[Flexradio] Straight keys don't work with 5000A
Steve, Thanks for the reply. I don't have a serial port on my computer and hate to use up a PCI slot to add one. So hooking up to the serial handshaking lines isn't really an option. Seems like many of the PC vendors have decided to get rid of all the legacy ports from newer motherboards which is a shame. Re the scratchier straight keys: wonder what it'd do with a scratchy bug!? :-) I'll have to give that a try. But seriously, the rig also the has big problems with my external keyer and that certainly has no contact problems. I wonder if any other CW operators out there have experienced similar problems? Please let me know if you have. 73,Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Mike - ke5akl -Original Message- From: Steve Kallal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 10:47 AM To: 'Mike Walsh'; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] (no subject) Mike, I've given up on the rear CW jack for straight key use, at least for now. I haven't mentioned it much lately, but probably should. My symptons are not as bad as your's, but similar. I use COM1 on my PC for straight key use. COM1 is a real COM port on my new quad core motherboard, kind of rare these days. One user (I think W9OY) commented on this reflector, that it is best to use a real COM port and not a USB to serial converter. It depends on how busy the USB bus is. SIIG makes a PCI card with a pair of serial ports. The catch 22 is that PCI slots are getting hard to come by on new mother boards. Dale, replied that you should clean your contacts. It is true that my scratchier straight keys were more problematic. But all straight keys, even my best one, have problems on the rear CW jack. I should add this to the Bug Tracker. 73, Steve N6VL ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Straight keys don't work with 5000A
Hi Mike, I know that customers are using straight keys and external keyers with the 5000A so we need to see if there is some kind of setup problem. Eric will be back on Thursday so he can work with you on the problem. There should be no reason to use the PC COM port with the 5000. Gerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Walsh Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 7:41 AM To: Steve Kallal; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Straight keys don't work with 5000A Steve, Thanks for the reply. I don't have a serial port on my computer and hate to use up a PCI slot to add one. So hooking up to the serial handshaking lines isn't really an option. Seems like many of the PC vendors have decided to get rid of all the legacy ports from newer motherboards which is a shame. Re the scratchier straight keys: wonder what it'd do with a scratchy bug!? :-) I'll have to give that a try. But seriously, the rig also the has big problems with my external keyer and that certainly has no contact problems. I wonder if any other CW operators out there have experienced similar problems? Please let me know if you have. 73,Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Mike - ke5akl -Original Message- From: Steve Kallal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 10:47 AM To: 'Mike Walsh'; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] (no subject) Mike, I've given up on the rear CW jack for straight key use, at least for now. I haven't mentioned it much lately, but probably should. My symptons are not as bad as your's, but similar. I use COM1 on my PC for straight key use. COM1 is a real COM port on my new quad core motherboard, kind of rare these days. One user (I think W9OY) commented on this reflector, that it is best to use a real COM port and not a USB to serial converter. It depends on how busy the USB bus is. SIIG makes a PCI card with a pair of serial ports. The catch 22 is that PCI slots are getting hard to come by on new mother boards. Dale, replied that you should clean your contacts. It is true that my scratchier straight keys were more problematic. But all straight keys, even my best one, have problems on the rear CW jack. I should add this to the Bug Tracker. 73, Steve N6VL ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] (no subject)
HI All and Merry Christmas I am using the winkey with good results on the SDR1K key jack but would like to try for the improvements I hear the com port offers, I found the com port pinouts for a paddle, but can't seem to locate the pinout for a straight key or a keyer output, I don't need dots and dashes amd want it connected correctly! Any help would be appreciated Gerald many thanks for the continued support and improvement of the SDR1K, I have only had this rig for a month, but after getting the pc gremlins out of the way this has turned out to be the best radio I have ever operated in 30 years, nothing I have operated even comes close, the only negative I see on this radio is the XYLs complaining about the sudden HUGE increase of time in the shack! It's fantastic! And any DX'er or Contester would benefit from running a Flex, 73 and Happy Holidays to all K4FX -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] SDR 1000 issue
Not sure what I got going on here, when I click start the radio shows 30 over on the meter. It is not in transmit mode but it has no recieve. I am running USB. I have plugged and unplugged everything and tried a official version software with all the same issue, Any ideas? Scott Gordon KQ8RP -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071225/4b121bab/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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] Fw: SDR 1000 issue
Working now I upplugged the Edoril and plugged it back in.. Scott Gordon - Original Message - From: KQ8RP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlexRadio FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 2:51 PM Subject: [Flexradio] SDR 1000 issue Not sure what I got going on here, when I click start the radio shows 30 over on the meter. It is not in transmit mode but it has no recieve. I am running USB. I have plugged and unplugged everything and tried a official version software with all the same issue, Any ideas? Scott Gordon KQ8RP -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071225/4b121bab/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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] is there a 'notch' filter
I've got a birdy, dead on 1.820 which is a common DX frequency. Can't Notch it out with ANF. Probably a video card birdy. Another dead on 1.810 which I'm betting is related. Any aspect of PWSDR that can cut this down? ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer
Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems) wrote: Let me clarify that FlexRadio will not force an OS that is not compatible with the bulk of amateur radio software applications. I am not sure where that idea came from. Regards, Gerald The goal is to march along with the natural changes that are occurring even as I am typing. The things that are changing our computing world are virtualization and multiple cores increasing in number to a point of diminishing returns brought on by the increasing likelihood of contention for memory and hardware required to provide coherence, etc. It is a dramatic change that has not filtered down to my 73 year old mother, and just recently to my 20 year old daughter and it has not filtered down to Firebrick and other users because, so far, they have seen no need to. This is not a thing to be feared but to be embraced as most will come to see. This is having a dramatic impact all over in development circles. My daughter's Mac book is running XP and some of her favorite applications in a virtual machine. My 64 bit Linux machine is running Windows XP in a virtual machine. For exactly the same reasons as our DX'ing friend FireFox, I need this windows to work and to work seamlessly. I use Quicken, Turbo Tax, Real Rhapsody as THE three most important applications in my personal life. They all use bloody internet explorer to render their content. There are versions of Rhapsody using flash, etc. that run perfectly well on Linux but these do not build libraries from bought songs and do not rip CD's to the Rhapsody library. Quicken and later Turbo Tax quite literally remade my life over 20 years ago when I started using Intuit tools. I will be loathe to give them up. I have purchased, absolutely, my LAST windows only machine because I no longer require it! I am free. Vista will never run on a machine I use that I pay for. 73's Bob N4HY -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair “An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” Descartes ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] is there a 'notch' filter
These are BC band harmonics. I too, would welcome a notch filter, and a spot button for CW Merry Christmas Happy New Year Dave, W5UN At 22:33 12/25/2007, you wrote: I've got a birdy, dead on 1.820 which is a common DX frequency. Can't Notch it out with ANF. Probably a video card birdy. Another dead on 1.810 which I'm betting is related. Any aspect of PWSDR that can cut this down? ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer
On Dec 25, 2007 9:28 PM, Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems) wrote: Let me clarify that FlexRadio will not force an OS that is not compatible with the bulk of amateur radio software applications... The goal is to march along with the natural changes that are occurring even as I am typing... The other thing that might not be completely clear is this. Many of the dramatic changes coming up in HyperSDR will be invisible to the user. They involve radical reorientation of the structure and underpinnings of PowerSDR. It is not just a goal but an absolute necessity for these changes to *simplify* life for the user. At the same time, what the changes do is make possible a huge range of enhancements to the radio software as a system and not as a single application. Staying with the old version will always be possible. On the other hand, if you want to take advantage of the new possibilities, you'll have to bit the bullet. You'll have to swallow the unfortunate necessity of adopting a much simpler, more flexible, more capable system. Your choice. 73 Frank AB2KT -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071225/b7d9552b/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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
