Or 3rd-party Firmware. I think the 6000 would really shine if there was eventually provisions to write your own 'plug-ins' that would run directly on the radio. -Greg. N2GZ/1
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Allen Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 11:04 AM To: Stan Williams Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Flex 6000 series - Antenna analyzer and time-domain reflectometer That would be a fabulous capability. I suspect that the hardware can handle that; but, the first version of the software won't do that. I can see that being done in third party software. George K2CM Sent from my pet Octopusses iPad On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:36 AM, "Stan Williams" <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the new hardware have, or can be made to have, the ability to send a > pulse down any of the antenna connectors and: > > a) Monitor the reflections and display the results as a time-domain > reflectometer at a base frequency of choice (any frequency on which the 6000 > may transmit) . Providing the power is low enough the receiver can stay on > to "see" the sent pulse and reflected signals; then graph the reflections on > a time or distance basis. This will permit exact real-time measurement of > off-centre fed antennae as well as feed line analysis and balun impedance > matching. Velocity factor if a bare wire is paralleled with a test cable > and the difference in reflected time represents the velocity factor. > > b) Perform the function of a graphic antenna analyzer by sending a > series of very short bursts (several cycles on each frequency) and graph the > results with SWR and impedance. The user selects scan centre frequency and > scan width. > > > > Stan Williams > VE3FLW > FlowBased Solutions Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
