One night, I left my f3k on all night. I had turned the laptop off. For the next 2 weeks I had major issues with PowerSDR either not running at all or the audio/panadapter view would freeze after a few minutes until I did a Stop/Start. Then it would work fine again for another few minutes. My laptop is a Gateway, 3g single cpu, 1.5g ram, with Vista. This worked fine for the 6 weeks before I left the radio on. I tried a new core 2 duo laptop that had never been used for the f3k. I got the same results with PowerSDR freezing after a few minutes. I replaced the hard drive in the Gateway with the original hard drive that has XP on it. I ran Update to get XP current. Guess what, same result with PowerSDR freezing. I was ready to send my radio in for fixing.
There was only one piece of hardware to check. The power supply that I have been using with the F3K is a Radio Shack 25amp switching power supply. It always appeared to work fine with the radio always starting up. I switched to my 20 year old 35amp Astron and the radio has performed PERFECTLY since then. So I must assume that the RS supply may not be as clean as it should be now. I have been lurking here for a couple of months and I don't remember seeing this type of problem/solution mentioned so I thought I would throw this in. This list is great and appreciate all the help I have gotten by reading other posts. Neil NE5IL _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
