I was having major dropouts on my 5000A after having a 100% problem free experience with it since setting it up several weeks ago. The difficulty began last Saturday when I started the software. The panadapter would show a normal pattern, then within 2 to 3 seconds show either a flat line slowly rising or a very slow and expanded pattern of the band noise level.
After trying different bands, different antenna cables and connections, different antennas, older software releases, rebooting everything, etc etc I called Flex this AM. I spoke with both Gerald and Eric. It was determined within a very few minutes that my problem was software related - not hardware. Following Eric's instructions, I installed, then ran, the DPC Latency Checker which showed an extreme problem with max latency over 13,000 us. After disabling individual drivers (using the Device Manager) I discovered that my recently installed Linksys Wireless-N Notebook Adapter WPC300N was causing the problem. After enabling the other network adapters and disabling the Linksys the max latency dropped to between 8 and 12 us. For those of you considering upgrading your wireless capability to 802.11N using Linksys you may either disable your wireless device when operating the radio or change your operation mode (mine is Safe Mode 1) to Safe Mode 3. Either action will give you dropout free receive. Thanks to Flex for another example of GREAT service. George Bennett, K1GMB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071211/f7393df9/attachment.html _______________________________________________ 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/
