Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Re: CW Transmit Problem
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Frank Karnauskas N1UW wrote: > Flex Dudes: > > All excellent comments, but those of us with little ones are hesitant to > shut off services or processes as recommended by sites maintained by > "gamers". Well, a PC users go, they are the ones who try to get the absolute most out of their systems. If if you want your car to go fast it does make sense to ask the guys who build race cars. > A list of recommended shut-offs from trusted Flexers would be > most welcome. I know I posted my list sometime back. I can make a new one. It just takes me awhile to dump it and then format it to send to the list. Oh, and I'm lazy. :-) If you are worried about what might happen if you are playing with your system: 1. take a snapshot of your system; 2. turn stuff off; 3. if your machine doesn't work, reboot into safe mode and restore the last system restore point. Regardless, I have been pretty agressive turning things off. One thing you can do is stop a service manually without disabling it. That way if you make your system stop running, you can just reboot and everything will be back the way it was. > Frank N1UW > > P.S. If something blows up I won't come after you with my attorney...I don't > even have one. I doubt anything is likely to blow up. I know I still have all my limbs. ;-) -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] CW receive question
Hi again Flexers... I was going through the operation of the CWL/CWU modes, and I noticed 2 things: 1. The function is not the same as LSB/USB selection in that when switching back and forth between these (LSB/USB) simply moves the passband from one side to the other. With the CWL/CWU selecton, the passband remains fixed, while the frequency moves up and down...In fact, it almost looks like everything is simply moved in frequency as the actual location of the BP/signal intersecting point doesn't change, or is that only in appearance..? Perhaps I'm not understanding this implementation...? Is there a good description or a BP diagram a la Collins PBT diagrams, etc..? (Without the little bulldozer hihi) 2. This may also be a misunderstood function on my part, but if I start at say 10Mhz WWV in AM mode, and switch to CWL, then to CWU, and finally back to AM, I find myself 1.2khz lower than where I startedLikewise if I cycle AM-CWL-CWU-AM, I end up 1200hz high. I'll go back into the manual and see if I missed something, but an explanation would be much appreciated 73...Jordan VE6ZT ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] cant get power sdr to work..
I downloaded the fire wire driver, then powersdr, everything seemed to go like it should. If I try and open powersdr, a few screens come up saying loading stuff, then everything goes away and I get nothing. Do I need the radio to load the software? I thought I would be able to look at it, or do the demo, but get nothing Vista 32... Brett ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Flex and computers (new subject)
LOL --- I was licensed when I was 14 and that was 1972. I also spent 3 years working for IBM in Norad. And, that was a 64000 tube computer. However, I am dating myself. I have a few years to go to catch up to you, so can you please slow down. Mike http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -Original Message- From: Frank Karnauskas N1UW [mailto:n...@gokarns.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:23 To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Flex and computers (new subject) Hey...let's be careful of the reference to "appliance operators"! Some of us have 50+ years into this hobby. And, there are a lot of us here who are working very hard to understand all this. Even appliance repair technicians have to spend a couple of months to a year to learn how to repair this stuff and still don't get it. I have the Sears repair bills to prove it! Why, I'll even bet there are some of these big brain guys out there who can't solder a PL-259 onto a coax jumper. So there...Nah! :-) Frank N1UW (Bruised Ego...Boo-Hoo-Hoo) -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Michael Walker (VA3MW) Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:56 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Flexradio] Flex and computers (new subject) Hi Brian I don't disagree with you at all as we are both on the same page. I reviewed speedvista but I didn't get the success with it I wanted. The problem that the lay person has is that some of the service descriptions are vague at best and it is difficult to understand their dependencies. Yes, there is LOTS of stuff we don't need. My HP XP box just worked. VAC and everything else (not a laptop). My laptop is Vista 64 and it took the latest drivers to get the digital signature to work. Other than that, I did nothing to it. It does seem the Bluetooth stack seems to consume lots of CPU (and this is a fast 4G laptop with an ATI radeon video card). I did lots of AV testing and settled on Bitdefender as it didn't consume as much cpu as most of the others. I even run it on my Netbook now (CA on my Netbook just killed it). As an example, you can turn off RPC, but what if your backup software needs it (mine does - NetWorker). Maybe we (us), should be building VMware images that just work for flex radios. That would certainly help with a debugging platform. Astaro has the same features (it seems) as m0n0wall. And, you can run it on your own box for free as well. It self installs with its own OS. As well, you get hourly updates to your threats, so you personal database is being updated in real time. Pretty cool. I will have to look at m0n0wall the next time I build a firewall for someone as an option. Short story that we have all figured out. It does just work on XP. Too bad it can be difficult to downgrade a new box to XP. I tried with an eMachine and it was a real pain to find all the drivers. eMachine (or Gateway) had removed all the xp drivers from their web site once they start shipping Vista computers. After a weeks worth of work, I got it to 90%, but continued to have sound problems which was too bad. The sad thing is that if Flex (and all of us as a support group) want to move this into the next level, the next group of appliance hams just don't have the skill or the time to devote to downgrading to xp. And, Win7 is a bit of a stretch in the future (not that much, put people are slow to adopt). There is no perfect answer here. However, it does look like a multi OS solution for the Flex is just around the corner as well. Many 73.. Mike VA3MW Blog: http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian-wb6...@lloyd.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 09:00 To: Michael Walker (VA3MW) Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Walker (VA3MW) wrote: > Hi Brian > > I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that > Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do > real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up. No argument. But that doesn't matter. The basic fact is that PowerSDR runs on Windows so you have to run Windows. Period, end-of-report. > That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required > services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not > connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that > is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Several people (including me) have posted lists of disabled services to "strip down" Windows XP to its minimum function. Start with one of the sites on the web that discuss windows services and which ones you can turn off. If you don't need it, turn it off. (It is absolutely amazing what is in the
Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Flex and computers (new subject)
Hey...let's be careful of the reference to "appliance operators"! Some of us have 50+ years into this hobby. And, there are a lot of us here who are working very hard to understand all this. Even appliance repair technicians have to spend a couple of months to a year to learn how to repair this stuff and still don't get it. I have the Sears repair bills to prove it! Why, I'll even bet there are some of these big brain guys out there who can't solder a PL-259 onto a coax jumper. So there...Nah! :-) Frank N1UW (Bruised Ego...Boo-Hoo-Hoo) -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Michael Walker (VA3MW) Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:56 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Flexradio] Flex and computers (new subject) Hi Brian I don't disagree with you at all as we are both on the same page. I reviewed speedvista but I didn't get the success with it I wanted. The problem that the lay person has is that some of the service descriptions are vague at best and it is difficult to understand their dependencies. Yes, there is LOTS of stuff we don't need. My HP XP box just worked. VAC and everything else (not a laptop). My laptop is Vista 64 and it took the latest drivers to get the digital signature to work. Other than that, I did nothing to it. It does seem the Bluetooth stack seems to consume lots of CPU (and this is a fast 4G laptop with an ATI radeon video card). I did lots of AV testing and settled on Bitdefender as it didn't consume as much cpu as most of the others. I even run it on my Netbook now (CA on my Netbook just killed it). As an example, you can turn off RPC, but what if your backup software needs it (mine does - NetWorker). Maybe we (us), should be building VMware images that just work for flex radios. That would certainly help with a debugging platform. Astaro has the same features (it seems) as m0n0wall. And, you can run it on your own box for free as well. It self installs with its own OS. As well, you get hourly updates to your threats, so you personal database is being updated in real time. Pretty cool. I will have to look at m0n0wall the next time I build a firewall for someone as an option. Short story that we have all figured out. It does just work on XP. Too bad it can be difficult to downgrade a new box to XP. I tried with an eMachine and it was a real pain to find all the drivers. eMachine (or Gateway) had removed all the xp drivers from their web site once they start shipping Vista computers. After a weeks worth of work, I got it to 90%, but continued to have sound problems which was too bad. The sad thing is that if Flex (and all of us as a support group) want to move this into the next level, the next group of appliance hams just don't have the skill or the time to devote to downgrading to xp. And, Win7 is a bit of a stretch in the future (not that much, put people are slow to adopt). There is no perfect answer here. However, it does look like a multi OS solution for the Flex is just around the corner as well. Many 73.. Mike VA3MW Blog: http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian-wb6...@lloyd.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 09:00 To: Michael Walker (VA3MW) Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Walker (VA3MW) wrote: > Hi Brian > > I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that > Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do > real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up. No argument. But that doesn't matter. The basic fact is that PowerSDR runs on Windows so you have to run Windows. Period, end-of-report. > That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required > services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not > connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that > is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Several people (including me) have posted lists of disabled services to "strip down" Windows XP to its minimum function. Start with one of the sites on the web that discuss windows services and which ones you can turn off. If you don't need it, turn it off. (It is absolutely amazing what is in there and running that you don't need.) > Another list of services would be those that would be for a box that is > internet connected, but behind a firewall (not run on the box) and that > firewall would also do stateful packet inspection (like Astaro > www.astaro.com). As a home user, you can get that for free. I prefer m0n0wall myself. It is a stateful firewall, an IPSEC tunnel termination box, a traffic shaper, a filtering bridge, DHCP server/forwarder, DNS server/forwarder, etc. It supports 802.1q VLAN tagging and will let you treat a given VLA
[Flexradio] Flex and computers (new subject)
Hi Brian I don't disagree with you at all as we are both on the same page. I reviewed speedvista but I didn't get the success with it I wanted. The problem that the lay person has is that some of the service descriptions are vague at best and it is difficult to understand their dependencies. Yes, there is LOTS of stuff we don't need. My HP XP box just worked. VAC and everything else (not a laptop). My laptop is Vista 64 and it took the latest drivers to get the digital signature to work. Other than that, I did nothing to it. It does seem the Bluetooth stack seems to consume lots of CPU (and this is a fast 4G laptop with an ATI radeon video card). I did lots of AV testing and settled on Bitdefender as it didn't consume as much cpu as most of the others. I even run it on my Netbook now (CA on my Netbook just killed it). As an example, you can turn off RPC, but what if your backup software needs it (mine does - NetWorker). Maybe we (us), should be building VMware images that just work for flex radios. That would certainly help with a debugging platform. Astaro has the same features (it seems) as m0n0wall. And, you can run it on your own box for free as well. It self installs with its own OS. As well, you get hourly updates to your threats, so you personal database is being updated in real time. Pretty cool. I will have to look at m0n0wall the next time I build a firewall for someone as an option. Short story that we have all figured out. It does just work on XP. Too bad it can be difficult to downgrade a new box to XP. I tried with an eMachine and it was a real pain to find all the drivers. eMachine (or Gateway) had removed all the xp drivers from their web site once they start shipping Vista computers. After a weeks worth of work, I got it to 90%, but continued to have sound problems which was too bad. The sad thing is that if Flex (and all of us as a support group) want to move this into the next level, the next group of appliance hams just don't have the skill or the time to devote to downgrading to xp. And, Win7 is a bit of a stretch in the future (not that much, put people are slow to adopt). There is no perfect answer here. However, it does look like a multi OS solution for the Flex is just around the corner as well. Many 73.. Mike VA3MW Blog: http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian-wb6...@lloyd.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 09:00 To: Michael Walker (VA3MW) Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Walker (VA3MW) wrote: > Hi Brian > > I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that > Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do > real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up. No argument. But that doesn't matter. The basic fact is that PowerSDR runs on Windows so you have to run Windows. Period, end-of-report. > That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required > services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not > connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that > is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Several people (including me) have posted lists of disabled services to "strip down" Windows XP to its minimum function. Start with one of the sites on the web that discuss windows services and which ones you can turn off. If you don't need it, turn it off. (It is absolutely amazing what is in there and running that you don't need.) > Another list of services would be those that would be for a box that is > internet connected, but behind a firewall (not run on the box) and that > firewall would also do stateful packet inspection (like Astaro > www.astaro.com). As a home user, you can get that for free. I prefer m0n0wall myself. It is a stateful firewall, an IPSEC tunnel termination box, a traffic shaper, a filtering bridge, DHCP server/forwarder, DNS server/forwarder, etc. It supports 802.1q VLAN tagging and will let you treat a given VLAN tag as an interface. It runs on any PC hardware and supports multiple interfaces. It is also free. It comes as a standalone bootable image so you don't even need to bother loading an OS on the target hardware. It will boot from CD, HD, or CF. > You can very safely run without AV as long as you don't connect/browse. If > you do, only to those few web sites you trust. Many Trojans are installed > as scripts that come with the web page, and only packet inspection will > reliably find them. Yup. > Once we get a solution that is linux based (a real time OS), then I think > you will see the ability to run much better on less hardware. Well, Linux is not a panacea either but it is certainly better than Windows. I would bet that the Mach kernel in Darwin is probably better but I think it will be a long, cold, lonely day
Re: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
I'm not convinced that those could be the problem. Sure AV does intercept every file read and write (I guess that is why they call it spy drivers). But, you would see your latency go way up. Watching the task manager might shed some clues. Look for an svchost that is consuming LOTS of memory or LOTS of cpu time. On one of my computers, the Bluetooth stack (Toshiba) will consume lots of CPU. I would turn off any IPV6 as you don't need it and make sure that you have Firewire IP stack (IPv4 and IPv6) turned off as well. Firewall likely isn't it as this is inside that. Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -Original Message- From: Paul20 [mailto:pau...@talk21.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 07:21 To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go ! Try switching wifi off.. this is also problematic. What anti virus and or firewall are you using? what OS are you using? cheers Paul GI4FZD ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Re: CW Transmit Problem
Flex Dudes: All excellent comments, but those of us with little ones are hesitant to shut off services or processes as recommended by sites maintained by "gamers". A list of recommended shut-offs from trusted Flexers would be most welcome. Frank N1UW P.S. If something blows up I won't come after you with my attorney...I don't even have one. -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Brian Lloyd Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:00 PM To: Michael Walker (VA3MW) Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Walker (VA3MW) wrote: > Hi Brian > > I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that > Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do > real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up. No argument. But that doesn't matter. The basic fact is that PowerSDR runs on Windows so you have to run Windows. Period, end-of-report. > That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required > services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not > connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that > is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Several people (including me) have posted lists of disabled services to "strip down" Windows XP to its minimum function. Start with one of the sites on the web that discuss windows services and which ones you can turn off. If you don't need it, turn it off. (It is absolutely amazing what is in there and running that you don't need.) > Another list of services would be those that would be for a box that is > internet connected, but behind a firewall (not run on the box) and that > firewall would also do stateful packet inspection (like Astaro > www.astaro.com). As a home user, you can get that for free. I prefer m0n0wall myself. It is a stateful firewall, an IPSEC tunnel termination box, a traffic shaper, a filtering bridge, DHCP server/forwarder, DNS server/forwarder, etc. It supports 802.1q VLAN tagging and will let you treat a given VLAN tag as an interface. It runs on any PC hardware and supports multiple interfaces. It is also free. It comes as a standalone bootable image so you don't even need to bother loading an OS on the target hardware. It will boot from CD, HD, or CF. > You can very safely run without AV as long as you don't connect/browse. If > you do, only to those few web sites you trust. Many Trojans are installed > as scripts that come with the web page, and only packet inspection will > reliably find them. Yup. > Once we get a solution that is linux based (a real time OS), then I think > you will see the ability to run much better on less hardware. Well, Linux is not a panacea either but it is certainly better than Windows. I would bet that the Mach kernel in Darwin is probably better but I think it will be a long, cold, lonely day in hell before someone chooses to use that as their preferred target OS for these kinds of things. > Lastly, we are headed to the point where the only way this will run reliably > is if you buy the box and rf deck from the vender and you are not allowed to > modify it at all (sort of like every other HF rig). :) Well, not quite. One of the nice things about these radios is that, should the software demands increase, we can swap out the processing unit for one that has more processing power. I don't know of any other radio you can do that with. Still, it make a lot of sense to dedicate a processing unit to the radio. FWIW, so far I have successfully made every system I have tried work reliably with PowerSDR. That includes six or seven Mac hardware machines (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, iMac), a custom AMD-based server box I built to run the 64-bit version of Solaris x86, and several little A-Open media-player machines (similar to Mac Mini) that have built-in Firewire. (I have one of these left if anyone wants it. It looks great sitting on top of the Flex 5000 and even has a matching blue-light-of-death power indicator.) But every one of the working systems was tweaked to run PowerSDR and do nothing else. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to n...@gokarns.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered
Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Walker (VA3MW) wrote: > Hi Brian > > I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that > Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do > real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up. No argument. But that doesn't matter. The basic fact is that PowerSDR runs on Windows so you have to run Windows. Period, end-of-report. > That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required > services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not > connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that > is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Several people (including me) have posted lists of disabled services to "strip down" Windows XP to its minimum function. Start with one of the sites on the web that discuss windows services and which ones you can turn off. If you don't need it, turn it off. (It is absolutely amazing what is in there and running that you don't need.) > Another list of services would be those that would be for a box that is > internet connected, but behind a firewall (not run on the box) and that > firewall would also do stateful packet inspection (like Astaro > www.astaro.com). As a home user, you can get that for free. I prefer m0n0wall myself. It is a stateful firewall, an IPSEC tunnel termination box, a traffic shaper, a filtering bridge, DHCP server/forwarder, DNS server/forwarder, etc. It supports 802.1q VLAN tagging and will let you treat a given VLAN tag as an interface. It runs on any PC hardware and supports multiple interfaces. It is also free. It comes as a standalone bootable image so you don't even need to bother loading an OS on the target hardware. It will boot from CD, HD, or CF. > You can very safely run without AV as long as you don't connect/browse. If > you do, only to those few web sites you trust. Many Trojans are installed > as scripts that come with the web page, and only packet inspection will > reliably find them. Yup. > Once we get a solution that is linux based (a real time OS), then I think > you will see the ability to run much better on less hardware. Well, Linux is not a panacea either but it is certainly better than Windows. I would bet that the Mach kernel in Darwin is probably better but I think it will be a long, cold, lonely day in hell before someone chooses to use that as their preferred target OS for these kinds of things. > Lastly, we are headed to the point where the only way this will run reliably > is if you buy the box and rf deck from the vender and you are not allowed to > modify it at all (sort of like every other HF rig). :) Well, not quite. One of the nice things about these radios is that, should the software demands increase, we can swap out the processing unit for one that has more processing power. I don't know of any other radio you can do that with. Still, it make a lot of sense to dedicate a processing unit to the radio. FWIW, so far I have successfully made every system I have tried work reliably with PowerSDR. That includes six or seven Mac hardware machines (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, iMac), a custom AMD-based server box I built to run the 64-bit version of Solaris x86, and several little A-Open media-player machines (similar to Mac Mini) that have built-in Firewire. (I have one of these left if anyone wants it. It looks great sitting on top of the Flex 5000 and even has a matching blue-light-of-death power indicator.) But every one of the working systems was tweaked to run PowerSDR and do nothing else. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] looking for a 3000
Would like to find a second 3000,to make up a traveling station,,drop me a e mail. Please contact me off list. thanks dale wt4t ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Ordered a 5000a!
Mike, If I may inquire, what type of mic are you using with the 5K? 73, Tony W7GO AA8K73 GMail wrote: You're going to love the quality of the AM signal Brett. I put mine on the air on a regional net and didn't tell them that I was using my FlexRadio Systems. They kept asking me what kind of transmitter I was using because it sounded so good. Mike - AA8K ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to 1desertdwel...@gmail.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Ordered a 5000a!
You're going to love the quality of the AM signal Brett. I put mine on the air on a regional net and didn't tell them that I was using my FlexRadio Systems. They kept asking me what kind of transmitter I was using because it sounded so good. These guys are serious; several run AM broadcast transmitters. I had to fess up on the third transmission. Just keep RF out of the shack with good antenna design and grounding. The synchronous AM reception is truly awesome as well. With Auto Notch Filter on, the way you can tell there is another carrier is by looking at the panadapter. You can see the frequency response of others. I have it connected to an old Marantz amplifier and huge speakers and it sounds great! Mike - AA8K Brett Gazdzinski wrote: Winter is coming, and its time to put the motorcycle away and get ready for radio. I sold the pro3 and was in the market to get something, and decided on the flex. I hope it works with my inexpensive Sony laptop. I have an odd use for it, as a receiver and rf (carrier) exciter for my home brew AM transmitters mostly. I don't get on ssb much at all, and although I like CW, I am very rusty. But I like to listen. ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Ordered a 5000a!
Brett, Welcome to the club! You can't compare a SDR receiver to a transceiver when looking at USB vs. Firewire. The FLX-5000 can have up to 10 simultaneous 192 KHz isochronous data streams running. USB is a serial bus technology and it not well suited for isochronous data streaming. When the FLEX-5000 was under development, Flex tried to use a USB interface, but it was not suitable for high sampling rates. With isochronous real-time data, latency, packet ordering and reliable delivery are the important factors. The SDR-IQ utilizes no more than two isochronous data streams, so it can use something like USB 2.0 for the data transfer between the PC and the SDR hardware. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Brett Gazdzinski Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:43 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Ordered a 5000a! Winter is coming, and its time to put the motorcycle away and get ready for radio. I sold the pro3 and was in the market to get something, and decided on the flex. I hope it works with my inexpensive Sony laptop. I have an odd use for it, as a receiver and rf (carrier) exciter for my home brew AM transmitters mostly. I don't get on ssb much at all, and although I like CW, I am very rusty. But I like to listen. I have had an sdr-iq which was plug and play on the laptop. I have an Elecraft K2 which is nice, don't think I want a K3. I have a question, looking at receivers, I see the persius tops the flex radio in many ways, and does it on a usb port. How do they do that? Is it just a latency issue? I should receive my 5000a in a few days and am very excited about it! Brett N2DTS ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to telli...@itsco.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
Try switching wifi off.. this is also problematic. What anti virus and or firewall are you using? what OS are you using? cheers Paul GI4FZD ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] Ordered a 5000a!
Winter is coming, and its time to put the motorcycle away and get ready for radio. I sold the pro3 and was in the market to get something, and decided on the flex. I hope it works with my inexpensive Sony laptop. I have an odd use for it, as a receiver and rf (carrier) exciter for my home brew AM transmitters mostly. I don't get on ssb much at all, and although I like CW, I am very rusty. But I like to listen. I have had an sdr-iq which was plug and play on the laptop. I have an Elecraft K2 which is nice, don't think I want a K3. I have a question, looking at receivers, I see the persius tops the flex radio in many ways, and does it on a usb port. How do they do that? Is it just a latency issue? I should receive my 5000a in a few days and am very excited about it! Brett N2DTS ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
For the native firewire port, go to the device manager and click on the view menu (at the top of the device manager window), select "View by connection". Then, expand the IRQ selection and find your firewire port (it should have 1394 in the name). Tell me what else is sharing the IRQ of the firewire port. While you are in the device manager, go back to the normal view and expand the entry for network devices. You should see an entry for the firewire port, Disable this, it means that your computer is trying to use the firewire port as a TCP port (not a good idea!) Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.dxbase.com www.abrohamnealsoftware.com www.sdrsystems.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Greg Jurrens wrote: > Hi Glenn! > > Sorry to hear you are having startup issues with your FLEX-5000. I'd like > to hand you off to Dudley in our Customer Service department. Dudley is a > wiz at helping folks work through these startup related issues. I've > copied > him but for those on the reflector that need customer support, his email is > supp...@flex-radio.com . > > My quickie 'guess' is that there is a process running on your laptop that > fires off about every 10 seconds that's hammering the Deferred Procedure > Call processing of Windows. Flex radios use Firewire in REALTIME streaming > mode to pass audio back and forth between the radio and the computer. If a > "mis-behaving" process gets in the way of ANY realtime stream such as audio > or video, Windows jumps in and stalls the works. > > Sorry for the simplistic explanation. The good news is that its usually > straightforward to find the culprit. I'll ask Dudley to work with you to > get your system going. > > Thanks for your patience. > > 73, > Greg > > Greg Jurrens - WD0ACD > Director, Sales and Marketing > FlexRadio Systems Inc. > Phone: 512-535-5266 > SKYPE: WD0ACD > “Tune in Excitement” ™ > > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Glenn McNeil > wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Just purchased a Flex 5K and I'm attempting to set it up. > > > > I got through all the Quick Start procedures OK, and I'm using a Toshiba > > Laptop, with 2G of memory, stripped down for use only with the flex...no > > other duties. > > > > With 96khz and 1024 set, the Flex fires up on Receive for about 10 > seconds, > > then the audio stops and the panadaptor "freezes " but all buttons and > > controls still appear to work. I can still change frequency on VFO A > using > > the Mouse Wheel. Hitting STOP and then START returns the audio..for > another > > 10 seconds, then the process repeats. I have tried all sorts of buffer > and > > sampling sizes, and all that appears to do, is extend the period before > it > > freezes again. > > > > The CPU % is low, and I found and checked the latency, using the in built > > test facility, and that appears to be low and not a problem. > > > > I have run out of ideas. This Toshiba has a firewire port ( 4 wire ) > built > > in, and has the TI Chipset. Is it likely that the firewire port driver is > > playing up ? > > > > I have another Laptop, that has much more horsepower, running Vista, but > it > > has no firewire port, so I'm waiting on an Express Card Firewire thing > that > > will allow me to use that Laptop, but I thought that this Laptop would > > easily run SDR. > > > > Any clues ? > > > > 73 > > Glenn > > VK4BG > > > > > > ___ > > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > Message delivered to g...@flex-radio.com > > > > > > -- > ___ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > Message delivered to nealk...@gmail.com > ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
Hi Glenn! Sorry to hear you are having startup issues with your FLEX-5000. I'd like to hand you off to Dudley in our Customer Service department. Dudley is a wiz at helping folks work through these startup related issues. I've copied him but for those on the reflector that need customer support, his email is supp...@flex-radio.com . My quickie 'guess' is that there is a process running on your laptop that fires off about every 10 seconds that's hammering the Deferred Procedure Call processing of Windows. Flex radios use Firewire in REALTIME streaming mode to pass audio back and forth between the radio and the computer. If a "mis-behaving" process gets in the way of ANY realtime stream such as audio or video, Windows jumps in and stalls the works. Sorry for the simplistic explanation. The good news is that its usually straightforward to find the culprit. I'll ask Dudley to work with you to get your system going. Thanks for your patience. 73, Greg Greg Jurrens - WD0ACD Director, Sales and Marketing FlexRadio Systems Inc. Phone: 512-535-5266 SKYPE: WD0ACD “Tune in Excitement” ™ On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Glenn McNeil wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Just purchased a Flex 5K and I'm attempting to set it up. > > I got through all the Quick Start procedures OK, and I'm using a Toshiba > Laptop, with 2G of memory, stripped down for use only with the flex...no > other duties. > > With 96khz and 1024 set, the Flex fires up on Receive for about 10 seconds, > then the audio stops and the panadaptor "freezes " but all buttons and > controls still appear to work. I can still change frequency on VFO A using > the Mouse Wheel. Hitting STOP and then START returns the audio..for another > 10 seconds, then the process repeats. I have tried all sorts of buffer and > sampling sizes, and all that appears to do, is extend the period before it > freezes again. > > The CPU % is low, and I found and checked the latency, using the in built > test facility, and that appears to be low and not a problem. > > I have run out of ideas. This Toshiba has a firewire port ( 4 wire ) built > in, and has the TI Chipset. Is it likely that the firewire port driver is > playing up ? > > I have another Laptop, that has much more horsepower, running Vista, but it > has no firewire port, so I'm waiting on an Express Card Firewire thing that > will allow me to use that Laptop, but I thought that this Laptop would > easily run SDR. > > Any clues ? > > 73 > Glenn > VK4BG > > > ___ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > Message delivered to g...@flex-radio.com > -- ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] what fire card need for Toshiba laptop ?
i see on my new Toshiba laptop that if i need external fire wire it is not level as i see in the flex-radio help page , so is any one know what external fire wire card go with the Toshiba laptop ? model web etc many thanks E&T Paim ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Re: CW Transmit Problem
Checking the interrupts on the motherboard is one of the several leads I hope to get to tonight. What is interesting about this is that the radio/computer combination seems to work flawlessly on SSB and I do not see or hear any signs of audio drop-outs on receive, even on AM signals where you would think they would be very apparent. I know what the "ticks" sound like from early out-of-the-box trials with a laptop experience. Keep the suggestions coming, guys! Frank N1UW -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Lee A Crocker Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:41 PM To: Flexradio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Re: CW Transmit Problem sounds like a very nice system How many "things" share the firewire interupt? I ran into trouble twice. Once when I was using a laptop I had a PC card that had both firewire and USB and that was a total disaster as USB firewire and PCcard were trying to own the same interupt. The second time was when I was using a wikey USB keyer and a serial USB port that I was using to key PSDR All the traffic on the USB line would scramble the dits. So even if it is a clean system there are still sequencing kind of things that can hose it up 73 ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to n...@gokarns.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
Hi Glenn Flex warned me to watch out for built in 4 wire ports that they can be problematic. You might have to wait for your card to do further testing. It would be nice if we had some good firewire debugging tools. Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -Original Message- From: Glenn McNeil [mailto:vk4...@bigpond.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 05:14 To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go ! Hi Guys, Just purchased a Flex 5K and I'm attempting to set it up. I got through all the Quick Start procedures OK, and I'm using a Toshiba Laptop, with 2G of memory, stripped down for use only with the flex...no other duties. With 96khz and 1024 set, the Flex fires up on Receive for about 10 seconds, then the audio stops and the panadaptor "freezes " but all buttons and controls still appear to work. I can still change frequency on VFO A using the Mouse Wheel. Hitting STOP and then START returns the audio..for another 10 seconds, then the process repeats. I have tried all sorts of buffer and sampling sizes, and all that appears to do, is extend the period before it freezes again. The CPU % is low, and I found and checked the latency, using the in built test facility, and that appears to be low and not a problem. I have run out of ideas. This Toshiba has a firewire port ( 4 wire ) built in, and has the TI Chipset. Is it likely that the firewire port driver is playing up ? I have another Laptop, that has much more horsepower, running Vista, but it has no firewire port, so I'm waiting on an Express Card Firewire thing that will allow me to use that Laptop, but I thought that this Laptop would easily run SDR. Any clues ? 73 Glenn VK4BG ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Safe Mode Level 3
Glenn What OS are you using xp vista or windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit ? Windows 7 requires you select the (legacy) firewire driver . Is your firewire card sharing an IRQ with another device ? Dave W0DHB Glenn McNeil wrote: Hi again, Nope...that did not work...Safe Mode Level 3 and 48khz/1024 has exactly the same problem...audio dropout and panadaptor freezing after about 10 seconds. All other functions on SDR appear to work...just audio dropout and panadaptor freezing. I have tried every possible combination now, after many hours of cursing it and button pushing. I am really hoping that my firewire card for the other Laptop arrives...soon :) 73 Glenn VK4BG ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to d...@w0dhb.net ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem
Hi Brian I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up. That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Another list of services would be those that would be for a box that is internet connected, but behind a firewall (not run on the box) and that firewall would also do stateful packet inspection (like Astaro www.astaro.com). As a home user, you can get that for free. You can very safely run without AV as long as you don't connect/browse. If you do, only to those few web sites you trust. Many Trojans are installed as scripts that come with the web page, and only packet inspection will reliably find them. Once we get a solution that is linux based (a real time OS), then I think you will see the ability to run much better on less hardware. Lastly, we are headed to the point where the only way this will run reliably is if you buy the box and rf deck from the vender and you are not allowed to modify it at all (sort of like every other HF rig). :) Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -Original Message- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian-wb6...@lloyd.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:22 To: Lee A Crocker Cc: Flexradio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Lee A Crocker wrote: > Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements I watch these same questions/comments/problems appear here over and over. You know Lee, this just keeps pointing back to the same advice -- don't run anything else on the machine that runs your radio. If it's not there it can't screw things up. This goes for firewalls, antivirus, web browsing, email, etc., etc. If you are worried about your machine getting hacked, unplug its network connection. Plug it in only when you are downloading new PowerSDR bits, windows updates, and updating your logbook at LoTW or eQSL. When done, unplug again. Here is the basic formula for running PowerSDR happily-ever-after: 1. Install WindowsXP; 2. Install only the programs necessary to run the radio, e.g. Flex driver, PowerSDR, VAC, com0com, and your favorite logging/rig-control/digital mode program. 3. Turn off all the unnecessary functions of windows. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Re: CW Transmit Problem
sounds like a very nice system How many "things" share the firewire interupt? I ran into trouble twice. Once when I was using a laptop I had a PC card that had both firewire and USB and that was a total disaster as USB firewire and PCcard were trying to own the same interupt. The second time was when I was using a wikey USB keyer and a serial USB port that I was using to key PSDR All the traffic on the USB line would scramble the dits. So even if it is a clean system there are still sequencing kind of things that can hose it up 73 ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] Safe Mode Level 3
Hi again, Nope...that did not work...Safe Mode Level 3 and 48khz/1024 has exactly the same problem...audio dropout and panadaptor freezing after about 10 seconds. All other functions on SDR appear to work...just audio dropout and panadaptor freezing. I have tried every possible combination now, after many hours of cursing it and button pushing. I am really hoping that my firewire card for the other Laptop arrives...soon :) 73 Glenn VK4BG ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] Startup problems with 5k
Hi Guys, Thanks for the two quick replies...I have turned off just about everything I can, and enabled the DPC Button to check Latency. It suggests Safe Mode Level 3, which I will change to shortly, but the latency goes off scale at SDR startup and when the thing freezes, but then returns to a very low level. I'll go change the Safe Mode to level 3, and set up a 48khz/1024 buffer and see what happens. 73 Glenn VK4BG ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
Glen My first thing would be to start the Driver Module and start the DPC button. This may even give you a suggestion as to which 'operation mode' to set you driver to. Good luck. On 9/23/2009 4:14:27 PM, Glenn McNeil (vk4...@bigpond.net.au) wrote: Hi Guys, Just purchased a Flex 5K and I'm attempting to set it up. I got through all the Quick Start procedures OK, and I'm using a Toshiba Laptop, with 2G of memory, stripped down for use only with the flex...no other duties. With 96khz and 1024 set, the Flex fires up on Receive for about 10 seconds, then the audio stops and the panadaptor "freezes " but all buttons and controls still appear to work. I can still change frequency on VFO A using the Mouse Wheel. Hitting STOP and then START returns the audio..for another 10 seconds, then the process repeats. I have tried all sorts of buffer and sampling sizes, and all that appears to do, is extend the period before it freezes again. The CPU % is low, and I found and checked the latency, using the in built test facility, and that appears to be low and not a problem. I have run out of ideas. This Toshiba has a firewire port ( 4 wire ) built in, and has the TI Chipset. Is it likely that the firewire port driver is playing up ? I have another Laptop, that has much more horsepower, running Vista, but it has no firewire port, so I'm waiting on an Express Card Firewire ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] My 5K won't go !
Hi Guys, Just purchased a Flex 5K and I'm attempting to set it up. I got through all the Quick Start procedures OK, and I'm using a Toshiba Laptop, with 2G of memory, stripped down for use only with the flex...no other duties. With 96khz and 1024 set, the Flex fires up on Receive for about 10 seconds, then the audio stops and the panadaptor "freezes " but all buttons and controls still appear to work. I can still change frequency on VFO A using the Mouse Wheel. Hitting STOP and then START returns the audio..for another 10 seconds, then the process repeats. I have tried all sorts of buffer and sampling sizes, and all that appears to do, is extend the period before it freezes again. The CPU % is low, and I found and checked the latency, using the in built test facility, and that appears to be low and not a problem. I have run out of ideas. This Toshiba has a firewire port ( 4 wire ) built in, and has the TI Chipset. Is it likely that the firewire port driver is playing up ? I have another Laptop, that has much more horsepower, running Vista, but it has no firewire port, so I'm waiting on an Express Card Firewire thing that will allow me to use that Laptop, but I thought that this Laptop would easily run SDR. Any clues ? 73 Glenn VK4BG ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] SPAM-LOW: Re: CW Transmit Problem
This 5K is operating on a custom built workstation according to the recommendations published in the KB to the tune of well over $1K without displays. It is used only for running the 5K. It is a clean XP Pro install from a virgin Microsoft CD-ROM and was connected to the Internet only long enough to register the OS and download the required service packs (including .NET and the like). It was disconnected from the home network after that time and has not seen the light (or darkness) of the web since then. All software installs and updates are downloaded from this computer and hand carried to the radio computer. Besides the firmware/driver/PSDR software, the only other software loaded is com0com, registered version of VAC, paid version of CW skimmer, and my logging program LOGic 8. Oh, and Adobe Acrobat Reader so I can RTFM. Machines can't get much cleaner than this one. Setup values are the default modified by the values presented in the "Expert Settings" published in the database. Settings in VAC and CW Skimmer are per the KB articles as well. Frank N1UW -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Brian Lloyd Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:22 AM To: Lee A Crocker Cc: Flexradio Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Lee A Crocker wrote: > Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements I watch these same questions/comments/problems appear here over and over. You know Lee, this just keeps pointing back to the same advice -- don't run anything else on the machine that runs your radio. If it's not there it can't screw things up. This goes for firewalls, antivirus, web browsing, email, etc., etc. If you are worried about your machine getting hacked, unplug its network connection. Plug it in only when you are downloading new PowerSDR bits, windows updates, and updating your logbook at LoTW or eQSL. When done, unplug again. Here is the basic formula for running PowerSDR happily-ever-after: 1. Install WindowsXP; 2. Install only the programs necessary to run the radio, e.g. Flex driver, PowerSDR, VAC, com0com, and your favorite logging/rig-control/digital mode program. 3. Turn off all the unnecessary functions of windows. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to n...@gokarns.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Lee A Crocker wrote: > Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the > interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that > Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or > something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and > shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements I watch these same questions/comments/problems appear here over and over. You know Lee, this just keeps pointing back to the same advice -- don't run anything else on the machine that runs your radio. If it's not there it can't screw things up. This goes for firewalls, antivirus, web browsing, email, etc., etc. If you are worried about your machine getting hacked, unplug its network connection. Plug it in only when you are downloading new PowerSDR bits, windows updates, and updating your logbook at LoTW or eQSL. When done, unplug again. Here is the basic formula for running PowerSDR happily-ever-after: 1. Install WindowsXP; 2. Install only the programs necessary to run the radio, e.g. Flex driver, PowerSDR, VAC, com0com, and your favorite logging/rig-control/digital mode program. 3. Turn off all the unnecessary functions of windows. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] FW: SPAM-LOW: CW Transmit Problem
OK. This is a completely different issue using a digi mode program to send CW. Can you describe how you have this set up? -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Frank Karnauskas N1UW Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:57 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] FW: SPAM-LOW: CW Transmit Problem I did do a search in the reflector archives and found some things related to VAC. Most had to do with the voice imbedded in the trial version but a few hits had some promise. The problem is now I can't find those hits again. I retract the statement about this being an issue since day 1. Let me say it was present since my first attempts with sending CW with this radio and that wasn't until after VAC and com0com were installed. The computer is an i7 processor with gobs of main and video memory and a clean XP Pro installation...the CPU usage never goes above 3 percent. However, I am using the Firewire circuit on the motherboard. More tests tonight, but any suggestions in the meantime is appreciated. Frank N1UW -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Lee A Crocker Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:49 AM To: Flexradio Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements 73 W9OY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to n...@gokarns.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to telli...@itsco.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] FW: SPAM-LOW: CW Transmit Problem
I did do a search in the reflector archives and found some things related to VAC. Most had to do with the voice imbedded in the trial version but a few hits had some promise. The problem is now I can't find those hits again. I retract the statement about this being an issue since day 1. Let me say it was present since my first attempts with sending CW with this radio and that wasn't until after VAC and com0com were installed. The computer is an i7 processor with gobs of main and video memory and a clean XP Pro installation...the CPU usage never goes above 3 percent. However, I am using the Firewire circuit on the motherboard. More tests tonight, but any suggestions in the meantime is appreciated. Frank N1UW -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Lee A Crocker Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:49 AM To: Flexradio Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements 73 W9OY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to n...@gokarns.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Looking for suggestion about a rtty starting anomaly
Joe I hope I can help you. First off, I use MMTTY in DXLabs Suite module called WinWarbler. I can also use it in N1MM contest program. Plus it works quite well as a standalone MMTTY version. It's just a matter of telling each of these routes to use VAC as the sound card. For Instance In PWSDR VAC is set to: Driver: Windows WDM-KS Input: VAC 1 Output: VAC 2 In WinWarbler, Soundcard is set to VAC But Transmission goes to VAC input which is PWSDR VAC1 RTTY Reception goes to VAC output which is PWSDR VAC2 In MMTTY setup, TX is set to PTT&FSK com port Com8 This requires a com0com pair of com 22 equals com 8 With PWSDR Cat Control PTT being set to com 22 If just using MMTTY in a standalone system. I'm using MMTTY version 1.66G. Again Soundcard Reception is VAC2 and Soundcard Transmission is VAC1. And on the TX tab, PTT&FSK is the same, set to com8. Using Writelog, you need the MMTTY module, same setup. Using N1mm, again, same soundcard, same com port. Good luck, contact me offlist if you need help. On 9/22/2009 10:57:29 PM, Joseph White (ke...@arrl.net) wrote: Hello Bill, I am not trying to answer your question. I would like to know how you are able to get MMTTY to work on the Flex. My logging software supports MMTTY but since it was a sound card program, I did not know it would work. When you have the time could you tell me about setting it up. I would love to use it and SSTV as well. Good luck in getting the answer you need. Joseph - KE4TV -Original Message- From: FireBrick [mailto:w...@billnjudy.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:29 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Looking for suggestion about a rtty starting anomaly Ok guys, this is not a Flex problem but apparently somthing with my system. Symptom; PWSDR working with MMTTY to send rtty. If I strike the macro key, it's starts instantly sending that macrol But The longer I listen befoe the next macro key strike, a delay will be introduced between the key strike and the diddle beginning. In other words, I call a DX station but he answers someone else. The next time I call him, the time between the macro key strike and the commencemen ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem
Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements 73 W9OY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] strange happenings
Try creating a fresh database 73 W9OY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
