Works great here too! Its much faster than any of my LDG tuners, and seems capable of tuning the same range.
I recently had an issue where on 40 meters pressing the tune button would crash PowerSDR, and on some other bands PowerSDR would hang for a few seconds. I am almost 100% certain this was caused by common mode currents coming back on my coax coupling into the DC supply cable. I have made some simple changes to the way things are laid out grounded to fix this problem, and I expect all will work well, however I cannot test right this minute as Hurricane Earl has plucked my antenna from my trees. -GZ -----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Gerald Youngblood Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 8:15 PM To: Phil A. McBride (VA3QR) Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] ATU: I don't believe it Hi Phil, Glad the tuner is working so well for you. The complaints about the tuner only apply to the old software (1.18.x). It is fully fixed in 2.0.8. We had a communications problem that was diagnosed and fixed in the newer software. 73, Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: ger...@flex-radio.com Web: www.flex-radio.com Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Phil A. McBride (VA3QR) <va...@rac.ca>wrote: > So I just got my Flex 5Ka last week. Got it all setup, antennas plugged > in, software, etc... It's fully functional and I'm running PowerSDR > 2.0.8. > > > > I had heard some mixed reviews about the internal ATU, but I got one > anyways. Until today, all I had was a Hustler 6BTV and a Cushcraft > 5-band 20-10m beam. However, today I put up a random-length wire antenna > fed by a homebrew Magnetic Longwire Balun into a broomstick with a coil > of about 30'of AWG14, finally going to a straight run of another 70-80' > of AWG14 ending at the big willow tree in my backyard. On average, it's > about 2.5-3 storeys above ground. > > > > I was going to go buy a manual tuner for it, but I thought I'd hook it > up to ANT3 and see what it would do. > > > > IT TUNES EVERY BAND FROM 80-10M WITH NO HIGHER THAN 1.4:1 SWR!!! > > > > I'm currently doing some PSK31 on 40m, but it's stable and working quite > well. I still need the tuner for 160m (although I'm trying to figure out > if I can add another 30' or so and give it another try), but the ATU > rocks everywhere else. > > > > Just thought I'd share with the group J > > vy 73 de VA3QR > > _______________________________________________ > 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
