Synchronous diversity or "beam steering" is not a complete feature and has some serious bugs in maintaining the proper phase and gain values as well as the entire process is a "hit or miss" manual endeavor. It also requires an RX2. Lee has blogged on it extensively. Check these links out (in sequence)
http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2009/05/triangle-diversity.html http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2009/08/diversity-update.html http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2009/11/betty-meet-diversitydiversitybetty.html http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-diversity.html http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/2010/03/httpwww.html As far as other diversity techniques possible with a FLEX-5000 + RX2 and the proper antenna configuration, you can reference this KB article: http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50386.aspx These are easy to do with the VFO sync and [A>B] controls. -Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rich kennedy Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 9:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Flexradio] Flex'er to Help with Flex Radio Wiki Page on Diversity Receive Fellow Flex'ers Is there a 5000 user who would like to share his/her knowledge and expertise on the Flex Radio Wiki page (http://abrohamnealsw.on-rev.com/index.php) for setting up and operating diversity receive? There are three new subject lines on the Wiki page under "Advance topics #6". Adding/Editing material to the Flex Radio Wiki page is rather straightforward. Any assistance is appreciated. 73, happy holidays, Rich, K3VAT _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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/
