Re: [Flexradio] Fldigi/PowerSDR xmit
Simple thought-- what are you using for virtual com cables? Like Com0Com? I don't see your comm port settings for that in your list. On 11/14/2013 1:34 PM, Don wrote: Johnnie, W6HTY The only thing I see different in what you have listed is that I have a check next to VSP Enable at the bottom under Cat Command for PTT. Don, kd6hq -Original Message- From: Johnnie Spotts Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:02 PM To: Flex Radio Subject: [Flexradio] Fldigi/PowerSDR xmit Hi All, Still cannot xmit on fldigi. here is what I am running: Flex-3000 PowerSDR 2.6.4 Fldigi 3.21.72 Fldigi set, Rig Cat PowerSdr.xml 3-50-25 devise com6 Use Cat Catcom for PTT PowerSDR Cat control Com 16 9600 none 8 1 Receive is great, but will not key the xmitter. text in Fldigi will send internal, but not key the xmitter. Help please, what am I missing. thanks, Johnnie W6HTY ___ 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] Flex 1500 Newbie problems Xmitwaveshape
2) On CW it's the latency thing.. horrible noticeable delay between key down and sidetone.. and no audio level control on the sidetone!.. Just not nice.. never had this latency before on any analogue rig I have owned. Someone said its been fixed.. either I have not set it up properly or they are not CW operators! Robert : PowerSDR is configured so that it will run on almost any Windows computer but there are some settings that need to be adjusted for CW to work properly on most computers. If you read the Flex-1500 manual section on CW and the Flex-1500 part of the PowerSDR release notes (Page 12) they document quite well the three main things that potentially need to be adjusted in PowerSDR to allow for smooth CW operation on the Flex-1500. (Note that you must STOP PowerSDR to make these changes and then START again to determine how effective the changes are. ) The first thing is adjusting the USB Driver Buffer setting. This is accessed via Setup/General/Options. It is a slider the goes from Conservative on the left to Aggressive on the Right. You want to make it as aggressive as you can without causing drop-outs or distortion in your receive audio. My suggestion is to adjust the slider only one position to the right at the time, exit the SETUP, START PowerSDR and listen to a station for a while to determine if the change in settings is causing an issues with receive audio. Repeat this process over and over until you either get to the most Aggressive Setting (unlikely) or you start to hear audio drop out or significant distortion. At that point back it off one position. Resist the temptation to go to the most aggressive setting first as it may cause PowerSDR to hang up or quit (my experience). The second parameter is the Audio Buffer size. Repeat the same procedure as above (i.e stopping PowerSDR, but this time changing the setting to one smaller then Starting PowerSDR). Setup/Audio Buffer Size - You want this to be the smallest value that doesn't cause drop- outs or distortion on receive. ( i.e. 256 or 128 if possible, but 512 is ok). Setup/DSP Buffer Size, CW RX (should be 2048) only reduce this if necessary to further diminish sidetone delay. Changing this value to a smaller one will have an impact on the performance of the narrower CW RX filters. I wouldn't suggest going any smaller than 1024 otherwise you are diminishing performance of the receiver. Adjusting the above three settings should give you reasonable performance on CW with no noticeable sidetone delay. For anyone only using a Dual core machine, if this isn't enough there are a couple of other tricks that help, but I only suggest trying these as a last resort. SETUP/DISPLAY Refresh Rates Main Display FPS (normally 15, can be reduced to 7 with no ill effects). Reducing this should improve the CW performance as it halves the refresh rate on the Panadaptor display, which is quite CPU intensive. If you are really just running PowerSDR (which is what I suggest on a dual core machine) then you can increase the Process Priority by a notch with no ill effects. SETUP/GENERAL/OPTIONS Process Priority (I don't recommend going with a setting higher than Above Normal or High, the default setting is Normal). One other thing worth mentioning is that if you are using the internal keyer in the Flex-1500, be aware that if you enable Iambic sending it will default to Iambic A. Many people (myself included) learned Iambic B and I couldn't send with Iambic A if my life depended on it. The keyer settings are accessed via Setup/General/DSP . You’ll never get “Ten-Tec QSK” out of a Flex-1500 (it is semi-break in only) but with a few minor adjustments to PowerSDR , running on a suitable computer, you should be able to achieve reasonable break-in performance that is comparable to other QRP rigs such as the Yaesu FT-817. I don't remember offhand where the PowerSDR setting is for Monitor Volume (i.e. Sidetone level). There is one. I would really like to see this show up in the same area of the screen where the CW speed is when in CW mode. Currently this control is hidden away. I am not near my Windows PC at the moment .. but if no one posts a follow up I will let you know what the control is called and where to access it. Cheers Michael VE3WMB / VA2NB P.S, I hope that you get your waveform issues sorted out. ___ 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 5000 RX2 for sale
The Flex 5000 RX2 is sold pending funds from buyer. 73, Pete W6OP twitter: @w6op pbour...@w6op.com On Nov 17, 2013, at 10:00 AM, flexradio-requ...@flex-radio.biz wrote: Send FlexRadio mailing list submissions to flexradio@flex-radio.biz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to flexradio-requ...@flex-radio.biz You can reach the person managing the list at flexradio-ow...@flex-radio.biz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of FlexRadio digest... Today's Topics: 1. Flex 5000 RX2 for sale (Peter Bourget) 2. Re: buffer /setting (paim) 3. Flex 1500 Newbie problems Xmitwaveshape (Robert Miles) 4. Re: Setup/PA Settings (Tim Ellison, W4TME) 5. Re: Flex 1500 Newbie problems Xmitwaveshape (Tim Ellison, W4TME) 6. Re: Flex 1500 Newbie problems Xmitwaveshape (hmattc...@juno.com) 7. Strange Out of Band Readings (Marty Bluhm) 8. Re: Fldigi/PowerSDR xmit (Steve Sterling) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:03:32 -0800 From: Peter Bourget pbour...@w6op.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Flex 5000 RX2 for sale Message-ID: 86b94352-3699-48b0-b38b-efc61bde1...@w6op.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 I have the RX2 for a Flex 5000 for sale. I bought it used as I was buying a friends 5000 without a second receiver. That sale fell through and I bought another 5000 that already had the RX2 in it. I?ll sell it for $400 shipped in USA. Has all cables and other parts necessary. Relatively easy to install, just download the instructions from the Flex web site. Be sure your rig has the updated RFIO board, the install instructions show you how to check. 73, Pete W6OP -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:09:18 + (GMT) From: paim paimg0...@btinternet.com To: flexe...@flex-radio.biz flexe...@flex-radio.biz, flexradio@flex-radio.biz flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] buffer /setting Message-ID: 1384636158.82437.yahoomail...@web186004.mail.ir2.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ? hi? i am doing some test on high spec pc , i like to know what will be the best setting buffer in the audio 256?2046? what about the dsp area it is set to 2046 in ssb in cw it is 256 is there any one can to put a light on this setting ? thanks ? vy 73 E.P ?g0uut ? -- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:30:57 - From: Robert Miles robertmiles.h...@gmail.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Flex 1500 Newbie problems Xmitwaveshape Message-ID: 012101cee31b$88e64ea0$9ab2ebe0$@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi folks, I am a Flex newbie and really enjoying the receive experience.. absolutely fantastic the point and shoot feature. I never thought I would prefer this interface to a rotary dial until I tried it. Struggling on transmit though. Few problems.. 1) On SSB .. I have made two qso's both in contests to guys with big beams! When I look at the spectrum in transmit, I notice three spikes in frequency, about 600 KHZ apart, constant amplitude and when I am not speaking they remain constant amplitude although the amplitude of the rest of my audio drops down. I haven't had a nice quiet QSO to ask anyone if the audio is ok and on monitor it sounds clean. Lots of contests on right now If I use the test mode with a single tone its nice and clean. When I speak it looks really weird on the spectrum and three dark lines on the waterfall! 2) On CW it's the latency thing.. horrible noticeable delay between key down and sidetone.. and no audio level control on the sidetone!.. Just not nice.. never had this latency before on any analogue rig I have owned. Someone said its been fixed.. either I have not set it up properly or they are not CW operators! Any thoughts? Cheers Bob GM4CAQ -- Message: 4 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 17:39:07 -0500 From: Tim Ellison, W4TME t...@flex-radio.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Setup/PA Settings Message-ID: 5287f40b.2090...@flex-radio.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That tab is for the SDR-1000 Tim Ellison, W4TME Product Management, Sales Support FlexRadio Systems^(TM) 4616 W Howard Ln, Suite 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 223 Email: t...@flexradio.com mailto:t...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com http://www.flexradio.com logo On 11/16/2013 5:59 AM, Craig Hayhow wrote: Can someone please tell me is there
