Steve, Will the 6000 series panadapter initially support waterfall and panafall display modes?
Thanks, Ed W2RF -----Original Message----- From: Flexedge [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Hicks, N5AC Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 10:21 PM To: Greg Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] 6700 and Multiple Slice Receivers Greg, The slice receivers include a complete receive signal chain with noise blankers, filters, AGC, demodulator, etc. The output of the receiver is audio and so going any wider than 24kHz is just a waste of processing power. At launch, we promised that we would be able to show 384kHz of bandwidth in the spectrum display and we have been working very hard on our panadapter and its underlying technology. We have them running up to 14MHz in the lab (Greg showed this in his video yesterday) so we're going to deliver a lot more than we promised here. I would like everyone to be able to see this panadapter next to PowerSDR and see what we've done. You can really see so much more of what is going on than you could before. Wide-band I/Q receiver channels are also on the menu, although they come after many of the other things that we have been talking about in the radio. My expectation is that we will have 1-2 of these running at 192-384kHz, but not right when the radio comes out. We may end up doing more than this, but we'll have to see how it falls in the priority list. For reference, a couple of 384kHz I/Q channels are about 50Mbps so they would fill half of a 100GbE hose. Your end of this -- processing all the signals in eight of these -- takes a lot of horsepower. Steve Stephen Hicks, N5AC VP Engineering FlexRadio SystemsT 4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 Phone: 512-535-4713 x205 Email: [email protected] Web: www.flexradio.com Click Here for PGP Public Key<https://sites.google.com/a/flex-radio.com/pgp-public-keys/n5ac> *Tune In ExcitementT* PowerSDRT is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > > Are the slice receivers going to stay at 24 kHz? I thought each slice > could be up to 384 kHz. One of my anticipations is to eventually have > up to 7 or 8 of the slices be ported somehow to CW Skimmer Server to > decode multiple bands at once in the same manner it does with the > QS1R. But 24 kHz would be very marginal for that purpose. The QS1R > can do 192 kHz on 7 bands. I am not a huge fan of the QS1R but for > that purpose it is a very slick tool. I already sold the one I had > thinking the new 6700 would be able to at least do the same thing. > > Thanks and keep up the great work! > > 73 > Greg > AB7R > > > On 2/1/2013 10:02 AM, Stephen Hicks, N5AC wrote: > >> George, >> >> Thanks for your question and for the record, we are really excited >> about getting the radios out to you as well. >> >> First I'd like to address your question from a "what could be" >> standpoint since most of what you're talking about hasn't been done >> yet. The slice receivers today are 24kHz wide and this audio could >> be sent out of the radio to remote clients, either PCs or whatever. >> It would require software on the PC to decode the audio, make it look >> like a soundcard or play it out the speakers, etc. We also plan to >> have one or more wider bandwidth channels out of the radio. These >> could be 48-384kHz I/Q data that could be analyzed to look at >> multiple channels. For remote operation we plan to have audio >> shipped, likely with a software codec for bandwidth reduction, to a >> remote device. In the lab, we have brought out the 24kHz slice >> receivers to a PC and played these out a PC speaker. It would not be >> that hard to have each one of these go to a separate PC. We might >> even be willing to make the software available for the remote end >> that we use today so that someone could build a multi-channel device >> like you suggest. For your specific application, there might need to >> be a piece of software that would connect the FLEX-6000 audio to the >> electronic patching system you mention. >> >> If this is something that you or someone else would like to talk >> about in some more detail, we could have a conversation about it. I >> agree with you that there are lots of exciting applications for these >> kinds of capabilities. It will take some enthusiastic technical >> folks to build them and make them available and we'd like to do what >> we can to empower those folks where possible. >> >> Steve >> >> Stephen Hicks, N5AC >> VP Engineering >> FlexRadio SystemsT >> 4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150 >> Austin, TX 78728 >> Phone: 512-535-4713 x205 >> Email: [email protected] >> Web: www.flexradio.com >> Click Here for PGP Public >> Key<https://sites.google.com/**a/flex-radio.com/pgp-public-**keys/n5a >> c<https://sites.google.com/a/flex-radio.com/pgp-public-keys/n5ac> >> > >> >> >> >> *Tune In ExcitementT* >> >> PowerSDRT is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:03 AM, George Allen >> <[email protected]>* >> *wrote: >> >> I looked at the video of the multiple-slice receivers for the 6000 >> series >>> and am getting excited to actually get my 6700. >>> >>> The demo showed two channels of audio, which in most cases might be >>> enough; but, I was wondering if there would be a way in the future >>> to route audio from several slice receivers to several different >>> applications or instances of applications. >>> >>> For example, lets consider an emergency such as the flooding we had >>> here in Upstate NY in September 2011. We had a need to monitor the >>> Red Cross channels, our intercounty emergency net, and multiple >>> local emergency channels. At that time, all communications were >>> being done by phone; however, if PSK were used on a couple of >>> channels, the county control operator could route signals for >>> several channels to PSK decoders and monitor several channels of PSK >>> traffic while acting as net control for one of the local nets. >>> >>> Further, could we route the Red Cross voice channel to the county >>> Emergency Coordinators office? Right now, we have multiple receivers in >>> different places in the county building. If we have multiple audio >>> channels out, we could put this into an electronic patching system >>> and let the various emergency managers listen to the channels of >>> their choice without needing multiple receivers. >>> >>> Is this a feasible capability? >>> >>> >>> George >>> K2CM >>> (who is still trying to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same >>> time) . >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Flexedge mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/**mailman/listinfo/flexedge_**flex-radio. >>> biz<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 innovation and >>> other technical SDR topics. >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> Flexedge mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/**mailman/listinfo/flexedge_**flex-radio.b >> iz<http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.bi >> z> This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. >> It is used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and >> other technical SDR topics. >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/**mailman/listinfo/flexedge_**flex-radio.bi > z<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 innovation and other > technical SDR topics. > _______________________________________________ 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 innovation and other technical SDR topics. _______________________________________________ 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 innovation and other technical SDR topics.
