Clearly a Flex 1500 will workbut after following the list cleaning the
discs off.making a fresh machine with WIN7 and nothing else apart from
PSDRtrying my desktop WIN7 Shutting even AV background progs down.
The most I ever get is 30 seconds white and rough noisethen
we are BEGGING on 1.819...20 wpm...pse call
73, w5xz ( @ N8OO ) full size 4 square, long beverages..
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My stupid mistake which I already owner up to with Neil. Somehow the
mouse magically had changed the meter to the reflected power setting!
I felt like an idiot! Still getting used to no knobs and switches I
guess :)
Rick
W2jaz
On Sunday, December 5, 2010, FlexRadio Support, Dudley Hurry
I'm new to flex, sdr and this list.
I have a brand new 5000A, fully loaded (including the VHF/UHF board).
Station is completely new -- new QTH, new Mic (PR 781), new temporary
antenna (Miracle MMD 30m).
I've worked through issues on installation and receive and seem to have
those licked
I've run into a file (operator) problem while setting up VSP. I'm using
2.0.16, have a 64 bit Vista computer. The Flex Wiki warns against downloads to
Program Files on 64 bit machines so I copied the VSP file down to 'Downloads
and renamed to add the z.
When I double-click on the file, which
This has happened to me several times. Bad Mouse! Bad!
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 09:48:39 -0500
From: rjl...@gmail.com
To: supp...@flex-radio.com
CC: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex5K Power loss
My stupid mistake which I already owner up to with Neil. Somehow the
Where did I go wrong?
You read the Wiki :-) (Just kidding Brian)
I have a Win7 x64 machine and I loaded VSPmanager version 1.0.2.05 in the
default location and it works fine.
-Tim
-Original Message-
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz]
Are you using the MONitor to listen to your audio or a second RX?
-Tim
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From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bradley Feldman
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:37 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject:
Check the HEIL MIC adapter and MAKE sure that the MIC ground goes to the
radio MIC Ground and the PTT Ground goes to PTT Ground on the radio.
On a LOT of the HEIL adapters they wired the ground pins backwards and this
may be the cause of your problems, on Yaesu radios this didn't make much
I have the same problem on the 1500 with a Heil Dual Muff Traveler headset.
I also get a high pitched tone in the transmit audio.
Thanks - that is helpful info.
Jeff
K2SDR
-Original Message-
From: Bradley Feldman
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:36 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Both the monitor and a second rx (wide receive HT).
*B
-Original Message-
From: Tim Ellison [mailto:telli...@itsco.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:47 AM
To: Bradley Feldman; flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: RE: [Flexradio] New 5000A User - TX Audio (severe distortion)
Issues
I am using the Heil Yaesu Mic Cable and Heil PTT Footswitch to the front
panel connector of the 5000A. I'll open up the connector and check. I'll
look for the 5000A mic jack spec.
*B KK2QQ
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From: Bret Mills [mailto:bmil...@ecso.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010
On the Heil cable I'm using, the PTT is on pins 5+6. The mic is on pins
7+8. Should the barrel of the connector be connect to anything?
*B KK2QQ
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From: Bret Mills [mailto:bmil...@ecso.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:57 AM
To: 'Bradley Feldman'
Subject: RE:
You can check the 5000 PDF manaul.
73s - Erik - OZ4KK
On the Heil cable I'm using, the PTT is on pins 5+6. The mic is on pins
7+8. Should the barrel of the connector be connect to anything?
*B KK2QQ
-Original Message-
From: Bret Mills [mailto:bmil...@ecso.com]
Sent:
Page 5 of the FLEX 5K's owners manual show the proper connections for the
FLEX-5000 MIC connector, I quote Pin 5 is Chassis Ground, Pin 6 is PTT, Pin
7 MIC (-) Pin 8 MIC (+).
Measure from the MIC itself and make sure they have the correct one
connected.
73's
Bret
WX7Y
-Original
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote:
Where did I go wrong?
You read the Wiki :-) (Just kidding Brian)
That's OK. Neal wrote that part. Bad Neal! Bad, Ban Neal! :-)
I don't have Win7 and don't have any plans to install it in the near future
so any
The PTT is connected properly to pins 5+6. Mic positive (XLR pin 2) is
connected to flex pin 8. Mic negative (XLR pin 3) and Mic Shield (XLR pin
1) are tied together at the flex side and go to flex pin 7. The barrel on
the flex side isn't connected to anything.
Does that sound correct?
*B
Possibly what compounds the problem is the fact that the antenna is an end
fed Hertz which is inherently unbalanced and will present RF on the shield
back to the radio.
I have a brand new 5000A, fully loaded (including the VHF/UHF board).
Station is completely new -- new QTH, new Mic (PR
Also be sure VAC is turned off for voice modesit adds another delay loop
which can be very distracting.
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From: Bradley Feldman brad...@bradleyloritheo.com
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:36 AM
Subject: [Flexradio] New 5000A User
Yep it sounds like it is wired correctly, It must be RF getting into the
Radio some how, Have you tried transmitting into a dummy load to see if
there is still distortion??
RF gets into the MIC TX circuit quite easily if you are in the near field
of your Antenna system and you may need to add
You may want to try lifting the chassis ground off the XLR ground. Also
remember XLR audio is balanced so you don't want either of the XLR mic pins
grounded or tied to the shield or chassis.
Sometimes NO ground at all on an XLR connector worksyou get these ground
loops and current floating
I just tried stringing up a 30 dipole, new coax, etc instead of using the
miracle MMD (which is an end fed antenna). Same problem, so it's not the
antenna.
The mic cable is the stock cable from Heil, so I assume it's good and proper
cable.
Any other ideas from anybody?
*B KK2QQ
One more thing. I do also hear buzzing out of the amplified speaker for
the radio (separate AC sound amp with ground loop isolator, shielded cables)
and through the computer's speakers (also ground loop isolated).
In the past I've heard this type of buzzing with FM transmit, but never ever
with
Brad
question!
does your rfi or distortion occur at all power levels?
rfi is a sneaky beast, but it does require a power source, try dropping
your power in10 watt increments.
On 12/5/2010 12:25 PM, Bradley Feldman wrote:
One more thing. I do also hear buzzing out of the amplified speaker
Bill:
Yes, it happens at all power levels. I have drive set at 10 or less.
Once fwd power reads 1W, the distortion happens.
*B
KK2QQ
Brad
question!
does your rfi or distortion occur at all power levels?
rfi is a sneaky beast, but it does require a power source, try dropping
your power in10
The 1500 has a crackling noise which is occurring randomly every second to
every few seconds or so. Sounds just like a broken speaker cable. Not so
noticeable on SSB but on CW it's unacceptable.
Changed the headphones; used a dummy load; tried different bands and the only
thing that killed the
Do you have a separate graphics card? I had the same crackling noise
with my Dell that has an Intel graphics chip on the motherboard.
Once I dropped a cheap card in Gforce 7300LE, it all went away.
Jeff
K2SDR
-Original Message-
From: Peter - VE3HG
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010
I get a noise that may be the same when the volume slider is all the way up.
Turning it down just a bit cures it.
73/72 - Mike WA8BXN
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Since you've done so much troubleshooting and yet still have the problem,
you may not wish to make assumptions about the Heil cable...yeah, it's
probably OK, but you never know til you either Ohm it out or build a test
cable. Or try a different mic + cable.
Also are you using the rear panel
I operate a 5000A and VAC remotely but can not seem to get any audio into the
remote computer from the 2nd receiver. Any ideas out there?
Glenn
VE6GC
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Bradley,
If you can run full power into a dummy load but not into an antenna, you
almost certainly have RF pickup problems.
I had problems like this with my Flex-3000. For me, the worst problem
was the Firewire cable since I run mostly digital modes and not voice.
What I did was run a good
Peter,
Bring up the Performance tab on the Windows Task Manager and see if you are
getting 100% CPU spikes that look like a heartbeat. If so you may need to
implement Step 5 in the FLEX-1500 Driver Patch Kit for PowerSDR v2.0.16
Installation Troubleshooting Guide on the download page. It may
Thanks to those who suggested the graphics card might be the suspect. Sure
enough swapped Windows 7 computers and no crackling.
The 2.80 gig HP with a GeForce 8600 GT card and 4 gigs of memory was the
problem. A 3.33 gig E-Machine with a lesser ATI HD4350 card and only 2 gigs of
memory ran
Gerald:
Since this cable is one I bought from Flex, how should it be wired at the
radio? Should pin 7 the shield and the connector housing all be tied
together? Currently the connector housing is not connected to anything and
the Mic - and the Shield are soldered to pin 7.
Thanks,
Running the Flex -1500 Power SDR 2.0.16 under the setup transmit tab. The
DE/Norse Gate mine is NOT turned on should it be? Threshold is -118 db and
the Att is 80%??
Rick Kd4jrx
Ricky R Tharrington
NCSPA
ILM Skywarn EC
NC Army Mars
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Bradley,
If I am not mistaken, we currently buy our cables from Heil. Let me check
into this on Monday with Greg, who was looking into this recently.
Gerald
Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR
President and CEO
FlexRadio Systems(TM)
13091 Pond Springs Road, #250
Austin, TX 78729
Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext.
No TX power output using PSDR v2.0.16
I was running PSDR v2.0.8 TX worked fine
about a month ago switched to PSDR v1.18.6 TX worked fine
Today I downgraded VAC to version 9.0 TX worked fine
Now I switched to PSDR v2.0.16 and now no TX
My apologies to all. The warning to not download the VSP files to C:\Programs
Files\ directory came not from the Flex wiki, but from a printout I made some
time ago from Steve's K5FR instructions. Furthermore, the instructions were
not specific in regards to a Vista, Win 7, or other program.
I would export your current database to a safe area and then reinitialize
the database and see if the problem persists.
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM, W8HW w...@att.net wrote:
No TX power output using PSDR
Make sure you power cycle the radio. Upgrading to 2.0 loads a new firmware
version and the soft reset may not have properly rebooted the radio.
-Tim
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From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of W8HW
Sent: Sunday,
Peter:
In addition to looking at the CPU loading in Task Manager, I also suggest
that
you download the tool named DPC Check from
xx
and run it.
The intermittent crackles caused by the CPU loading can usually be cured by
installing the .dll patch for 2.0.1.
If the intermittent crackles
Peter:
In addition to looking at the CPU loading in Task Manager, I also suggest
that
you download the tool named DPC Latency Checker from
http://www.thesycon.de/dpclat
and run it.
The intermittent crackles caused by the CPU loading can usually be cured by
installing the .dll patch for 2.0.1.
If the intermittent crackles co-inside with DPC spikes, then you need to
figure out what is causing that. Likely some other peripheral that is tying up
your kernel.
If it is a DPC problem, the culprit(s) will be
Bluetooth transceiver
Wireless transceiver
NIC card
Video card.
USB
Norse Gate? Is that a Viking thing? :-) (sorry, I couldn't resist)
It should only be on if you need the function of a noise gate or a Downward
expander. I use the DE all the time to improve the apparent dynamic range of
my transmitted audio. See the following.
Gerald:
Thanks for looking into this. I've placed an order for the XLR-TRS cable
from Flex as a backup.
Regards,
*B
KK2QQ
From: ger...@flex-radio.com [mailto:ger...@flex-radio.com] On Behalf Of
Gerald Youngblood
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 5:28 PM
To: Bradley Feldman
Cc:
Brett:
On the Heil Cable, the Mic negative and shield are tied together at the XLR
End with the Mic Negative running on the shield to Flex pin 7. So on the
XLR, only pins 1+2 are used. Pin 3 is not connected.
Seems wrong to me. What's the definitive answer on how it should be? The
cable
Hi Pierce
Ignore the nattering chatter from the peanut gallery. This one is really
silly (not your problem but the cause)!
Microsoft security geniuses have determined (months of in-field study and
laboratory experiements) that viruses are most likely to be introduced from
downloaded programs
I had this all the time on .16. I just did a DB reset tonight so I
will see if that improves it.
Mike va3mw
On Sunday, December 5, 2010, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote:
Make sure you power cycle the radio. Upgrading to 2.0 loads a new firmware
version and the soft reset may not have
Gerald:
Are you saying that Alternative 2 - The RF Suppressor Ground System from
this article in Flex Knowledge center would not work in my situation?
http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50426.aspx?Keywords=distortion
*B
KK2QQ
From: ger...@flex-radio.com
I have a gigabyte computer running 3 gig dual core windows 7 64 bit
computer my cpu % is high it says system interrupts under windows task
manger is running about 25 to 35 cpu % i am not great on computers can any
one tell me what this is i have all updated drivers for windows 7 home
thanks for
Glenn:
How much memory (RAM)?
--- Graham / KE9H
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Glenn Collins ae5nzgl...@wildblue.netwrote:
I have a gigabyte computer running 3 gig dual core windows 7 64 bit
computer my cpu % is high it says system interrupts under windows task
manger is running about 25
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