGwier
I want to prepare this group for some testing that needs to be done. I have an approach in mind that will let us roll out RX adaptive IQ immediately. It works as follows and the work is done in the TX IQ cal to make it happen. 1) TX IQ calibration session is initiated. 2) DDS Generator is

Re: [Flexradio] Upgrades and bug fixes to test

2009-03-18 Thread Robert McGwier
Duffy: Thanks. This is the kind of report I am looking for. Where you state your results, the impacts, the equipment used and it has a story so I can get the context because I am so thickheaded. Thanks! Bob On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Duffy na6mm...@earthlink.net wrote: Bob   Thanks

Re: [Flexradio] [dttsp-linux] Intel ATOM WHOOAAAAA Nellie

2009-02-20 Thread Robert McGwier
http://www.nvidia.com/object/sff_ion.html I think it is pretty clear that almost anyone with any real experience would take Nvidia's restricted distribution graphics drivers about 100 to 1 over the open source CRAP that comes from ATI, and forget completely any of their competitors. I have

[Flexradio] Behrouz Farhang-Bourjeny and his book

2009-02-20 Thread Robert McGwier
Behrouz has improved his booked with editing and errata repair and having the material tried out on students. I used the book in a class in an early form, at work, and I am very happy to report that Behrouz continues to improve on the work. It does not yet have the OFDM chapter in it. I need to

Re: [Flexradio] Acorn-sdr

2009-01-22 Thread Robert McGwier
Bob: Thank you very much for this. I am sure many will find it useful and illuminating. Bob N4HY On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Bob Cowdery b...@g3ukb.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I've put up a new project at http://code.google.com/p/acorn-sdr. It is the start of an evolution of both erlink-sr

[Flexradio] OFF TOPIC RANT

2009-01-13 Thread Robert McGwier
http://n4hy.blogspot.com/ ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base:

Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2008-12-29 Thread Robert McGwier
The new I7 intel processors have a really amazing amount of horsepower but a tremendous amount of onboard stuff is designed to work intimately with the peripherals to bring on high speed graphics. Now if your argument is that all of this is going to be moved into the GPP, I might agree that we

Re: [Flexradio] Power SDR on Windows XP 64 bit version

2008-10-16 Thread Robert McGwier
I installed a recent (not the latest) driver on a serious XP 64 bit machine. It ran like gangbusters, absolutely seamlessly. This was in Mr. ACOM's shack and we banged on it on multiple bands and modes for hours. It worked. Bob On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000

2008-09-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Yes, I am beginning to think that is what is happening to me, UAC is on and I have been reluctant to turn it off. We really need TC to get their driver signed!!! Bob On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Ray, K9DUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, I forgot to mention in my previous response that I

Re: [Flexradio] XP retired?

2008-07-22 Thread Robert McGwier
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/future.aspx On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Jim Jerzycke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newegg still has it in stock. 73, Jim KQ6EA --- Michael M. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it June 30,2008 that MS retired XP from sales? If so is the full

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Dual Core Processors

2007-12-28 Thread Robert McGwier
Eric Wachsmann wrote: Larry, PowerSDR is a multi-threaded application and thus will automatically take minimal advantage of multiple cores. To give an example, one core could be MAXIMAL advantage, not minimal. used for the display thread, one for the audio thread, another for the user

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-25 Thread Robert McGwier
Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems) wrote: Let me clarify that FlexRadio will not force an OS that is not compatible with the bulk of amateur radio software applications. I am not sure where that idea came from. Regards, Gerald The goal is to march along with the natural changes that

Re: [Flexradio] Vista Installation Oddities

2007-12-23 Thread Robert McGwier
Alan NV8A wrote: On 12/23/07 01:36 pm Tim Ellison wrote: You will not always get the Found new hardware message. Particularly if the device driver is already registered with Windows. The FLEX-5000 hardware is registered as a sound device under Windows. Windows wouldn't know a radio if

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Blanker and large S9+ signals outside of passband

2007-12-19 Thread Robert McGwier
KX5KW wrote: Kurt, You're not the only one. It makes the noise blanker almost useless for me since there are always other signals in the 96kc if range. Bob McGwier, N4HY, has some excellent ideas for noise cancelling in the code, but he has a LOT of other projects going on. I

Re: [Flexradio] I'm glad to report success with

2007-12-18 Thread Robert McGwier
FireBrick wrote: got your attention! Yes, I got all the right parameters in Steve Nance's great DDUtilty program that allows the PWSDR to not only connect with the DXLABS suite, but also control my Quadra amplifier. (Big thanks to Steve for working me through the details) This

Re: [Flexradio] Free visual Studio 2008

2007-12-15 Thread Robert McGwier
Peter G. Viscarola wrote: Look around and see if you can find an installfest in your neighbiorhood! Or skip the msft speech, and download and install VS.NET 2008 Express Edition for free any time you want. The Express Editions are the same (optimizing) compiler and linker, and just have

[Flexradio] Flex 5000 review

2007-12-14 Thread Robert McGwier
The Flex 5000 review by Rob Sherwood is now available from ARRL in the book: http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?item=1122 Bob -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair “An optimist may see a light where there is

Re: [Flexradio] Worked FDMDV mode w/ FLEX-5000A...

2007-12-11 Thread Robert McGwier
MELP is covered by multiple patents. It is not licensed to anyone who has produced this. This is a road down which there is nothing but trouble. It is not the basis of our digital voice future and is in fact a direct contributor to a lack of progress. We cannot use it. Bob N4HY --

Re: [Flexradio] Worked FDMDV mode w/ FLEX-5000A...

2007-12-11 Thread Robert McGwier
Steve Kallal wrote: Sorry, but I didn't realize the DV software was using patented code. The source code for MELP is available, but not the source code for FDMDV. I still like the idea of digital voice, but was unaware of the legal issues. 73, Steve N6VL It is not your fault, you

Re: [Flexradio] VS 2008

2007-12-07 Thread Robert McGwier
This is not off topic in that developing the SDR code and the tools to be used are on topic. It is a Radio first but an Software radio in the sense of the term defined by the FCC in their recent RO's. The answer to your question is, I have NOT downloaded VS2008. I have been doing significant

Re: [Flexradio] New NR parameters...

2007-12-03 Thread Robert McGwier
Steve Kallal wrote: I downloaded SVN 1783 and notice there is a new leakage parameter. Could N4HY or anyone else knowledgeable on the subject tells us how to use it? The Block LMS system was pretty easy to setup. 73, Steve N6VL Pretty easy to set up and didn't work well. We are

Re: [Flexradio] DSP windows

2007-11-29 Thread Robert McGwier
Steve Kallal wrote: I've been playing with the Window selection on the DSP setup screen. I really can't tell any on the air difference between them in receive. There are very slight differences in the display. From past searches, I've noticed comments about differences in reception. In

Re: [Flexradio] Fatal Error message After running Tortoise Update

2007-11-28 Thread Robert McGwier
Tim Ellison wrote: Bob, Should we run fftw_wisdom.exe again? -Tim YES! Sorry for that omission. I need a collection of beta testers for the fftw problems. I will call upon some of you. This is an alpha release of fftw but it has significant enhancements in it. We have dropped

Re: [Flexradio] Fatal Error message After running Tortoise Update

2007-11-27 Thread Robert McGwier
Jerry: Please give svn version 1761 a try. Bob Gerald Capodieci wrote: Thanks for your suggestions but my problem must be other than with Tortoise. I reinstalled the latest versions of Tortoise, and .net MDAC etc. I created a new folder and ran the check out routine to collect the latest

[Flexradio] Serial port to ethernet

2007-11-23 Thread Robert McGwier
I will even do your research for you. Folks, this took me FIVE SECONDS to find after I sent my last note. http://com0com.sourceforge.net/ That is everything you need including serial ports and tcp- serial port code. It may, or may not be functional. But that is the fun of it really. It will

Re: [Flexradio] Com ports over ethernet and Flex5000

2007-11-23 Thread Robert McGwier
Folks: I know folks have come to expect a lot from us and we have come to expect you to want more and welcome it. We have every single thing we need to do this except for hours in the day. Phil Covington has given us the virtual serial port driver. A simple program doing a virtual serial port

Re: [Flexradio] Am I the only one having problem keying?

2007-11-17 Thread Robert McGwier
The problem is acknowledged. Did this get put into the Bug Reporting? I lowered the latency a lot in the last few releases (last couple of weeks) as we resolved the issues with the Flex 5000 firmware timing. The jitter and other things dealing with keying timing are completely resolved so far

Re: [Flexradio] I Wonder If...

2007-11-12 Thread Robert McGwier
Frank Brickle wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 5:01 AM, Frank Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously though, if you're wanting to meet up with a few local hams you could do no better ( or worse ;-) ) than to hook up with the guys from the South Dublin Radio Club, if you like I'll put you in touch

Re: [Flexradio] 512 buffers @ 96 kHz on 5000A

2007-11-11 Thread Robert McGwier
Shortly this filter difference will be resolved. All filters, irrespective of sampling rate, will have the exact same shape factor as the 48000 Hz. Shortly after that, we will be able to support even better filters if the user can live with the latency through the RX chain and with this

[Flexradio] Star-10 Transceiver article in QEX

2007-11-11 Thread Robert McGwier
Dear QEX Editor: Cornell Drentea, designer of Dentron amplifiers, and one of the many who claim to have invented DDS referenced PLL's (he has as good a case as any) has shown a beautiful example of serious professional engineering in his Star-10 article and he is to be congratulated on a

Re: [Flexradio] Announcing FlexProfiler

2007-11-08 Thread Robert McGwier
Bob Tracy wrote: All, I have posted FlexProfiler Ver. 1.0 [beta]to svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/FlexProfiler/trunk. The setup file is in /bin/Release/FlexProfiler Setup and the documentation is in /Documentation. FlexProfiler is a stand-alone configuration management

Re: [Flexradio] I Wonder If...

2007-11-08 Thread Robert McGwier
Frank Hunter wrote: FireBrick wrote: By any chancewould those seminars be at a pub? Better than that even! :-) We all get together at our local club (GI2BX) which meets in a social club - the beer is cheap! 73, Frank GI4NKB Come hear my talk at Trinity next month and we will test

Re: [Flexradio] FA: FlexRadio SDR-1000 Receiver w/ HPSDR Atlas/Janus/Ozy Boards

2007-11-08 Thread Robert McGwier
Jerry Flanders wrote: WOW! - after only two days, bid is up to $681 for this special receive only model. If/when I ever sell my conventional SDR-1000, I think I may split it into two pieces first (one rare RX only model and another rare TX only model!) ;-) Good ad, Guy, and obviously

[Flexradio] XML

2007-11-08 Thread Robert McGwier
I see that Phil Covington did an XML description some time back. I am pretty unhappy we didn't pick up on that sooner. Sorry for the oversight Phil. Nevertheless Bob's work can put the effort back on track. 73's Bob -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR,

Re: [Flexradio] I Wonder If...

2007-11-03 Thread Robert McGwier
This is in the planning stages. When I suggested it to Gerald about two months ago, he was very enthusiastic. I have NO details to pass on other than to say Flex sees the value in it. I suggested that the developers be brought in at Flex expense so users could come and gripe or praise as

Re: [Flexradio] FYI

2007-10-29 Thread Robert McGwier
Please enter a bug report on this issue. It is accepted as real and impacts with SDR-1000 and Flex 5000. There is an optimal fix and a quicker bandaid. After I check out the quicker bandaid, I will put this into the code. Bob J. Crit Harley, MD, C.Ht. wrote: Perhaps I am the only one

Re: [Flexradio] CW keyer [primary] input

2007-10-29 Thread Robert McGwier
There are a couple of things going on here. Please check out the code as put up by Eric and I this afternoon. I believe it fixes several bugs in the cw ring buffering system that arose when we perfected break-in and have been in there since. We did make such a HUGE improvement in the keyer

[Flexradio] AMSAT Meeting in Philadelphia

2007-10-23 Thread Robert McGwier
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, Inc. (AMSAT), a non-profit 501c3 organization in the U.S. which designs, builds, launches satellites for the use of radio amateurs worldwide is holding its annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. this coming weekend.

[Flexradio] AMSAT Meeting in PITTSBURGH (not Philly)

2007-10-23 Thread Robert McGwier
Sorry! I typed Philadelphia (where I was last weekend) and I meant Pittsburgh, Pa which is indicated on the links. Ooops. Bob ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] ALC An easy first for the Flex Wire

2007-10-23 Thread Robert McGwier
It will be an easy attachment for Flex Wire interface to give you ALC input back to the radio from your amplifiers. Limiting yourself to JUST this topic, entitle your message Flex Wire ALC please send what it needs to do for you to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so he can put together a common

Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] Allen Array goes online today (Thursday Oct 11)

2007-10-14 Thread Robert McGwier
. ;-). Bob N4HY Robert McGwier wrote: Philip Covington wrote: * High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List * http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/8209 http://www.seti.org/ 73 Phil N8VB ___ http://n4hy.smugmug.com/gallery

Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] Allen Array goes online today (Thursday Oct 11)

2007-10-14 Thread Robert McGwier
made against Hy Masers available to Tom and Rick. Best 73's Bob Jim Lux wrote: At 12:34 PM 10/14/2007, Robert McGwier wrote: The heart and soul of a phased array is the common clock driving oscillators, samplers, etc. http://n4hy.smugmug.com/gallery/3634776#207453486 Shows CNS clock

Re: [Flexradio] Erlang Book...

2007-10-10 Thread Robert McGwier
Pete and friends: Please take a look at Joe's Ph.D. thesis. It is readable and gives more in depth look at the basis for his thinking (in case you are interested) as opposed to the limited exposure to his philsophy in the book. It is clear from reading the book and his comments that his

[Flexradio] Further EXCELLENT Erlang news

2007-10-10 Thread Robert McGwier
Today I was able to configure and compile erlang from source only with cygwin. I have tested it. I needed to run the cygserver so fork, shared memory, named pipes, etc. and all of the other things that windows was not smart enough to provide ;-) but following this, it just plain worked. I

Re: [Flexradio] filter shape factor

2007-10-05 Thread Robert McGwier
The only dumb question is the one where you worked at understanding and when you ran into a road block, you did not ask for help and got frustrated. This was not dumb because I am sure others are making the same mistake and you did work at it and then asked. That is my description of the

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Vista

2007-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Philip Covington wrote: On 10/3/07, Mike Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my take is the performance monitor/CPU usage is vital tool to gauge performance issues since PowerSDR can be processor intensive more so than memory dependent and if Vista (version ¿) negates this, would someone

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Vista

2007-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Philip Covington wrote: On 10/4/07, Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Covington wrote: On 10/3/07, Mike Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my take is the performance monitor/CPU usage is vital tool to gauge performance issues since PowerSDR can be processor intensive more so

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Vista

2007-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Jim Lux wrote: At 09:30 AM 10/4/2007, Robert McGwier wrote: That was what I thought you were going to say. To me this is not acceptable because it means no guarantee of support. I don't see why it means no guarantee of support. MS provides a fair amount of support for running VS2003

Re: [Flexradio] [Web Update] FLEX-5000C pictures on the web site

2007-10-04 Thread Robert McGwier
Tim Ellison wrote: There are new pictures of the FLEX-5000C on the FlexRadio web site. Front and back views. You can see them on the FLEX-5000C Details web page http://www.flex-radio.com/Products.aspx?topic=F5Kc_details -Tim FRS KB Administrator Accchhh. Just like the early

Re: [Flexradio] anyone attend DCC this weekend?

2007-10-02 Thread Robert McGwier
Philip Covington wrote: On 10/1/07, Frank Brickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Lux wrote: ...several months from now, which aren't online, and aren't free, either... The Proceedings are available now. They were distributed to attendees. Considering what TAPR (together with AMSAT) have been

Re: [Flexradio] anyone attend DCC this weekend?

2007-10-02 Thread Robert McGwier
Robert McGwier wrote: Finally, my last practical mistake was made before I got there. Phil Harman, VK6APH, and Steve Ireland, VK6VZ have been making use of spreadsheets in their instructive materials for SDR in RADCOM. Never one to let a great idea get away, I was going to steal

Re: [Flexradio] Development environments for the future..Re: anyone attend DCC this weekend?

2007-10-02 Thread Robert McGwier
Peter G. Viscarola wrote: QUOTE ...which is exactly what Windows Erlang and cygwin/cygserver do already. /QUOTE Does Erlang/OTP have multiprocessor support on Windows yet? The last time I looked, it didn't. de Peter K1PGV ___

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