I thought I'd share my experience recently concerning what difference the firewire cable can make in a Flex setup.
I've gotten my famous cheap ($165) PC all settled in, and part of my process of locking things down was I decided to replace my Flex-supplied firewire cable with the best and shortest one I could get from Granite Digital. I got their super shielded 18" cable. And it makes a difference! I can run smaller buffers in the driver settings and PSDR Auido->Primary settings. And I can run larger DSP receive buffer sizes too - the occasionally stuttering that I used to have is GONE with this new cable. Who'da thunk it? Get the best and shortest firewire cable you can. Also, I used yesterdays list mention of the keyboard -> Flex function mapping to finish up my VX Revolution mouse setup. Now when I am focused on PSDR the mouse functions like this: -Scroll wheel - normal, but with a slightly fast flip it switches to free-wheel smooth mode - Nice! Just like spinning the big old weighted knob on an old radio. -Scroll wheel tilt right/left - bumps my frequency 10KHz number up or down -Button right behind the scroll wheel - toggles PSDR Tune mode on and off -Horizontal scroll wheel - adjusts AGC-T up and down -Horizontal scroll wheel push - mute and un mute audio -Two buttons behind the horizontal scroll wheel - bumps filter width up and down Of course if I change my mind about how I want things to work it's no problem to change it to perfection. Again - who needs knobs? I can do about 95% of what I do with the radio now without moving the mouse to the gui and clicking here and there. Since it's programmable per executable all of the functions do the different things that I want when I'm in Firefox or Outlook. Very cool device, and very cool that the Flex can be controlled so much via keyboard strokes. Best Regards, Michael Jones W0STB _______________________________________________ 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
