F5K, 2.0.19,Win7,Mac book pro, Kevin, I noticed the one second cycling of the pan adapter, happened for about a minute and stopped by itself. Not seeing any other symptoms and it had not happened again.
-Larry On Feb 24, 2011, at 5:27, Kevin Feeney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Observations: > >> The first couple of times I started up .19, a little box appeared >> saying something about reading calibration values from EEPROM and took >> about 30 seconds to clear as green bar marched to the right. I don't >> recall seeing that in .16. After the reinstall of .19, I don't think >> it did that. >> >> [Tim] PowerSDR always does that with a new database - it is transferring >> data from the radio's EEPROM (where the calibration data is stored) to the >> database. > > Yeah, I expected that the first time. What seemed unusual was that it was > doing it*every* time I started .19. > >> The first time I installed .19, it automatically went into a >> calibration routine. The second time I installed it, it did not. >> >> [Tim] PowerSDR can tell when you have updated RX image calibration data in >> the EEPROM. It only needs to do it once. > > Ah, probably compares the checksum. Ok, that makes sense. > >> >> It also seemed to remember some of the settings from the previous >> install such as the frequencies in the band stack. This makes me >> wonder whether the removal really cleared all the information it >> needed to. >> >> [Tim] As noted before, radio calibration data is stored permanently in the >> radio's EEPROM, not on the PC. Also removing the software does not remove >> your database, as it was created after the installer placed files on your >> computer. > > Hmmm, I hadn't thought about the installer/deinstaller not knowing about > files created after. Good point. > >> >> Both times I installed .19, I specified only F3K/F5K radios, not the >> legacy SDR1000 I had also installed on 2.0.16. However both times when >> the install was completed and PowerSDR starts up, it presents me with >> the radio chooser with the F5K and the SDR1000. It seems to have >> 'remembered' that from the 2.0.16 install. I thought each version of >> PowerSDR ended up in it's own directory with it's own files. >> >> [Tim] This is the default behavior when there is no master.xml file (that >> controls what radios have been used with the PC) > > Then how does it know the serial number of the SDR1000 that I had entered > back on 2.0.16? > > >> I'm presuming I've got a cockpit error here someplace, but not sure >> what it is. >> >> [Tim] Probably not. Have you tried a hardware reset? Sounds like the >> firmware didn't properly initialize after loading > http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50350.aspx > > > Ok, I did the hardware reset. Shut down PowerSDR, turned off the radio, > pulled the power connector off the back of the radio and left > it for a few minutes then came back and started it up and loaded 2.0.19. > Things got worse. > > When I first started it, there was no audio for about 40 seconds although the > pandapter was displaying signals normally. Then there was receive audio for a > moment, but no > transmit audio again, then the receive audio went away again. > > I stopped it and ran 2.0.16 to compare. That had no receive audio either and > after a minute or two it had not come back. > > I went back to 2.0.19 and now there was no audio, and the panadapter was > cycling between being blank, or having some weird sort of display > that looked like the top half of a sine wave (smooth too, none of the usual > RF noise hash at -100 db), cycling between them at about a 1 second rate. > Since it seemed I had the Midas touch in reverse, I gave up at that point and > called it a night. > >> >> Besides using the add/remove tool in control panel, is there more I >> need to do to really clean out PowerSDR? Should I remove the previous >> versions that are on the machine as well? >> >> [Tim] No, do not remove previous versions. That could cause problem with >> the Firewire driver. >> >> Next steps? >> >> [Tim] Contact Dudley with FlexRadio Support > > Sent him this reply this morning and haven't heard anything back yet. I'm > sure there are others in line ahead of me. I had hoped to try some things > this evening. Is it safe to go in and remove all > the PowerSDR programs and drivers from the computer and try to start fresh? > Your note above about causing problems with the firewire driver give me pause > about doing that. > > > Kevin, WB2EMS > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. 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