On Apr 26, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Dudley Hurry wrote:
Ruben,
The problem is most likely in the way the OS, applications and
drivers were all playing with each other..
Dudley,
If there is interest, I will put together a system guaranteed to work
properly with the Flex radios. For hams who want to dedicate a machine
to the F5K or F3K this should eliminate a lot of headaches. I will
install all the necessary software, including:
Windows XP home
Flex Firewire driver
PowerSDR
VAC
com0com
ddutil
fldigi
Ham Radio Deluxe and DM780
I will also configure the software and tune the OS for best
performance on the aforementioned applications.
NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE: this system WILL NOT (repeat) WILL NOT be
suitable as a general-purpose, read-your-email-and-play-video-games
machine! It will be optimized to run PowerSDR. It will NOT have anti-
virus or firewall software so it is very likely that this machine will
become compromised by viruses and other nasties if it is used for
general-purpose computing.
Since there seems to be a great deal of interest in the Intel Atom
processor, I will go ahead and use that. If it can be made to work
reliably I will use the on-board graphics and on-board IEEE 1394
(FireWire). If not, I will add the necessary boards to make it work
reliably.
As for price, I am not sure as I have not shopped and configured the
hardware. I am guessing that it should be under $500(us). Note that
this would NOT include keyboard, mouse, or display (CRT or LCD).
If anyone is interested in such a thing, please let me know. I am not
going to run off on a fool's errand but if there is sufficient
interest, I will put a system together and post a price.
If you are interested, please answer these two questions:
1. Do you want digital video output or would you be satisfied with VGA?
2. Would you be interested in having the computer powered by 12VDC or
is mains power (120/240 VAC, 50/60Hz) sufficient?
--
73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL
Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com
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