[Flexradio] Flex 5000A Won't Power Up
Greetings. I've been running the 5000A on Win 7 with no problems. Decided to get it up and running on the XP machine. Ran into problems with the install. Tried to turn off the flex but it would not power off. Turned off the power supply. Now the flex won't power up at all...just hear a click but that's it. Suggestions? Thanks, Roger - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1120 / Virus Database: 422/3184 - Release Date: 10/08/10 ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
[Flexradio] No tx power 40 meters
I just noticed that I have ether low or no tx power on 40 meters all other bands are working fine. I have chacked all of my setting and they all look like they are all set right. is their a fix for this or a setting I may be missing Dennis KM6DF ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
[Flexradio] Daisy Chaining Drives
I'm a new Flex 5000A owner. I recently purchased one about a year old and am getting around to hooking it up with my iMac running Win 7 and Boot Camp. Because of my station layout I need to route the firewire cable from the Flex through my external backup drive and then to the computer. Does anyone see any problems in daisy chaining drives between Flex and computer? Rick W2JAZ ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Daisy Chaining Drives
Hi Rick I think my best advice would be to buy a longer firewire cable and connect directly. Otherwise, try what you have and if you have any issues, revert to the advice given earlier! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Richard Lawn rjl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a new Flex 5000A owner. I recently purchased one about a year old and am getting around to hooking it up with my iMac running Win 7 and Boot Camp. Because of my station layout I need to route the firewire cable from the Flex through my external backup drive and then to the computer. Does anyone see any problems in daisy chaining drives between Flex and computer? Rick W2JAZ ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] No tx power 40 meters
You might want to try resetting your database. I had a similar problem on 60m and a DB reset solved my problem. ...Gary Sent from Motorola Droid On Oct 9, 2010 5:06 PM, Dennis Daniel km...@msn.com wrote: ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Daisy Chaining Drives
I strongly recommend that you do NOT daisy chain ANYTHING through the FLEX-5000. I would not even connect another device on the same Firewire host bus controller (HBC) that the FLEX-5000 is connected to because the FLEX-5000 running at 192K per channel is consuming a lot of bandwidth. Also the FLEX-5000 has to be powered on for the pass-thru to even work. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Richard Lawn Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:15 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Daisy Chaining Drives I'm a new Flex 5000A owner. I recently purchased one about a year old and am getting around to hooking it up with my iMac running Win 7 and Boot Camp. Because of my station layout I need to route the firewire cable from the Flex through my external backup drive and then to the computer. Does anyone see any problems in daisy chaining drives between Flex and computer? Rick W2JAZ ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
[Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT
Thanks for the alert on the K5CM Frequency Measuring Test a few nights ago. That test uses two stations to send a CW carrier on 160, 80 (twice) and 40 meters. A FMT is something totally new to me. My only preparation was to calibrate the radio carefully against WWV using its built-in scope. My receiver was in the DSB mode. I used the scope to guess-timate the frequency to an additional decimal point. Few entrants use a radio alone. Many have costly GPS based frequency calibration sources or the like and complex schemes to interpret the frequency. Experience counts. So does speed, since you only have three minutes to come to a conclusion. In other words, my entry wouldn't threaten the experts who come within one or two MILLI-hertz. But my stock Flex did very well. Three of my four readings were within 1/2 Hz. On 40 meters I was off by .96 Hz. QRN on 40 made the weak signal difficult to read on the scope. Still, accuracy was better than .25 PPM on each reading, well within Flex specs. Anyone else participate? Jeff K0OD ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT
I did, and got within 27 mHz for one of the runs with my GPSDO'ed 5000a. Better than 0.1 Hz on three of the four. Brian, WB6RQN, got within 5 mHz on one!!! I got within 10 mHz on a test awhile back. One problem with the 5000a is that the tuning step size is pretty big. Sound card programs like Spectrum Lab or FLDIGI can help. I have used both in the past. Jerry W4UK At 06:14 PM 10/9/2010, you wrote: Thanks for the alert on the K5CM Frequency Measuring Test a few nights ago. That test uses two stations to send a CW carrier on 160, 80 (twice) and 40 meters. A FMT is something totally new to me. My only preparation was to calibrate the radio carefully against WWV using its built-in scope. My receiver was in the DSB mode. I used the scope to guess-timate the frequency to an additional decimal point. Few entrants use a radio alone. Many have costly GPS based frequency calibration sources or the like and complex schemes to interpret the frequency. Experience counts. So does speed, since you only have three minutes to come to a conclusion. In other words, my entry wouldn't threaten the experts who come within one or two MILLI-hertz. But my stock Flex did very well. Three of my four readings were within 1/2 Hz. On 40 meters I was off by .96 Hz. QRN on 40 made the weak signal difficult to read on the scope. Still, accuracy was better than .25 PPM on each reading, well within Flex specs. Anyone else participate? Jeff K0OD ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT
Where can I find some literature on measurement equipment and techniques ? Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: Jerry Flanders jefland...@comcast.net Sent: Oct 9, 2010 4:00 PM To: Jeff Singer jsin...@i1.net Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT I did, and got within 27 mHz for one of the runs with my GPSDO'ed 5000a. Better than 0.1 Hz on three of the four. Brian, WB6RQN, got within 5 mHz on one!!! I got within 10 mHz on a test awhile back. One problem with the 5000a is that the tuning step size is pretty big. Sound card programs like Spectrum Lab or FLDIGI can help. I have used both in the past. Jerry W4UK At 06:14 PM 10/9/2010, you wrote: Thanks for the alert on the K5CM Frequency Measuring Test a few nights ago. That test uses two stations to send a CW carrier on 160, 80 (twice) and 40 meters. A FMT is something totally new to me. My only preparation was to calibrate the radio carefully against WWV using its built-in scope. My receiver was in the DSB mode. I used the scope to guess-timate the frequency to an additional decimal point. Few entrants use a radio alone. Many have costly GPS based frequency calibration sources or the like and complex schemes to interpret the frequency. Experience counts. So does speed, since you only have three minutes to come to a conclusion. In other words, my entry wouldn't threaten the experts who come within one or two MILLI-hertz. But my stock Flex did very well. Three of my four readings were within 1/2 Hz. On 40 meters I was off by .96 Hz. QRN on 40 made the weak signal difficult to read on the scope. Still, accuracy was better than .25 PPM on each reading, well within Flex specs. Anyone else participate? Jeff K0OD ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT
Hi Jeff, For about $150 you can get a used Trimble Thunderbolt GPSDO that will give you a precision 10 MHz reference signal to put into your Flex Radio. Tune in WWV and watch the Phase display. The rotation is from Doppler. After parking the rig at a convenient frequency a couple of hundred Hertz below the signal of interest, I use PowerSDR to record a receive post-processing USB wave file while the test is going on. I run the free Spectrum Lab software while playing back the wave file and watch the signal on the Spectrum Lab waterfall. You can see it wander in frequency when the propagation changes. Add that audio frequency to the frequency displayed in PowerSDR. I make my best guess for the middle of the Doppler swings and send it in. My PC is nothing special, just an AMD Athlon 64 2 GHz and Windows XP. Oh, and download the free Lady Heather software for monitoring your Thunderbolt. An awesome program. The ARRL FMT is on November 10th. Join the fun. It's not about reading to the milli-Hertz; it's about developing your skills in frequency measurement. Mike - AA8K On 10/09/2010 06:14 PM, Jeff Singer wrote: Thanks for the alert on the K5CM Frequency Measuring Test a few nights ago. That test uses two stations to send a CW carrier on 160, 80 (twice) and 40 meters. A FMT is something totally new to me. My only preparation was to calibrate the radio carefully against WWV using its built-in scope. My receiver was in the DSB mode. I used the scope to guess-timate the frequency to an additional decimal point. Few entrants use a radio alone. Many have costly GPS based frequency calibration sources or the like and complex schemes to interpret the frequency. Experience counts. So does speed, since you only have three minutes to come to a conclusion. In other words, my entry wouldn't threaten the experts who come within one or two MILLI-hertz. But my stock Flex did very well. Three of my four readings were within 1/2 Hz. On 40 meters I was off by .96 Hz. QRN on 40 made the weak signal difficult to read on the scope. Still, accuracy was better than .25 PPM on each reading, well within Flex specs. Anyone else participate? Jeff K0OD ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT
An additional source of error is the fact that the 5000 does not tune continuously. It tunes in steps, and they are irregular, so an additional correction is required. When you are watching your WWV phase display, a part of the error you see may be due to this. This may not be important unless you are trying for sub -100 mHz accuracy. Jerry W4UK At 07:12 PM 10/9/2010, AA8K73 GMail wrote: Hi Jeff, For about $150 you can get a used Trimble Thunderbolt GPSDO that will give you a precision 10 MHz reference signal to put into your Flex Radio. Tune in WWV and watch the Phase display. The rotation is from Doppler. After parking the rig at a convenient frequency a couple of hundred Hertz below the signal of interest, I use PowerSDR to record a receive post-processing USB wave file while the test is going on. I run the free Spectrum Lab software while playing back the wave file and watch the signal on the Spectrum Lab waterfall. You can see it wander in frequency when the propagation changes. Add that audio frequency to the frequency displayed in PowerSDR. I make my best guess for the middle of the Doppler swings and send it in. My PC is nothing special, just an AMD Athlon 64 2 GHz and Windows XP. Oh, and download the free Lady Heather software for monitoring your Thunderbolt. An awesome program. The ARRL FMT is on November 10th. Join the fun. It's not about reading to the milli-Hertz; it's about developing your skills in frequency measurement. Mike - AA8K On 10/09/2010 06:14 PM, Jeff Singer wrote: Thanks for the alert on the K5CM Frequency Measuring Test a few nights ago. That test uses two stations to send a CW carrier on 160, 80 (twice) and 40 meters. A FMT is something totally new to me. My only preparation was to calibrate the radio carefully against WWV using its built-in scope. My receiver was in the DSB mode. I used the scope to guess-timate the frequency to an additional decimal point. Few entrants use a radio alone. Many have costly GPS based frequency calibration sources or the like and complex schemes to interpret the frequency. Experience counts. So does speed, since you only have three minutes to come to a conclusion. In other words, my entry wouldn't threaten the experts who come within one or two MILLI-hertz. But my stock Flex did very well. Three of my four readings were within 1/2 Hz. On 40 meters I was off by .96 Hz. QRN on 40 made the weak signal difficult to read on the scope. Still, accuracy was better than .25 PPM on each reading, well within Flex specs. Anyone else participate? Jeff K0OD ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT
Several links at Connie's website http://www.k5cm.com/ Jerry W4UK At 07:08 PM 10/9/2010, Richard W. Solomon wrote: Where can I find some literature on measurement equipment and techniques ? Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: Jerry Flanders jefland...@comcast.net Sent: Oct 9, 2010 4:00 PM To: Jeff Singer jsin...@i1.net Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] My Rookie Performance in the Recent FMT I did, and got within 27 mHz for one of the runs with my GPSDO'ed 5000a. Better than 0.1 Hz on three of the four. Brian, WB6RQN, got within 5 mHz on one!!! I got within 10 mHz on a test awhile back. One problem with the 5000a is that the tuning step size is pretty big. Sound card programs like Spectrum Lab or FLDIGI can help. I have used both in the past. Jerry W4UK At 06:14 PM 10/9/2010, you wrote: Thanks for the alert on the K5CM Frequency Measuring Test a few nights ago. That test uses two stations to send a CW carrier on 160, 80 (twice) and 40 meters. A FMT is something totally new to me. My only preparation was to calibrate the radio carefully against WWV using its built-in scope. My receiver was in the DSB mode. I used the scope to guess-timate the frequency to an additional decimal point. Few entrants use a radio alone. Many have costly GPS based frequency calibration sources or the like and complex schemes to interpret the frequency. Experience counts. So does speed, since you only have three minutes to come to a conclusion. In other words, my entry wouldn't threaten the experts who come within one or two MILLI-hertz. But my stock Flex did very well. Three of my four readings were within 1/2 Hz. On 40 meters I was off by .96 Hz. QRN on 40 made the weak signal difficult to read on the scope. Still, accuracy was better than .25 PPM on each reading, well within Flex specs. Anyone else participate? Jeff K0OD ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
