Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 bug in v 2.0.22?
Similar problem. If in VHF band using transverter I click on an HF button, I get a warning message/crash David, G4YTL PS May not be many of us SDR 1000 users left! From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of EB4APL [eb4...@cembreros.jazztel.es] Sent: 12 April 2011 02:35 To: FlexRadio Reflector Subject: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 bug in v 2.0.22? I think that I have found a bug in the last official release of PowerSDR v2.0.22 with a SDR-1000: - Let's define a XVTR, for example LO offset 116, begin freq. 144 and end freq. 146. - Select the VHF band and the XVTR already defined. Enter any frequency in the band: it works. - Go back to HF using the HF button: if you enter any frequency either using the keyboard, the mouse of the band's buttons you get the exception index out matrix bounds or something close (I'm using a localized version of windows, so the message is in the localized language). - Also while in VHF, if I enter a HF frequency in the keyboard, it gives the same exception instead of going directly to the corresponding HF band. This doesn't happen in previous versions, neither in RC1 or RC2. I don't know if the problem is SDR-1000 specific. It happens with a fresh database. The OS is WinXP SP3. I didn't entered in the bug tracker yet awaiting if it can be reproduced by other SDR-1000 users. 73 de Ignacio, EB4APL ___ 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] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500
You can also try this to clean some of the junk off a new machine. www.pcdecrapifier.com Ron K0IDT -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Greg Zenger [N2GZ] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:00 PM To: supp...@flex-radio.com Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500 Just booted the computer in Safe Mode. PowerSDR is working! I suspect this means there is some other program or driver that Dell has loaded that is interfering with the operation of PowerSDR. Looks like the ball is now in my court. I will post back when I have found a solution. If anyone has any Ideas as please share. -Greg ___ 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-1500 spurious when using external reference
Im using my Flex-1500 with transverters on 1,3 24 GHz. The radio and most of the transverters are locked to a 10 MHz GPS-disciplined oscillator. When working weak signals there are only very few spurious frequencies. During the last weeks there has been tropo conditions with signals in the 59 +20-30 dB range. All these signals appeared full of spurious +/- 20 kHz. As all signals was looking in the same way when exceeding S9 I decided to investigate the problem. The pictures on http://www.oz1ff.dk/pages/flexradio.html a screen dump of a -60 dBm signal on 28,2 MHz from a clean source. Dia1 is with external reference and shows +/- 10 kHz spurious. Dia2 shows the signal with the 10 MHz reference switched off. Increasing the signal generator level to more than -40 dBm with 30 dB preamp gain overloads the receiver. But that is as specified. The level from the external 10 MHz source is +2 dBm and sine wave. The external reference is essential for weak signal work. I dont expect this to be a software problem. Any suggestions for a solution to this annoying problem? Vy 73 de OZ1FF - Kjeld Phone +45 7352 6050 SMS +45 4021 1119 Skype oz1ff-1 mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk http://www.oz1ff.dk/ http://www.oz1ff.dk ___ 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] Flex-1500 spurious when using external reference
Check your preamp settings. I found that I need to set it to 0 or have the attenuator on. The gain of the transverter would push it over the edge. This is especially true if you adjusted the 1500 to compensate for the gain of the transverter. Tom WB8COX Tom -Original Message- From: Kjeld Bülow Thomsen oz...@mail.dk Sender: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:23:42 To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Cc: 'ComputerRadio'i...@computerradio.dk Subject: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 spurious when using external reference I’m using my Flex-1500 with transverters on 1,3 – 24 GHz. The radio and most of the transverters are locked to a 10 MHz GPS-disciplined oscillator. When working weak signals there are only very few spurious frequencies. During the last weeks there has been tropo conditions with signals in the 59 +20-30 dB range. All these signals appeared full of spurious +/- 20 kHz. As all signals was looking in the same way when exceeding S9 I decided to investigate the problem. The pictures on http://www.oz1ff.dk/pages/flexradio.html a screen dump of a -60 dBm signal on 28,2 MHz from a clean source. Dia1 is with external reference and shows +/- 10 kHz spurious. Dia2 shows the signal with the 10 MHz reference switched off. Increasing the signal generator level to more than -40 dBm with 30 dB preamp gain overloads the receiver. But that is as specified. The level from the external 10 MHz source is +2 dBm and sine wave. The external reference is essential for weak signal work. I don’t expect this to be a software problem. Any suggestions for a solution to this annoying problem? Vy 73 de OZ1FF - Kjeld Phone +45 7352 6050 SMS +45 4021 1119 Skype oz1ff-1 mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk http://www.oz1ff.dk/ http://www.oz1ff.dk ___ 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] Flex-1500 spurious when using external reference
I saw the same exact thing on 2304 and 3456 when the primary signal was over 40DB above the noise floor Sam kf4yox Sent from my iPhone On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:49 AM, t...@wb8cox.com wrote: Check your preamp settings. I found that I need to set it to 0 or have the attenuator on. The gain of the transverter would push it over the edge. This is especially true if you adjusted the 1500 to compensate for the gain of the transverter. Tom WB8COX Tom -Original Message- From: Kjeld Bülow Thomsen oz...@mail.dk Sender: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:23:42 To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Cc: 'ComputerRadio'i...@computerradio.dk Subject: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 spurious when using external reference I’m using my Flex-1500 with transverters on 1,3 – 24 GHz. The radio and most of the transverters are locked to a 10 MHz GPS-disciplined oscillator. When working weak signals there are only very few spurious frequencies. During the last weeks there has been tropo conditions with signals in the 59 +20-30 dB range. All these signals appeared full of spurious +/- 20 kHz. As all signals was looking in the same way when exceeding S9 I decided to investigate the problem. The pictures on http://www.oz1ff.dk/pages/flexradio.html a screen dump of a -60 dBm signal on 28,2 MHz from a clean source. Dia1 is with external reference and shows +/- 10 kHz spurious. Dia2 shows the signal with the 10 MHz reference switched off. Increasing the signal generator level to more than -40 dBm with 30 dB preamp gain overloads the receiver. But that is as specified. The level from the external 10 MHz source is +2 dBm and sine wave. The external reference is essential for weak signal work. I don’t expect this to be a software problem. Any suggestions for a solution to this annoying problem? Vy 73 de OZ1FF - Kjeld Phone +45 7352 6050 SMS +45 4021 1119 Skype oz1ff-1 mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk http://www.oz1ff.dk/ http://www.oz1ff.dk ___ 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] ARRL Frequency Measuring Test Tonight
ARRL FMT tonight Tuesday April 12 (USA time) http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-frequency-measuring-test-scheduled-for-tuesday -april-12 Also http://www.k5cm.com/ Your Flex, with no outboard equipment, is adequate to do a respectable job in the FMT 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] External Sources
Hi Just a comment about external sources: not all are created equal. Be sure you check them for spectral purity. Often we get them surplus because they do not meet specs. In the Qualcomm boards there is a two pole 10mhz crystal filter following what seems to be a good TCXO. It turns out that it was a good idea as the TCXO is not terribly clean. I am not saying that is the problem, just asking to make sure it isn't. Doug K6JEY ___ 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] Mic gain with the F1500
I'm using the Yaesu MH-31. Even with the mic gain set at zero I still see the occasional ALC peak a little over 0dB. Monitoring on the F3K it sounds pretty thin. and a setting of 15 seems optimal with no added compression. I thought I had read that the gain should be set to give a bit less than 0dB on the ALC meter. As that is the case for pretty much any setting it doesn't seem to be a useful way of making the adjustment. I did check that the Mic Boost is unchecked. F1500, v2.0.22, Win7/64. 73 Alf NU8I Scottsdale AZ DM43an ___ 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] Mic gain with the F1500
Lower the mic input gain using the MIXER so that you have some headroom with the front panel MIC gain control. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Alfred Green Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:52 PM To: 'Flex Radio' Subject: [Flexradio] Mic gain with the F1500 I'm using the Yaesu MH-31. Even with the mic gain set at zero I still see the occasional ALC peak a little over 0dB. Monitoring on the F3K it sounds pretty thin. and a setting of 15 seems optimal with no added compression. I thought I had read that the gain should be set to give a bit less than 0dB on the ALC meter. As that is the case for pretty much any setting it doesn't seem to be a useful way of making the adjustment. I did check that the Mic Boost is unchecked. F1500, v2.0.22, Win7/64. 73 Alf NU8I Scottsdale AZ DM43an ___ 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] Mic gain with the F1500
On 4/12/2011 2:08 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: Lower the mic input gain using the MIXER so that you have some headroom with the front panel MIC gain control. Thanks, I'd forgotten about the mixer, it was set at about mid-range. I put it down to around 25%, and now I have to get mic gain up to about 15 to hit the 0dB ALC level. That seems more sensible. The idea then is to set the CPDR/DX settings to get the talk power. More tweaking to do, but it's coming along. 73 Alf NU8I ___ 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] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500
Richard, Thanks for your tip. AUTORUNS is a fantastic tool for this sort of thing. As it turns out, btwampfl; Broadcom Bluetooth USB AMP Filter for Windows Vista, was the culprit. Now, I don't understand why this driver would cause a problem, but as long as it is disabled, PowerSDR is happy. Thanks everyone for helping. -Greg, N2GZ/1 -Original Message- From: Richard Clafton [mailto:rclaf...@riroc.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:59 AM To: 'Greg Zenger [N2GZ]'; supp...@flex-radio.com Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500 Take a look on the Microsoft SysInternals Website for AUTORUNS. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902 A very useful tool for disabling those auto starting services, drivers and applications. This will enable you to disable them one by one to determine which one is causing the issue. Just untick the item and it will not load in the next bootup - you can simply tick it again if that was not the troublesome item. This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system boot up or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Win logon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. -- Richard A Clafton | the brITish guy | W5\G7EIX RIROC - Hosting - Development - Technology http://www.riroc.com | rclaf...@riroc.com PugHearts of Houston Pug Rescue | www.PugHearts.com -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Greg Zenger [N2GZ] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:00 PM To: supp...@flex-radio.com Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500 Just booted the computer in Safe Mode. PowerSDR is working! I suspect this means there is some other program or driver that Dell has loaded that is interfering with the operation of PowerSDR. Looks like the ball is now in my court. I will post back when I have found a solution. If anyone has any Ideas as please share. -Greg From: dud...@flex-radio.com [mailto:dud...@flex-radio.com] On Behalf Of FlexRadio Support, Dudley Hurry Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 10:37 PM To: Greg Zenger [N2GZ] Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500 Greg, You do need .NET3.5 enabled in the Programs and Windows Features in the Control panel. Make it's enabled. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 250-8595, Option 2 Email: dud...@flexradio.com mailto:dud...@flex-radio.com Web: www.flexradio.com http://www.flex-radio.com a href=http://www.crossloop.com/FlexRadioSupport?type=email; target=_blankimg border=0 src=http://www.crossloop.com/images/badge-sm-gray.jpg; alt=Get help from Dudley Hurry!//a On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Greg Zenger [N2GZ] n...@gregzenger.com wrote: Still nothing. I have repair installed. I have removed, and reinstalled. I have checked the drivers installed correctly, all seemed fine. I uninstalled them from Device manager, uninstalled all versions of PowerSDR. Deleted all files Flex related files from %appdata%, reinstalled 2.0.22. Same result. Repeated above process, but with 2.0.8 (last version used successfully, but with different computer). Same result. Repeated above process, this time with 2.0.22 again, before trying to use 1500, tried using just demo mode. Same result. I am suspecting this is not a driver issue because it happens with both the Demo mode and Flex-1500. This problem does not seem to be related to 2.0.22, as it is also happening with 2.0.8 Are there pre-requisite Runtime environments that perhaps are not installed on this computer? I feel like it is crashing when it tries to load the main GUI. -Greg From: dud...@flex-radio.com [mailto:dud...@flex-radio.com] On Behalf Of FlexRadio Support, Dudley Hurry Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:51 PM To: Greg Zenger [N2GZ] Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 2.0.22 Fatal Error / FLEX-1500 Greg, If the startup reset did not help then reset the master.xml file, just delete it.. Easiest way to get to it, is to go to the Run window of Windows, type %AppData% then run. This will bring up a windows files explorer window, then go to FlexRadio Systems folder and delete the master.xml fileYou database files will be in the next folder down, PowerSDR v 2.0.22 (if you are running the .22 version) Hope this helps. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 250-8595, Option 2 Email: dud...@flexradio.com mailto:dud...@flex-radio.com Web: www.flexradio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 spurious when using external reference
Kjeld: Do you have access to another 10 MHz reference that could be substituted and used to compare? It does not have to be high accuracy for the comparison test. I suspect a 10 kHz switching power supply or some other 10 kHz source associated with your GPSDO as causing the problem. You might also try making sure the case of the FLEX-1500 shares a common ground with the GPSDO. Do not depend on the shield of the 10 MHz coax, since it floats at the FLEX-1500 input, to allow the 1500 to reject ground loop noise. --- Graham / KE9H == On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Kjeld Bülow Thomsen oz...@mail.dk wrote: I’m using my Flex-1500 with transverters on 1,3 – 24 GHz. The radio and most of the transverters are locked to a 10 MHz GPS-disciplined oscillator. When working weak signals there are only very few spurious frequencies. During the last weeks there has been tropo conditions with signals in the 59 +20-30 dB range. All these signals appeared full of spurious +/- 20 kHz. As all signals was looking in the same way when exceeding S9 I decided to investigate the problem. The pictures on http://www.oz1ff.dk/pages/flexradio.html a screen dump of a -60 dBm signal on 28,2 MHz from a clean source. Dia1 is with external reference and shows +/- 10 kHz spurious. Dia2 shows the signal with the 10 MHz reference switched off. Increasing the signal generator level to more than -40 dBm with 30 dB preamp gain overloads the receiver. But that is as specified. The level from the external 10 MHz source is +2 dBm and sine wave. The external reference is essential for weak signal work. I don’t expect this to be a software problem. Any suggestions for a solution to this annoying problem? Vy 73 de OZ1FF - Kjeld Phone +45 7352 6050 SMS +45 4021 1119 Skype oz1ff-1 mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk mailto:kj...@oz1ff.dk http://www.oz1ff.dk/ http://www.oz1ff.dk ___ 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/
