> If you worked me over the weekend on 160 meters during the contest, > you worked a SDR-5000. > > I spent about ten hours over the weekend giving the SDR-5000 a good > CW workout on 160 meters during the ARRL160 CW contest. Worked 875 > QSO's in all states and 44 countries. The radio receiver is > absolutely exceptional under high congestion conditions. I used 100 > and 250 hz filter mostly. > > I had a few transmit glitches. These would occur whenever I let up on > the CW key. Most were cleared by restarting PowerSDR, however, four > required a shutdown and restart of the hardware, and one required a > complete computer reboot. Such failures were very frustrating when I > was running a pileup. So there are gremlins and bugs in there, NOT > SURPRISING for a system of software this complex and open source. >
Congratulations on your results! The big issue, IMO, is the youth of the firmware. Once we get past some of these, I predict you'll find the rig outstandingly stable. I'd say 3 to 6 months, based on my own history with both rigs. It has nothing to do with open source IME. We just need a bit more burn-in on the firmware. That's no surprise, really. And, I would have been doing the production PowerSDR for a contest, at least these days I would, but to each his own. Larry Wo0Z _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz 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/
