[Flexradio] Noise Blankers
I posted this before and only received one responce, so I'll throw it out again: I have a particular type of noise that just occurs on 40 meters with my dipole antenna. I don't hear it when I switch to another antenna, so I don't think one of these phase/amplitude noise canceling devices made by MFJ or Timewave would work. Would it be possible to add some code to the SDR-1000 that would take the signals received on the sub receiver and subtract them from the main receiver? Assuming that the sub receiver is tuned to just the noise, would the phase and amplitude of the noise in the main and sub receivers be identical enough to make this a noise canceling device? Thanks, Tom Thompson W0IVJ ___ 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] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted
A new Knowledge Base article, Q10324 - Region 1 BandText Table (Band Plan), has been posted to the KB. This article contains an updated BandText table that is specifically for ITU Region 1 users of PowerSDR. The updated BandText table is contained in a small MS Access database and must be copied or exported to your working PowerSDR database (powersdr.mdb). This file has been supplied courtesy of Ahti, OH2RZ You can access the KB article using the URL below. http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10324 -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Apex, NC USA Cell: +1 919 215 6375 Skype: kg4rzy ___ 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] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted
At the risk of having my stupidity on display, why is Flex using Access as a conduit for distributing update files? I don't happen to have a copy of Access so where does that leave me re: updating my SDR1000? Bob W6TR - Original Message - From: Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:51 AM Subject: [Flexradio] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted A new Knowledge Base article, Q10324 - Region 1 BandText Table (Band Plan), has been posted to the KB. This article contains an updated BandText table that is specifically for ITU Region 1 users of PowerSDR. The updated BandText table is contained in a small MS Access database and must be copied or exported to your working PowerSDR database (powersdr.mdb). This file has been supplied courtesy of Ahti, OH2RZ You can access the KB article using the URL below. http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10324 -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Apex, NC USA Cell: +1 919 215 6375 Skype: kg4rzy ___ 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] AGC and Other Optomized Receiver Settings
I tried searching the TT site using various combinations of the (un-specific) cite you made. For us other dummies, would you mind providing a link? -AA5J At 12:21 AM 12/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AGC Optimized (optomized,sic) for what ? Pretty soon I am going to be forced to re-quote here the excellent article that was written for the TT Orion owners manual (you can download it from the TT site) regarding optimizing SDR AGCs for various and subtley different band conditons. It should be re-quoted, paraphrased. plagiarized, what-have-you and included in the Flex knowledge base. Should be a highly recommended read (required) for all Flexers. -K6KDK - Original Message - From: Gerald Capodieci [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 3:34 PM Subject: [Flexradio] AGC and Other Optomized Receiver Settings I. M-Audio Software Changes 1. DMA buffer to 1024 2. Codec Sample Rate: Uncheck the Rate Locked box and the --etc.etc.etc.. ___ 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] An Important Announcement from FlexRadio Systems
Woohoo!!! Congrats Ken! Your kindness and knowledge is always a welcome voice in the crowd! 73 Greg AB7R On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:30:49 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I first became aware of and interested in software defined radio and the SDR-1000 through Ken's website a couple of years ago. Two years prior to that my interest in amateur radio had been rekindled by reading about Ken's adventures with the Small Wonders Lab PSK series of transceivers. In fact, one of my most enjoyable PSK-31 QSO's was working N9VV from my condo in Naples, Florida, with a PSK-20 feeding a Hamstick that was propped up on the window sill of my bedroom window. A great addition to the team!!! Dan N4XWE - Original Message From: John Basilotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Reflector FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:16:09 PM Subject: [Flexradio] An Important Announcement from FlexRadio Systems We are pleased to announce that Ken Hopper, N9VV, has joined the FlexRadio Systems staff as a support associate. Ken has been a strong supporter of software defined radio. Many will recognize Ken as one of the leaders of Team Speak and an active participant of the HPSDR group. Ken will be our front line contact for support matters. Ken will be a great asset to our customers as our business continues to increase and the prospect that 2007 will be even a busier year. Please give Ken a warm welcome as a member of the FRS team. Our phones have been realigned to accommodate the staffing changes. Sales (512) 535-5266 Support (512) 250-8595 Shipping/Receiving (512) 535-4713 Repairs (512) 535-4713 John P. Basilotto W5GI Marketing and Product Manager FlexRadio Systems 7 ___ 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 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061215/3446f000/attachment.html ___ 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] Why not a Multi Region BandText installation?
Well that sounds easy enough. I just did a search in the KB and located the table. I'll try this tonight when I get home. Thank you. Edwin Marzan AB2VW -Original Message- From: Ahti Aintila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 11:53 PM To: Marzan, Edwin Cc: Gordon Lois Duff; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Why not a Multi Region BandText installation? On 18/12/06, Marzan, Edwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Could one just delete the existing table and replace it with the new table? If that is the case I'll try it on my own system and if it works I'll be willing to do the swap for others as well. That's it how I did it. Using MS Access I opened the PowerSDR.mdb file, clicked open the BandText table, deleted the the content of the table and pasted my own data. 73, Ahti OH2RZ Gordon and other Flexers, Thanks a lot. I received the BandText table from Bodo, DJ9CS, and found an unused ACCESS in my office computer. Now the new PowerSDR.mdb works already. Maybe, Tim or Bodo are going to upload the table to the Knowledge Base. However, I think that PowerSDR installation should already build the proper mdb-file according to the selected Region number. Not very many hams have access to the ACCESS. 73, Ahti OH2RZ On 17/12/06, Gordon Lois Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Access and am willing to do this, but it will have to wait until January 1. Gordon, KA2NLM ___ 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] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted
The updated BandText table is contained in a small MS Access database and must be copied or exported to your working PowerSDR database (powersdr.mdb). This file has been supplied courtesy of Ahti, OH2RZ ___ 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 Many thanks to Tim Other thanks go to Bodo, DJ9CS, who made the table. I acted just as an editor and a middle man. 73, Ahti OH2RZ ___ 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] AGC and Other Optimized Receiver Settings
I believe I found it in the Orion II manual @ page 44 http://radio.tentec.com/cms-files/566_manual_initial_version.pdf -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Si fractum non sit, id reficere -Unknown Roman consultant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Mayfield Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] AGC and Other Optomized Receiver Settings I tried searching the TT site using various combinations of the (un-specific) cite you made. For us other dummies, would you mind providing a link? -AA5J At 12:21 AM 12/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AGC Optimized (optomized,sic) for what ? Pretty soon I am going to be forced to re-quote here the excellent article that was written for the TT Orion owners manual (you can download it from the TT site) regarding optimizing SDR AGCs for various and subtley different band conditons. It should be re-quoted, paraphrased. plagiarized, what-have-you and included in the Flex knowledge base. Should be a highly recommended read (required) for all Flexers. -K6KDK - Original Message - From: Gerald Capodieci [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 3:34 PM Subject: [Flexradio] AGC and Other Optomized Receiver Settings I. M-Audio Software Changes 1. DMA buffer to 1024 2. Codec Sample Rate: Uncheck the Rate Locked box and the --etc.etc.etc.. ___ 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 ___ 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] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted
I just used OpenOffice Base to open the powersdr.mdb and deleted the BandText table. Then I started PowerSDR and it filled in the current BandText table. It seems to be working ok. Does anyone see a problem with this technique? Seems like you could go in and customize BandText for your favorite frequencies. OpenOffice is available free at: http://www.openoffice.org/ and lets you open and edit MS Office files, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Access database. Mike - AA8K Tim Ellison wrote: A new Knowledge Base article, Q10324 - Region 1 BandText Table (Band Plan), has been posted to the KB. This article contains an updated BandText table that is specifically for ITU Region 1 users of PowerSDR. The updated BandText table is contained in a small MS Access database and must be copied or exported to your working PowerSDR database (powersdr.mdb). This file has been supplied courtesy of Ahti, OH2RZ You can access the KB article using the URL below. http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10324 -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Apex, NC USA Cell: +1 919 215 6375 Skype: kg4rzy ___ 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] OT: Attitude is Killing Us (was FCC to Drop Morse)
Robert McGwier wrote: snip this succeeds. We must stop having our population grow one year older per year. This is a prescription for utter disaster. The other prescription for disaster is to sit on our backsides and fail to recruit new people, as many as we can that are under 30 years old, into our hobby. Software Radio, Cognitive Radio, and other high tech toys are good tools to use to recruit interesting your people. USE THEM. Hi Bob and Flex Radio Reflector members... This may not be the forum to discuss this topic of recruiting young people into our hobby/service (but what is?) and I could not agree with you more. As an active ham in my 54th year of Amateur Radio, I was one of those Utes (ref: movie My Cousin Vinny) when I entered. It had a great influence on my career and even now into retirement. During my first few years as a teen-licensed Novice and General, I ran into a lot of prejudice against youth on the air and locally amongst the established hams. It was so bad in my hometown (population 100k+) that it caused a bunch of us teens to form our own club and Field Day operation. With the critical need to help youngsters into our ranks today, I find that the very same prejudice and/or disinterest prevail today as it did over 50 years ago. Here are the results of one HamCom (Texas) survey question responded to by 396 hams last June: 16. Youth activities. 100 responses 25.25% 1 - Not at all important. 17 responses 4.29% 2 - - 17 responses 4.29% 3 - - 8 responses 2.02% 4 - - 131 responses 33.08% 5 - Neither unimportant or important. 29 responses 7.32% 6 - - 26 responses 6.57% 7 - - 28 responses 7.07% 8 - - 41 responses 10.35% 9 - Very important. There are 396 responses for this question. Reference: http://www.hamcom.org/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi?pg=survey This survey shows how a large majority of current hams feel. It echoes exactly what I have found in two local area ham clubs within the past five years. In fact in one club meeting where I brought up the topic of trying to interest youth in ham radio and the club, I was abruptly cut off and my ham-licensed wife even was threatened by another member. In the other club, I had several of the old influential members actively working against all my efforts to involve youth. It seems this is an old man's game, where they are contented with the status quo -- don't rock the ship -- we're enjoying ourselves -- who cares about ham radio when we die? Selfish? I'm in the old man category by age, but I certainly do not subscribe to the attitudes of my generation! Yes, we all need to make positive effort at supporting anything which would draw youth into our hobby/service: kids radio day, JOTA, scout merit badges, public demonstrations, etc. But more importantly, the attitude of a majority of hams needs some adjustment -- and I don't know how to do this or if it is even possible. 73, Don AE5K (Flex SDR-1000 owner, HPSDR list admin/webmaster/wikisysop, 4SQRP list admin, etc etc) ___ 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] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted
No, there isn't any reason you cant do this. Matter of fact I have added a bunch of the digital sub modes to my database. Now, be careful. The BandText table in the KB article is for Region I. The US is Region II. -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Si fractum non sit, id reficere -Unknown Roman consultant -Original Message- From: Mike Naruta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:02 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [KB] A new Knowledge Base article has been posted I just used OpenOffice Base to open the powersdr.mdb and deleted the BandText table. Then I started PowerSDR and it filled in the current BandText table. It seems to be working ok. Does anyone see a problem with this technique? Seems like you could go in and customize BandText for your favorite frequencies. OpenOffice is available free at: http://www.openoffice.org/ and lets you open and edit MS Office files, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Access database. Mike - AA8K Tim Ellison wrote: A new Knowledge Base article, Q10324 - Region 1 BandText Table (Band Plan), has been posted to the KB. This article contains an updated BandText table that is specifically for ITU Region 1 users of PowerSDR. The updated BandText table is contained in a small MS Access database and must be copied or exported to your working PowerSDR database (powersdr.mdb). This file has been supplied courtesy of Ahti, OH2RZ You can access the KB article using the URL below. http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10324 -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Apex, NC USA Cell: +1 919 215 6375 Skype: kg4rzy ___ 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] OT: Attitude is Killing Us (was FCC to Drop Morse)
At 09:59 AM 12/18/2006, Don AE5K wrote: Robert McGwier wrote: snip this succeeds. We must stop having our population grow one year older per year. This is a prescription for utter disaster. The other prescription for disaster is to sit on our backsides and fail to recruit new people, as many as we can that are under 30 years old, into our hobby. Software Radio, Cognitive Radio, and other high tech toys are good tools to use to recruit interesting your people. USE THEM. Hi Bob and Flex Radio Reflector members... This may not be the forum to discuss this topic of recruiting young people into our hobby/service (but what is?) and I could not agree with you more. As an active ham in my 54th year of Amateur Radio, I was one of those Utes (ref: movie My Cousin Vinny) when I entered. It had a great influence on my career and even now into retirement. During my first few years as a teen-licensed Novice and General, I ran into a lot of prejudice against youth on the air and locally amongst the established hams. It was so bad in my hometown (population 100k+) that it caused a bunch of us teens to form our own club and Field Day operation. Twas ever thus... But here's an interesting question.. was there at least one or two older hams helping out in your ops? I imagine there was someone out there. About a year or so ago, I got an interesting email from a ham who, as a youth, had dragged his radio over to my grandfather's house in a wagon for he and my father to work on. I think my dad actually drove him down to the FCC to take the test. My father was one of a group of 4 or 5 hams who had gone to school together, and I suspect (but do not know) that they weren't tied in with any sort of club, per se (and in fact, one of them built a 10m beam which was so effective that the other hams in the area accused him of having an amp concealed in the garage). Likewise, my officemate (WB6CIA) hung out with a bunch of friends in school who all had licenses (now WB6VRN, W6GL, etc) and I'll bet they weren't necessarily being encouraged by the local club. Clubs (of any kind) tend to be somewhat insular and self reliant, unless they work real hard not to. They have their particular way of doing things, often as the result of many, many years of shared experience. And, in fact, their way *may* be more efficient, but they just can't articulate why, especially in response to that whippersnapper asking the questions. Or, it might be based on some underlying assumptions which have been lost to the mists of history, but the tradition carries on (Sort of like why you get on a horse from the left side. But, relatively few of us still wear a sword.) So, someone forms a new club or organization, and either they are both successful, or one withers and dies, or they merge. There will be people using old tube rigs for the next hundred years or more. The tube afficionados will form clubs and grouse about that newfangled solid state stuff (with varying degrees of humor). There will be comparisons between analog and digital signal processing for the next 100 years too. Yes, we all need to make positive effort at supporting anything which would draw youth into our hobby/service: kids radio day, JOTA, scout merit badges, public demonstrations, etc. But more importantly, the attitude of a majority of hams needs some adjustment -- and I don't know how to do this or if it is even possible. The same way you were encouraged by others. Peer pressure is a powerful thing too. My daughter really only showed interest in doing the ham thing when a friend of hers happened to mention that she had a license. (Her friend's father happens to be a ham, and my daughter recognized the antenna on her father's car). But I can't imagine her wanting to hang out with a bunch of us old guys while she does it (except to humor me, for a short time, but pretty soon it would be Oh Dad.. ). Get em started and turn em loose in a pack by themselves. Let them figure out the mistakes for themselves. Maybe give them their own repeater or echolink or irlp. Let them administer it. There's a raft of 8th graders my daughter knows who are more than smart enough to do it. In a year, one or two could easily be Extra and trustee for it (although, maybe a trustee has to be an adult?) Maybe some of them will get interested in DSP and write code for SDR1000s. When I was that age, I would have done so, had the capability existed, but back in the 70s DSP meant mag tapes and punched cards, for the most part. After all, you don't need ALL youths to be interested, just a few, and in a typical highschool of 1000 or so students, if you can get a half dozen or so to do it, and just one of those gets excited about the coding, you're in great shape. You need the half dozen, so they don't feel like total geek outcasts. Jim, W6RMK ___ FlexRadio mailing list
[Flexradio] Region 1 BandText Table Knowledge Base Article Error
The Knowledge Base article (Q10324 - FILE: Region 1 BandText Table) recently added by Ahti needs to be revised. In the article, Ahti recommends using my table migration utility to import the BandText table for Region 1 into the PowerSDR database. Doing this will result in a BandText table that contains data for both Region 1 and Region 2 and will not be useable in either region. Instead, you must import all other tables from the PowerSDR.mdb file into the new database from the Knowledge Base article. To use my utility, the following procedure must be followed: 1.) Download the Region1BandText.mdb file from the Knowledge Base article into your PowerSDR directory. 2.) Open SDRDataImport.exe 3.) Select your current PowerSDR.mdb file as the SOURCE database. 4.) Select the Region1BandText.mdb file as the DESTINATION database. 5.) Select all tables EXCEPT the BandText table for transfer. 6.) Transfer the data. 7.) Close SDRDataImport.exe 8.) Rename your PowerSDR.mdb file to something else -- Save_PowerSDR.mdb would work. 9.) Rename Region1BandText.mdb to PowerSDR.mdb This procedure will work properly. Importing the Region 1 BandText table into your current PowerSDR database using my utility will result in data corruption. 73, Ray, K9DUR ___ 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] AGC and Other Optomized Receiver Settings
Here is an article by Sinisa YT1NT which describes how the Orion AGC works and how to set it up. The Orion is close to the SDR in the way the RX works. The Orion uses a single conversion RX through a roofing filter before demodulation to 11 khz and then sending that signal to a DSP unit. The SDR is direct conversion through a Tayloe detector and then IQ signals at 11 khz to a DSP unit (sound card). As such they share a good deal of homogeneity in their design philosophy, so reading some of the theory Sinisa discusses should give a good conceptual overview of how to adjust the SDR for a given band and a given set of band conditions. Also read Gerald's QEX articles. http://www.geocities.com/va3ttn/UsingOrionRX.pdf http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/020708qex013.pdf http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/020910qex010.pdf http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/021112qex027.pdf http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/030304qex020.pdf 73 W9OY __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.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] Region 1 BandText Table Knowledge Base Article Error
To all, The KB article has been updated to reflect the input from Ray. Thanks Ray! -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com Si fractum non sit, id reficere -Unknown Roman consultant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Andrews Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:55 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Region 1 BandText Table Knowledge Base Article Error The Knowledge Base article (Q10324 - FILE: Region 1 BandText Table) recently added by Ahti needs to be revised. In the article, Ahti recommends using my table migration utility to import the BandText table for Region 1 into the PowerSDR database. Doing this will result in a BandText table that contains data for both Region 1 and Region 2 and will not be useable in either region. Instead, you must import all other tables from the PowerSDR.mdb file into the new database from the Knowledge Base article. To use my utility, the following procedure must be followed: 1.) Download the Region1BandText.mdb file from the Knowledge Base article into your PowerSDR directory. 2.) Open SDRDataImport.exe 3.) Select your current PowerSDR.mdb file as the SOURCE database. 4.) Select the Region1BandText.mdb file as the DESTINATION database. 5.) Select all tables EXCEPT the BandText table for transfer. 6.) Transfer the data. 7.) Close SDRDataImport.exe 8.) Rename your PowerSDR.mdb file to something else -- Save_PowerSDR.mdb would work. 9.) Rename Region1BandText.mdb to PowerSDR.mdb This procedure will work properly. Importing the Region 1 BandText table into your current PowerSDR database using my utility will result in data corruption. 73, Ray, K9DUR ___ 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] Attitude is killing us!
Dear Don-AE5K, You're absolutely right about the Old Fart mentality as concerns our MUCH NEEDED youth/new-blood in the hobby. It's a real dis-favor that these guys are doing not only to the TRADITION OF OUR HOBBY but also to the many kids who only need some motivation and a friendly mentor to push them into our great HBBY/SERVICE!!! I've tried to do my part but it's NOT ENOUGH!!! Regards to ALL! Jim/nn6ee ___ 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] bandtext
3.872 MHz reads 75M SSB here, as it should. 73, Ray, K9DUR -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061218/537c66a3/attachment.html ___ 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] bandtext
There was indeed a hole in the frequencies in any databases created with the SVN version from Sat. There is a new SVN rev. that corrects this that was posted this afternoon. Our apologies for creating any more confusion than necessary. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Jerry Harley Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:52 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] bandtext I renamed the data based and updated my SDR software and rebuild the database on startup and 80 reads wrong on 872??? Jerry ___ 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] bandtext
Jerry, Disregard my previous post about 3.872 MHz displaying correctly here. It does, but I had forgotten about the hole in the 80m frequencies that I had corrected here manually. 73, Ray, K9DUR -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061218/add715ce/attachment.html ___ 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] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 20, Issue 18
Hello Bob You are right about recruting newcomers via SDR. I did it the following way. I bought quit a few of Tony's Softrock Kits and gave them away as Xmas gift to potential SDR youngsters. The echo, like Whooo I receiveed after their first trail on a SDR reception, payed back for the cost I had in purchasing the kits. 73 Chris hb9bdm -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061218/a4a8fc29/attachment.html ___ 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] New band freq changes
The URL doesn't work on my computer. Why does this have to be so hard? Who cares if the message box says the wrong thing? Being a brand new owner of a used Flex Radio, which is back in Texas for repair, I assume that the errors in the band info will NOT restrict me from operating on the new frequencies that my license allows. Bob W6TR - Original Message - From: Ray Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; Craig Monsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] New band freq changes Craig, You can download a new installation package for the data import utility from: http://www.qsl.net/k9dur/downloads/SetupSDRDataImport.exeabout:blank This package has been tested under both Windows 2000 Windows XP. The new package will be available on the Knowledge Base soon. 73, Ray, K9DUR -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061218/4713aab0/attachment.html ___ 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
