Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization
Ken, N9VV, is correct. He has done us all a real service with his notes on XP optimizations on his web site. Number 15 on the instruction list may be the most helpful. http://www.n9vv.com/XP-optimization.html If that is the approach people feel the need to perform, I recommend purchasing a dedicated PC and having done with it. Real human beings turning all that stuff on and off are going to make mistakes and become virus ridden et. al. Me, I'm not going to give up my Mix2 or N1MM and their integration with DX spotting networks, just for openers anyway. Even in Belize, we were connected to the Internet, full time, all CPUs. IMHO, this is too draconian. Upgrade to 2.4 GHz instead where (at least I) have had no trouble running any level of console with XP whatever, without any change to the defaults and firewalls, virus checking, etc., all fully enabled. And, I got lots of junk you don't, because I do the odd bit of telecommuting, so I have a variety of corporate things going on as well. It would certainly be useful to turn off [EMAIL PROTECTED] and like programs if you use them. You should also learn about component services so you can go in and turn off some of the optional services, but beyond that, if you are even thinking about following this advice, just upgrade your CPU or else dedicate the box and get another slow one at a garage sale so you can do normal stuff. Either way ought to be enough. Larry WO0Z ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization
Larry, please forgive me, but I strongly disagree with the throw more hardware at the problem to fix it. There is a three letter mega-company who has made 50+ successful years by following that schematic :-) and correspondingly cost it's customers mega-bucks!. **You DO NOT need to REMEMBER what to turn ON or OFF** but rather use the method suggested by Cecil KD5NWA called Profiles. They are built in to Windows and have been there ever since NT. You log in with one ID (say your personal lloen ) and you get everything you want to use on the internet. You log in with your callsign (w0oz) and that personality or user profile AUTOMATICALLY turns OFF all the junk and leaves you optimized and protected for your PowerSDR Console (with or without fancy drivers and so on). Now, if only someone knew how to implement the Profiles! Cecil is out of town, but when he gets back, maybe we can persuade him to help us :-) It sounds like a great Teamspeak topic, eh? all the best, de ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, N9VV, is correct. He has done us all a real service with his notes on XP optimizations on his web site. Number 15 on the instruction list may be the most helpful. http://www.n9vv.com/XP-optimization.html If that is the approach people feel the need to perform, I recommend purchasing a dedicated PC and having done with it. Real human beings turning all that stuff on and off are going to make mistakes and become virus ridden et. al. Me, I'm not going to give up my Mix2 or N1MM and their integration with DX spotting networks, just for openers anyway. Even in Belize, we were connected to the Internet, full time, all CPUs. IMHO, this is too draconian. Upgrade to 2.4 GHz instead where (at least I) have had no trouble running any level of console with XP whatever, without any change to the defaults and firewalls, virus checking, etc., all fully enabled. And, I got lots of junk you don't, because I do the odd bit of telecommuting, so I have a variety of corporate things going on as well. It would certainly be useful to turn off [EMAIL PROTECTED] and like programs if you use them. You should also learn about component services so you can go in and turn off some of the optional services, but beyond that, if you are even thinking about following this advice, just upgrade your CPU or else dedicate the box and get another slow one at a garage sale so you can do normal stuff. Either way ought to be enough. Larry WO0Z ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] SDR MixW2
At 12:03 PM 7/16/2006, Radio Station W5AMI wrote: I just wanted to thank everyone who helped me get digitized! I am now up and running with PSK and RTTY. PSK is really something. Ran 1 watt today on 80 meters and had a 100% reliable QSO with another ham about 20 miles from here. Not bad for daytime on 80 meters. It's that 30 Hz bandwidth that really helps. Even at near 0dB SNR (in that BW), you can still get copy. Figure the noise floor at the other end is something like -150 dBm (in the 30 Hz), and you're radiating +30 dBm. Even with 180 dB path loss, you're still in there. Even if the receive end is seeing 60 dB of noise over this, you've still got 120 dB of link loss to work with. Use a mode with decent FEC like MFSK16 or Olivia and you even get decent copy through the static crashes. but even on PSK31, the occasional garble is entirely acceptable. Jim ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
[Flexradio] TSVN cache service?
Those of you Tortoiseing.. how do you prevent tsvncache from running? James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization
Not everyone can afford to keep upgrading the hardware everytime Microsoft comes out with the next even more bloated OS. Multiple profiles is very simple, while I'm on my trip I will try to write an example, but I can't make any guarantees. I have to socialize with the other companies crews otherwise they will think I'm a snob, mind you I rather go back to the hotel than go out with these guys, all they want to do is drink themselves under the table, I usually don't drink so it's no fun hanging out with a bunch of drunks. Getting started; 1. Right click on My Computer select properties. 2. Select the Hardware tab. 3. Click on the Hardware buttom towards the bottom of the screen. 4. Highlight the present profile by clicking on it once. 5. Click on the Copy button 6. Give the new profile a new name, mine is called SDR-1000 but call it something meaninfull 7. At the bottom of the screen select First profile listed 8. change the time to 4 seconds Your PC has now two profiles, one the default usually called Profile1 and an identical one you just created called SDR-1000 or whatever name you selected. When you PC boot is will wait for 4 seconds to let you choose the profile that you want, if you don't pick anything then the default profile will be used, it's the first one on the list. Now you you can reboot you PC, when it ask you to choose a profile select the new one. You will still be booting as yourself but you are now running in the brand new identical profile. At this point you can start making changes to that profile. There are two things you can change, the services that are running and what hardware is functional. Since in this profile you want maximum performance you will be turn things off that you do not need such as anti-virus, firewalls, networking and other uneeded services. To be on the safe side you will want to turn off the network card so it is not functional while you have no firewall or anti-virus. You can turn of devices; 1. go to the device manager 2. right click on the network adapter, select properties 3. At the bottom is a pull down window called Device Usage 4. Click on the down arrow and select do not use this device in the current profile You now have set you profile so if you select the SDR-1000 profile the network card will be disabled, if you select Profile1 or ignore it then the network card will be functional. The services can be turned of for this profile in a similar manner. To be continued later. On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:22 -0500, Ken N9VV wrote: Larry, please forgive me, but I strongly disagree with the throw more hardware at the problem to fix it. There is a three letter mega-company who has made 50+ successful years by following that schematic :-) and correspondingly cost it's customers mega-bucks!. **You DO NOT need to REMEMBER what to turn ON or OFF** but rather use the method suggested by Cecil KD5NWA called Profiles. They are built in to Windows and have been there ever since NT. You log in with one ID (say your personal lloen ) and you get everything you want to use on the internet. You log in with your callsign (w0oz) and that personality or user profile AUTOMATICALLY turns OFF all the junk and leaves you optimized and protected for your PowerSDR Console (with or without fancy drivers and so on). Now, if only someone knew how to implement the Profiles! Cecil is out of town, but when he gets back, maybe we can persuade him to help us :-) It sounds like a great Teamspeak topic, eh? all the best, de ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, N9VV, is correct. He has done us all a real service with his notes on XP optimizations on his web site. Number 15 on the instruction list may be the most helpful. http://www.n9vv.com/XP-optimization.html If that is the approach people feel the need to perform, I recommend purchasing a dedicated PC and having done with it. Real human beings turning all that stuff on and off are going to make mistakes and become virus ridden et. al. Me, I'm not going to give up my Mix2 or N1MM and their integration with DX spotting networks, just for openers anyway. Even in Belize, we were connected to the Internet, full time, all CPUs. IMHO, this is too draconian. Upgrade to 2.4 GHz instead where (at least I) have had no trouble running any level of console with XP whatever, without any change to the defaults and firewalls, virus checking, etc., all fully enabled. And, I got lots of junk you don't, because I do the odd bit of telecommuting, so I have a variety of corporate things going on as well. It would certainly be useful to turn off [EMAIL PROTECTED] and like programs if you use them. You should also learn about component services so you can go in and turn off some of the optional services, but beyond that, if you are even thinking about following this advice, just upgrade your CPU or else
[Flexradio] SDR1000 Damaged. Make sure you turn it OFF when you walk away. Update
Hi Flexers, I bought a hot air rework station and replaced the damaged parts last Friday. I powered it up and it worked as good as new. :) Later that night I spent a couple hours on the air. I went to bed feeling good that all was well. At 7:00 AM I jumped out of bed to the crack of a nearby lightening strike. Yep, you guessed it, the SDR1000 was once again knock out. Although, it was nice to have it back for a while. This time it's the SGA-4586 MMIC. The SDR is still working, but the receive is down about 30db. The diagnosis has been very easy so far. Look at the schematic, make an educated guess as to what's wrong, then touch the part with your finger. If it's hot, replace it. 73, John k2ox - Subject: SDR1000 Damaged. Make sure you turn it OFF when you walk away. Last week the power went out for about an hour. When power returned the SDR1000 was in a random state since the PC doesn't restart until you make it reboot. Unfortunately, the SDR energized the eight outputs on the EXT Control Connector. I use the EXT control to switch six antenna relays and my amplifier. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] TSVN cache service?
On 7/18/06, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you Tortoiseing.. how do you prevent tsvncache from running? You probably need to disable the entire Tortoise shell extension. You can use ShellExView to do this without having to uninstall Tortoise. Download from here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html 73, Sami OH2BFO ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
[Flexradio] Testing the Boards
I would like to ask our testers to please keep some records, prehaps place the info on the wiki or here. This information will be very usefull when the rest of us will get to follow your lead. Maybe this could be the start of a set of startup tools, for instance Bill has posted the verilog code to test the fpga on svn and for some of us this may be the place to start. My verilog expert suggested that a set of simple music tones ie: Happy Birthday sent out on the pins would mean that we would only need a speaker to test with! Maybe this could lead to a self testing set of boards for the future. Thanks for making life interresting! Bruce K3CMZ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
[Flexradio] Testing the Boards
SO SORRY I SENT THIS OUT ON THE WRONG LIST I would like to ask our testers to please keep some records, prehaps place the info on the wiki or here. This information will be very usefull when the rest of us will get to follow your lead. Maybe this could be the start of a set of startup tools, for instance Bill has posted the verilog code to test the fpga on svn and for some of us this may be the place to start. My verilog expert suggested that a set of simple music tones ie: Happy Birthday sent out on the pins would mean that we would only need a speaker to test with! Maybe this could lead to a self testing set of boards for the future. Thanks for making life interresting! Bruce K3CMZ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
