I also had a great time with the 5000a (I was also part of the NR4M team but was just doing S&P on 10m). I put in about 5 hours on the 5000a, using Win-test (what a great piece of software), a winkeyer2, using just 1 screen (the 24" dell).
I had a couple of issues with the 5000a. I experienced my usual problem of having powersdr freeze the panadapter 20-30 seconds after startup (I have always had this since 10.3), but that one didn't count. Just hitting stop and start always fixes it. The main problem I had was with the winkeyer2. On about every 10th transmit using Win-Test's f-keys the winkeyer would either turn a dot to a dash or would lose a character. I could key the radio via virtual comm port with no issue, perfect copy. I had the winkeyer plugged into the 5000a, not using a serial port (will try that next) but I was very surprised. Its possible it is a win-test issue, I just got the setup working last week and haven't tried a lot of sending via the iambic key so maybe its an issue with software-triggered sending. If I find otherwise and think its a PSDR issue, will cut a problem report. I was playing with Omni6+s at NR4M and there is just no comparison contesting with PowerSDR versus the Omni. I am sure I cannot convince those who have not tried it but tuning via the scroll wheel is so much better for contesting, its crazy! The rx was definitely quieter in such crowed condx. Neal PS: I had one very embarrassing event yesterday. I took a break (operating here at home) around 7pm local time and started debugging a program I am writing that is a dxcluster client for OS X. So, during testing I would log on and off my CC Cluster all evening. During one connect, I saw my call being spotted. I was first afraid someone was spoofing me so I did a sh/dx k3nc to see if others had spotted me. I saw a bunch of spots for k3nco so figured someone just copied the call incorrectly and made the spot in the same way. Then I saw another spot for my call and started to wonder what the heck was going on. I went downstairs to the shack and was shocked to see a talk message to me saying my transmitter was stuck ON (of course I had left my Acom 2000a on line so it was 1200 wats of a signal). It turned out that somehow the f-key that sends the "TU, qrz de k3nc" exchange was stuck and had been sending that repeatedly for 2-3 hours! I guess those listening assumed I was working people who they could not hear. I received a ton of local ribbing from the crew at NR4M. All I could say was that I obviously was very thankful! _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
