Rick, I agree with Neil, I think that you are running out of graphics and suffering from low L2 cache also.. You most likely noticed a drop in the CPU usage also when the panadapter was stopped. Another indication that the graphics is alittle on the short side. CW is very demanding, and needs all the attention that it can get from the system.
73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 250-8595, Option 2 Email: dud...@flexradio.com <dud...@flex-radio.com> Web: www.flexradio.com <http://www.flex-radio.com> "Tune in excitement!" ™ On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Rick R <rick...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I bought my Flex1500 in Sept and have finally installed the software and > set-up the rig. The receive functions work fine, as well as voice. I have > tried sending CW but there is a very flaky CW note as I assume many have > experienced. When I minimize the control panel or close the panadapter, as I > noted some have done, it is a normal sent CW note. I have loaded PowerSDR > v2.0.16 and have checked the correct drivers are in place. Admittedly, using > a 6 y/o laptop HP-Compaq Intel Pentium Centrino processor 1.6Hz 32 bit > system and 2GHz of RAM. Windows XP Home 2002. Aside from minimizing the > screen on rcv, is there any other "fix" to allow the FLEX1500 CW sending to > be clean (it crackles and breaks up otherwise) or is this a matter of not > enough computing power in my current laptop? TNX, Rick, K1DS > > _______________________________________________ > 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/