[Flexradio] PSDR 2.x Features Summary?
Is there a place on the Web site that lists all of the wonders of PSDR 2.x? Such a beast seems to elude me, yet I am almost afraid to ask for fear it is so obvious. I went looking just to see what all new functionality (or improved) is in 2.x that I might be interested in so I can decide how urgent my need to upgrade from 1.18 might be. Thanks in advance, Russ, KF1K ___ 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] PSDR 2.x Features Summary?
http://www.flexradio.com/Products.aspx?topic=powersdr1x The web page will be updated for PowerSDR 2.x when it is officially released and all of the improvements and new features are set in stone so to speak. In summary, there major changes are... Skins enabled console for different presentations. IDE (compiler) upgrade and the removal of needing .NET 1.1 Framework for running PowerSDR Full Vista/Win7 program compliance 64-bit Windows support for the FLEX-xx00 families of SDRs An Integrated Installer that eliminates the need to install several separate software packages to get PowerSDR and your SDR up and running Migration from MIDI to PAL for the low level command and control functions for Firewire based radios Support for the FLEX-1500 and new features to support the hardware Support for V/U module and new features to support the hardware Automatic Wide Band RX Image Rejection The addition of a Downward Expander to enhance the noise gate functionality The ability to run multiple radios from one PC (so restrictions apply) via the Radio Chooser feature Many under the hood DSP enhancements (full list TBD) Various operational bug fixes from PowerSDR v1.18.6 -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Russell Magnuson Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 8:34 AM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] PSDR 2.x Features Summary? Is there a place on the Web site that lists all of the wonders of PSDR 2.x? Such a beast seems to elude me, yet I am almost afraid to ask for fear it is so obvious. I went looking just to see what all new functionality (or improved) is in 2.x that I might be interested in so I can decide how urgent my need to upgrade from 1.18 might be. Thanks in advance, Russ, KF1K ___ 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] PSDR 2.x Features Summary?
The formatting did work out too well. I hope this is better Skins enabled console for different presentations. IDE (compiler) upgrade and the removal of needing .NET 1.1 Framework for running PowerSDR (.NET 3.51 is required) Full Vista/Win7 program compliance 64-bit Windows support for the FLEX-xx00 families of SDRs An Integrated Installer that eliminates the need to install several separate software packages to get PowerSDR and your SDR up and running Automatic Firmware upgrades Migration from MIDI to PAL for the low level command and control functions for Firewire based radios Support for the FLEX-1500 and new features to support the hardware Support for V/U module and new features to support the hardware Automatic Wide Band RX Image Rejection The addition of a Downward Expander to enhance the noise gate functionality The ability to run multiple radios from one PC (so restrictions apply) via the Radio Chooser feature Many under the hood DSP enhancements (full list TBD) Various operational bug fixes from PowerSDR v1.18.6 -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Tim Ellison Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 9:05 AM To: Russell Magnuson; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PSDR 2.x Features Summary? http://www.flexradio.com/Products.aspx?topic=powersdr1x The web page will be updated for PowerSDR 2.x when it is officially released and all of the improvements and new features are set in stone so to speak. In summary, there major changes are... Skins enabled console for different presentations. IDE (compiler) upgrade and the removal of needing .NET 1.1 Framework for running PowerSDR Full Vista/Win7 program compliance 64-bit Windows support for the FLEX-xx00 families of SDRs An Integrated Installer that eliminates the need to install several separate software packages to get PowerSDR and your SDR up and running Migration from MIDI to PAL for the low level command and control functions for Firewire based radios Support for the FLEX-1500 and new features to support the hardware Support for V/U module and new features to support the hardware Automatic Wide Band RX Image Rejection The addition of a Downward Expander to enhance the noise gate functionality The ability to run multiple radios from one PC (so restrictions apply) via the Radio Chooser feature Many under the hood DSP enhancements (full list TBD) Various operational bug fixes from PowerSDR v1.18.6 -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Russell Magnuson Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 8:34 AM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] PSDR 2.x Features Summary? Is there a place on the Web site that lists all of the wonders of PSDR 2.x? Such a beast seems to elude me, yet I am almost afraid to ask for fear it is so obvious. I went looking just to see what all new functionality (or improved) is in 2.x that I might be interested in so I can decide how urgent my need to upgrade from 1.18 might be. Thanks in advance, Russ, KF1K ___ 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] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
Darn. I was looking forward to camping out on your doorstep @ 2:00 AM to
rampage through the living room to the PC Workshop when you came out in the
AM to fetch the morning paper! :-)
-Tim
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[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 10:03 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
Hi!
I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers
with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in
the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you do
not see it immediately applied to your cart.
I am extremely thankful for the support you have shown over the past 18 months
and look forward to another great Flex year!
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394
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Re: [Flexradio] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
From: Neal Campbell nealk...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 Time: 10:03:02 I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you do not see it immediately applied to your cart. Hmmm. Free shipping indeed? -- 73 Ian, G3NRW England, UK, Other Side of the Pond :-) ___ 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] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
On 11/26/10 10:43 am, Ian Wade G3NRW wrote: I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you do not see it immediately applied to your cart. Hmmm. Free shipping indeed? Saw a couple of women on TV who had flown over to the USA from Ireland for the shopping bargains. One said that the handbag she wanted was not available in Ireland. SO... surely you could have Neal hold the computer for you and you come over and pick it up. You might avoid paying import duty and VAT that way. 73 Alan NV8A ___ 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] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
You are thankful for forum readers support but if you buy a computer one gets all of 15 days support from you? What am I missing, it must be that I am slow so correct me --- On Fri, 11/26/10, Neal Campbell nealk...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you do not see it immediately applied to your cart. I am extremely thankful for the support you have shown over the past 18 months and look forward to another great Flex year! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 ___ 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] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
That's an ideabut getting back on the plane with the Pat Down, and I'm sure they would find the Computer on the cavity search. On 11/26/2010 9:53 AM, Alan NV8A wrote: On 11/26/10 10:43 am, Ian Wade G3NRW wrote: I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you do not see it immediately applied to your cart. Hmmm. Free shipping indeed? Saw a couple of women on TV who had flown over to the USA from Ireland for the shopping bargains. One said that the handbag she wanted was not available in Ireland. SO... surely you could have Neal hold the computer for you and you come over and pick it up. You might avoid paying import duty and VAT that way. 73 Alan NV8A ___ 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/ -- --- Never interrupt an enemy while he's making a mistake-Napoleon Bonaparte --- Bill H. in Chicagoland webcams at http://w9ol-towercam.webhop.org weather at http://hhweather.webhop.org ___ 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] CWX Window
I asked this question before with no responses so I thought I would try one more time. I tried to use my Flex 5000 remotely and found that I would lose first character if I used CWX function buttons to send stored messages. Keying the PTT, sending and deactivating PTT worked fine. I also tried different PTT delays but that did not seem to work consistently. So is there a way to key the PTT when the CWX window has the focus? ___ 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] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
Indeed, including international. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Ian Wade G3NRW g3...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Neal Campbell nealk...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 Time: 10:03:02 I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you do not see it immediately applied to your cart. Hmmm. Free shipping indeed? -- 73 Ian, G3NRW England, UK, Other Side of the Pond :-) ___ 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] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
Spoken like a customer of ANSoftware! You are welcome anytime my friend!
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote:
Darn. I was looking forward to camping out on your doorstep @ 2:00 AM to
rampage through the living room to the PC Workshop when you came out in
the AM to fetch the morning paper! :-)
-Tim
-Original Message-
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:
flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 10:03 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] {ANN} Black Friday Sales at Abroham Neal Software
Hi!
I wanted to announce that I have a Black Friday sale that has all computers
with free shipping and 15% off the list price. The discount will not show in
the store pages until you get to the checkout section so do not worry if you
do not see it immediately applied to your cart.
I am extremely thankful for the support you have shown over the past 18
months and look forward to another great Flex year!
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394
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[Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving / CQWW weekend Flexers! I have a puzzle for you to ponder, and it's definitely not one of those easy-to-fix ones, I'm fairly sure, which is why this story takes a few minutes to tell: I've had this recurring and completely inconsistent problem with my F3k since I got it almost a year ago. Every once in awhile, it simply refuses to light up the firewire cable at all, and the only cure for it is to leave the flex unpowered overnight, after which it resumes working as if nothing was wrong. I'm hoping someone on the list has also experienced this issue and can offer a suggestion. This happens about once a month. Since the flex is my only radio, you can see that this means I am at the mercy of its whims when a contest weekend rolls around, and get tempted to just leave the computer and the flex running just to be sure it won't fail when I need it. You too may miss some easy points when I'm not on the air! To help diagnose this, I purchased a firewire cable that has a LED in it to show when it's operational. When the radio is misbehaving, the cable lights up for about .5 seconds and then goes dark. No amount of reconnecting or side swapping can get it to light up. On the other hand, when it is operating correctly, the cable stays lit from the get-go. So there is some sort of issue occurring during the negotiation between the devices that causes one or the other to give up on its bad days. The computer never sees the device in that case of course, since the firewire connection is never actually activated. And I have a boat anchor until it gets a chance to have a nice nap. I've had this happen with two different (but similar model) computers, so I am fairly sure it is not a problem on the computer end. They're running a recommended TI chipset. It fails on XP, it fails on Windows 7. I am more or less convinced that this is not even a software thing since it won't even complete the low level connection negotiation. Some time back I talked with Flex support enough to establish that this is not a driver problem or a firewire cable problem (having replaced it several times to be sure) and they have not provided a satisfactory answer nor an offer to exchange or repair the radio. I understand that: fixing things that fail at random and without any repeatability is hard, and I suppose they would rather have a mostly happy but occasionally disappointed customer than take back a radio that they may have a slim chance at fixing and turning around, or passing it off to some other unsuspecting person, which I am also not going to do. I'm also reluctant to have the radio sit on the bench @ Flex for the whole of contest season while they try to get the failure to happen again. A no-win! Here's hoping some genius amongst you knows what may be going wrong and what could be done about it! 73! Matt AI1P ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
A few questions. When does the failure occur? When powering up the FLEX-3000 or does it fail after the FLEX-3000 is operational? Is the PC RF grounded to the FLEX-3000? Is it the same Firewire card in both PCs? -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Matt Steven AI1P Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:23 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Hello and Happy Thanksgiving / CQWW weekend Flexers! I have a puzzle for you to ponder, and it's definitely not one of those easy-to-fix ones, I'm fairly sure, which is why this story takes a few minutes to tell: I've had this recurring and completely inconsistent problem with my F3k since I got it almost a year ago. Every once in awhile, it simply refuses to light up the firewire cable at all, and the only cure for it is to leave the flex unpowered overnight, after which it resumes working as if nothing was wrong. I'm hoping someone on the list has also experienced this issue and can offer a suggestion. This happens about once a month. Since the flex is my only radio, you can see that this means I am at the mercy of its whims when a contest weekend rolls around, and get tempted to just leave the computer and the flex running just to be sure it won't fail when I need it. You too may miss some easy points when I'm not on the air! To help diagnose this, I purchased a firewire cable that has a LED in it to show when it's operational. When the radio is misbehaving, the cable lights up for about .5 seconds and then goes dark. No amount of reconnecting or side swapping can get it to light up. On the other hand, when it is operating correctly, the cable stays lit from the get-go. So there is some sort of issue occurring during the negotiation between the devices that causes one or the other to give up on its bad days. The computer never sees the device in that case of course, since the firewire connection is never actually activated. And I have a boat anchor until it gets a chance to have a nice nap. I've had this happen with two different (but similar model) computers, so I am fairly sure it is not a problem on the computer end. They're running a recommended TI chipset. It fails on XP, it fails on Windows 7. I am more or less convinced that this is not even a software thing since it won't even complete the low level connection negotiation. Some time back I talked with Flex support enough to establish that this is not a driver problem or a firewire cable problem (having replaced it several times to be sure) and they have not provided a satisfactory answer nor an offer to exchange or repair the radio. I understand that: fixing things that fail at random and without any repeatability is hard, and I suppose they would rather have a mostly happy but occasionally disappointed customer than take back a radio that they may have a slim chance at fixing and turning around, or passing it off to some other unsuspecting person, which I am also not going to do. I'm also reluctant to have the radio sit on the bench @ Flex for the whole of contest season while they try to get the failure to happen again. A no-win! Here's hoping some genius amongst you knows what may be going wrong and what could be done about it! 73! Matt AI1P ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
Thanks for the quick reply Tim. The failure occurs when powering up. Never does it fail once operational. A very short ground wire goes from PC to Flex. The two PCs use the same chipset, a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A On 11/26/2010 11:29 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: A few questions. When does the failure occur? When powering up the FLEX-3000 or does it fail after the FLEX-3000 is operational? Is the PC RF grounded to the FLEX-3000? Is it the same Firewire card in both PCs? -Tim ___ 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] Problems with Receive Equalizer
Flex-3000 on an XP computer running 2.0.16 When I open the Equalizer under 2.0.16, click enabled, select the 10 band equalizer, move the various settings to my desired levels, and then close the equalizer, everything works just fine (my screen show RX EQ selected) until I close PowerSDR. However, when I open PowerSDR for the next operating session, all of my previous settings in the equalizer have been lost and I have to go through the above routine to get everything back in order. Everything thing else seems to be working well under 2.0.16. This didn't seem to happen when I was using 1.18.5 - all of my equalizer settings were maintained when I shut down PowerSDR from session to operating listening session. Is this a bug with 2.0.16 or am I doing something incorrectly with the equalizer screen? Gary Robertson W5SAT groberts...@austin.rr.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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
OK. Good. One more question... What version of PowerSDR are you using? -Tim -Original Message- From: AI1P Matt Steven [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:35 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Thanks for the quick reply Tim. The failure occurs when powering up. Never does it fail once operational. A very short ground wire goes from PC to Flex. The two PCs use the same chipset, a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A On 11/26/2010 11:29 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: A few questions. When does the failure occur? When powering up the FLEX-3000 or does it fail after the FLEX-3000 is operational? Is the PC RF grounded to the FLEX-3000? Is it the same Firewire card in both PCs? -Tim ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
I know the driver is not loaded. By answering the PowerSDR version question, you give me two pieces of information; the firmware that is most likely loaded and the Firewire driver version. I am starting to think it might be hardware. What are the power management settings for the Firewire adapter? Specifically does your PM configuration allow the Firewire host controller to be turned off? If the PC hibernates, it may be turning off the host bus adapter and not waking back up properly. Then again, it could be an intermittent failure of the Firewire interface in the radio. -Tim -Original Message- From: Matt Steven AI1P [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:50 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Before I answer that, just to be sure you understand- this failure occurs before starting up PowerSDR: the driver is not even loaded in Windows' device manager when this problem is happening. When things work properly, which is most of the time thankfully, Windows only loads the driver once the cable lights up after the F3K is powered up. Conversely, in those times when the cable light fails, no driver loads at all. This is why I am inclined to think that it is happening at a hardware level rather than software. But to properly answer your question, I have observed this failure while the computer had installed most of the 1.x and in recent months, 2.x versions of PowerSDR installed. My habit is to install the newest ones as they come along. On 11/26/2010 11:42 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: OK. Good. One more question... What version of PowerSDR are you using? -Tim -Original Message- From: AI1P Matt Steven [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:35 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Thanks for the quick reply Tim. The failure occurs when powering up. Never does it fail once operational. A very short ground wire goes from PC to Flex. The two PCs use the same chipset, a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A On 11/26/2010 11:29 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: A few questions. When does the failure occur? When powering up the FLEX-3000 or does it fail after the FLEX-3000 is operational? Is the PC RF grounded to the FLEX-3000? Is it the same Firewire card in both PCs? -Tim ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
The power management settings are whatever windows (XP/7) default settings are, I don't generally mess with that since I shut the computer off whenever I walk away from it. I assume/hope that default settings would not involve cutting power to firewire immediately on start-up. This problem occurs only on a cold start when both the computer and the Flex have both been off for some time. Generally if I can get the Flex going and the cable lights up, it's good to go for that day. So if it is a hardware problem, I'm pretty much out of luck aren't I? Intermittent problems may not be verifiable and thus not repairable by the company, and I definitely don't have the skills or equipment to change out a firewire chipset on the Flex. =/ On 11/26/2010 12:10 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: I know the driver is not loaded. By answering the PowerSDR version question, you give me two pieces of information; the firmware that is most likely loaded and the Firewire driver version. I am starting to think it might be hardware. What are the power management settings for the Firewire adapter? Specifically does your PM configuration allow the Firewire host controller to be turned off? If the PC hibernates, it may be turning off the host bus adapter and not waking back up properly. Then again, it could be an intermittent failure of the Firewire interface in the radio. -Tim -Original Message- From: Matt Steven AI1P [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:50 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Before I answer that, just to be sure you understand- this failure occurs before starting up PowerSDR: the driver is not even loaded in Windows' device manager when this problem is happening. When things work properly, which is most of the time thankfully, Windows only loads the driver once the cable lights up after the F3K is powered up. Conversely, in those times when the cable light fails, no driver loads at all. This is why I am inclined to think that it is happening at a hardware level rather than software. But to properly answer your question, I have observed this failure while the computer had installed most of the 1.x and in recent months, 2.x versions of PowerSDR installed. My habit is to install the newest ones as they come along. On 11/26/2010 11:42 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: OK. Good. One more question... What version of PowerSDR are you using? -Tim -Original Message- From: AI1P Matt Steven [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:35 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Thanks for the quick reply Tim. The failure occurs when powering up. Never does it fail once operational. A very short ground wire goes from PC to Flex. The two PCs use the same chipset, a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A On 11/26/2010 11:29 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: A few questions. When does the failure occur? When powering up the FLEX-3000 or does it fail after the FLEX-3000 is operational? Is the PC RF grounded to the FLEX-3000? Is it the same Firewire card in both PCs? -Tim ___ 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] Flex Operating Manuals With Sale Pricing
This was suppose to go out last night but I got hung up in holiday traffic. ManualMan is having a SPECIAL 3 DAY SALE (Fri/Sat/Sun) on the Flex 1500, 3000, and 5000 operating manuals. Go to http://www.manualman.com/ and review the block with the title, Manuals With Special Pricing. Scroll down to the bottom of the list. Pete, WA2CWA ManualMan http://www.manualman.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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
Normally the Flex is powered up only when I want to use it, which is after Windows has loaded. However this is not always the case. From time to time I cut power to the Flex while it still has the power switch on when I shut down the shack, which is all on a common power strip, and so in the following start up sequence it will receive power at the same time as or before the computer on start-up. I have not observed any correlation between these different approaches to starting it up and the failure of the firewire interface however. In any case, I appreciate having someone to help me troubleshoot this, so thanks. I will hang around and see what comes along, wish me luck that it's working this weekend for the big contest! On 11/26/2010 12:24 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: This problem occurs only on a cold start when both the computer and the Flex have both been off for some time. Generally if I can get the Flex going and the cable lights up, it's good to go for that day. What is the power up sequence? Do you power up the FLEX-3000 first? So if it is a hardware problem, I'm pretty much out of luck aren't I? Not necessarily. There may be a remedy but I'd need to talk to some folks who will not be available before Monday. -Tim -Original Message- From: AI1P Matt Steven [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 1:18 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F The power management settings are whatever windows (XP/7) default settings are, I don't generally mess with that since I shut the computer off whenever I walk away from it. I assume/hope that default settings would not involve cutting power to firewire immediately on start-up. This problem occurs only on a cold start when both the computer and the Flex have both been off for some time. Generally if I can get the Flex going and the cable lights up, it's good to go for that day. So if it is a hardware problem, I'm pretty much out of luck aren't I? Intermittent problems may not be verifiable and thus not repairable by the company, and I definitely don't have the skills or equipment to change out a firewire chipset on the Flex. =/ On 11/26/2010 12:10 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: I know the driver is not loaded. By answering the PowerSDR version question, you give me two pieces of information; the firmware that is most likely loaded and the Firewire driver version. I am starting to think it might be hardware. What are the power management settings for the Firewire adapter? Specifically does your PM configuration allow the Firewire host controller to be turned off? If the PC hibernates, it may be turning off the host bus adapter and not waking back up properly. Then again, it could be an intermittent failure of the Firewire interface in the radio. -Tim -Original Message- From: Matt Steven AI1P [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:50 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Before I answer that, just to be sure you understand- this failure occurs before starting up PowerSDR: the driver is not even loaded in Windows' device manager when this problem is happening. When things work properly, which is most of the time thankfully, Windows only loads the driver once the cable lights up after the F3K is powered up. Conversely, in those times when the cable light fails, no driver loads at all. This is why I am inclined to think that it is happening at a hardware level rather than software. But to properly answer your question, I have observed this failure while the computer had installed most of the 1.x and in recent months, 2.x versions of PowerSDR installed. My habit is to install the newest ones as they come along. On 11/26/2010 11:42 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: OK. Good. One more question... What version of PowerSDR are you using? -Tim -Original Message- From: AI1P Matt Steven [mailto:kd0...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:35 PM To: Tim Ellison Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the Sporadic F Thanks for the quick reply Tim. The failure occurs when powering up. Never does it fail once operational. A very short ground wire goes from PC to Flex. The two PCs use the same chipset, a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A On 11/26/2010 11:29 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: A few questions. When does the failure occur? When powering up the FLEX-3000 or does it fail after the FLEX-3000 is operational? Is the PC RF grounded to the FLEX-3000? Is it the same Firewire card in both PCs? -Tim ___ 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:
[Flexradio] Fw: Flex Operating Manuals With Sale Pricing
Note: For those that might be wondering... These are the high resolution full color laser printed operating manuals. Details are in the sale blurb. Pete - Forwarded message -- From: manual...@juno.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:29:31 -0500 Subject: [Flexradio] Flex Operating Manuals With Sale Pricing Message-ID: 20101126.102943.954.72...@mailpop03.vgs.untd.com This was suppose to go out last night but I got hung up in holiday traffic. ManualMan is having a SPECIAL 3 DAY SALE (Fri/Sat/Sun) on the Flex 1500, 3000, and 5000 operating manuals. Go to http://www.manualman.com/ and review the block with the title, Manuals With Special Pricing. Scroll down to the bottom of the list. Pete, WA2CWA ManualMan http://www.manualman.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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
On the power management, depending on the OEM default settings of particular manufacturers, yes, they can have OS default to turning off components so they can make green claims. If your computer manufacturer claims it is a green machine, their default probably does power down things. It is worth a check. I am not sure what version of Windows you have, but in control panel they all have Power Options or something equivalent as a choice. Go into the Power Options and choose a profile titled Maximum Performance or Always On or something like that. Obviously, you don't want Energy Star or Power Saver modes which both reduce processor speeds and shutdown aux systems such as Firewire ports. Of course, theoretically, they should power back up (wake on demand) but they don't always. I had a problem with a intermittent on-the motherboard network LAN connection-- I'd lose connection to the internet. Turned out to be going to sleep and not responding. Going to an always on setting fixed that. That said-- giving it percentages-- I'd go with Tim's thoughts that it is MOST LIKELY an intermittent Firewire chipset problem in the Flex. Not 90% sure, but the most likely possibility out of many. Mostly because of your experience with two different computers. Intermittent problems are tough, but I'd be surprised if Flex Radio abandoned you on the problem. At some point, when most of the easy to check possibilities are ruled out, it will be time to swap out the 3000's firewire board. I don't think you are out of luck. It is fixable! One last thought-- don't worry about leaving the computer powered up. It doesn't wear them out or anything-- actually, powering up and down frequently is harder on them (mostly the hard drive). I rarely turn off computers. Steve WA7DUH On 11/26/2010 10:18 AM, AI1P Matt Steven wrote: The power management settings are whatever windows (XP/7) default settings are, I don't generally mess with that since I shut the computer off whenever I walk away from it. I assume/hope that default settings would not involve cutting power to firewire immediately on start-up. This problem occurs only on a cold start when both the computer and the Flex have both been off for some time. Generally if I can get the Flex going and the cable lights up, it's good to go for that day. So if it is a hardware problem, I'm pretty much out of luck aren't I? Intermittent problems may not be verifiable and thus not repairable by the company, and I definitely don't have the skills or equipment to change out a firewire chipset on the Flex. =/ ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
Ahh-- this just came in when I was writing my previous The order of startup DOES matter at least with my station. My Firewire will not recognize / link up with my Flex 5000 most of the time if I power up at the same time, or power up the computer first. My order: 1st-- power up Flex (then wait about 2 minutes for everything in the Flex to boot) 2nd-- power up Computer (boot, login, then wait at least 3 minutes for all the device drivers, anti-virus checkers, multitude of application and patch updaters to load and phone home with your personal information ;-( etc ) In otherwords, however long it takes for the computer to finish up doing the startup thrash so that pSDR has all the available resources to start. 3rd-- power up pSDR If I don't do it in this order, with these delays, it most likely will NOT complete the Firewire connection properly. Steve WA7DUH On 11/26/2010 10:37 AM, AI1P Matt Steven wrote: Normally the Flex is powered up only when I want to use it, which is after Windows has loaded. However this is not always the case. From time to time I cut power to the Flex while it still has the power switch on when I shut down the shack, which is all on a common power strip, and so in the following start up sequence it will receive power at the same time as or before the computer on start-up. I have not observed any correlation between these different approaches to starting it up and the failure of the firewire interface however. In any case, I appreciate having someone to help me troubleshoot this, so thanks. I will hang around and see what comes along, wish me luck that it's working this weekend for the big contest! ___ 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] dropout problem
Weird dropout problem: When my Flex 5000A is in the AM mode and running 5 watts of carrier (carrier level at 25%), with no audio just carrier, into a dummy load, there are extremely short intermittent dropouts of the carrier. The scope sees a flicker, but the dropout is so short that the wattmeter doesn't show any change. In a key down position for aprox 4 minutes, there will be only 2 or 3 dropouts. Dropouts are also heard on AM receive as a brief pop sound. I never noticed this in the SSB mode. I changed my audio from 96,000 at 2048 to 48,000 at 2048 and the problem disappeared. I'm perfectly happy with the 48,000 setting and am writing this just to try and understand what strange thing is going on. While running the tests, there are no other programs running that I initiated. There is no reason for me to change my current settings because everything is running fine, I'm just curious. Version 2.0.16, computer is multiple I7 cpu's, running Win 7 Pro. 73, Ken W2DTC ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
Steve, Just to throw some confusion into the mix. My PC is on 24/7, but I power on my FLEX-5000A only when I want to operate. I never have any problems with the Firewire connecting. 73, Ray, K9DUR http://k9dur.info ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
On 11/26/10 02:33 pm, Ray - K9DUR wrote: Just to throw some confusion into the mix. My PC is on 24/7, but I power on my FLEX-5000A only when I want to operate. I never have any problems with the Firewire connecting. 73, Ray, K9DUR http://k9dur.info Now I'm going to add my confusion to the mix. My machine normally runs 24/7, but I switch off the power supply that feeds the FLEX-5000A when I'm not operating. Normally when I power up the FLEX-5000A again the machine emits its device connected sounds and all is well; yesterday, however, when I powered up the rig I got some garbled sounds followed by the message that Windows was unable to install my new hardware. To cut a long story short: although the directory in which the FlexRadio driver had resided was still present, it was now empty. Reinstalling the FlexRadio driver fixed everything. My conclusion is that Windows, like just about every other device or system, and under the most strictly controlled conditions of temperature, pressure, voltage, humidity, (etc., etc.), does whatever it damn well pleases. 73 Alan NV8A ___ 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] dropout problem
Are you using the legacy 1394 driver? http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50433.aspx -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of ken Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 2:30 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] dropout problem Weird dropout problem: When my Flex 5000A is in the AM mode and running 5 watts of carrier (carrier level at 25%), with no audio just carrier, into a dummy load, there are extremely short intermittent dropouts of the carrier. The scope sees a flicker, but the dropout is so short that the wattmeter doesn't show any change. In a key down position for aprox 4 minutes, there will be only 2 or 3 dropouts. Dropouts are also heard on AM receive as a brief pop sound. I never noticed this in the SSB mode. I changed my audio from 96,000 at 2048 to 48,000 at 2048 and the problem disappeared. I'm perfectly happy with the 48,000 setting and am writing this just to try and understand what strange thing is going on. While running the tests, there are no other programs running that I initiated. There is no reason for me to change my current settings because everything is running fine, I'm just curious. Version 2.0.16, computer is multiple I7 cpu's, running Win 7 Pro. 73, Ken W2DTC ___ 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] Tune Failed: No RF Detected
Hi Team, I am using F5KA with Windows 7 64 Bit OS. For past two days when I select 'ATU' button, it stops immediately after starting the tune process and shows a error message in ATU menu window ' Tune Failed: No RF Detected'. ATU was working fine and was able to tune 40 , 30, 20 bands till two days back. Have anyone in the group faced similar errors? Thanks in advance to everybody in group. James, K8JAM. ___ 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] dropout problem
From: Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com Please let me know if it helps. Hi Tim, THE LEGACY DRIVER WORKED !! Many thanks for your help !! I will probably keep the settings at 96,000 and 2048. The panadapter display is centered better at 96K than at 48K. It's a nice feeling when everything works as it should. Thanks again !! 73, Ken W2DTC -Original Message- From: ken [mailto:kenw2...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 4:19 PM To: Tim Ellison Subject: Re: [Flexradio] dropout problem Hi Tim, No I'm using the Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI driver. I'm going out now, but late tonight I will try the legacy driver and change back to 96.000 and give it a try. Thanks, Ken W2DTC - Original Message - From: Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com To: ken kenw2...@comcast.net; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 3:32 PM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] dropout problem Are you using the legacy 1394 driver? http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50433.aspx -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of ken Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 2:30 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] dropout problem Weird dropout problem: When my Flex 5000A is in the AM mode and running 5 watts of carrier (carrier level at 25%), with no audio just carrier, into a dummy load, there are extremely short intermittent dropouts of the carrier. The scope sees a flicker, but the dropout is so short that the wattmeter doesn't show any change. In a key down position for aprox 4 minutes, there will be only 2 or 3 dropouts. Dropouts are also heard on AM receive as a brief pop sound. I never noticed this in the SSB mode. I changed my audio from 96,000 at 2048 to 48,000 at 2048 and the problem disappeared. I'm perfectly happy with the 48,000 setting and am writing this just to try and understand what strange thing is going on. While running the tests, there are no other programs running that I initiated. There is no reason for me to change my current settings because everything is running fine, I'm just curious. Version 2.0.16, computer is multiple I7 cpu's, running Win 7 Pro. 73, Ken W2DTC ___ 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] Tune Failed: No RF Detected
I had the same problem today on my 3000. I had just updated it to the latest beta from the somewhat current V1.81 (I think). I would then key the radio, and there was no RF output as well. It looked like there was on the Flex, but on the Wattmeter (Elekraft), there was no output. I then closed down PowerSDR and power cycled the Flex and tried it again. After that, it was fine. Have you tried power cycling to see what happens? Mike VA3MW On Friday, November 26, 2010, James Joseph kb3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Team, I am using F5KA with Windows 7 64 Bit OS. For past two days when I select 'ATU' button, it stops immediately after starting the tune process and shows a error message in ATU menu window ' Tune Failed: No RF Detected'. ATU was working fine and was able to tune 40 , 30, 20 bands till two days back. Have anyone in the group faced similar errors? Thanks in advance to everybody in group. James, K8JAM. ___ 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] Tune Failed: No RF Detected
CK to make sure that tune power setting in menu is still set to about 10 watts and is indicated on main screen. Also try using atu menu rather than tune on radio screen. KC5PD ___ 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] Flexwire I2C communication
Is the I2C protocol described anywhere at all? I had a quick search of the Knowledge base, but couldn't find anything. Mike VA3MW ___ 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] The mystery of the Sporadic F
I have had the problem occasionally that the radio wasn't recognized after powering it up. I have always been able to have the radio recognized when this occurs by going into the device manager and disabling the 1394 host controller and then re-enabling it (right click options on host controller in device tree). Very quick and instantly the radio is recognized. I use the FlexRadio program, (the program used to check the 1394 chip set information), to verify the connection after the reenable. I make sure PowerSDR is not running when I do this. The radio is a Flex-5000A and the OS is Windows 7 (64 bit). With my connection problem, the FlexRadio program will correctly indicate whether I have a radio connection or not. 73, Bill On 11/26/2010 12:23 PM, Matt Steven AI1P wrote: Hello and Happy Thanksgiving / CQWW weekend Flexers! I have a puzzle for you to ponder, and it's definitely not one of those easy-to-fix ones, I'm fairly sure, which is why this story takes a few minutes to tell: I've had this recurring and completely inconsistent problem with my F3k since I got it almost a year ago. Every once in awhile, it simply refuses to light up the firewire cable at all, and the only cure for it is to leave the flex unpowered overnight, after which it resumes working as if nothing was wrong. I'm hoping someone on the list has also experienced this issue and can offer a suggestion. This happens about once a month. Since the flex is my only radio, you can see that this means I am at the mercy of its whims when a contest weekend rolls around, and get tempted to just leave the computer and the flex running just to be sure it won't fail when I need it. You too may miss some easy points when I'm not on the air! To help diagnose this, I purchased a firewire cable that has a LED in it to show when it's operational. When the radio is misbehaving, the cable lights up for about .5 seconds and then goes dark. No amount of reconnecting or side swapping can get it to light up. On the other hand, when it is operating correctly, the cable stays lit from the get-go. So there is some sort of issue occurring during the negotiation between the devices that causes one or the other to give up on its bad days. The computer never sees the device in that case of course, since the firewire connection is never actually activated. And I have a boat anchor until it gets a chance to have a nice nap. I've had this happen with two different (but similar model) computers, so I am fairly sure it is not a problem on the computer end. They're running a recommended TI chipset. It fails on XP, it fails on Windows 7. I am more or less convinced that this is not even a software thing since it won't even complete the low level connection negotiation. Some time back I talked with Flex support enough to establish that this is not a driver problem or a firewire cable problem (having replaced it several times to be sure) and they have not provided a satisfactory answer nor an offer to exchange or repair the radio. I understand that: fixing things that fail at random and without any repeatability is hard, and I suppose they would rather have a mostly happy but occasionally disappointed customer than take back a radio that they may have a slim chance at fixing and turning around, or passing it off to some other unsuspecting person, which I am also not going to do. I'm also reluctant to have the radio sit on the bench @ Flex for the whole of contest season while they try to get the failure to happen again. A no-win! Here's hoping some genius amongst you knows what may be going wrong and what could be done about it! 73! Matt AI1P ___ 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/
