I have found 4.011 to be pretty good also!

73

Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC




On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Tim Ellison, W4TME <t...@flex-radio.com>wrote:

> I agree that there have been a lot of reports of issues with v4.13, but I
> think you went too farin your down grade.  Get v4.12 and try it.  V4.09
> uses an interrupt method for processing the audio datarather than the
> streaming method introduced in 4.10 and in my humble opinion, perfected in
> v4.12. There is better (lower) latency with v4.12
>
> If you need help creating the VAC cable definitions, then you can use this
> registry file to create 7 VAC channels (6 is the max you can use with a
> 5000+RX2 and a 1500 running on the same PC and 1 channel to use as the
> Windows default sound device if your PC does not have a sound card or is
> one where the input/output lines are not active unless you have something
> plugged into it)
>
> http://support.flex-radio.com/Downloads.aspx?id=396
>
>
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> On 3/15/2014 11:28 AM, Keith Watson wrote:
>
>> Well, I believe I figured it out. It turns out it does not have anything
>> to
>> do with DDUtil after all. Paul Van Dyck, ON7VD, suggested I downgrade VAC
>> 4.13 to version 4.09. This seems to have done the trick. It is not
>> entirely
>> clear why the copy in PSK was better when I was not running DDUtil, but
>> there was a significant difference. Although, I always had my doubts that
>> even without DDUtil running, the copy was still not up to par. I still
>> have
>> some more testing to do, but it looks like Paul solved this one for me.
>> Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.
>>
>> Keith...
>> N9TX
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Keith Watson <ke...@keithwatson.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> I do understand the relationship of the HRD server and the other HRD
>>> applications. Yes, I do have that checked in DDUtil. All the pieces are
>>> working together. It is just that the copy from PSK from any of the
>>> digital
>>> apps is terrible.
>>>
>>> Keith...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Robert Guertin <rguert...@gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>>  Keith, I ran DM780 with a 5000 having not had one bit of trouble doing
>>>> it.
>>>> Here is what I used:
>>>> VAC 4.12 (virtual audio cables)
>>>> VSPE (Eterlogic virtual port software)
>>>> DDUtil Ver 3.0 (communicates between PSDR and DM-780, radio frequency
>>>> and
>>>> turn on HRD server)
>>>>
>>>> I've been following your dilemma for a couple of days and I have never
>>>> heard you talk about the HRD server. In DDUtil v3 there is a check off
>>>> that allows you to turn it on. Without it turned on DM-780 doesn't know
>>>> what to do. Don't forget DM-780 was never designed to be stand alone, it
>>>> requires HRD to be running to make it work. The server.
>>>>
>>>> Goog Luck,
>>>> Bob, W1GLV
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: FlexRadio [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of
>>>> Keith
>>>> Watson
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:30 AM
>>>> To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
>>>> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Using Digital Master 780 with Flex 5000a
>>>>
>>>> Everything I have done to test still points to DDUtil. I am running the
>>>> current version of DDUtil 3. The computer is a Dell Optiplex 745 with a
>>>> Core 2 Duo running at 2.4GHz and 4GB of memory. The OS is Windows 7
>>>> Ultumate 64bit. I use Com0Com. Not sure how to tell what version it is,
>>>> but
>>>> it was recently downloaded from the website, so it should be current.
>>>> Not
>>>> really seeing a problem with DPCs that I know of. When checked, it is
>>>> usually around 1200. Operating mode is set to normal, and buffers are
>>>> all
>>>> set to the default.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen this symptom with DM780, FLDigi, and MMVARI. When testing
>>>> DM780
>>>> without using DDUtil, it copies just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Keith...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Neal Campbell <nealk...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I have seen 2 instances where DDU was drawing excessive CPU utilization
>>>>> (like 90%) and it obviously was stressing the system to the point that
>>>>> anything with a DPC had to wait a long while to getr control back.
>>>>>
>>>>> I replaced DDU2 with DDU3 and the problems were fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73
>>>>>
>>>>> Neal Campbell
>>>>> Abroham Neal LLC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Keith Watson
>>>>>
>>>> <ke...@keithwatson.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible that DDUtil could be involved with this issue? When I
>>>>>> bypass
>>>>>> DDUtil, everything seems to work as expected. However, I can't
>>>>>>
>>>>> understand
>>>>
>>>>> how this utility would cause a problem with the audio.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Keith...
>>>>>> N9TX
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Bret Mills <bret.w...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Maker sure your on the correct sideband for the digital mode your
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> using
>>>>
>>>>> AND your VAC levels are set correctly, ie. The FLDigi or DM780
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> waterfall
>>>>
>>>>> should be a medium blue color and the signals are yellow using the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> default
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> screen colors, on my radio this is about -24 on the VAC control, make
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> sure
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> when you transmit you adjust your audio levels as well.
>>>>>>> 73's
>>>>>>> Bret
>>>>>>> WX7Y
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Keith Watson <ke...@keithwatson.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I believe it is a little more basic than that. I tried FLDigi and
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MMVari
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and they all show the same symptom when coping PSK31.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Keith...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:11 PM, John Swink <jms...@wowway.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Keith,
>>>>>>>>> I never could get DM780 to work with my Flex 5000A so I switched
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>>  Fldigi.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It runs all digital modes except WSJT with no problems.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 73,
>>>>>>>>> John, N8WNA
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>> From: FlexRadio [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Behalf
>>>>
>>>>> Of
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Keith
>>>>>>>>> Watson
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:33 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [Flexradio] Using Digital Master 780 with Flex 5000a
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Just when I think I got everything worked out, I figure out that I
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> don't.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Tried to run some PSK31 for the first time this evening using
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DM780.
>>>>
>>>>>  However, I realize that it is not decoding worth a darn. Very
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> strong
>>>>
>>>>>  signals
>>>>>>>>> that should print 100 percent are only printing about 20 percent
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> if
>>>>
>>>>>  that. I
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> figured I had the sample rate set wrong for this program in PSDR,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but
>>>>
>>>>>  any
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> change to it does not seem to make much of a difference or make it
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> worse. I
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> figure I am doing something dumb, but I have not figured out that
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>
>>>>> is
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yet.
>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Latest version of PDSR.
>>>>>>>>> VAC 4.13
>>>>>>>>> HRD 6.1.4
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Keith...
>>>>>>>>> N9TX
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