FYI, on the power cord we are using cords with the stripe which we assigned to positive. But we knew that a clearer indication of a red band would help most hams figure this out without a manual so we were doing that in manufacturing. We realized that a mistake in manufacturing (putting the red band on the wrong lead) would lead to a problem in the field and so we decided to put a label on the cord that reads "White stripe is +12v" or something similar in lieu of the band. I'm not sure this has been implemented yet, but this seemed to stand no chance error. I'll send a note to Joe that the doc needs to be changed also.
Steve Stephen Hicks, N5AC, AAR6AM VP Engineering FlexRadio Systems™ 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 x205 Email: [email protected] Web: www.flex-radio.com *Tune In Excitement™* PowerSDR™ is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:16, Tim N9PUZ <[email protected]> wrote: > UPS delivered my 1500 yesterday. This is my first SDR. > > Installation following the included Quick Start Guide went very smoothly > and the radio immediately came to life. > > Note 1: The QSG mentions the positive lead of the power cable has a stripe > and a red band. There was no red band on my cable. Also, you might add a > notation in the QSG to show the polarity of the plug and also list the > dimensions or a suitable part number for a plug to use if someone is making > their own cable. > > Note 2: There is a not too loud but fairly annoying "click" in the > headphones when the radio switches from receive to transmit or transmit to > receive. In CW mode I fiddled with the settings to extend the break-in > delay. Is this a result of the known CW issues in the early release of > PowerSDR? The symptoms are the same whether I use the WinKeyerUSB or connect > a straight key. > > Reference Info for my station: > > I am using a 2 GHz Pentium 4 computer with Windows XP Pro and 1.25 GB of > RAM. PowerSDR shows about 50% CPU usage and DPLat shows latency measurements > around 200 with a maximum of 334. In addition to the Flex 1500 I use a > WinKeyerUSB and the computer has a USB keyboard. > > I normally use FLDIGI for digital modes but it was not running as I have > not purchased the VAC software at this point. > > Antenna is a ladder line fed doublet for 80 Meters. I use a DX Engineering > balun and a LDG Z-100 autotuner. Everything seems to play well together. > > I have a piece of braid (stripped from RG-8) connecting the Flex 1500, > computer case, and LDG Z-100 case together. > > General Comments at Day 1: > > This is going to be a lot of fun! Tuning isn't second nature yet but I'm > getting there. The receiver filtering is wonderful and even with all the > storms around the Midwest copy of several 75/80 Meter phone conversations > was very comfortable. > > 73, > > Tim N9PUZ > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used > for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist > who are using beta versions of the software. > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
