Re: [Flexradio] Automatic Rate Tuning (ART Tuning)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Boresz Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:35 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Cc: Jim Menefee Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Automatic Rate Tuning (ART Tuning) I'm not a contester, so maybe I don't understand the scenario, but ... How can 'dialing' - with any type of knob control - toward a target signal seen on a high resolution panadapter like that of PSDR, possibly be faster or more efficient than just clicking on the desired signal with a mouse? A single click followed by a slight adjustment (if necessary) with the mouse wheel is mighty quick. What am I missing? Dale WA8SRA I was thinking the same thing, but then I don't operate in contest either. Cecil k5nwa www.softrockradio.org www.smallcpu.org www.qrpradio.org Blessed are the cracked for they shall let the light in. ___ 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://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 PowerSDR v1.12.1 with dedicated I/Q settings per each band
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray, K9DUR Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Edwin Marzan'; 'FlexRadio biz'; 'Christos Nikolaou' Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 PowerSDR v1.12.1 with dedicated I/Q settings per each band Christos, You wrote, But a major feature like dedicated image rejection per band is still missing. Maybe it takes a big effort to find the lines in the code that exclude sdr1k. Apparently you missed the post from Gerald, K5SDR, (the president of FlexRadio Systems) where he explained that performing a separate image rejection calibration per band was NOT a software issue, but a limitation of the hardware in the SDR-1000. The Flex-5000 has this feature because of built-in test generators that make this function possible. To do an image rejection calibration on any band on the SDR-1000 requires an external signal source of some type. FlexRadio has continuously stated that they intend to continue supporting the SDR-1000 into the foreseeable future WITHIN THE LIMITATIONS OF THE HARDWARE UTILIZED IN THE SDR-1000. IF the hardware isn't there to support it, then the software can't fix it! 73, Ray, K9DUR I have this feeling that neither side is listening to the other. Correct me if I'm wrong but what is being asked is not Automatic correction for each band, but just the ability to remember the correction for each band individually. A SDR user will have to go to each band and provide a signal source and calibrate the phase and amplitude settings, but it would be really nice if when you switch between bands it would look up the appropriate corrections for that band and apply them. This is not rocket science, even the Rocky software has that feature. Cecil k5nwa www.softrockradio.org www.smallcpu.org www.qrpradio.org Blessed are the cracked for they shall let the light in. ___ 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://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Dual displays
Charles Greene wrote: Hi, Wanting to have two displays, I plugged a LCD display into my lap top, and now I have either or both, but when I have both they are identical. Is there a software solution to dual displays where one is an extension of the other? 73, Chas, W1CG Sorry but on most laptops the external connector is a copy of what is displayed on the laptop and that is all it can do. Check with your manufacturer to see if you have the ability to do dual desktops, if you do then their drivers will make their video card appear as two video cards. Even with desktops there is no assurance that if the video card has two connectors that they can display two separate desktops so always check the fine print before buying a card. For it to have two desktops the video hardware must have the capability and two DACs and the appropriate drivers so it can put out two different video outputs. I have for years setup my MAC with three monitors and it's a really handy thing to do when editing video. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio and Apple Computers
Ove Rønning wrote: Hi everyone. I’ve already made a similar posting in one of the FlexRadio forums, but perhaps this is a better place for it. I’m very fond of Apple computers, but to run PowerSDR one needs Windows. With the Intel based Macs of today Windows isn’t a problem using either the Bootcamp or the Parallels software. I’d like to use a MacBook laptop for my FlexRadio setup. Is anyone using an Apple computer together with the SDR-1000 and PowerSDR? If so, what kind of computer and are you using Bootcamp or Parallels? Ove I tried Parallels but although I was able to get a several Windows programs working it did not do well with SDR software, in general it did not do well with anything that messed with the audio, it was a hit an miss thing, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. That said when it did work with audio it did not work well, pauses in the audio mostly. But since you can try it for free for 30 days I would recommend you download the demo and try it out for yourself. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Windows highway robbery
Neal Campbell K3NC wrote: Now OS X is the ultimate in OS's while Vista tries to catch up. I started with Macs in 83 (original 128K) and left them in 90 for PCs but have just returned to Apple this summer. There has to be a way to make PowerSDR work under the mach/BSD kernel if not with Cocoa itself. I have not tried any ham software under Parallel desktop for Mac but suspect even with my Mac Pro there would be latency issues. I actually think that since Win2K MS has been on a suicide watch. 73 de Neal SNIP I believe the DttSP software is available for OS X now, but the PowerSDR software itself will not be available for OS X or Linux until the next generation of software gets done, which we are eagerly anticipating. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Windows highway robbery
Not necessarily, if you are a corporate entity you can buy the MS Product CD's for less than $20, Microsoft will let you downgrade their OS's and Office products, and programming tools. Also that license may be in use. Jim Lux wrote: At 07:42 AM 10/20/2006, Tim Ellison wrote: Here is another big question. With the MS server products, you can buy a 2003 license and legally run 2000, as long has you have the 2000 media to load. Wouldn't you have already licensed 2000 in this case, and the 2000 license doesn't expire per se, just MS drops support after a while. I wonder if the same is going to be true for Vista/XP or will Micro$oft force the desktop market to move to Vista? I am presuming it will be the later. I doubt it. The move to Vista is going to be forced, not by MS, but by copyrighted content providers who will only provide the content people want in forms only viewable by Vista. You can still run Win95, and there are places out there providing Win95 (only) software (typically to control some 10 year old piece of hardware). At some point, MS will EOL support for XP, and at that point, if you're an enterprise consumer and your business depends on XP applications AND MS support, you'll have to move on. An interesting point: if you have WGA installed, and MS EOLs XP, will your copy still authenticate when phoning home? The move, particularly for the consumer market (which is where PowerSDR users buy their computers) will be because most people don't want a dedicated computer for their radio. They also want to use it for other things (watching movies, online content, etc.) and those applications will migrate to Vista. In many ways, as far as PCs go, most people still treat them like the early days of the industrial revolution, with one prime mover and shafts and belts to power all the machines. At least for microcomputers, they're embedded and invisible. To take the analogy further, dual boot solutions are like the farmer with the PTO on the tractor. You can either thresh corn or bale hay, but not both at the same time. The *long run* solution I'd like to see is the dedicated PC for the radio running something stripped down and lean (RTEMS, Linux, what have you) and the UI running on whatever the flavor dujour of popular UI platform is. It's almost there... moreso for some commercial radios (PCR1000,1500., Kenwood TS2000, Icom IC7000 running with a third party controller program) than for the SDR1000. At least in a turnkey, plug it in and get it going with less than 4 hours of fiddling around sort of mode. Getting a headless computer to run WinXP (and PowerSDR) and then run it using CAT from another computer with some way to move the audio around is probably a more than a weekend part time sort of task. Likewise, getting one of the very nifty Linux interfaces and engines running is a sort of piecemeal and tedious challenge, although I imagine it has been done. Jim, W6RMK ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Windows highway robbery
John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Alan NV8A said the following on 10/20/2006 06:27 AM: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156tag=nl.e622 While I am no fan of Micro$oft and use its products as little as possible, I read a discussion of this point somewhere else, and someone suggested that the intention was to prohibit a person from transferring the software to several computers before deleting it from the original machine. It says that it may be transferred only to ONE computer, *not* that it may be transferred only ONCE. Unfortunately, that's not true. The license for Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, and Ultimate has a number of provisions that limit reuse. 1. You are required to assign the license to one physical hardware system. (Section 2) 2. The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the 'licensed device'. (Section 15) 3. The first user of the software may make a one time transfer of the software, and this agreement, directly to a third party. The first user must uninstall the software before transferring it separately from the device. The first user may not retain any copies. (Section 16(a)) 4. Before any permitted transfer, the other party must agree that this agreement applies to the transfer and use of the software. The transfer must include the proof of license. So, the *first user* may reassign the software to another machine *once*. And the first user can transfer the license (i.e., if you sell the computer with Vista installed), but that second user has no right to further transfer it. So, if you buy a used machine with Vista installed, you can't resell the machine without taking the OS off. 73, John PS -- by way of background, I teach a course in IP licensing at our local law school, and I just spent our last class going through the Vista agreement with my class. It wasn't a pleasant experience. :-) Eventually they are going to cut their own throats! History repeats itself, for programmers that don't understand real life below is a basic flow; While(Forever) new_history = old_history; old_history = new_history; time_passes; Repeat I'm looking forward to be alive and witness the self-destruction of Microsoft. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Windows highway robbery
Ed Haskell wrote: I hope Flex Radio plans to continue supporting WinXP for a long time because the new license for Vista means I won't ever be upgrading. My retail copies of WinXP have been on at least 5 machines each. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156tag=nl.e622 Ed K5RJI Hah Ha Hah, I read an article recently that changing a motherboard or your hard drive will require you to re-register Vista, there went your one shot. I'm leaving Microsoft country and never looking back. As of now I have only one program that I must run in Windows, and soon I will be knocking that one out too. It's the software to run the SDR-1000, in a week or two I will be able to dedicate some time to make the Linux SDR-1000 software run then it will be So long , and thanks for the fish. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Setting up XP pro
Tim Ellison wrote: Don't load the 64-bit version of the OS. After the default load, you can go back in and remove apps and services you don't need. I opted to load Win2003 Server just for that reason. Win3003 doesn't load any extraneous applications. You just have to turn off a few unnecessary services. -Tim --- Tim Ellison Integrated Technical Services Noli nothis permittere te terere. - common phrase spoken by Roman slaves. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:53 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Setting up XP pro I now have the Dual core P4, upgraded motherboard, 1GB RAM graphics adapter etc., all built into a tower ready to be made into my stand alone SDR1000 driver unit. I'm planning on installing XP pro from scratch, so can anyone advise me if there anything I should, or should not, install, set up or modify in the XP pro installation please? Thanks I'm running Server 2003 on my main development PC a PowerEdge 4400 server, I though of using Server 3003 but the 300 Terabytes of RAM requirement was a bit steep, so I will stick with what I have for now. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
[Flexradio] Plodding along with the Edgy Eft Beta install
It's going incredibly slow at install compared to Dapper Drake, I've been waiting on it for an hour while it installs files and it has not re-booted yet it's at 65%. Dapper Drake on the same machine was finished in less than 25 minutes. When I first started it stopped after entering the language, I stopped it after 15 minutes of doing nothing and re-started with the Safe Graphic mode and it then proceeded to run the installation. Very slow but pretty install. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Scanning?
Be aware that if you put it back in the Mattress Police will come after you. You know, the guys that enforce the laws when you remove that little label on a mattress or a pillow that says not to be removed under pain of law. First thing I do is rip off that little label out, oh my I have admitted in a public forum that I'm a wanton criminal, they are probably on their way as we speak. They are coming to take me away, hihi, they are coming to take me away,haha. Hihi haha, to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time. It's a gorgeous day here in NW Arkansas, I've better enjoy it while I can. Tim Ellison wrote: Stig, It was removed in SVN 566. Flex has never given an official reason (at least not one I can I can find in the reflector archives), but I assume it was regulatory in nature and they were motivated to remove the feature for whatever the reasons. Obviously any one with the IDE and using SVN 565/566 as a reference can put it back in, at their own risk, of course. -Tim --- Tim Ellison Integrated Technical Services -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stig Rasmussen Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:33 AM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Scanning? Can someone tell me how to start scanning. In the 1.6.2 there is a Scanner-button on the front.(Greyed out, no function) In 1.6.3 SVN there is no such button as I can find. Maybe I'm blind... 73's LA4WAA - Stig - Oslo -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Erlang, my first steps
Rule based languages are simply awesome once you get your brain to accept how they work, and you stop trying to program them how you would normally do with languages such as C. All the most complicated programs that simple worked great that I wrote were done with declarative languages such as Prolog. Yet they were very simple and easy to understand. Which is one reason I love Prolog. But Erlang with it's messaging capacity has so much more potential. Glad to see that you are having fun with it, the beauty is that if written according to Erlang methods those modules could be in different PC's with different OS's and everything would work just peachy. Let us know when you update your website. Bob Cowdery wrote: Well it's been a while but - now I'm having fun - although the last month has been a roller-coaster ride. Many times, sometimes more than once in the same day giving up seemed a really good option, then a small breakthrough would spur me on a little further. I don't know how much time I have spent on this because I do have a day job but I suspect more time than I should have. I'm not going to make this technical. I will do a writeup later and post it on my web site. Suffice it to say I am sitting here listening to my Erlang distributed radio. It's not quite the architecture I envisaged at the start but I like it... rather a lot. It's running in 3 nodes, two are pure C using the Erlang ei library and the other is native Erlang. Node 1 is a thin GTK+ UI. Node 2 is the application implemented with a state machine and Node 3, the Erlang node, I have called the switcher. Node 1 is completely dumb, it sends events and receives updates, it absolutely never does anything of it's own accord. Node 2 knows what to do to implement an event. Node 3 knows how to route messages and is the message switching hub. I didn't want a hub topology as I had peer-to-peer in mind but in the end after failing on my initial design it looked the best way forward. Having done it I think it separates out the 'what to do' (Node 2) and the 'where to get it done' (Node 3) quite nicely. My real fear was performance, longer message path and potential bottleneck. The performance has literally astounded me. My acid test is running the pointer over the tuning digits which grow when the cursor is over the digit. I can't beat the system it's absolutely as responsive as it was when it was all C in the same executable. All running on my 2.4GHz m/c DSP takes 2% and the rest is not measurable. If I scroll frequency up and down fast or run over the digits I can get the UI to take 2%. I'm not sending display data right now and that will be the teller but indications are it shouldn't be a problem. Erlang is very stable, very fast and very concise. I'm well impressed. My Erlang switcher is just over 50 lines of code. It's a start-up monitor, a registry and a store and forward switch. It will cope with an arbitrary number of nodes. In my books that's impressive in 50 lines. Ok, it needs to grow up a bit, well, quite a lot but it does the job. The thing that kept me going was the possibilities that kept popping into my head that this would open up. 1. Obviously the hardware controller and DSP can be placed at C nodes. Currently these are directly attached to the state machine. You can of course have multiple of these as the switcher only need resolve who the messages are for. 2. The UI can be distributed. There is no need for the UI to all run as the same piece of code. Heck, the pieces don't even need to be the same language or run on the same machine. There would be no overhead at all in splitting the UI up. 3. A ready made plug-in architecture. A bit of boiler-plate code and pieces of UI can be made as separate nodes (or anything else for that matter). How about a scanner, a memory bank, a special display or tuning control. 4. A prime candidate for a node is CAT. If the CAT sends change frequency to the switcher, messages end up at the UI to update the frequency and the controller to set the frequency because that's what the state machine does when it gets that event. 5. Another prime candidate is a scripting node. This would let you write small programs preferably in Erlang to run the radio for special purposes. The infrastructure is there, the API is there because it's that same set of events the state machine can respond to. 6. Easy to distribute across machines (of course). This is the next thing I want to do. 7. Everything is potentially cross-platform. Next but one thing to try. 8. Can be expanded to spoke and hub topology to spread the switching load should it become too high. I do believe I'm going to stop playing infrastructure now and work on function (no - really, this time). I've only scratched the surface of Erlang so I'm looking forward to learning what it can really do. It is still first steps but I'm walking a little faster. Thanks to
Re: [Flexradio] clock ticking from sdr-1000
Douglas Shock wrote: Why does my SDR-1000 sound like a ticking watch when powered off? Did I get more than I ordered here? Doug / K0ZU FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Was it shipped from the Jihad division? -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] When do we get to Join the Flexers Club so we can pay some dues?
Gerald Capodieci wrote: You'll need a 503ce filing and form a public service org. This radio system is getting too good to keep to ourselves. It also needs to be shown at Computer Conventions to bring in more geeks like me. I left Armature Radio in 1980 because the radios were just getting more fancy, expensive but seldom better (some were worse). Instead of just slipping sideways like most of the rest only the SADR1000 and the K2 made real steps forward. I was busy for 28 years with DP and Office Automation and my key to success was to Keep it Simple. Coming from that bias, I bought the SADR1000 and AL-82. This by far is the simplest combo on the block. I am beyond words to describe how pleased I am with this combo. Everyone I talk to says, Great audio.. what radio are you using? And everyone I try to talk to responds and wants to talk. Jerry -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060927/f4814839/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Send me $20 for a one year subscription, $150 for a lifetime subscription, use PayPal to my email address. Thanks -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 17, Issue 24
Hulen Smith wrote: Chris wrote: But its always the same at such forums, as soon as somebody finds a bug, which other have not seen or are not able to see. He is attacked. The forum is here to help each other, even if its not always in the benefit of the producing firm. Finally it will be to their advatage as they can look at it and maybee fix it. But just to say I dont see nor have it is also not fair. So thanks to John who made a step in the right direction. 73 Chris HB9BDM Chris and others, I have read every thread here on flex-radio.biz since Jan 06 since I've received my SDR-1000. While I agree with your concerns, I don't consider that anyone has been attacked. Mind you, I'm a third party reading the same threads. I see lots of frustration to problems that can't be readily solved. I see eagerness on the part of the same few people who have always been there to help and continue to be there for us. However, even these folks can become frustrated not being able to help as quickly as others would like. They are only able is help if they are familiar with the symptoms or if they can reproduce the problem as described. Failing that doesn't say, Your full of shit. NOW THAT'S BEING ATTACKED. What it says to me is, I wish da heck I could help you ole man but I need mo data. Possibly many of you would like to hear a more personalized message but these guys haven't been helping since you got your radio. Many have been helping since SDR-1000 was an infant and somet imes just maybe they don't feel like after a long day at the office taking the time to sugar coat their responses. Again, I haven't seen anyone rude. I've seen the TONE of complaints being out of line which is part of the frustration that many have for many different reasons, most of which aren't the fault of the SDR-1000 or the volunteers here that are helping us enjoy this radio. I won't bother with the cost per inch ratio of these radio or the cost per once ratio either. What I will say is that inch for inch (millimeters if you prefer), there's more to enjoy that any of the other RICE boxes on the market today. I believe that if we all exercise a bit more patience and be more specific with the nature of our problem when we report it here on this forum, we stand to get those problems solved more expediately than otherwise. By disagreeing with you Chris, I hope you don't think I'm attacking you. Best ragards to you Chris and to all on this forum that contribute to it's success. Hulen Smith K5HCS -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060925/f25fa624/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com It's a good thing that you have not read some of the private emails I have received. That is one reason why I was really ticked off after my first report that I also had the problem only worse. So I apologize to the group for really being hostile, while responding to the group, it was the private emails only that deserved that response. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] DC/DC Converter (DC1)
Joe - AB1DO wrote: Hi, John Eckert K2OX started this thread describing how he replaced the DC1 with a linear. Following were several posts requestiong more info from John on the replacement part he used. I don't think I read a response. Did I miss it or has anyone received more details on this? Just very interested, 73 de Joe - AB1DO - Original Message - From: Ross Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ahti Aintila' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Tim Ellison' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:29 Subject: Re: [Flexradio] DC/DC Converter (DC1) Thank you Tim and Ahti, I read your posts with much interest and I am actually fishing for official responses :^) With tongue in cheek I would hope that a company whom is committed to becoming the best radio company in the world would not take the typical Yaesu position with respect to hardware issues. For those that don't know what that means ask just about any FT-1000MP Mark V owner. Please don't misunderstand me, I like Flex Radio and their product. This email below was posted a short while ago. Hi Tim and Ross, Let me copy what I answered to Cris and Willi few hours ago: -- Willi, Thanks for remembering! Linear power supply/voltage regulator is always a good solution for low noise applications. Unfortunately, sometimes we cannot use them. Actually, now I'm using the original chopper with better filtering. You may add 47uF capacitor parallel to C7 and double the values of L2, L3, C8 and C9. Be careful though, the chopper DC1 (NMA1215S) is very sensitive to all kind of overloads - even to the higher inrush current of the output filter capacitors! That's why higher inductance values will be needed. My suggestions are beyond the recommendations of the manufacturer and naturally, you violate the guarantee rules of FlexRadio, too. Anything you modify is totally at your own risk and responsibility. It may be my good luck only, that this modification has worked three years in my oldest SDR-1000 and about two years in the two other sets. For anybody else I suggest buying (or building) a quiet power supply with well filtered output voltages +13.8V and ?15V (?12V). 73, Ahti OH2RZ -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression
Jeff Anderson wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for the comment. Yes, we also jiggled twisted the 3.5 mm plugs - the image rejection settings are *very* sensitive to the connection between these jacks and plugs, and we observed that if you even looked at them cross-eyed, the null settings would change. Although I love my SDR1K (it's the only radio I use now, despite a shack full of rigs), if there's one thing I'd change about its design, it's the use of those jacks. Very cheap feel (plugs do not fit snugly). In fact, unless I position the plug from my morse key in the key jack *just right*, the radio will automatically go into Transmit when I select CW mode. Very annoying. Thanks again, - Jeff, K6JCA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike King - KM0T Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:10 PM To: 'FlexRadio Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression Hi guys, this may or may not be a solution, and I know it has been beaten to death...but I too experienced this same thing over the weekend while I was helping a fellow with his SDR-1000. He brought his system over and we got it all set up. Going back and forth between our two systems and looking at each others signals, we too saw this opposite sideband or whatever it is come and go. We also saw an opposite CW single in that mode. After much messing around, we both pulled out, plugged in and twisted a number of times over our 3.5mm jacks on the back of the SDR-1000 for the delta 44 breakout box, and the opposite side signals went away. We did not mess with the TX rejection controls whatsoever... 73 GL Mike - KM0T - Original Message - From: Jeff Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerald Capodieci [EMAIL PROTECTED]; K6JEK [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression Hi Gerald, I don't think Jon's problem is one of TX Image Rejection. We nulled it down at least 70 dB using the procedure in the manual. But we're still seeing grunge on the opposite sideband. If I listen to that sideband on another receiver, it doesn't sound like a clear voice (as I would expect if, say, there was an I/Q imbalance that would produce sort of a DSB effect). Instead, it kind of sounds like SSB when you receive it in AM mode - you can tell it's a voice, sort of, but it sounds very very bad. My current hypothesis is that it might be PA IMD. Wish I'd looked at the spectrum pre-PA (at the QRP Output connector) yesterday when we had it on the bench, rather than looking only at the output post-PA. - Jeff, K6JCA. --- Gerald Capodieci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a procedure for Transmit Image Rejection management on the bottom of page 90 of the manual. It worked for me but I'm using a Delta 44. The section was rewritten by Eric but not published yet. Just use another trusted receiver, tune it to the same frequency but the apposite side band and adjust the SDR slider controls to surpress it. K6JEK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an update on the poor sideband suppression from my SDR-1000. It is putting significant energy out on the wrong sideband, visible in the panadapter of a nearby fellow Flexer and audible by not so nearby hams listening on the opposite sideband. Yesterday I took the radio over to Jeff, K6JCA's, impressive lab. Together we used as many pieces of test equipment as we could think of -- HP spectrum analyzers, lab grade audio spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and most effectively of all Jeff's SDR 1000 to see what was happening with mine. We haven't completely solved the problem. But here are the weekend's revelations: 1) It not the opposite sideband. Listening on the opposite sideband sounds like SSB through an AM detector 2) Wide band noise was coming out of the Firebox. The little filter on the line-out line knocked it way back. 3) Audio coming out of the Firebox looked really good on the lab grade audio spectrum analyzer -- brick wall, no funny business -120 dBV noise floor (with the filter) 4) Careful adjustment of the TX Image dropped the opposite sideband signal by quite a bit, 10 - 20 dB 5) Jeff's radio has some of the funny opposite side signal too 6) Jeff has too much stuff 7) Two hams can spend an afternoon pushing RF between radios and not blow anything up People nowadays make fun of RCA phono jacks because it's such old design, but a 1/8 jack is downright flimsy compared to a RCA jack. And a high quality RCA jack is very inexpensive, but they do take more room. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
Re: [Flexradio] Edirol FA-66 Firewire with 192 KHz sampling rate added to list of supported sound cards
That is a good idea of having a list of cards know to work well. I use a lot of Firewire Hard Disk at work and not all Firewire cards are created equal, some are downright nasty and make your system crash. I'll take a look as soon as I can. At work we bought a bunch of Dells with Firewire cards added on, and we have not had one lick of trouble with them, with either Disk Drives or hooking up to video cameras. All those PC's are using XP, in a strange way some cards that acted up on XP work just fine on Win2K, go figure, must be a driver issue. Jeff Anderson wrote: Hi John, The Edirol board sounds great, and I'd very much like to try one, but my computer, which I purchased from Flex when I bought by SDR1000, does not have Firewire. If I want to use the Edirol board with this computer (a Dell), what would I need to do? Are there any Firewire PCI cards that you would recommend, for example? If adapter cards are available, it might be worthwhile for Flex to create a cheat sheet with recommended adapter cards and installation instructions to minimize the pain and swearing that usually (at least, in my case) accompanies adding new hardware to a system. - Jeff, K6JCA --- John Basilotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FlexRadio Systems is pleased to announce that we are now a Roland distributor for the Edirol FA-66 FireWire Audio Interface. The Edirol box will replace the PreSonus Firebox as the recommended unit best suited for portable and serious audio applications. The Delta 44 remains as our recommended PCI soundcard. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] DC/DC Converter (DC1) Replaced with Linear Supply
I'm sorry, I apologize, I got a lemon of a radio, and the manufacturer is not interested in fixing it, must be my fault somehow. Myself and several others must be imagining this problem, funny thing my other radios don't pick up these moving signals, it's inside my radio. Can you possibly imagine that someone else's radio might not work as good as yours without being the operators fault? Maybe, just maybe they got a radio that has something wrong out of the factory? Nah, it could not ever happen. Jimmy Jones wrote: Like I've said many times before(personal opinion).It's not a rig for everyone. Take my advice now and sell. You boat anchor needs you. KD5NWA wrote: I have a SDR-1000 that I bought at Dayton and frankly I have been disappointed in it's performance, I have all these signals specially in the lower bands that are wondering around and changing frequency on me, they are at least +20 dB above the noise floor. On my radio the broad carriers never stop moving but your description sounds like the problem I have, except mine seems to be worse. If I turn off the radio and listen instead with my TS-930 they simply are not there at all. I have not turned on the radio in about 45 days because of these problems, and also I have multitudes of large spurs all over the place getting worse the higher you go in frequency. 10M is downright useless, large spurs as far as the eye can see. I sent some pictures to Flexradio of my wondering carriers but nothing became of it. I've been seeing comments from others about how great the radio is, but frankly I have not seen it, right now my SoftRocks work better. Looks like I'm going to have to do some surgery before this is over. At 10:06 AM 9/22/2006, you wrote: Hi Folks, I just wanted to let you know about a modification I made to my radio. DC1 is a switch mode converter that provides +/- 15 volts for the instrumentation amplifiers IC6/7 on receive that interface the QSD to the sound card. The DC/DC converter's internal oscillator free runs at ~120 kHz and is very rich with odd harmonics, every 240 or so kHz, throughout the HF range. This manifests itself as low level 'carriers' that drift around and through receive frequencies. When the SRD is first powered up they move quite fast, but after the unit has warmed up the move very, very slowly through your QSO. These signals were about S4 on my SDR1000 in the 40M band and are easily removed with the automatic notch. But, loving to tinker like I do I removed the DC1 and soldered a 7 pin header in its place. I used a 1 x 2 x 2, +/- 15v linear supply wired to the header. How's it work? Great! No more warbling tones from within the SDR. I wish I would have done more before and after testing. Now when I connect the receiver to a dummy load, most of the bands are clear of spurs with the noise floor at -153 dBm. I imagine that the fundamental waveform (square wave?) of the DC/DC converter was putting an awful lot of total integrated power into the QSD and mixing with other signals there to increase the total spurs. It just keeps gettin' better. Regards, John k2ox -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] DC/DC Converter (DC1) Replaced with Linear Supply
I can hear them very faintly on my TS-930 until I turn off the SDR-1000 then they disappear, in my case the noise is coming from the SDR-1000. Ray J wrote: thats funny.. I hear signals like this on my IC- 746 and on my FT-920 quite often .. likewise I can hear/see then on my sdr-1000.. I do not think this a fault of the radio. or if it is its a common problem... Ray J W9RAY Cecil Bayona wrote: Myself and several others must be imagining this problem, funny thing my other radios don't pick up these moving signals, it's inside my radio. Can you possibly imagine that someone else's radio might not work as good as yours without being the operators fault? Maybe, just maybe they got a radio that has something wrong out of the factory? Nah, it could not ever happen. J ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Required PC
Mark Mumaw wrote: It would cost somewhere between $250-$350 to upgrade the memory to 1GB. I can buy a brand new Dell XPS 400 with a 2.8 Ghz duo core P4 with 1GB for $478 from Pilgrim Technology. I don't understand why the old memory is so expensive. Is anyone out there only using 512 GB with good results??? Thanks Mark NU6X -Original Message- From: Jim, W4ATK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 5:20 AM To: Mark Mumaw Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Required PC Should work, but I would think about more RAM. I would go with 1GB. Jim, W4ATK Memory for old Dells can be bought much cheaper from third party suppliers, none of my Dell's use Dell memory, but if your PC uses RAMBUS ram then you are stuck with high prices. But would it really be a Dell that they are selling? I've read about Chinese fakes that are made to look like Dell's and labeled as such but are cheap fake imitations. I don't believe Dell uses dealers but sells direct only. The XPS 400 starts at $1000, what are these people trying to sell you for $470? Be careful and check it out to make sure you are getting what is being advertised.. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Required PC
Mark Mumaw wrote: I'm getting ready to purchase the SDR-1000. I have a spare PC to dedicate to it. It is a P4 2.4 GHz (Dell Dimension 8200) with 512MB of RAM. According to the website 512MB is the min. required. Will this machine do an adequate job??? Thanks Mark NU6X -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060904/556e6952/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com I have a Optiplex GX260 with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 and it runs 10% to 15% utilization which quite good. Your machine should do fine. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
[Flexradio] Ubuntu freaks and newbies
I found the following link quite useful in tweaking and setting up Ubuntu 6.06. http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper I will be trying out the SDR-1000 on Ubuntu Linux this weekend now that my Ubuntu PC is working out quite nicely after being struck by lightning. And no, the radio was not connected to it at the time. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Erlang, my first steps
Robert McGwier wrote: Frank Brickle wrote: Thought that might be it. If you get a chance, look at the 'Behavior' documentation. Part of OTP (as beyond just the Erlang language) is a fairly complete set of server, state machine, task supervisor, and application frameworks for which you need to supply only callbacks. The pattern-matching function argument syntax might look unusual, but I think it may go a long way towards limiting abstraction bloat. The pattern matching binding (assignment) and function argument is the heart, meat, and soul of Erlang. As soon as you have fully grokked [H | T] = and f(A,B,C,D) - blah, blah; f([]) - different blah, blah. for example, almost all the rest is syntax with a bunch of added library functions which make the stated goals of the project seem almost like child's play! I really hope after we stress this it holds up to the buffeting we must give it in tests. Bob N4HY One of the beauties of a rule base language is when you have new conditions to add. You add another rule that is more specific to the condition your concerned about and the system figures out which one to execute automatically, no rat-nested if else statements. The code stays nice and clean, you see a set of rules and what to do about it if that rule applies. The more I read about the language the more Prolog I see in it, I like Prolog, it can make some very complicated problems have very simple solutions. 73 Frank AB2KT On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:05 -0700, Paul Shaffer wrote: DNS Client service not running. I tracked this down as soon as I realized that node with names of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' were seeing each other. Erlang is very interesting. If I had time I would play with the windows service version they include in the distribution. My recent work has involved programming a service in .net that handles thousands of simultaneous network proxy threads, so Erlang's design philosophy seems very practical in comparison. What's the issue? 73 Frank AB2KT ___ -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Spurs and Picket Fences
In my case, turning spur reduction seems to make it worse, the spurs are -50dB or even higher, it's totally useless on 10 meters. On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:59, Jimmy Jones wrote: Did you guys have Spur Reduction checked? I went across the entire 10 meter band just now and had only 1 spot with a spur. I was in upper sideband running a bandwidth of 4 khz and the spur was in my passband at 28.583 ,584 and 585. The Signal level was -87.3 dBm. Nothing in the entire band other than this spur was above -120 dBm. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Flex-Radio-Friends Site?
At the top all the way to the right is a menu selection Join/Login If you are a member you login first, if you are not a member then you have to create an account first. http://www.hamsdr.com/Home.aspx I have some files here, but they are large; http://www.qrpradio.com/pub/Ham/SDR/IQ%20Wave%20Files/ Another interesting link; http://www.qrpradio.com/pub/Large%20Rabitt.jpg On Sunday 13 August 2006 16:23, NZ8J wrote: I am trying to get into the Flex-Radio Friends site and their upload section to get some .wav files to play with and it asks for a user name and password and apparently will not allow anonymous ftp connections. I cannot find where you register or can get a password to gain access to the site.. does anyone have information about this site... thanks in advance Tim NZ8J ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger! Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] vSOUND
On Friday 04 August 2006 17:54, Dave Ackrill wrote: I remember sending of a donation in the rush of excitement that was generated by the idea of what seemed to be a software sound card connector which would possibly do for digital mode program connections what vCOM does for other rig control programs like Ham Radio Deluxe. I appreciate that Phil couldn't keep all the individual contributors to the fund informed on an individual basis, but the last mention I can find on the N8VB blog was on 30th June, and it didn't sound as upbeat as many of the earlier posts. The words 'I hope to have something together to test in a month or so' seem to suggest, to the way I read that, as if the project is not going to happen very soon? Now, I realise that my donation was not a legally binding contract, and I don't have a right to a pound of flesh, but I'm wondering if I should just chalk the donation down to experience and hold back next time I get swept up in the excitement of a project that someone says they would like to do, but just needs a bit of cash as seed corn to avoid their loss of opportunity costs meaning that they cannot justify the time to do something? Dave (G0DJA) ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com No good deed goes unpunished... -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com A persons greatness is measured by how they treat those persons that they have the power to harm. Cecil Bayona ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Things have sure changed
The Standard edition should work fine, that is what I was told by some of the programmers. You can generaly pick up a brand new standard edition for $60 to $70 on eBay. You need the 2003 Visual Studio version. With the V17 release of the software when available you can use the free VS 2005 Express version. On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:33, Jim, W4ATK wrote: It has been quite a while since I wrote in C(17 years). Does one need the Professional Edition, or is the Standard Edition of Visual Studion 200x suitable for working with the PowerSDR source files? Aged Programmer Jim, W4ATK ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Installing Ubuntu on an existing Windows PC
In general the 2.6 Kernel does not support RAID unless you have a real RAID controller. Meaning here , the inexpensive RAID controllers (like IWill, Adaptec) do it with software not hardware and Ubuntu or any other 2.6 Kernel Linux will hose you array if you try to install it. The first clue is that is sees the two drives as individual drives instead of one combined container. On Saturday 22 July 2006 16:14, Tim Ellison wrote: If you are interested in installing Ubuntu on an existing Windows PC, here is a great link that describes in detail the process of resizing your existing NTFS partition, explanation and description of how to setup your Ubuntu ext3 partitions, setup a partition that can be shared by Windows and Ubuntu and setting up GRUB to dual boot your system. http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/ Enjoy! -Tim --- Tim Ellison mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Integrated Technical Services http://www.itsco.com/ Apex, NC USA 919.674.0044 Ext. 25 / 919.674.0045 (FAX) 919.215.6375 - cell PGP public key available at all public KeyServers Skype: kg4rzy ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Dual Monitor Operation
It depends on how the motherboard is built, look for a lot of L2 cache and a fast frontside bus. At work we purchased some Dell laptops (M90's 2.8GHz 2 Meg L2 cache)) with dual-core and it smokes the Dual Xeon Precision (2.8GHz) desktops that we have. As soon as I can save enough money I'm going to buy me a Dual core desktop to be my main PC. On Sunday 16 July 2006 13:02, John Denson wrote: Rick - Yes, I am using a dual monitor set-up. One monitor displays the SDR and the on the other I display MixW and DX Monitor. That works well for me. My second display is attached to a PCI card. The PC is a 1 MHz Pentium III which runs 80 - 100% CPU utilization. I am planning to upgrade to a dual core motherboard and CPU. I am not sure which will be better, a dual core CPU or a faster single CPU setup. Do you have any idea how, on a dual core CPU, to direct SDR to one processor and MixW and DX Monitor to the other processor? John Denson, AI6A - Original Message - From: Rick Markey, KN3C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:55 AM Subject: [Flexradio] Dual Monitor Operation The Win-EQF post brings up another question. Are any SDR users running dual monitor set up with their logging program? The SDR console is on one monitor and in my case, Win-EQF on the other monitor. This is what was planning to do when I purchase my flex The computer will ge a dual-core so I don't think processing capacity will be an issue de Rick, KN3C ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/389 - Release Date: 7/14/2006 ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
