[Flexradio] SSB signals reversed

2006-05-21 Thread SteveLornaF
I am a new user of the SDR-1000 and can only recieve signals on their  
opposite sideband (i.e. 80M on USB not LSB), can anyone help to correct the  
problem?
 
Using the latest 1.61 release software.
 
Thanks
 
Steve - G1LMN
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Re: [Flexradio] SSB signals reversed

2006-05-21 Thread Sergey Abramov
Hi, Steve.

The possible reasons.
1. Opposite IQ signals in cords
2. It is not executed RX Image Reject Calibration

73!

SDR1k 1W + Home Made PA 
Celeron 2.9GHz, Delta44, WinXP Pro SP2

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 I am a new user of the SDR-1000 and can only recieve signals on their
 opposite sideband (i.e. 80M on USB not LSB), can anyone help to correct the  
 problem?
  
 Using the latest 1.61 release software.
  
 Thanks
  
 Steve - G1LMN


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[Flexradio] Fwd: SSB signals reversed

2006-05-21 Thread SteveLornaF
Thanks Dominik, I am using the Delta 44 so it was an easy matter of  swapping 
the audio in 1  2 plugs as you suggested.  Now everything is  in the right 
place frequency and mode wise, I can now get to grips with the rest  of the 
radio.
 
Many thanks for your help.
 
Steve - G1LMN
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[Flexradio] More pic's (mostly the new SDR!) from Dayton

2006-05-21 Thread Dale Boresz
Eric - AA4SW has uploaded more photos from Dayton.

They can be viewed at:  http://www.hamsdr.com/profile.aspx?id=2109 

73, Dale
WA8SRA

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[Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Martinez
From G3PLX:

The software that comes with the SDR1000 uses an 11.025kHz intermediate 
frequency. I understand the reasons for doing it this way, but even before 
the SDR1000 appeared I was doing software radio with an I.F. of zero. By 
this I mean that the sine and cosine RF oscillators were set right in the 
middle of the wanted signal, not offset by 11kHz.  This may sound impossible 
to those who were brought up with analogue RF, but that's because it could 
never be done with analogue circuitry. With DSP it's actually easier to have 
the 'IF' frequency down in the audio band than to push it up where you can't 
hear it.

The big advantage of zero IF is that the 22kHz image response problem 
vanishes. Any slight amplitude or phasing unbalance in the Tayloe sampler 
just results in an equally-slight amount of in-band distortion. The 
strongest image-frequency signal you ever need to reject is the wanted 
signal itself. You don't need to worry about a much stronger unwanted signal 
22kHz up the band.

When I got the SDR1000 kit (I got a very early one), I used it with this 
technique, and the results were excellent, except for one thing. It took me 
a while to trace the problem, but I found it in the end and the cause was a 
surprise.  The problem showed as noise around the centre-frequency of all 
received signals, but it varied across the bands, and was absent when I 
unplugged the antenna. It was so bad that it made the receiver unusable on 
some bands with some antennas. But if I used the SDR1000 to tap-off and 
demodulate the intermediate-frequency of another receiver, it worked 
perfectly.

The cause was oscillator radiation. The DDS oscillator (right in the middle 
of the wanted signal) was radiating, intermodulating with all kinds of 
low-frequency noise sources external to the receiver, and the resulting 
unwanted products (either side of the oscillator frequency) were re-radiated 
into the antenna. The effect is well-known to anyone who has ever 
experimented with home-brew direct-conversion receivers, where it usually 
shows as a raw power-line buzz in the speaker.  It's possible that this 
effect may well have shown in the early work on SDR and it may have been one 
reason for offsetting the passband by 11kHz in the present software.

The fix is to stop the local oscillator radiation. Screening helps a lot but 
another way is to add an RF stage, or configure the receiver as a superhet 
with the Tayloe sampler at the I.F. frequency.  My early SDR1000 kit didn't 
have a pre-amp and I understand the current kits do. The local oscillator 
radiation is probably considerably lower on the present kits, so the zero-IF 
technique would probably work a lot better than it does on mine.

Has anyone here who is writing his own SDR software tried this on the latest 
hardware?  I can provide more details of the zero-IF technique if required. 
All the well-known modes can be implemented this way, both for receive and 
transmit.  Maybe the present SDR software could be patched to implement 
zero-IF, or my own zero-IF software could be run in parallel on another 
soundcard.  Would anyone like to have a go?

73
Peter


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Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Frank Brickle
The DSP software is already capable of 0 Hz IF, and has been since its 
earliest version. IIRC the 11025 Hz IF is primarily a consequence of the 
frequency response of typical soundcards, which start rolling off 
somewhere in the vicinity of 200-300 Hz.

73
Frank
AB2KT

Peter Martinez wrote:
From G3PLX:
 
 The software that comes with the SDR1000 uses an 11.025kHz intermediate 
 frequency. I understand the reasons for doing it this way, but even before 
 the SDR1000 appeared I was doing software radio with an I.F. of zero. By 
 this I mean that the sine and cosine RF oscillators were set right in the 
 middle of the wanted signal, not offset by 11kHz.  This may sound impossible 
 to those who were brought up with analogue RF, but that's because it could 
 never be done with analogue circuitry. With DSP it's actually easier to have 
 the 'IF' frequency down in the audio band than to push it up where you can't 
 hear it.
 
 The big advantage of zero IF is that the 22kHz image response problem 
 vanishes. Any slight amplitude or phasing unbalance in the Tayloe sampler 
 just results in an equally-slight amount of in-band distortion. The 
 strongest image-frequency signal you ever need to reject is the wanted 
 signal itself. You don't need to worry about a much stronger unwanted signal 
 22kHz up the band.
 
 When I got the SDR1000 kit (I got a very early one), I used it with this 
 technique, and the results were excellent, except for one thing. It took me 
 a while to trace the problem, but I found it in the end and the cause was a 
 surprise.  The problem showed as noise around the centre-frequency of all 
 received signals, but it varied across the bands, and was absent when I 
 unplugged the antenna. It was so bad that it made the receiver unusable on 
 some bands with some antennas. But if I used the SDR1000 to tap-off and 
 demodulate the intermediate-frequency of another receiver, it worked 
 perfectly.
 
 The cause was oscillator radiation. The DDS oscillator (right in the middle 
 of the wanted signal) was radiating, intermodulating with all kinds of 
 low-frequency noise sources external to the receiver, and the resulting 
 unwanted products (either side of the oscillator frequency) were re-radiated 
 into the antenna. The effect is well-known to anyone who has ever 
 experimented with home-brew direct-conversion receivers, where it usually 
 shows as a raw power-line buzz in the speaker.  It's possible that this 
 effect may well have shown in the early work on SDR and it may have been one 
 reason for offsetting the passband by 11kHz in the present software.
 
 The fix is to stop the local oscillator radiation. Screening helps a lot but 
 another way is to add an RF stage, or configure the receiver as a superhet 
 with the Tayloe sampler at the I.F. frequency.  My early SDR1000 kit didn't 
 have a pre-amp and I understand the current kits do. The local oscillator 
 radiation is probably considerably lower on the present kits, so the zero-IF 
 technique would probably work a lot better than it does on mine.
 
 Has anyone here who is writing his own SDR software tried this on the latest 
 hardware?  I can provide more details of the zero-IF technique if required. 
 All the well-known modes can be implemented this way, both for receive and 
 transmit.  Maybe the present SDR software could be patched to implement 
 zero-IF, or my own zero-IF software could be run in parallel on another 
 soundcard.  Would anyone like to have a go?
 
 73
 Peter
 
 
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Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Ahti Aintila
Another reason for using IF higher than 0 Hz is the high inherent
noise level of typical transistors and opamps at low frequencies (so
called 1/f-noise). This and the leakage of the VFO signals made me to
move away from the zero-IF in my early switching (and Tayloe)  mixer
experiments. Fortunately, before spending too much time for
re-inventing the wheel came Gerald's famous first article in QSX - and
here I am!

Now is the time to modify the wheel!

73,
Ahti OH2RZ

On 21/05/06, Frank Brickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The DSP software is already capable of 0 Hz IF, and has been since its
 earliest version. IIRC the 11025 Hz IF is primarily a consequence of the
 frequency response of typical soundcards, which start rolling off
 somewhere in the vicinity of 200-300 Hz.

 73
 Frank
 AB2KT

 Peter Martinez wrote:
 From G3PLX:
 
  The software that comes with the SDR1000 uses an 11.025kHz intermediate
  frequency. I understand the reasons for doing it this way, but even before
  the SDR1000 appeared I was doing software radio with an I.F. of zero. By
  this I mean that the sine and cosine RF oscillators were set right in the
  middle of the wanted signal, not offset by 11kHz.  This may sound impossible
  to those who were brought up with analogue RF, but that's because it could
  never be done with analogue circuitry. With DSP it's actually easier to have
  the 'IF' frequency down in the audio band than to push it up where you can't
  hear it.
 
  The big advantage of zero IF is that the 22kHz image response problem
  vanishes. Any slight amplitude or phasing unbalance in the Tayloe sampler
  just results in an equally-slight amount of in-band distortion. The
  strongest image-frequency signal you ever need to reject is the wanted
  signal itself. You don't need to worry about a much stronger unwanted signal
  22kHz up the band.
 
  When I got the SDR1000 kit (I got a very early one), I used it with this
  technique, and the results were excellent, except for one thing. It took me
  a while to trace the problem, but I found it in the end and the cause was a
  surprise.  The problem showed as noise around the centre-frequency of all
  received signals, but it varied across the bands, and was absent when I
  unplugged the antenna. It was so bad that it made the receiver unusable on
  some bands with some antennas. But if I used the SDR1000 to tap-off and
  demodulate the intermediate-frequency of another receiver, it worked
  perfectly.
 
  The cause was oscillator radiation. The DDS oscillator (right in the middle
  of the wanted signal) was radiating, intermodulating with all kinds of
  low-frequency noise sources external to the receiver, and the resulting
  unwanted products (either side of the oscillator frequency) were re-radiated
  into the antenna. The effect is well-known to anyone who has ever
  experimented with home-brew direct-conversion receivers, where it usually
  shows as a raw power-line buzz in the speaker.  It's possible that this
  effect may well have shown in the early work on SDR and it may have been one
  reason for offsetting the passband by 11kHz in the present software.
 
  The fix is to stop the local oscillator radiation. Screening helps a lot but
  another way is to add an RF stage, or configure the receiver as a superhet
  with the Tayloe sampler at the I.F. frequency.  My early SDR1000 kit didn't
  have a pre-amp and I understand the current kits do. The local oscillator
  radiation is probably considerably lower on the present kits, so the zero-IF
  technique would probably work a lot better than it does on mine.
 
  Has anyone here who is writing his own SDR software tried this on the latest
  hardware?  I can provide more details of the zero-IF technique if required.
  All the well-known modes can be implemented this way, both for receive and
  transmit.  Maybe the present SDR software could be patched to implement
  zero-IF, or my own zero-IF software could be run in parallel on another
  soundcard.  Would anyone like to have a go?
 
  73
  Peter
 
 
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Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Ahti Aintila
Typo correction: ... article in QEX...
Ahti OH2RZ


On 21/05/06, Ahti Aintila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Another reason for using IF higher than 0 Hz is the high inherent
 noise level of typical transistors and opamps at low frequencies (so
 called 1/f-noise). This and the leakage of the VFO signals made me to
 move away from the zero-IF in my early switching (and Tayloe)  mixer
 experiments. Fortunately, before spending too much time for
 re-inventing the wheel came Gerald's famous first article in QSX - and
 here I am!

 Now is the time to modify the wheel!

 73,
 Ahti OH2RZ

 On 21/05/06, Frank Brickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The DSP software is already capable of 0 Hz IF, and has been since its
  earliest version. IIRC the 11025 Hz IF is primarily a consequence of the
  frequency response of typical soundcards, which start rolling off
  somewhere in the vicinity of 200-300 Hz.
 
  73
  Frank
  AB2KT
 
  Peter Martinez wrote:
  From G3PLX:
  
   The software that comes with the SDR1000 uses an 11.025kHz intermediate
   frequency. I understand the reasons for doing it this way, but even before
   the SDR1000 appeared I was doing software radio with an I.F. of zero. By
   this I mean that the sine and cosine RF oscillators were set right in the
   middle of the wanted signal, not offset by 11kHz.  This may sound 
   impossible
   to those who were brought up with analogue RF, but that's because it could
   never be done with analogue circuitry. With DSP it's actually easier to 
   have
   the 'IF' frequency down in the audio band than to push it up where you 
   can't
   hear it.
  
   The big advantage of zero IF is that the 22kHz image response problem
   vanishes. Any slight amplitude or phasing unbalance in the Tayloe sampler
   just results in an equally-slight amount of in-band distortion. The
   strongest image-frequency signal you ever need to reject is the wanted
   signal itself. You don't need to worry about a much stronger unwanted 
   signal
   22kHz up the band.
  
   When I got the SDR1000 kit (I got a very early one), I used it with this
   technique, and the results were excellent, except for one thing. It took 
   me
   a while to trace the problem, but I found it in the end and the cause was 
   a
   surprise.  The problem showed as noise around the centre-frequency of all
   received signals, but it varied across the bands, and was absent when I
   unplugged the antenna. It was so bad that it made the receiver unusable on
   some bands with some antennas. But if I used the SDR1000 to tap-off and
   demodulate the intermediate-frequency of another receiver, it worked
   perfectly.
  
   The cause was oscillator radiation. The DDS oscillator (right in the 
   middle
   of the wanted signal) was radiating, intermodulating with all kinds of
   low-frequency noise sources external to the receiver, and the resulting
   unwanted products (either side of the oscillator frequency) were 
   re-radiated
   into the antenna. The effect is well-known to anyone who has ever
   experimented with home-brew direct-conversion receivers, where it usually
   shows as a raw power-line buzz in the speaker.  It's possible that this
   effect may well have shown in the early work on SDR and it may have been 
   one
   reason for offsetting the passband by 11kHz in the present software.
  
   The fix is to stop the local oscillator radiation. Screening helps a lot 
   but
   another way is to add an RF stage, or configure the receiver as a superhet
   with the Tayloe sampler at the I.F. frequency.  My early SDR1000 kit 
   didn't
   have a pre-amp and I understand the current kits do. The local oscillator
   radiation is probably considerably lower on the present kits, so the 
   zero-IF
   technique would probably work a lot better than it does on mine.
  
   Has anyone here who is writing his own SDR software tried this on the 
   latest
   hardware?  I can provide more details of the zero-IF technique if 
   required.
   All the well-known modes can be implemented this way, both for receive and
   transmit.  Maybe the present SDR software could be patched to implement
   zero-IF, or my own zero-IF software could be run in parallel on another
   soundcard.  Would anyone like to have a go?
  
   73
   Peter
  
  
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[Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Toby Pennington
I was just told by someone that Gerald made the comment on Teamspeak last night 
that the cw latency problem had been solved.  Someone is already able to send 
cw at 60 wpm QSK with no latency and has found a way to do this.  

Does anyone else know about this and in particular how is this achieved. by 
a software change or hardware addition.  Also does anyone know about the 
timeline for this improvement to the SDR 1K.   

Toby  W4CAK
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Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Martinez
From G3PLX:

I just checked my two soundcards for the low-frequency roll-off. My new 
Firebox is 2.4dB down at 1.8Hz and the MP3+ is 1.5dB down at 1.2Hz. And that 
was done quickly by linking line-out to line-in, so it includes the LF 
roll-off of the transmit side too.  I am quite certain the music business 
wouldn't touch a soundcard that rolled-off at 200Hz.

The LF roll-off is really not a problem for zero-IF anyway. Even if you put 
the oscillator right in the centre, which theoretically puts a deep narrow 
null in the passband, I defy anyone to notice it's there on an SSB signal. 
There are ways to eliminate this null completely, but I really don't think 
we need to do it.

To Ahti:  I have never seen 1/f noise in my zero-IF work (I designed such a 
receiver before I retired, for HF GMDSS working).  The local oscillator 
radiation problem looks just like 1/f noise, but that can be fixed once it 
is recognised. It's also possible that poor post-mixer design could result 
in supply-line noise being a problem (this has a 1/f spectrum), but the 
post-mixer amplifier design of the SDR1000 kit is excellent in this respect. 
If 1/f noise was present, it would show as a noise peak at the centre of the 
output spectrum. There is no such peak.

If, as Frank says, the SDR1000 software can do zero-IF already, has anyone 
done any tests with it? What were the results? Were there any problems? Has 
the local oscillator radiation problem gone now that the RF amplifier is in 
place?  I think it's worth looking at this area again. The 22kHz image 
problem will be tolerated by SDR1000 fans but this is surely not a proper 
solution. My GMDSS receiver would not have gained it's approval certificate 
if the operator had to balance the image rejection each time he changed 
bands!

73
Peter




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[Flexradio] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

2006-05-21 Thread Ken N9VV
**replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

Alan K2WS has a nice recording of last night's presentation at the 
Dayton 2006 Hamvention. He has graciously agreed to rebroadcast it on a 
special Flex Teamspeak channel at 21:00z today. That is at 4pm Central 
and 5pm Eastern time (others adjust as needed). Sign on to Teamspeak and 
look for the rebroadcast channel.

Teamspeak links:
---
http://www.goteamspeak.com
http://www.flex-radio.com/downloads/Teamspeak_Quickstart_Guide.pdf

Alan will spin the recording without comment. The channel is 
unmoderated. If you need to reach him, please send him a text message at 
the bottom of the channel or an email.

thanks Alan for this opportunity to listen again to Gerald's exciting 
announcement about the new SDR-blade.

73's de ken n9vv

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Re: [Flexradio] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

2006-05-21 Thread Dale Boresz
Bad timing here, but I'd like to hear it (for the first time).

Any chance of just posting it somewhere?

73, Dale



Ken N9VV wrote:

**replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

Alan K2WS has a nice recording of last night's presentation at the 
Dayton 2006 Hamvention. He has graciously agreed to rebroadcast it on a 
special Flex Teamspeak channel at 21:00z today. That is at 4pm Central 
and 5pm Eastern time (others adjust as needed). Sign on to Teamspeak and 
look for the rebroadcast channel.

Teamspeak links:
---
http://www.goteamspeak.com
http://www.flex-radio.com/downloads/Teamspeak_Quickstart_Guide.pdf

Alan will spin the recording without comment. The channel is 
unmoderated. If you need to reach him, please send him a text message at 
the bottom of the channel or an email.

thanks Alan for this opportunity to listen again to Gerald's exciting 
announcement about the new SDR-blade.

73's de ken n9vv

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Re: [Flexradio] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

2006-05-21 Thread Bill Tracey
I've posted an .mp3 of the Flex Saturday evening Dayton session audio @: 
http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/flex-dayton.mp3

Cheers,

Bill (kd5tfd)



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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Christopher T. Day
Toby,

I'm not certain, but I suspect this was a comment about the SDR-X, not
the SDR-1000. I doubt that there is a simple full-QSK solution with the
latter given its half-duplex design.


Chris - AE6VK


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From: Toby Pennington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:02 PM
To: Flex
Cc: Ron Hinton
Subject: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

I was just told by someone that Gerald made the comment on Teamspeak
last night that the cw latency problem had been solved.  Someone is
already able to send cw at 60 wpm QSK with no latency and has found a
way to do this.  

Does anyone else know about this and in particular how is this
achieved. by a software change or hardware addition.  Also does
anyone know about the timeline for this improvement to the SDR 1K.   

Toby  W4CAK
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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Ken N9VV
I have listened to that part of the recording again today (now on 
teamspeak) and he clearly said that the current problem and 
limitation is the SOUNDCARD and not the SDR-1000 hardware. So I 
guess that means that the HPSDR Janus board is a LIFE SAVER and may 
mean some super CW performance from the current SDR-1000 hw?
bk de ken


Christopher T. Day wrote:
 Toby,
 
 I'm not certain, but I suspect this was a comment about the SDR-X, not
 the SDR-1000. I doubt that there is a simple full-QSK solution with the
 latter given its half-duplex design.
 
 
   Chris - AE6VK
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Toby Pennington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:02 PM
 To: Flex
 Cc: Ron Hinton
 Subject: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?
 
 I was just told by someone that Gerald made the comment on Teamspeak
 last night that the cw latency problem had been solved.  Someone is
 already able to send cw at 60 wpm QSK with no latency and has found a
 way to do this.  
 
 Does anyone else know about this and in particular how is this
 achieved. by a software change or hardware addition.  Also does
 anyone know about the timeline for this improvement to the SDR 1K.   
 
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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Christopher T. Day
Ok, I misremembered. I'll have to review the recording.


Chris - AE6VK


-Original Message-
From: Ken N9VV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:15 PM
To: Christopher T. Day
Cc: Toby Pennington; Flex; Ron Hinton
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

I have listened to that part of the recording again today (now on 
teamspeak) and he clearly said that the current problem and 
limitation is the SOUNDCARD and not the SDR-1000 hardware. So I 
guess that means that the HPSDR Janus board is a LIFE SAVER and may 
mean some super CW performance from the current SDR-1000 hw?
bk de ken


Christopher T. Day wrote:
 Toby,
 
 I'm not certain, but I suspect this was a comment about the SDR-X, not
 the SDR-1000. I doubt that there is a simple full-QSK solution with
the
 latter given its half-duplex design.
 
 
   Chris - AE6VK
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Toby Pennington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:02 PM
 To: Flex
 Cc: Ron Hinton
 Subject: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?
 
 I was just told by someone that Gerald made the comment on Teamspeak
 last night that the cw latency problem had been solved.  Someone is
 already able to send cw at 60 wpm QSK with no latency and has found a
 way to do this.  
 
 Does anyone else know about this and in particular how is this
 achieved. by a software change or hardware addition.  Also does
 anyone know about the timeline for this improvement to the SDR 1K.   
 
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Re: [Flexradio] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

2006-05-21 Thread Dale Boresz
Thanks Bill, downloading now...  :-)

73, Dale

Bill Tracey wrote:

 I've posted an .mp3 of the Flex Saturday evening Dayton session audio 
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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Naruta
And if you gotta have QSK, when the new software
comes out, just buy another SDR-1000 receiver
and you can run full duplex.:)


Mike - AA8K


Ken N9VV wrote:
 I have listened to that part of the recording again today (now on 
 teamspeak) and he clearly said that the current problem and 
 limitation is the SOUNDCARD and not the SDR-1000 hardware. So I 
 guess that means that the HPSDR Janus board is a LIFE SAVER and may 
 mean some super CW performance from the current SDR-1000 hw?
 bk de ken
 
 
 Christopher T. Day wrote:
 Toby,

 I'm not certain, but I suspect this was a comment about the SDR-X, not
 the SDR-1000. I doubt that there is a simple full-QSK solution with the
 latter given its half-duplex design.


  Chris - AE6VK

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Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Ahti Aintila
Peter,

You are right about the 22 kHz image in transmission. That is why I am
reluctant to transmit without checking (and adjusting) the attenuation
on the used frequency.

With the preamplifier board the leakage of the sampling signal still
can be detected by my other receivers. In practice it is no problem on
the usual noisy bands. That is true also with the 1/f-noise, if you
are running with the gains now used in the SDR-1000.

In my earlier experiments with zero-IF I tried to maximize the dynamic
range without any preamplifier. Then the 1/f-noise determines your
weak signal performance. The maximum signal will be about 4 Vpp at the
200 ohm level that the QSD sees and can handle. This makes about 0 dBm
at the antenna connector.

Just for an explanation, this experiment was made for a commercial
instrumentation project handling about 20 kHz bandwidth.

If you have a SoftRock receiver available, you may tune across the 0
Hz IF. With the present high gain opamp you hardly can see anything
special. Try to set the gain to 0 dB, then you possibly will find a
difference. Measure the signals before the sound card.

73, Ahti OH2RZ

On 21/05/06, Peter Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 From G3PLX:

 I just checked my two soundcards for the low-frequency roll-off. My new
 Firebox is 2.4dB down at 1.8Hz and the MP3+ is 1.5dB down at 1.2Hz. And that
 was done quickly by linking line-out to line-in, so it includes the LF
 roll-off of the transmit side too.  I am quite certain the music business
 wouldn't touch a soundcard that rolled-off at 200Hz.

 The LF roll-off is really not a problem for zero-IF anyway. Even if you put
 the oscillator right in the centre, which theoretically puts a deep narrow
 null in the passband, I defy anyone to notice it's there on an SSB signal.
 There are ways to eliminate this null completely, but I really don't think
 we need to do it.

 To Ahti:  I have never seen 1/f noise in my zero-IF work (I designed such a
 receiver before I retired, for HF GMDSS working).  The local oscillator
 radiation problem looks just like 1/f noise, but that can be fixed once it
 is recognised. It's also possible that poor post-mixer design could result
 in supply-line noise being a problem (this has a 1/f spectrum), but the
 post-mixer amplifier design of the SDR1000 kit is excellent in this respect.
 If 1/f noise was present, it would show as a noise peak at the centre of the
 output spectrum. There is no such peak.

 If, as Frank says, the SDR1000 software can do zero-IF already, has anyone
 done any tests with it? What were the results? Were there any problems? Has
 the local oscillator radiation problem gone now that the RF amplifier is in
 place?  I think it's worth looking at this area again. The 22kHz image
 problem will be tolerated by SDR1000 fans but this is surely not a proper
 solution. My GMDSS receiver would not have gained it's approval certificate
 if the operator had to balance the image rejection each time he changed
 bands!

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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread N3EVL
I seem to remember mention of a solution found right there at Dayton - some
tweak to the soundcard config, perhaps, resulting in successful semi-breakin
capability at speeds around 60wpm, but not full QSK.  I guess we need Bob or
Gerald to spell out the details.

Pete 

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken N9VV
 Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:15 PM
 To: Christopher T. Day
 Cc: Ron Hinton; Flex
 Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?
 
 I have listened to that part of the recording again today (now on
 teamspeak) and he clearly said that the current problem and 
 limitation is the SOUNDCARD and not the SDR-1000 hardware. 
 So I guess that means that the HPSDR Janus board is a LIFE 
 SAVER and may mean some super CW performance from the current 
 SDR-1000 hw?
 bk de ken
 
 
 Christopher T. Day wrote:
  Toby,
  
  I'm not certain, but I suspect this was a comment about the 
 SDR-X, not 
  the SDR-1000. I doubt that there is a simple full-QSK solution with 
  the latter given its half-duplex design.
  
  
  Chris - AE6VK
  
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Toby Pennington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:02 PM
  To: Flex
  Cc: Ron Hinton
  Subject: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?
  
  I was just told by someone that Gerald made the comment on 
 Teamspeak 
  last night that the cw latency problem had been solved.  Someone is 
  already able to send cw at 60 wpm QSK with no latency and 
 has found a 
  way to do this.
  
  Does anyone else know about this and in particular how is this 
  achieved. by a software change or hardware addition.  Also does
  anyone know about the timeline for this improvement to the 
 SDR 1K.   
  
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Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 09:41 AM 5/21/2006, Peter Martinez wrote:
 From G3PLX:

The software that comes with the SDR1000 uses an 11.025kHz intermediate
frequency. I understand the reasons for doing it this way, but even before
the SDR1000 appeared I was doing software radio with an I.F. of zero. By
this I mean that the sine and cosine RF oscillators were set right in the
middle of the wanted signal, not offset by 11kHz.  This may sound impossible
to those who were brought up with analogue RF, but that's because it could
never be done with analogue circuitry. With DSP it's actually easier to have
the 'IF' frequency down in the audio band than to push it up where you can't
hear it.

snip

There's actually several things pushing towards choosing an IF near 
fs/4.. whether doing I/Q or single channel sampling:
1) most sampling systems (particularly sound cards with AC coupling) have 
poor response at DC.
2) most sampling systems have significant clock noise at the sample rate 
(which aliases to DC) and at half the clock rate.

Putting the signal at fs/4 puts it squarely between the noise contributions 
at zero and fs/2.

Doing I/Q (with any IF) helps with effectively doubling the sample rate 
(so that the signal of interest is a smaller fraction of the sampling 
bandwidth, which helps with filtering.. the filters can be less 
steep)  However I/Q sampling comes at a cost of having to deal with balance.

When talking about I/Q balance we need to realize that it's not just two 
numbers (phase and amplitude) although that's a reasonable approximation in 
the middle of the passband.  But, as you get closer to the analog passband 
edges (i.e. buffer amp upper frequency rolloff, and low frequency AC 
coupling) then the odds of the slopes exactly matching are less (mostly 
because the analog filter components, coupling capacitors and resistors and 
the like) tend not to be exactly the same (particularly over 
temperature).  So, to do a good job of image cancellation, etc., you need 
to measure the imbalance at every frequency  and apply the inverse filter. 
Or, equivalently, measure the impulse response and deconvolve it with the 
incoming signal.  (the single step balance fix in the current PowerSDR is 
basically a zero order time domain filter)



Has anyone here who is writing his own SDR software tried this on the latest
hardware?  I can provide more details of the zero-IF technique if required.
All the well-known modes can be implemented this way, both for receive and
transmit.  Maybe the present SDR software could be patched to implement
zero-IF, or my own zero-IF software could be run in parallel on another
soundcard.  Would anyone like to have a go?


Another advantage of running at an IF instead zero-IF is that once you've 
dealt with the frequency conversion in the signal processing domain, you 
can move the IF around a bit without too much trouble.  That way, your LO 
can go in discrete steps, even if your tuned frequency is continuous.  The 
fine tuning is in the signal processing.  That way you can adjust the DDS 
frequency to put spurs where the signal isn't.


73
Peter


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Re: [Flexradio] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

2006-05-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 01:08 PM 5/21/2006, Ken N9VV wrote:
**replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

Alan K2WS has a nice recording of last night's presentation at the
Dayton 2006 Hamvention. He has graciously agreed to rebroadcast it on a
special Flex Teamspeak channel at 21:00z today. That is at 4pm Central
and 5pm Eastern time (others adjust as needed). Sign on to Teamspeak and
look for the rebroadcast channel.

And is there a text version of the announcement?  Not on the 
flex-radio.com website, at least as of early this morning.

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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 03:22 PM 5/21/2006, Mike Naruta wrote:
And if you gotta have QSK, when the new software
comes out, just buy another SDR-1000 receiver
and you can run full duplex.:)


That is a fairly straightforward approach to the full duplex need.  And, 
it pushes the cost onto just those who want the capability (you could 
clearly use a 1Watt version for the receiver side, too).

However, it should be pointed out that there is no inherent reason why the 
existing SDR1000 hardware and a PC cannot do microsecond scale QSK 
(depending on how fast the relays are, more than anything).  It's mostly a 
matter of spending the (huge) amount of work involved in making a full 
duplex windows audio application that interacts with the hardware. 
Considering the amount of work involved in doing the latter, and the 
limited software development resources available, it's probably not a good 
investment of those resources.  Personally, I'd rather see a push to a 
better separation between DSP and user interface in the Windows environment 
(as in running as separate tasks/processes), which would be of more general 
applicability than high performance QSK. For example, having a control and 
audio interface that was sufficiently decoupled from the PowerSDR UI would 
allow third party digital modes software to work without things like VAC, 
the use of dual sound cards, or serial port emulators. That was one of the 
high priority things discussed a year or so ago, but which has languished 
as other issues have been attacked.


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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 08:15 PM 5/21/2006, Ken N9VV wrote:
I have listened to that part of the recording again today (now on
teamspeak) and he clearly said that the current problem and
limitation is the SOUNDCARD and not the SDR-1000 hardware.

This is incorrect.  Many, many high performance gaming applications run on 
the Windows platform and achieve sub=millisecond timing. There are also 
realtime conferencing type applications that run in the Windows environment 
with full duplex audio processing.  For that matter, successfully playing 
high rate streaming video/audio requires careful alignment of the streams.

It's more a matter of the huge software development effort required to do 
this within the Windows framework.  Devoting a work-year of effort 
($100K-250K) to learning to effectively work in the Windows environment may 
be a reasonable matter to a game developer expecting million unit sales or 
to a high end video conferencing application developer.  However, that 
scale of labor is not generally available to the folks at Flex.

I would imagine that, by and large, the PowerSDR development folk are not 
Windows multimedia extension devotees, nor do they wish to devote their 
lives to such an activity.  In fact, PowerSDR depends on portaudio to 
encapsulate and hide most of the mm ickyness, and it would appear that the 
portaudio developers aren't interested in this either.

Or, if some ham who also happens to be a game developer gets interested, we 
could be in luck.


  So I
guess that means that the HPSDR Janus board is a LIFE SAVER and may
mean some super CW performance from the current SDR-1000 hw?
bk de ken

or, just buy a second SDR as a receiver.

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[Flexradio] CW Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Toby Pennington
Is the Firefox card on the approved lost to enable warranty guarantees?  Or
are you talking about the Firebox Firewire which is approved?   Toby

- Original Message - 
From: Mel Whitten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Toby Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?


 HI Tony
 I was there when the annoucement was made.  Seems they (not sure besides
 Eric who found this out) were able to remove the latency in the Firefox
 Soundcard by make some adjustment the card has available.  I dont own the
 card, but that is all they did becuase Bob N4HY says the latency problem
 had already been confirmed was caused by the sound card, not the PC/sdr
 console.  So if you have a Firefox card (evidently this is the only card
 that this adjustment can be made on) then this may be the answer.  You may
 want to get more info on this to confirm what I am saying.  :-)
 Mel
 k0pfx

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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Jimmy Jones
I wish some of brain - o's could solve the monitor latency problem.
  - Original Message - 
  From: Christopher T. Day 
  To: Toby Pennington ; Flex 
  Cc: Ron Hinton 
  Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?


  Toby,

  I'm not certain, but I suspect this was a comment about the SDR-X, not
  the SDR-1000. I doubt that there is a simple full-QSK solution with the
  latter given its half-duplex design.


  Chris - AE6VK


  -Original Message-
  From: Toby Pennington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:02 PM
  To: Flex
  Cc: Ron Hinton
  Subject: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

  I was just told by someone that Gerald made the comment on Teamspeak
  last night that the cw latency problem had been solved.  Someone is
  already able to send cw at 60 wpm QSK with no latency and has found a
  way to do this.  

  Does anyone else know about this and in particular how is this
  achieved. by a software change or hardware addition.  Also does
  anyone know about the timeline for this improvement to the SDR 1K.   

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Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-21 Thread Frank Brickle
Jimmy Jones wrote:
 I wish some of brain - o's could solve the monitor latency problem.

Well, according to Science Today magazine this week, some string 
theorists are speculating that time travel may actually be feasible.

With that solved the monitor latency problem won't be far behind. Till 
then, unfortunately, the only other solution is ESP.

73
Frank
AB2KT

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