Re: [Flexradio] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
Ralph W5JGV w5...@w5jgv.com wrote: The easiest way is probably to use a parallel port card to interface to DDUTIL. DDUTIL only talks to parallel port cards. Then connect the parallel port output signals to a Unified Microsystems BCD-10 decoder/interface card. http://www.unifiedmicro.com/decoder.html That will convert the signals from DDUTIL to a series of optically isolated relay closures to select the correct band relays in the amplifier. You can probably use my setup guide for interfacing a F5K with PSDR to the ALS-1300 amplifier. That shows the settings for PSDR and DDUTIL to select the various bands. http://w5jgv.com/ALS-1300_to_F5K/index.htm 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 Thanks for the wonderful and helpful description of how to set things up. I'm also about to interface a homebrew amp (AN762 with an external switched filter box-- switching still to be finalised) with my flex1500. I gather from the links above that I can control the filter box (and antenna switching) via the paralell port and DDUtils which I already have installed. I had been wondering how to use it for HB amplifier switching. Two remaining questions. 1 I'm using flex 1500 with (currently) amplifier switching from a slave relay fromn the flexwire port ptt. Is there any need to alter this, does it affect so2r ampkey setup? This is also probably relavent to the OP. 2 Is there any way to get the PowerSDR tune button to send a signal to one of my auto ATUs (LDG) to tune, and then to accept a signal back from the atu once it has found a match. I suspect it can be achieved with a macro in DDUtils. -- Brian Duffell G3VGZ ___ 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] Silence must meant something.
Guy Harris w6...@guysfreehold.com wrote: A few weeks ago I purchased an UltraMax100 and used a 66ft wire instead of the 24ft that came with the matching network. I was startled to see another 5dB drop in apparent QRN. I have seen days when the QRN is so quiet that it is sitting below -130dBm!! I might add that the band was pretty dead also... Suspicions.apparent Is the drop of qrn reciprocated with a drop of field strength transmitted. I've been chasing similar problems and found changes (to grounding) made a vast improvement to the local qrn that I'm plagued with (PLT adaptors I think!). Then I checked my antenna current, It had similarly dropped, and signal reports confirmed my suspicion. Subsequent changes to grounding have improved both S/N in and out. I'm still cursing PLTs though! -- Brian Duffell G3VGZ ___ 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] Silence must meant something.
As a utility guy (System Protection) I can agree with Lee. If you have a pole from which the noise is coming, call the utility company. It could be loose hardware, loose ground or, as in my case, one of those pesky LAs (lightening arrestors). It could take a bit of time but you'll be glad when it is over and gone! Good Luck, WX4L On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Lee Mushel herbe...@centurytel.netwrote: Guy, I suppose it was about a year after I got my 5000A that this terrible QRN appeared. Of course, it is your responsibility to show that the source isn't actually inside your QTH and I did this by operating the rig from battery power and turning off the main breaker. I didn't get much help from the ham community except for a visit by a retired power company maintenance foreman who was also a radio amateur. I started out by showing him what the noise looked like on the panadapter and after that I could see I had more work to do and he said, Let me listen to it. After listening for about three seconds he announced that it was one of the metal oxide varistor lightning arrestors (in rural areas there are a lot of these things) And I don't think it's very far away. My rural electric co-op buys it's power from a company headquartered about 70 miles away. I called the co-op and they gave me the number of the engineering department of the supplier and I called and told them about the situation. The engineer said he'd look into it and I was fairly sure that his words were all I would ever get! Boy, was I wrong. A few days later a very large tracked vehicle with bucket showed up. As I soon found out, this was necessary because the defective system was located in what was almost a swamp in a valley on my property and very hard to access but they did and I've never had any more QRN! I guess what I want to say is that my experience seems counter to that of many (but maybe not) and that the power company reacted quickly to fix the problem after I was able to assure them that the trouble was, indeed, theirs! They do have equipment to find this sort of thing! 73 Lee K9WRU - Original Message - From: Guy Harris w6...@guysfreehold.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; sh...@bak.rr.com Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Silence must meant something. Steven, When I first set up my F5k I had what I thought was QRN, and still don't understand Precisely what is going on, but here's what I did to reduce the apparent QRN: -- ~~~*Guy Harris* ___ 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/ -- russ ___ 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] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
Michael, I had done as Ralph suggested and interfaced the Unified Microsystems BCD-10 card with isolation relays to my DX engineering Remote Antenna switch. Using DDUtil BCD out via LPT port I was able to control the selection of the appropriate antenna when ever I changed bands on my Flex5000A. This same setup would work to change bands on an amp as well Dennis KØEOO - Original Message - From: Ralph W5JGV w5...@w5jgv.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:58:54 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp I'm staring to build the ARRL homebrew challenge amp kit that I bought recently. It is to go behind my 1500. One thing I've been thinking about is that it would be nice to have automatic band switching. I've seen the threads before concerning commercial amps but I'm wondering if one is starting from scratch with a homebrew amp like this, what is the simplest route to go? Obviously I think I would use DDutil but how? Is a parallel port the only option? If so would one of the cheapie PCI plug in parallel port cars work or would I need full parallel port functions? I don't see why I would but want to be sure. What type of circuitry is used to accomplish the translation from the info DDUtil sends from the PP to the relays of my amplifier? Some type of logic board I would guess. I'm totally in the dark as to how this done so if someone could point me in the right direction where I can start researching, I'd appreciate it. Also would be nice if this was a fairly inexpensive project!...lol Thanks, Michael, W4HIJ I didn't see a reply to this so... The easiest way is probably to use a parallel port card to interface to DDUTIL. DDUTIL only talks to parallel port cards. Then connect the parallel port output signals to a Unified Microsystems BCD-10 decoder/interface card. http://www.unifiedmicro.com/decoder.html That will convert the signals from DDUTIL to a series of optically isolated relay closures to select the correct band relays in the amplifier. You can probably use my setup guide for interfacing a F5K with PSDR to the ALS-1300 amplifier. That shows the settings for PSDR and DDUTIL to select the various bands. http://w5jgv.com/ALS-1300_to_F5K/index.htm 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 ___ 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] Silence must meant something.
Brian, Have no idea what a PLT adapter is... Of course the first thing that came to mind with the new antenna and drop in noise was that the new antenna was a partial dummy load. I can report that this is not the case. ~Guy W6NJX On 5/27/2011 4:16 AM, G3VGZ wrote: Guy Harrisw6...@guysfreehold.com wrote: A few weeks ago I purchased an UltraMax100 and used a 66ft wire instead of the 24ft that came with the matching network. I was startled to see another 5dB drop in apparent QRN. I have seen days when the QRN is so quiet that it is sitting below -130dBm!! I might add that the band was pretty dead also... Suspicions.apparent Is the drop of qrn reciprocated with a drop of field strength transmitted. I've been chasing similar problems and found changes (to grounding) made a vast improvement to the local qrn that I'm plagued with (PLT adaptors I think!). Then I checked my antenna current, It had similarly dropped, and signal reports confirmed my suspicion. Subsequent changes to grounding have improved both S/N in and out. I'm still cursing PLTs though! -- ~~~*Guy Harris* ___ 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] Silence must meant something.
Guy Harris w6...@guysfreehold.com wrote: Have no idea what a PLT adapter is... An adaptor plugging into a power socket, transmitting HF to the power wiring to a similar socket in order to save having to wire cat5 cable for ethernet or to use a wifi system. Spawn of the devil spewing out RF pollution everywhere! Of course the first thing that came to mind with the new antenna and drop in noise was that the new antenna was a partial dummy load. I can report that this is not the case. Good to hear it. -- Brian Duffell G3VGZ ___ 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] Silence must meant something.
Har de har, har, har How was commencement? I know you have to be proud of your son. I didn't realize that you were an Academy graduate. Man, I'll treat you with less respect. On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Brian briduff...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Guy Harris w6...@guysfreehold.com wrote: Have no idea what a PLT adapter is... An adaptor plugging into a power socket, transmitting HF to the power wiring to a similar socket in order to save having to wire cat5 cable for ethernet or to use a wifi system. Spawn of the devil spewing out RF pollution everywhere! Of course the first thing that came to mind with the new antenna and drop in noise was that the new antenna was a partial dummy load. I can report that this is not the case. Good to hear it. -- Brian Duffell G3VGZ ___ 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] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 73, Issue 26
Can the new station at Flex be accessed remotely ? Tnx, Al W4ABW ___ 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] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 73, Issue 26
Awesome idea!! Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2011, at 1:05 PM, w4...@aol.com wrote: Can the new station at Flex be accessed remotely ? Tnx, Al W4ABW ___ 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] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
I'm also about to interface a homebrew amp (AN762 with an external switched filter box-- switching still to be finalized) with my flex1500. I gather from the links above that I can control the filter box (and antenna switching) via the paralell port and DDUtils which I already have installed. I had been wondering how to use it for HB amplifier switching. Hello Brian, Since DDUTIL uses only four of the eight available data lines of the parallel port interface to control the amplifier band switching relays, so you can tell DDUTIL to talk to the other four data lines and connect them to a second BCD-10 interface and let it control something else. Two remaining questions. 1 I'm using flex 1500 with (currently) amplifier switching from a slave relay from the flexwire port ptt. Is there any need to alter this, does it affect so2r ampkey setup? This is also probably relavent to the OP. I think it would work the same. After all, with the F5K, you take the amp key signal for the amplifier from the jack on the back of the F5K, which would be virtually the same thing as the Flexwire port. 2 Is there any way to get the PowerSDR tune button to send a signal to one of my auto ATUs (LDG) to tune, and then to accept a signal back from the atu once it has found a match. I suspect it can be achieved with a macro in DDUtils. Usually the amp key line is routed through the ATU which decides when to tune. Before it does so, it breaks the amp key line and routes the driver power to the ATU, which then tunes and when tuning is complete, reconnects the amp key line. That requires that you manually key the radio, wait for the tuner to cycle, then unkey the radio. AFAIK, there's no way for PSDR to see the tuner. 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 ___ 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] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 73, Issue 26
Al, That might be an option when we get it up and running. That will take a couple of months because we have to get the operations in order first. Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 4616 W Howard Lane Ste 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: ger...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com http://www.flex-radio.com/ Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:05 PM, w4...@aol.com wrote: Can the new station at Flex be accessed remotely ? Tnx, Al W4ABW ___ 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] flex5000
Kerry, First do a database reset, in PowerSDR 2.0.22, that is the Factory Defaults button in the Setup menu.. If this still is a problem, contact me directly, to run some additional testing.. Support@Flexradio .com 73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 250-8595, Option 2 Email: dud...@flexradio.com 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 Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:17 AM, kerry brown kerry_thomas_br...@yahoo.comwrote: Just received a Flex5000A from Martin Lynch in the UK, had the ATU and RX2 fitted. Loaded the software this morning to find Usb is down on the Lsb. Just in case the stations were on Usb I moved to 6mtrs once again station were on Lsb. So tried double side band only place to find life was in the Lsb side of Dsb. Now I did have this problem with my SDR1000 and fixed the problem. How can I the tuning to Usb where I know stations are working, not hear them on Lsb Not much good if I am in Lsb mode as the mic would have to be in Usb. If you know what I mean? G7EXO Kerry Brown --- Sponsored links: Rock Hard Erections. All New Formula Attacks the Root. Fast. www.capitolbird.org/pharma.html ___ 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] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
The question I still have is about the parallel port card in the computer. From reading the reflector, I notice that the modern day PCI parallel port plug in cards are generally not true parallel ports. They don't conform to all the standards. Apparently some people using the SDR-1000 found this out while trying to use them with it. So does the DDUtil application of the parallel port need a true port that conforms to all the standards or will one of these plug in PCI ones be sufficent to do the job we are asking? 73, Michael, W4HIJ On 5/27/2011 4:27 PM, Ralph W5JGV wrote: I'm also about to interface a homebrew amp (AN762 with an external switched filter box-- switching still to be finalized) with my flex1500. I gather from the links above that I can control the filter box (and antenna switching) via the paralell port and DDUtils which I already have installed. I had been wondering how to use it for HB amplifier switching. Hello Brian, Since DDUTIL uses only four of the eight available data lines of the parallel port interface to control the amplifier band switching relays, so you can tell DDUTIL to talk to the other four data lines and connect them to a second BCD-10 interface and let it control something else. Two remaining questions. 1 I'm using flex 1500 with (currently) amplifier switching from a slave relay from the flexwire port ptt. Is there any need to alter this, does it affect so2r ampkey setup? This is also probably relavent to the OP. I think it would work the same. After all, with the F5K, you take the amp key signal for the amplifier from the jack on the back of the F5K, which would be virtually the same thing as the Flexwire port. 2 Is there any way to get the PowerSDR tune button to send a signal to one of my auto ATUs (LDG) to tune, and then to accept a signal back from the atu once it has found a match. I suspect it can be achieved with a macro in DDUtils. Usually the amp key line is routed through the ATU which decides when to tune. Before it does so, it breaks the amp key line and routes the driver power to the ATU, which then tunes and when tuning is complete, reconnects the amp key line. That requires that you manually key the radio, wait for the tuner to cycle, then unkey the radio. AFAIK, there's no way for PSDR to see the tuner. 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 ___ 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] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
The question I still have is about the parallel port card in the computer. From reading the reflector, I notice that the modern day PCI parallel port plug in cards are generally not true parallel ports. They don't conform to all the standards. Apparently some people using the SDR-1000 found this out while trying to use them with it. So does the DDUtil application of the parallel port need a true port that conforms to all the standards or will one of these plug in PCI ones be sufficient to do the job we are asking? Hello Michael, I have not had any experience with the newer cards, but I did purchase a PCMCIA card for five bucks from a Chinese vendor and plugged it into my laptop. It worked fine right out of the box. I have not found any USB to parallel converters that work, however. AFAIK, it comes down to a voltage level problem. If the card can drive the output pins to levels that will work, that should be all it takes. Some cards, notably serial port I/O cards, do not generate true RS-232 signals, but rather fake them, by using a +5 volt or 0 volt signal to represent the +12 and -12 volt RS-232 signals, respectively. Those sloppy designers are depending on the tolerance of the logic circuitry that the ports are driving to handle malformed RS-232 levels and fix it in the mix as it were. Parallel port I/O signals should be driven from the positive High signal level to hard ground Low signal level at -0 volts. Some cards will go open circuit, either on the high or low part of the output signal, again depending on the connected device to figure out what the signal should be. Signals from mal-manufactured I/O cards such as these can be sort of fixed by adding pull up/down resistors, as required, but it's a pain to have to do what the manufacturer should have done in the first place. There may be some other problems with these cards that makes then difficult to use with DDUTIL, but I'll leave comments on them to other, more knowledgeable folks on this list. 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 ___ 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] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
Michael, The DDUtil Yahoo group referred back to the Flex wiki. If you're using Win7/64, these boards were found to work: SIIG 2S1P Combo-Value P/N JJ-P2-S5 2 Serial and 1 Parallel Port. Rosewill 2x Serial 1x Parallel Port PCI card Model RC303 Rosewill 2x Parallel Port PCI card Model RC304 The DDUtil Yahoo group may be a better source of info for your questions. -Original Message- From: Michael Tondee Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:46 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp The question I still have is about the parallel port card in the computer. From reading the reflector, I notice that the modern day PCI parallel port plug in cards are generally not true parallel ports. They don't conform to all the standards. Apparently some people using the SDR-1000 found this out while trying to use them with it. So does the DDUtil application of the parallel port need a true port that conforms to all the standards or will one of these plug in PCI ones be sufficent to do the job we are asking? 73, Michael, W4HIJ On 5/27/2011 4:27 PM, Ralph W5JGV wrote: I'm also about to interface a homebrew amp (AN762 with an external switched filter box-- switching still to be finalized) with my flex1500. I gather from the links above that I can control the filter box (and antenna switching) via the paralell port and DDUtils which I already have installed. I had been wondering how to use it for HB amplifier switching. Hello Brian, Since DDUTIL uses only four of the eight available data lines of the parallel port interface to control the amplifier band switching relays, so you can tell DDUTIL to talk to the other four data lines and connect them to a second BCD-10 interface and let it control something else. Two remaining questions. 1 I'm using flex 1500 with (currently) amplifier switching from a slave relay from the flexwire port ptt. Is there any need to alter this, does it affect so2r ampkey setup? This is also probably relavent to the OP. I think it would work the same. After all, with the F5K, you take the amp key signal for the amplifier from the jack on the back of the F5K, which would be virtually the same thing as the Flexwire port. 2 Is there any way to get the PowerSDR tune button to send a signal to one of my auto ATUs (LDG) to tune, and then to accept a signal back from the atu once it has found a match. I suspect it can be achieved with a macro in DDUtils. Usually the amp key line is routed through the ATU which decides when to tune. Before it does so, it breaks the amp key line and routes the driver power to the ATU, which then tunes and when tuning is complete, reconnects the amp key line. That requires that you manually key the radio, wait for the tuner to cycle, then unkey the radio. AFAIK, there's no way for PSDR to see the tuner. 73, Ralph W5JGV - WD2XSH/7 ___ 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] Shuttle pro 2 for sale
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Re: [Flexradio] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp
Thanks Jim, You know I had forgotten there was a group for DDUtil! DUH!!:-) Sorry for the bandwidth fellas! Michael On 5/27/2011 6:39 PM, Jim Jannuzzo wrote: Michael, The DDUtil Yahoo group referred back to the Flex wiki. If you're using Win7/64, these boards were found to work: SIIG 2S1P Combo-Value P/N JJ-P2-S5 2 Serial and 1 Parallel Port. Rosewill 2x Serial 1x Parallel Port PCI card Model RC303 Rosewill 2x Parallel Port PCI card Model RC304 The DDUtil Yahoo group may be a better source of info for your questions. -Original Message- From: Michael Tondee Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:46 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Automatic bandswitching options for a homebrew amp The question I still have is about the parallel port card in the computer. From reading the reflector, I notice that the modern day PCI parallel port plug in cards are generally not true parallel ports. They don't conform to all the standards. Apparently some people using the SDR-1000 found this out while trying to use them with it. So does the DDUtil application of the parallel port need a true port that conforms to all the standards or will one of these plug in PCI ones be sufficent to do the job we are asking? 73, Michael, W4HIJ ___ 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/
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To record some of the contest to play back later do i use preprocessed or post processed? Thanks ___ 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] recording
Depends on what you want to play it back with. For using PowerSDR as the player, use pre-processed audio at any sampling rate. For a standard Wave file player, use post-processed audio at a 48KHz sampling rate. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Laurie Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 8:14 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] recording To record some of the contest to play back later do i use preprocessed or post processed? Thanks ___ 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] Choppy Audio with digital modes
All, I've noticed that the outgoing audio on my Flex 5000A becomes choppy now and then when running digital modes. I can see that it is affecting the power output as well because RF drops out for a fraction of a second along with the audio. It does this when sending a steady tone using the tune function with digital mode programs in DIGU/L mode. I reset the database and setup PowerSDR 2.0.22 from scratch, but the intermittent problem still exists. I also removed / reinstalled VAC 4.09, but I noticed that my VAC settings were still in tact so I suspect it was not completely removed. Any ideas? Should I remove PowerSDR and start fresh? Tony ___ 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] Choppy Audio with digital modes
Here's a video sample of that choppy audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58Pc1BY_wE Tony On 5/28/2011 12:24 AM, Tony wrote: All, I've noticed that the outgoing audio on my Flex 5000A becomes choppy now and then when running digital modes. I can see that it is affecting the power output as well because RF drops out for a fraction of a second along with the audio. It does this when sending a steady tone using the tune function with digital mode programs in DIGU/L mode. I reset the database and setup PowerSDR 2.0.22 from scratch, but the intermittent problem still exists. I also removed / reinstalled VAC 4.09, but I noticed that my VAC settings were still in tact so I suspect it was not completely removed. Any ideas? Should I remove PowerSDR and start fresh? Tony ___ 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/ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6159 (20110527) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.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/
