Re: [Flexradio] Help!
We use Access extensively at work, and we have not encountered these levels of database issues, the databases tend to be quite large and used by several people at the same time. The only noticeable problem starts occurring when they get rather large in the 2 Gb range, below that we have not encountered any problems. We use Office 2003, and all the updates are loaded. I wonder if some of these issues is RF getting into the PC. At 12:26 PM 3/25/2007, you wrote: I had such database corruption incidents several times already. Same observation, it seems always to happen when transmitting. I actually would like to see some text based configuration file. Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] OT: A question of vanity
I looked through the records one guy had filed 252 request for one call and only one call. This is a stressful process for me (type A?), I noticed that when I filed for some calls other people went and filed for the several of the same calls I did. Seems like vultures that don't take the effort to look for calls but if they see someone file for one, they want it to all of a sudden. It looks like I will get my #1 or #2 pick if the latest fiasco doesn't mess me up, their computers changed my order for the request, I have a printout that shows the right order yet their computer shows something totally different, their computer transposed two columns after Saturday's processing. 1. N5OO several filed right after I did. 2. K5NWA no one has filed against it and it's too late for them, I get first crack at it if I don't get N5OO. Strange, no one has ever had this call according to the records. Kilo 5 North West Airlines, it doesn't sound too bad. I live in North West Arkansas and it's referred locally as NWA for short. I won't know the results until 3/27/07 Back to my cave. At 07:45 AM 3/11/2007, you wrote: Cecil, In the past, and I believe it still is under the new rules, a lottery or computer radomization. That is why if someone really wanted a certain vanity call and it came open, the person wanting it so bad would files several applications for it on the same day. In your example, if party A filed for it and party B filed 10 applications for it, it was likely that party B would get it. At least the odds were in his favor. The FCC realized this and recently changed the rules allowing only one application per day for the same call by the same individual. and yes, party B simply filed for a refund of the vanity fees for the applications that weren't granted. --Larry W8ER kd5nwa wrote: I have a question regarding vanity calls, unfortunately in the past I didn't pay too much attention. If party A applies for a call, then party B applies for the same call later in the day, how does the FCC determine who gets the call? I've been told that it was first come first served, but I though that it's picked by random pick for a days set of entries. Anyone know for sure? Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] OT: A question of vanity
I have a question regarding vanity calls, unfortunately in the past I didn't pay too much attention. If party A applies for a call, then party B applies for the same call later in the day, how does the FCC determine who gets the call? I've been told that it was first come first served, but I though that it's picked by random pick for a days set of entries. Anyone know for sure? Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] FW: [3830] CONTEST: CQ-160-SSB
How about a piece of paper suitable for framing saying you were #1 in your division. I want to try for the Born left handed and forced to become right handed division. At 10:55 AM 3/8/2007, ah6jr wrote: Interesting Idea, what are the prizes? Stan AH6JR On Thursday 08 March 2007 6:41 am, John P Basilotto W5GI wrote: What about our own contest? How many Flexers can you work? We would be glad to support such as contest if someone would take the lead in setting a contest up and then managing it. John P. Basilotto W5GI Marketing and Product Manager FlexRadio Systems 512-535-5266 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Andrews Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:31 AM To: Scott; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; Tim Ellison Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FW: [3830] CONTEST: CQ-160-SSB Scott Tim, I enjoy contesting very much. Sometimes I join in with the Society of Midwest Contesters for a club score. Many of the contests have rules that restrict club entries to stations within a specific geographic area. For example, ARRL contest rules state that all stations must be within a 175-mile radius of the club center or must all be in the same ARRL section. CQ contest rules just say the club must be a local organization not national. That may limit putting together an official Flex contest club, but there is no reason why we cannot track our unofficial score. In any event, count me in. By the way, ALL of my contesting has been with my SDR-1000 since I got it in January 2006. 73, Ray, K9DUR -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/2 0 070308/9b2ddb6e/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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] Linux on TeamSpeak tonight?
I have not heard, is there a Linux get together this evening on TeamSpeak? Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook. ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] single line-in/line-out cable
I'm curious if anyone has used CAT5e cable for the audio signal transport and see how it fared? It's extremely well suited to balance lines and high frequency, but I have never used it for audio in the SDR-1000. It might be worth giving it a try after I move and setup my SDR-1000 with full isolation of the audio lines. At 03:12 PM 2/20/2007, Joe - AB1DO wrote: Hi gang, mulling over some ways to reduce the number of SDR-1000 interconnect cables here and I was wondering if a single 4 lead shielded cable could be used to replace the two I/Q cables between the SDR-1000 and the sound card. The four leads would be connected in pairs to a pair of 1/8 audio connectors either side, with the shield connected to only one connector pair (say To Line In). That way there would only be one ground connection and one cable. I don't think there would be an issue concerning running both the line-in and line-out wires in one cable as they are never used together anyway (one is transmit, the other receive). I also don't think there would be an issue of cross-talk between tip and ring (most 1/8 audio cables are twin leads within a single shield and if I'm not mistaken, the 15-pin Delta-44 cable runs all leads within a single shield), but I may be wrong on that one. Comments anyone? 73 de Joe - AB1DO -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070220/6f05e3e1/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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] phone service
We are getting the same in NW Arkansas, everyone is going ballistic. At 01:52 PM 2/14/2007, you wrote: We apologize for the phone problems we are having. The phone rings but no one is at the other end when we pick up the phone. Callers typically get all circuits are busy message. We hope to have this problem fixed soon. . Thank you for your patience. John P. Basilotto W5GI Marketing and Product Manager FlexRadio Systems 512-535-5266 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070214/8f041152/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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] S Meter Freeze-up and more
That problem has been there since at least May of 2006 when I purchased my SDR-1000. It's been really elusive, mine can go for days before it happens, then clicking on the standby button twice clears it up. At 12:37 AM 2/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZS6AVM Wrote: I've been experiencing meter freeze-up with the past couple of SVN's, can't recall how many back from SVN 887 I'm running a 3gig single core Hyper-threading Intel CPU, with 1gig RAM, and using a parallel cable as supplied with the SDR This problem has only presented its self with say the last 3 - 4 SVN's, so it must be something new, its wasn't there before Another issue, which has presented its self is when one installs the Extended TX patch, there is no response when clicking Tune, the Flex still transmits out of Band, but the Tune function does not work Again, this has only been noticed with the past couple of SVN's Other than that, the SDR is working great, and thanks to all those who are contributing to its continual improvement Be seein ya Dave ZS6AVM *** Disclaimer: The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copying, disclosure or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by person or entities other then the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and return and/or destroy the original message and all copies from any computer. Denel (Pty) Ltd exercises no editorial control over e-mail messages originating in the organisation and does not accept any responsibility for either the contents of the message or any copyright laws that may have been violated by the person sending this message. Denel (Pty) Ltd is neither liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication nor any delay in its receipt. This message should not be copied or used for any purpose other than intended, nor should it be disclosed to any other person. *** -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070212/4cc8e25e/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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Transmit noise - Computer generated with D44
You are aware that if your cabling is picking up noise or there are ground loops in your setup, they will not go away by turning off the SDR-1000 (which really doesn't turns it off). Noise can also be picked up on the mike cable with the microphone disconnected. Is the mike connected to the sound card directly or is it going through the SDR-1000? You have not mentioned the nature of the noise which makes it hard to guess here. If the noise is hum or a raspy hum then ground loops are being a problem and a trip to Radio Shack to purchase a pair of audio isolation units may do the trick for you, if the noise is something else then you are going to do a little detective work to find it's source. If it's the software others should be noticing the problem also, any other recent complaints? At 11:26 AM 2/11/2007, Gerald Capodieci wrote: The Knowledge Base doesn't cover this issue. When I depress the MON and MOX buttons I monitor a noise in my headphones and see it on the Panadapter in as the transmit signal. The noise is present at the same level with the SDR1000 and power supply switched off. It's present with the Microphone disconnected as well. The noise is much more prevalent under the following conditions: . MON and MOX are checked . Transmit Equalizer enabled and the preamp increased any amount above 0 . Mic Gain set higher than 35 . When Mic Boost box checked noise is really increased The noise seems to be generated in software during its amplification. Note; it's present even without the mic plugged in, and the SDR1000 is powered down. If this noise is in-fact generated in the software especially when the gain in increased, an external preamp between the mic and the D44 box would reducing the need for gain in software thereby reducing software noise. However, an external preamp may introduce its own noise. Please repeat the above conditions and offer suggestions (perhaps the noise level is inconsequential, I just don't know) Jerry -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070211/4835c6da/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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] 24. Transmit noise - Computer generated with D44 (Gerald Capodieci) FOUND IT!
Remember computers are evil they are out to get us. The very design of the PC is nothing but trouble, some are so poorly designed that current for the power flows through the chassis and power can flow into a card through the L bracket causing all sorts of nasties, that bracket is connected to the analog ground also. Insufficient ground in the motherboard, the joining of the earth ground and power supply return at the power supply makes for ground loops inside the PC chassis itself and since the power supplies are cheap switchers all kinds of hash is flying around in the case. I worked for a biomedical company where it was critical to avoid noise and that is not the way to do things. At 04:33 PM 2/11/2007, Gerald Capodieci wrote: The problem was possible due to the D44-card-to-computer-case connection. I used electrical tape to isolate the D44 card's L-bracket mount from the metal of the computer. The bottom tab and the sides of the L-bracket were taped to electrically insulate the card from the computer case. Now there's no raspy noise and about a 10db reduction in amplifier hiss. It is possible that for some reason, the D44's ground needs to be isolated from the computer case. Now, I've only just did this and it seems great, however if something blows up later, I'll update this posting. Thanks everybody for all the suggestions. Jerry Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question
Avast will download updates automatically these days, I use it myself on the one Windows PC. At 07:28 AM 2/8/2007, Robert McGwier wrote: Just be advised that free is not without cost. You will have to do regular scans MANUALLY as they do not schedule them unless you pay (at least the last time I bothered to look at the instructions!). Avast does work beautifully and they are as quick as any I have used on getting new wild virus, email bombs, etc. into the program. Bob Ken Klein wrote: Jeff; I might have missed seeing someone suggest this, but I had a similar problem that turned out to be an overactive virus detection program. I uninstalled Symantec and installed the free Avast!. Voila, vastly reduced periodic high cpu rates. Besides being free, it's a very good program. Ken WR5H -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. - Piet Hine ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question
And that 25% is average over the measuring period it could have gone way high for short periods, if its at the wrong time you drop audio. So to prevent that most people like to see those numbers as low as possible. At 04:32 PM 2/8/2007, you wrote: Unless I am missing something here, if I am using 5% of something or 25% of somethingthe job is still getting done. 73 Ross K9COX ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question
I had a similar problem, and what stopped it was the stopping of all unnecessary process that run in Windows. My PC started at 50% spiking to 75%, after the change it's now about 7% with no spikes. This is on a Dual processor Pentium III 1GHz PC. A Dell 220 Precision workstation. I believe the spike is caused by Windows processes running in the background that cause your cache to be flushed. Unfortunately you have to know a lot about windows to figure out how to optimize it, but there are sites that help you with the basic items. At 11:31 AM 2/5/2007, you wrote: Thanks, Tim Ken, for your replies. Yesterday I tried turning off the panadapter (and also reducing the display's FPS), and, surprisingly, that didn't seem to change the cyclical nature of the mips consumption. (I'll have to experiement again this evening and see if there's an overall change, though.) Please forgive my dumb questions, but how does one: 1) turn off indexing 2) ensure the cpu has some L2 cache 3) create a large swapfile Thanks for your help! I'll try to report back this evening with results... 73, - Jeff, K6JCA --- Ken N9VV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I can echo Tim's comments. The only thing that seems to help a Laptop at my location is: (a) a 7 FPS display rate (b) turning OFF the panadapter when I am on freq (c) turning off Indexing (d) sample rate at 48Khz (Audio/DSP Buffers = 2048) (e) making sure the Laptop CPU has some L2 cache. If you have a Centrino or Sempron or some mobile processor you won't be happy (no matter how high the Ghz are, you will still be hitting interrupts and context switching that will drive that % way up). (f) there are some free utilities out there that can help you force CPU speed to stay up (no good for power saving) but that is just a bandaid and not a good long term solution. Ken Tim Ellison wrote: Check several things. Hard drive on laptops are notoriously slow and suck up a bunch of system resources. Optimize hard drive access by: - Turning off file indexing - creating a swap file large enough that windows doesn't resize it - de-fragmenting the hard drive Also, most of the CPU taken by PowerSDR is in the running of the Panadapter. So you can: - Update your video driver - Change the FPS on the display to a bigger number Laptops also have a mode where they can dial down the CPU speed to save battery life. Change your power management settings on the laptop to full performance mode and do not shut down the hard drive after a particular amount of time. -Tim ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Pro Co Sound audio isolation transformer
I was talking in general, not specifically about any manufacturer. The Radio Shack transformers are pretty inexpensive, I looked last week and they were $16 for a stereo pair, but they come with no information at all. I'm wondering if you have tried sampling at the higher speeds such as 96KHz or 192KHz and noted what the bandwidth of the units are, you can tell because the baseband noise starts getting lower. I've been told that they only have a bandwidth of 30KHz or so, which is fine if you only use 48KHz sampling but you have a bad ground loop problems. If someone has noted their bandwidth please speak up. At 02:18 AM 2/4/2007, you wrote: The RS ones work very well in our application. I tried the Ebtech Hum Eliminators and they didn't work as well as the RS units so I sent them back. I'm sticking with the RS units. - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]kd5nwa To: mailto:FlexRadio@flex-radio.bizFlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Pro Co Sound audio isolation transformer Those high nickel and chrome transformers have excellent high and low frequency response, but they are kind of pricey. I ordered some transformers to do the same kind of thing, but it's hard to find a reasonable size steel box, so far I have not been too successful at finding an inexpensive one that is small enough and looks decent. It dawned on me just now that I have some steel tins that I got from Walmart for $2.5 dollars that contained mint chocolates that are really great but I bought it for the case which is quite pretty. The candy is layers of dark and white chocolate with a layer of peppermint, whoever though of that should get a Nobel prize. Mouser has some transformers that are good to 100KHz and some are flat to +- .1 dB they are between $8 to $15 apiece but they are really small and not meant for very hi power, just right for isolating audio signals for the SDR-1000. They had some that were flat to 300KHz but they don't carry them anymore. At 09:26 PM 2/3/2007, Mike Naruta wrote: The Jensen DM2-2XX Dual Line Output Isolator has excellent specs, but $220 for two channels is a lot of money for me. A pair of Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolators for $34 is affordable for me, but I have been disappointed in RS items so many times before and I can't seem to find specs for them. I bought a used, dented Pro Co Sound IT-4 four channel isolation unit for $75. I measured the DC resistance of all the transformers and they were fine. I fed in audio from my HP generator and watched the output on the scope for each transformer. It looked good, very good. The high-end response was beyond the spec. Likewise for the low-end. It was fascinating watching the 2 Hz output on the scope, only a little down from 1 KHz. I wasn't thrilled with the IT-4 Aluminum cabinet, especially since I have noticed the effect of the power transformer of my Astron power supply has on the picture of my nearby TV set. I was getting ready to make up the eight connectors, when it occurred to me that I was really just interested in the transformers. I drilled out the pop-rivets holding the transformers and un-soldered them from the IT-4. Digging around in the junk box I found a WWII Iron box that fit a pair of the transformers perfectly. I cut in half a cable with 3.5 mm mini stereo plugs on both ends and soldered a pair of the transformers to each end. Lots less connections and space. Fits perfectly with the Delta 44 interface board. Here is a photo of one of the boxes: http://www.hamsdr.com/profile1.aspx?id=76http://www.hamsdr.com/profile1.aspx?id=76 The panadapter display is much nicer. Rx and Tx image calibration is almost the same. The signal level is the same. The 100 Watt power amplifier calibration is within 0.1 or 0.2 of the previous values. Pay attention to the phase when connecting to the transformers. Here is the spec sheet for the Pro Co Sound LOT-1 microphone bridging transformer: http://www.procosound.com/downloads.htmhttp://www.procosound.com/downloads.htm Mike - AA8K ___ 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/http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil Bayona KD5NWA http://www.qrpradio.comwww.qrpradio.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ FlexRadio mailing list mailto:FlexRadio@flex-radio.bizFlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex
Re: [Flexradio] Pro Co Sound audio isolation transformer
The last link rates the RS transformers as really great in performance but for the fact that they are not shielded, making them susceptible to pick up hum from magnetic fields. How ironic, they easily pick hum, the very thing they are trying to eliminate. They are cheap enough that one could afford a small steel box to prevent magnetic fields from getting to them. I'm going shopping this afternoon, I think I will pay Radio Shack a visit and buy a couple of units to experiment with. At 12:39 PM 2/4/2007, you wrote: http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10194 http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10241 http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10359 Gerald Capodieci wrote: I'm sorry. I read this discussion some time ago but thought it didn't apply to me. Now I forgot problem but the discussion continues. Could someone please restate the problem for me. Maybe I need to address it too. I use the Delta 44. I'm running an AL-82 amp right next to a 2.8 MHz computer, and in my ignorance, I'm not aware of any problems. ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Residual carrier was SSB question
Most UPS do not solve ground loop problems, all they do is charge the battery until the power fails and they take over. They do not provide isolation from the power grid. When the power fails then they generate power, and you will hear the unit have a loud hum because the switchers are generating AC. At 03:33 PM 2/4/2007, Ross wrote: Thanks for the comments everyone. To answer some of the points put forward. (a) I have the same problem on 2 SDR1000,s. One is a 100watt unit the other the 1 watt. (b) Each rig has its own computer. (c) The 100watt unit with dual monitors and the Ediroll FA96 is being fed from an UPS. (d) The 1watt unit plus monitors and the Presonus firebox are fed from the mains per normal. (d) Like Al, I am using the 1 watt unit to drive a transverter for EME on 2m and 70cm. When the transverter, main amplifier etc switch on, I can hear a very audible hum, (in a second receiver tuned to the TX frequency) for a very short time, before the tones of WSJT become audible. It cannot be feedback as no microphones are connected. If it is ground loops then I would have thought that using the UPS, (which I purchased purely to make sure I didn,t have any) should have fixd the problem Any more advice please Best wishes to all Ross ZL1WN -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070205/ce5e2f0e/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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] [qrp-l.org] Ethanol from Corn
I disagree with point #2 The plant has carbon it took out of the environment in the first place so the net gain in carbon is zero, the next crop will absorb all that carbon dioxide back. The problem with oil is that you are releasing carbon that was taken out the Earth atmosphere a long time ago and releasing it back now, not a good thing in the long run. At 02:43 PM 2/4/2007, you wrote: Dave - Your comments on converting the starch to sugars making corn much less attractive for producing ethanol from corn than from sugar beets or sugar cane are correct. Producing ethanol from corn is a bad idea, for a number of reasons: 1. Converting the starch in corn to sugars to ferment requires a lot of energy. Corn is not ready to ferment as grown, as is the sugar cane in Brazil. 2. A third of the carbon, and hence roughly a third of the energy in corn, is lost during fermentation to feed the yeast. So the fermentation process is in itself not efficient. This also results in emitted CO2, which in turn will increase the average global temperature if lots of ethanol is produced. 3. Growing corn is very energy intensive itself. In particular, the production of insecticides and fertilizer require a lot of energy. 4. Producing the ethanol from corn requires a lot of water, In areas where ethanol from corn plants have been built local water bills have increased. Water from ground aquifers is a limited resource and it is not clear to me that we should end up burning it. 5. The demand for corn for ethanol has driven up corn prices. it is traditional for corn to be low at this time of year, yet it is at an all time high due to demand for corn to ferment for ethanol. What this means to the average consumer is higher prices for eggs, chicken, and beef. And these high prices are not temporary variations due to variable farm prices, they will stay high as long as the ethanol from corn folly persists. Ethanol from corn is nothing more than a convoluted way to subsidize corn prices. There are more effective ways to produce energy. The best and cheapest way is conservation. Next is renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. Growing energy can be done efficiently with biomass and biodiesel, but it is not clear to me that is the most effective use of our precious farmland. In principle, I am not against ethanol from corn, but one should drink the result, not burn it in your car. :^)= = Dr. Megacycle KK6MC/5 -- James Duffey KK6MC/5 Cedar Crest NM 87008 DM65 ___ http://mail.qrp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/qrp-l_qrp-l.org Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Pro Co Sound audio isolation transformer
Those high nickel and chrome transformers have excellent high and low frequency response, but they are kind of pricey. I ordered some transformers to do the same kind of thing, but it's hard to find a reasonable size steel box, so far I have not been too successful at finding an inexpensive one that is small enough and looks decent. It dawned on me just now that I have some steel tins that I got from Walmart for $2.5 dollars that contained mint chocolates that are really great but I bought it for the case which is quite pretty. The candy is layers of dark and white chocolate with a layer of peppermint, whoever though of that should get a Nobel prize. Mouser has some transformers that are good to 100KHz and some are flat to +- .1 dB they are between $8 to $15 apiece but they are really small and not meant for very hi power, just right for isolating audio signals for the SDR-1000. They had some that were flat to 300KHz but they don't carry them anymore. At 09:26 PM 2/3/2007, Mike Naruta wrote: The Jensen DM2-2XX Dual Line Output Isolator has excellent specs, but $220 for two channels is a lot of money for me. A pair of Radio Shack Ground Loop Isolators for $34 is affordable for me, but I have been disappointed in RS items so many times before and I can't seem to find specs for them. I bought a used, dented Pro Co Sound IT-4 four channel isolation unit for $75. I measured the DC resistance of all the transformers and they were fine. I fed in audio from my HP generator and watched the output on the scope for each transformer. It looked good, very good. The high-end response was beyond the spec. Likewise for the low-end. It was fascinating watching the 2 Hz output on the scope, only a little down from 1 KHz. I wasn't thrilled with the IT-4 Aluminum cabinet, especially since I have noticed the effect of the power transformer of my Astron power supply has on the picture of my nearby TV set. I was getting ready to make up the eight connectors, when it occurred to me that I was really just interested in the transformers. I drilled out the pop-rivets holding the transformers and un-soldered them from the IT-4. Digging around in the junk box I found a WWII Iron box that fit a pair of the transformers perfectly. I cut in half a cable with 3.5 mm mini stereo plugs on both ends and soldered a pair of the transformers to each end. Lots less connections and space. Fits perfectly with the Delta 44 interface board. Here is a photo of one of the boxes: http://www.hamsdr.com/profile1.aspx?id=76 The panadapter display is much nicer. Rx and Tx image calibration is almost the same. The signal level is the same. The 100 Watt power amplifier calibration is within 0.1 or 0.2 of the previous values. Pay attention to the phase when connecting to the transformers. Here is the spec sheet for the Pro Co Sound LOT-1 microphone bridging transformer: http://www.procosound.com/downloads.htm Mike - AA8K ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
I backup important documents to a DVD, I used to back up to two other PC's until in a 3 week period I lost all three PC's with no hope of data recovery. One was damaged by flooding the other two were cooked by lightning with the Hard Drives getting fried along with everything else. Computers are evil, but not as evil as some people I know. At 02:11 PM 1/24/2007, you wrote: I was lamenting just yesterday how long it would take to back up my PC. I do regualry back up my documents and log files to another PC on my wireless network. I could have backed up my PC three times in the time I have spent trying to install wireless networking on UBUNTU. I have Linksys wireless adapters and apparently UBUNTU does not like Linksys WMP54G adapters. Bummer! all that work and no joy. And OH, as one who foramlly had a computer consulting business, you would not believe the number of calls, How do I get it back? and of course our first question was, Do you have a backup?. 73s 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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC
Does 8 days maybe more in the water with power applied qualify for a lost cause? My neighbors told me that water started trickling out my front door on Saturday afternoon, I did not return from vacation until Monday a little over 8 days later in the early AM. This year when I go on vacation, I'm turning off the gas and water before I leave if my son is away on his vacation! The two drives hit by lightning most likely would not have recovered the boards were cooked with chips blowing their tops, most likely the heads were fried also. The main item that I lost was my emails that I had saved with useful information, there were 10K's of them, I did not have DVD backups of them unlike other files and data. The cases were fine and was the only thing that survived, all else, power supplies, motherboards, controllers and drives were cooked. It was a interesting period, I lost my main PC to flooding while I was on vacation I also lost several thousand dollars in ruined cameras and had a huge mess to clean up, I was not worried about my data since the other two PC's contained copies of everything. Then one night I was woken up by a huge flash of lightning, and my UPS making a loud noise, I went back to sleep, in the AM the PC's would not turn on and the UPS showed no lights, after removing the covers I found the UPS, and two PC's were literally cooked. I consider myself fortunate since the PC's and UPS were about one foot away from my bed. Interestingly, my TS-930 that was turned on in the same room suffered no damage that I can discern. The SDR-1000 was about to be moved so it was disconnected from everything so no damage there. At 03:35 PM 1/24/2007, Jim Lux wrote: At 12:46 PM 1/24/2007, kd5nwa wrote: I backup important documents to a DVD, I used to back up to two other PC's until in a 3 week period I lost all three PC's with no hope of data recovery. One was damaged by flooding the other two were cooked by lightning with the Hard Drives getting fried along with everything else. Depending on how important the data is, and how hard you want to work to get it back, it's likely that it's still ok on the platters. If you have an identical drive that still works, you can swap the drive into the electronics. Not a panacea (since there are calibration constants stored in EEPROM or Flash on most modern controllers) but it might work. Also, I've had quite a few pieces of electronics flooded, including hard disk drives, and recoverable. Rinse thoroughly in distilled water and dry slowly. The key is whether there was significant power applied while it was flooded, and even then, often there isn't a problem, as long as nothing got corroded. Seawater is another story. Most recently, my daughter's SanDisk MP3 player went through the washing machine without ill effects, caught it before going into the dryer, dried it out for a day in the sun, and it seemed to come alive again without a problem. Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Spur on AM
You need a transformer with higher bandwidth and better phase response, you can buy some at Mouser for $15 that are flat from 200Hz to 100KHz +- .1 dB, but it's just a transformer, there is no case, connectors or anything. I have some links at home for some commercial isolation transformers that are better than the RS ones but they cost a lot more. At 09:57 AM 1/23/2007, you wrote: I just made a few more measurements using my Delta 44 and some of my test equipment. Adding in the ground-loop isolator to the Line-In path has the following effects: Positive: 1. Noticably reduces the IF hump. 2. Flattens the display (w/o the isolator, I see a bit of rolloff towards the display edges when in 0.5x zoom mode. Negative: 1. Image rejection worsens at the display edges. That is, if a strong signal is in the receive audio passband (I used a -40 dBm signal) and you null its image down to the noise-floor, if you then shift the frequency of the received signal (but not the receiver's VFO-A frequency), you'll see the image begin to reappear. If the signal is moved in frequency such that the image is at the edge of the display (again, in 0.5x zoom mode), it appears to me that the image rejection is about 10 dB worse *with* the line isolator. In other words, it's in the mid to high 30's (of dBs) instead of the mid 40's. (Note, though, that in either case, the image can be nulled down to the noise). I'm not sure that the positives outweigh the negatives, but it raises some questions: 1. Can an isolator be designed, in hardware, to maximize the positives and minimize the negative? 2. Could a filter be designed so that, when it's convolved with the input signal, we maximize image rejection across the whole display, and not just at the frequency for which the image is nulled. That is, can the bowl shaped response to image rejection (when viewed across the entire display) be flattened? If so, how could this be done. (And what's the plan regarding the use of the pulse generator that's in the hardware?) - Jeff, K6JCA Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Spur on AM
I don't have that information on me, it a bifiliar wound wide-band transformer, I've seen some that are flat from 100Hz to 300KHz but the were a little bit more expensive. At 12:12 PM 1/23/2007, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Which transformers did you find with that bandwidth? I bought some of the Stacor ones that had been recommended earlier, and they have signicant roll-off above something like 10kHz. John kd5nwa wrote: You need a transformer with higher bandwidth and better phase response, you can buy some at Mouser for $15 that are flat from 200Hz to 100KHz +- .1 dB, but it's just a transformer, there is no case, connectors or anything. I have some links at home for some commercial isolation transformers that are better than the RS ones but they cost a lot more. Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Spur on AM
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Re: [Flexradio] Error importing Region1bandText.mbd
MDAC is for Win2000 machines, XP has it built in. At 02:59 AM 1/21/2007, you wrote: Eddy, I had the same result with installing MDAC 2.8 Klaus, DK7XL Van de Velde Eddy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Ray, The read only box was not checked in the mbd files. I downloaded MDAC 2.8 from Windows and tried to install it. This results in an error This version is incompatibel with Windows XP SP2. All facilities of this software are curently used by this version of Windows. Uninstall and install PowerSDR Data Import Utility again does not fix the problem. Again receiving Run-time error 424 Eddy ON5UQ. Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook. ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] VFO control without software focus
You can have multiple keyboards, mice, and monitors if your video hardware allows it. A feature that Mac's have had since the 80's welcome to the 21th century. Unfortunately the keyboards and mice are not distinguished by the OS itself, there might be some tools out there to distinguish them but I have never seen them, but then I wasn't looking either. With the video, the system only allows one window to have focus, with the mouse and keyboard a driver would have to take possession of a device for it's own use only. With the radio or graphic editing software it sure would be handy. At 09:11 AM 1/14/2007, Jerry Flanders wrote: I recently discovered (accidentally) that I could have two mice(?) running simultaneously on a new computer I was installing. Each works correctly, and independently (one was on a PS2 port and one on a USB port). I tried to see if each could retain focus on different programs, but they would not. If there is a way to somehow dedicate a specific mouse to PowerSDR in software, allowing a second to retain normal windows functionality, PowerSDR operation would be significantly improved. Perhaps a special driver for the mouse??? Or a special driver for the knob, dedicating it to PowerSDR? Jerry W4UK SNIP ___ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.hpsdr.com www.qrpradio.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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] CW output power on six meters - ATU
6M is VHF not HF, so anything that say HF only excludes 6M. So unless the amplifier and tuner specifically mention 6M and just says HF you are out of luck. At 12:50 PM 1/14/2007, you wrote: I'm guessing there's not enough output on six meters for the ATU to sense. On the FRS web site SDR-1000, Products, Details it says, The SDR-ATU is an optional integrated wide-range switched-L tuning network for the SDR-1000. Based on an OEM version of the LDG Z-100, it provides fully automatic antenna tuning across the entire HF range. It will tune dipoles, verticals, Yagis or virtually any coax fed antenna over a wide impedance range. Features include: automatic matching of antennas from 6-800 Ohms (10:1 SWR), 200 memories for instant return to previously tuned frequencies, continuous coverage from 1.8 to 54 MHz and PowerSDR control of Bypass, Full Tune, and Memory Tune. So, it covers from 1.8 to 54 MHz, but only tunes the HF range. Dave Ackrill wrote: Bob Lusby wrote: My forward power indicator on six-meters in the CW mode is zero at 100% drive. However, I read about .35-watts on a Bird dummy load. AM FM output on six indicates about 250mw forward power on the SDR. CW Output power reads correct on the HF bands. Also the internal tuner will not engage on six-meters. Is there something I am missing? Cheers and Happy New Year, Bob, k9foh The internal tuner unit doesn't work on 6M either. Cheers - 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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Cecil KD5NWA www.hpsdr.com www.qrpradio.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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] Extruded case.
Graham Haddock wrote: * High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List * Hammond makes just such a line of cases as you describe. Eurocard size based, extruded aluminum, and many options as far as length. Unfortunately, nothing above 2 inches in height is listed. http://www.hammondmfg.com/scpgEXT.htm http://www.hammondmfg.com/1455.htm I am personally using the 1455 series for packaging several projects. In stock at Mouser. --- Graham / KE9H == Lyle Johnson wrote: * High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List * Way back in time when this group started as the Xylo group, we discused using inexpensive extruded cases for EuroCard size cards. I've lost several PC's lately due to flooding and lightning, so I'm wondering if anyone has those bookmarks. One was a small case for two cards with a little room in the back, the second discussed was available in several sizes including a four card model. Anyone has tose bookmarks from way back that they can share? Try URL:http://www.rose-bopla.com/Main_Pgs/Table_of_Contents.htm and drill down in the Build a Box section then drill into Custom Build-A-Box. I sent the upper level link as they may have other applicable enclosures for Eurocards... 73, Lyle KK7P ___ HPSDR Discussion List To post msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription help: http://lists.hpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-hpsdr.org HPSDR web page: http://hpsdr.org Archives: http://lists.hpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-hpsdr.org/ ___ HPSDR Discussion List To post msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription help: http://lists.hpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-hpsdr.org HPSDR web page: http://hpsdr.org Archives: http://lists.hpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-hpsdr.org/ Thank you both for the links, both those vendors address my needs. If someone knows a cheaper source of 4 or 6 high Eurocard size extruded enclosures I'm still interested. The Hammond 2 case is available through both Mouser and Digikey for about the same price $20. Since I will be placing an order from Mouser soon I'll order a 2 case from them. The 4 case from Rose I'll have to think about it since they sell the raw stock by the meter with a minimum order of $100. If they will anodize it for me at work, and I see no problem there, I will buy the minimum order. I have several projects that use full size Eurocard so the minimum order is not a big issue. -- 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] Extruded case.
KD5NWA wrote: SNIP Thank you both for the links, both those vendors address my needs. If someone knows a cheaper source of 4 or 6 high Eurocard size extruded enclosures I'm still interested. The Hammond 2 case is available through both Mouser and Digikey for about the same price $20. Since I will be placing an order from Mouser soon I'll order a 2 case from them. The 4 case from Rose I'll have to think about it since they sell the raw stock by the meter with a minimum order of $100. If they will anodize it for me at work, and I see no problem there, I will buy the minimum order. I have several projects that use full size Eurocard so the minimum order is not a big issue. Sorry, wrong list. -- 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Price Increase and 1 watt SDR discontinued
Alfred Green wrote: Something along the lines of a SoftRock would be appealing, but by the time you add a synthesised LO, transmit capabilty and UCB type control logic + PC interface, it is not a trivial project. As far as I know nothing like that currently exists, so the SDR1000-LP is the only game in town. A pity it's going away. 73 Alf NU8I This announcement was bound to happen due to scale of economics, the 1 watt version cost a little less to build and probably generates a lot less profit. Given the fact that sales are probably doing well, it would pay to concentrate ones efforts in the products that are more profitable. I would not be surprised to see a future 1 board radio as that also cuts cost, eliminates some interconnect issues and generally would be cheaper to manufacture and maintain, so get ready for that change also. All that being said, for me the announcement comes at a bad time, having just spent a fortune during the holidays my discretionary funds are depleted and although I would like to upgrade to the 100 Watt amplifier I simply do not have the uncommitted cash available. So most likely I will miss out on the item altogether. :( -- 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Price Increase and 1 watt SDR discontinued
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well in fact a 1 board functional clone of the SDR-1000 1W is already available, check out www.kd-elektronik.com/af_e/sdr_e.html. Seems to be a well-made board, and the price is right, too. Thanks to Dominik Bugmann HB9CZF for pointing this out to me. Best regards, It's a lot more expensive but one board is nice, it makes it easier to put it inside a computer case. Although I think it was foolish to publish the ratings using a Audigy 2 card, that is a piece of junk, if it were me I would use the best card I could afford. I would love a Stainless Steel case but not painted, just vibe it and it looks gorgeous. I wonders if lawyers are looking into this as we speak? The software is Open but the hardware is not. -- 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
[Flexradio] Linux Teamspeak
It's today in 22 minutes, right? Sorry, I accidentally deleted the email. -- 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Linux Teamspeak
FlexRadio - Eric wrote: It's been today all day long here... ;) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of KD5NWA Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:39 PM To: Flex Radio Reflector Subject: [Flexradio] Linux Teamspeak It's today in 22 minutes, right? Sorry, I accidentally deleted the email. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com That is because Linux rocks! Specially on my 22 LCD monitor, that I still love. That is also part of the reason why I'm broke. Eric, recently I lost 3 PC's due to flooding and lightning, I lost my schematics to my SDR-1000 and the email with link to it, can you send me the link privately? Muchas gracias Senor Eirikr -- 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Vista / XP / Linux
Dale Boresz wrote: I've been running this same free VMware server under Kubuntu -- running Windows 2003 Server in a virtual machine, and it works great. I was hoping to set up the PowerSDR software on it as well, but evidently VMware doesn't yet support firewire. 73, Dale WA8SRA KD5NWA wrote: I'm a cheapskate, I use VMware Server, it free, you can boot Windows or any OS you want while running Linux, you don't have to partition you Hard Disk, no re-booting. Recently I created a virtual session and installed Win98 so I could run a very old piece of software, neither Windows not the application are aware that they are running on a fake PC. URL:http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ Althoug the software runs pretty good, the Flex software is very demanding on response so it will not work tool well. -- 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] [hpsdr] D anyone?
Naylor Jonathan wrote: * High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List * Hi All You don't need to use esoteric languages to get cross platform capability. The use of C++ and careful use of cross-platform libraries can make for a very pleasent development environment and porting is often a one-time job taking a few minutes. The software for UWSDR is written that way and runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X already. The number of platform dependent #ifdef's is small. Jonathan ON/G4KLX I suppose very pleasant is in the eye of the beholder. -- 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] [hpsdr] D anyone?
Christopher T. Day wrote: * High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List * Of course, there is always Java, which not only compiles across platforms but whose executables really do run across platforms. But that would be too easy. Chris - AE6VK Actually it's not easy, Java has a huge learning curve due to it's massive libraries. So you would be placing considerable limits on who could help. And even more important the major player programmers are not fans of Java, and it's important to keep them happy. The current choice C# is not a bad choice, better than Java or C++. However if you use DttSP to do the math for you, you are free to use whatever else you like for the display/control program, there are some consoles written in Java, Squeak (smalltalk) and, C# at the present time. This situation keeps getting better as more and more separation between the modules get implemented. The plan is for eventually to have a message driven interface between the modules driven by Erlang messaging, which will make it very easy to write a control/display program that basically sends messages to another module that could be on another PC or locally. When they get there I anticipate a free for all with people writing their own consoles in every sort of language and platform. Erlang has libraries for all sorts of languages and OS's to send/receive messages. It will be really exciting once some of this gets implemented. -- 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] Problem with adapter USB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good 2007 to all I have an Flex USB-paralel adapter that worked intermittently on one computer (a Shuttle without parallel port), dint work with another computer (I think it was a laptop, not sure) and finally worked on an Asus-espresso computer. This Asus computer has a parallel port available that I use now. When the USB adapter does not work it is seen by the computer as an unknown device, when it works it is found as an USB device with an identification (not have the adapter here, cant tell the id) I still intend to test the USB adapter again with an external power supply, not done jet. I think that the available USB power is one of the prime suspects in these cases. If I find something conclusive I let you know. There seems to be a story that there are parallel ports with to low voltage levels for the SDR1000 73 peter pa0pvn groeten Peter petervn(a)hetnet.nl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; pa0pvn(a)hetnet.nl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; pa0pvn(a)gmail.com ; pa0pvn(a)amsat.org . Did you install the driver first, before plugging it in? -- 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 update from Phil C. - Windows Vista problems
Frank Brickle wrote: Brad A. Steffler wrote: ... the conversion of SDR to Linux is of paramount importance... This has been the view of some of the developers since the beginning. That's why in reality much of the critical development process has followed the reverse path: do the development first under Linux, then port back to Windows. The capabilities of the DSP core in PowerSDR have long been and continue to be considerably greater under Linux than can yet be accommodated under Windows. Exposing these capabilities under Windows has been held back primarily by the simple, practical, commercial demands of producing a stable, familiar Windows console. The point has been reached, however, that those same requirements are impediments to further development. The time has come, probably, to shift the emphasis to rapid completion of a consumer Linux version. The release of Vista is merely another reason to move in that direction. 73 Frank AB2KT Shifting the emphasis to the Linux development will not hurt my feelings at all. Out of 5 PC's in my house only one has Windows, the other four have Ubuntu Linux, but being practical I will need to keep the one Windows PC around for a while, it however will never see Vista. I do have a copy of every OS from Microsoft from DOS all the way to XP with their associated Service Packs and I will hold on to them just in case Microsoft decides to go off the deep end of the ocean.. Being convinced for a while that Windows was not a desired long term solution I finally started switching to Linux about six month ago, and I am not sorry I did. Vista may just be the best promotion for Linux in a long time, their attitude about locking out small developers might make a few switch to Linux. However recently I saw a signature that I like and it's so true, Linux is user friendly, it's just particular as to who it's friends are By the way, where is the latest DttSP binaries and source kept? I'm getting to the point where I want to start getting familiar with it. -- 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 update from Phil C. - Windows Vista problems
Ed Haskell wrote: It is possible today to purchase, at WalMart among other places, a PC complete with preinstalled Linux for less than the purchase price of Vista. Why not offer one of these with everything including PowerSDR preinstalled and configured to work as a stand alone 'appliance' for those who don't yet want to invest the time and heartache in learning anything about Linux? Ed K5RJI Maybe because, the consumer Linux version of PowerSDR software does not exist? There is software available, but it consist of several packages that are installed separately, and then used control the radio, not quite ready for people not willing to learn Linux. As an example that Linux is not for people that are not willing to learn it, I have several special application that when the OS version is upgraded and that happens often they need to be re-compiled. Even though Windows does not need applications re-compiled, ignorance is not bliss, as demonstrated by the many people whose machines are running poorly due to viruses and spyware. If I were you I would start becoming familiar with Linux now, don't wait until you are forced to. I would not put it past Microsoft to put in some patches whose real purpose is to kill Windows after a preset date to force you to upgrade, they already install patches that tell you your Windows copy is invalid and eventually disables Windows. Not investing time to learn your OS causes in the long term far more pain and grief than what it takes to learn it. -- 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] Linux, any chance of a knoppix like setup?
Frank Brickle wrote: Ken -- The stuff has to be finished and shrink-wrapped first. The hardware dependencies aren't big problems. The basic issue is that the Linux development has been getting little more than crumbs. Brilliant crumbs, to be sure, like John Melton, Edson Pereira, and Bob Cowdery. Crumbs nonetheless. Every time it's looked like proper attention could be paid to really finishing the Linux version (read: I've stamped my feet and thrown a tantrum), one fire or another has sprung up on the Windows side which drained away any of the available official resources that could be devoted to Linux. This situation is likely to continue unless there is at least *some* demand on the part of users or potential users for a quality Linux product. One of my New Year's resolutions (actually went into effect a few months ago) was to do nothing on the Flex front that wasn't directly applicable first and immediately to the new software design under Linux. In part this is because none of the really interesting pending SDR features (like co-channel interference removal or comprehensive automatic signal classification) is worth even thinking about under the current design, or under Windows in general for that matter. Vista only makes it worse. If people want a consumer-oriented Linux version, there has to be a groundswell of popular support for it. Otherwise the individual Linux developers are going to continue to write to suit themselves, and that development is, for now, aimed almost exclusively at experimenters. 73 and Happy New Year Frank AB2KT I would like to add my voice to the groundswell of demand for a Linux version. -- 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] Linux, any chance of a knoppix like setup?
Jerry wrote: I too am adding my voice to the demand for a Linux version. Remember, however, that other software such as logging and good RTTY demod programs are needed to convert the SDR to a useful adjunct to the shack. We are talking about a system not just a single component. The logging programs, the RTTY and PSK programs etc for Linux are quite primitive in comparison to those available for windows. Win 2K and XP will be around for a while. Vista may not be. 73 de Jerry NO2T Vista may be around longer than any other OS from Microsoft, I read an article that mentioned that it cost over 10 Billion dollars, yes Billion dollars to develop Vista. Even Microsoft will not be able to afford that kind of development cost too often, or it's going to Hasta la Vista, Baby Make sure you don't loose your XP or Win2K cd's. -- 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] Linux, any chance of a knoppix like setup?
Lyle Johnson wrote: Linux isn't always the most user-friendly hand-holding OS, but you can't beat the power and flexibility. OTOH, it is reasonable to expect that an application (e.g., SDR-1000 console) can be made to self-boot and just look like, well, an SDR console, without having to know anything about Linux, mess with networks, worry about virii, or deal with a command-line consle. The TiVO system, I am told, is a Linux application, yet the consumers who use it everyday need know nothing about Linux. At least one of the popular iPOD-like audio-addiction-dispensers is also running Linux inside. I believe the OS in my AvMAP GPS is Linux, too. Might be wrong, but I never see it, I just use the application. In the end, I just want to use the radio. It isn't about Linux, or Windows, or BSD -- it's about the radio. At least, it is for me :-) 73, Lyle KK7P Those devices have the software in Firmware so you can even turn it off without shutting it down and no harm done, but a PC is another beast, if you shut it down improperly you might damage the data on the hard disk, so you will need software to recover. How often does the Tivo software gets upgraded compared to the SDR software? Where is the incentive to do this? Those companies strip down a copy of Linux because they are going to make a ton of money. How many people are there out with intimate knowledge of Linux are going to render a version of Linux useless for anything else? The closest I can come up with is Puppy Linux, it's made to be small (60Mb) can run from a CD or, from a HD, or, from a USB Flash drive, it's lightning fast, since unlike most distros everything is loaded in RAM, it makes distros such as Knoptics look like they took slowdown pills. The 60Mb is with Open Office software suite, Internet browser, email, ftp, games, and hundred of other tools. I have not checked lately but there was a development version that had tools like GCC and other programming tools. -- 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] Vista / XP / Linux
Greg wrote: Forgot the link http://www.mountainmods.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_71products_id=359 Greg I'm a cheapskate, I use VMware Server, it free, you can boot Windows or any OS you want while running Linux, you don't have to partition you Hard Disk, no re-booting. Recently I created a virtual session and installed Win98 so I could run a very old piece of software, neither Windows not the application are aware that they are running on a fake PC. URL:http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ -- 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] Missing Selectivity ?
N3WT wrote: Gerd, Actually, the selectivity is very effective, more like a brick wall even at 50hz. Have you completed all of the calibration routines?. All the I/O cable plugs in secure? Try setting the DSP Buffer to 4096. Could be something not right in the setup on the D44.Check the Flex website knowledge base for setup numbers on the D44 soundcard control panel. John, N3WT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerd Loch Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:06 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Missing Selectivity ? Hi Folks, everything seems to be perfect with my SDR besides that I am missing selectivity in CW mode. I can hear signals over a frequency range of about 2 kHz when the bandwith is set to 50 Hz. I have changed sw from 1.6.3 to 1.8.0 and the audio interface from Audigy 2 ZS to D44 at the same time and remember to have heard better selectivity before. Any suggestions what could be wrong? Gerd - DJ8AY The main component that determines the steepness of the filters is the DSP buffer size, even at 1024 the filter is not harp on the edges, never mind anything less, stay at 2048 or higher if you care about adjacent signal rejection. -- 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] new Java desktop metaphore for XP/Linux
Ken N9VV wrote: Anyone interested in experimenting with a new desktop; Sun has released it's new Project Looking Glass desktop https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html de ken n9vv Cute, for a visual project there seems to be a lack of pictures to see what you are getting into before you install the thing. No lack of Ubuntu binaries! -- 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] sdr1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas to everyone. My wife surprised me with a SDR-1000! Wow what a gift.I guess she was paying attention when I was showing her the Flex-Radio web site.She did get the 100w unit.I'll buy the antenna tuner myself. Is the tuner easy to install?I'm one lucky guy.Hope to be up and running soon. I already had a Delta-44 sound card in my computer. 73 Howard KA6IOB You just happen to be showing her the Flex site with no ulterior motive? And if she didn't get the hint how far would you have gone? 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] Need Help with popping in rx audio
A.R.S. - W5AMI wrote: I did recently install a wireless d-link network in my house, and I think it is the culprit. There is an activity led on the rear of the wireless card that will blink from time to time, but I discovered that when this audio popping starts, the led blinks quite rapidly, and in sync with the pops! Now that I think I've found the culprit, I'm not sure what to do to fix it, or if there even is a fix. Any suggestions? The wireless card is a DWA-542 Rangebooster and the router is a D-Link DIR-625. I did try adjusting the priority on PowerSDR to real time, but it didn't help. I figure there is some sort of timed ping or something the card is performing when this happens. On 12/23/06, A.R.S. - W5AMI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope someone can steer me in the right direction. I've been using the Flex for some time, and have never had problems such as this until just recently. I feel certain it's something in Windoze that causing the problem, however I've tried everything I know to do short of reformatting and re-installing the entire operating system. As I am listening to the SDR, at nearly one minute intervals the rx begins popping, about 12 times to be exact and probably 1 sec apart, then stops until another minute has passed. During the popping, the CPU's only go up to about 14% max. I'm using a Dell Precision 360, Pentium 4 with 512Meg of ram, XP Pro SP2. Delta-44. I've tried using a different release of PowerSDR with no change in the popping. I have also noticed that loading something simple like my browser now causes PowerSDR to nearly drop out completely. Never had that problem before. I have checked for viruses and found none. I also downloaded and paid for a program called XP Repair, and it made no difference. I've defragmented the hard drive, and been through the tips on optimizing Windows as well. I also downloaded the current D-44 drivers and re-installed them. Can anyone tell me what to try next? Are there any other programs out there which can, and will optimize my system correctly, hopefully making this problem go away? I'd like to just switch to Linux, but there doesn't seem to be any complete GUI interfaces out there for the SDR. TIA Brian / w5ami -- Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan My cell phone make my radio go bonkers with noise, so when I get home I put it in the living room instead of anywhere near the radio. -- 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] Operating System Question
Maarten N1DZ wrote: I have Linux (Ubuntu) running on my PC. I can surf the web and use the open office software. The problem I have with Linux is the difficulty of down loading and getting programs that I am intersted in to run. This is surely due to my lack of knowledge however I find it very hard to understand even the most basic linux lingo. Is a working version of powerSDR available for Linux? Is it as good as the windows versions? How can I down load it and make it work. 73 Maarten N1DZ There is definitely a learning curve that has to be navigated when switching to Linux, it's not Windows it's Linux, many things are different including installing software, although if it's available in the repositories then using Synaptics makes it very easy to install. I find that quite a bit of software is available and at least in my case some of my favorite Windows software run fine under Wine. The PowerSDR software is not available for Linux, I'll let some who are more experienced speak to that issue. -- 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] SDR-1000 Schematics
Bill Davidson wrote: Hi all, I bought a SDR1000-1 yesterday, after reading everything I could find for the last few weeks. To say I'm impressed is an understatement. The radio has two serial numbers though, 0616-1360 on the Test results sheet on the inside and 0617-9310 on the outside of the box. I can see the box has been opened on the bottom and resealed although everything looks ok. The main reason I'm writing this is to ask if someone can direct me to the schematics for the radio. I've searched the Knowledge Base without success. Thanks in the meantime Bill GM4XFU -- The schematics are not available to the general public, but soon if you have not already will receive a email from Eric with the link to the schematics. -- 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] Teamspeak Audio Town Hall Meeting 11-04-06
Joe - AB1DO wrote: Thank you! When I click on the link, the audio immediately starts streaming. I would rather save the file to disk first and then play it. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks 73 de Joe - AB1DO I have never understood the idea of giving out a link to a ASP program that then downloads the files, how about just giving a link to the file itself? You can't right click it and save it as a ASP link. -- 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] Teamspeak Audio Town Hall Meeting 11-04-06 - (right-click to save)
Dale Boresz wrote: Folks -- I've added a link to the file download section of hamsdr that will allow you to save the file. To do so: - Go to http://www.hamsdr.com/dnld.aspx - Note the Town Hall meeting file is the first one in the list - Right-click the Right-click to Save link in the fourth column, and select Save Target As ... or Save Link As ... from your browser's fly-out contect menu, and save the file wherever you wish. 73, Dale WA8SRA Joe - AB1DO wrote: Thank you! When I click on the link, the audio immediately starts streaming. I would rather save the file to disk first and then play it. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks 73 de Joe - AB1DO Good going, I'm sure many would love to download the file and listen at their convenience on their iPods or MP3 players. 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] clock ticking from sdr-1000
They have won if you are afraid to say the word Jihad, or anything related to it. People that live in fear are not free people. It take a lot more than that one word to have NSA,s computers pick up on it, and then what? Nothing since these emails contains nothing subversive. My brother and some of my relatives are in the Mafia, you need a dolly to pick up my FBI file. That is one of the reasons I moved to Arkansas to get away from them, and being constantly followed by FBI people because they thought I might be involved. Actually some of the field people were pretty nice and admitted that following me was a waste of time, but they had an assignment to do. It must have been very boring, no Internet so I was constantly going to the library during my off time to look things up. Terrorist are not going to spoil my day, I will use those and any word I need to use without fear. Don't worry, be happy! At 02:44 AM 9/30/2006, you wrote: Cecil, Good joke, but don't Shock us. Any silly search machines may connect us to a wrong group of people due to careless dirty words. 73, Ahti On 30/09/06, Cecil Bayona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 * division? -- ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' ___ 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] Edirol Firewire box
Do you own Edirol stock? You are trying hard to get us to part with our money and succeeding. I assume it's a 2.66GHz Pentium 4, I'm amaze with that kind of speed you are having choppy audio but then only you knows what it's loaded on your PC. I setup a 1000MHz Pentium III PC with 500MB of ram with a separate profile just for SDR-1000 usage, I took out networking and anything not needed from the profile. With version 16.2 official release, the CPU utilization with a Delta-44 at 96KHz sampling is about 10%, and about 7% with 48KHz sampling. It also got rid of the spike in utilization that it use to have. It goes to show how much clutter there is in a standard version of Windows XP. At 07:24 PM 9/26/2006, you wrote: John es list, I just installed the Edirol sound box and it works great! The audio sounds cleaner than the Firebox and the wide panadapter is very cool. I was not able to reliably run the Firebox at 96K sampling rate (CPU utilization went really high and the sound stuttered such that it was impossible to listen to. 48 worked well.) With the Roland box, I'm running 192K and it seems stable with the CPU utilization is in the 40's and 50's, but with fewer stutters and dropouts. (Still stutters when the network adapter gets busy - turning off e-mail and not browsing the web while listening seems to fix it...) I'm running a Dell Pentium 4, 266 with 1G RAM and the same Firewire card I was using with the FireBox (a Belkin 4 port). I've got a Pyro on order - we'll see if it makes any difference. So far, it's quite an improvement over the FireBox. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Basilotto Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:23 PM To: Reflector Subject: [Flexradio] Edirol FA-66 Firewire with 192 KHz sampling rate addedto list of supported sound cards 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. The FA-66 is capable of running sampling rates of 192, 96, and 48 KHz. While the FA-66 will work with most systems, we recommend using a late model computer when running at 192KHz. When using the 192KHz sampling rate, over 100 kHz of spectrum can be shown in the default 1x zoom Panadapter display [and nearly 200 KHz in SPEC mode]. This is twice as wide as that of sound cards operating at 96KHz. With the addition of selectable 4096 DSP buffers, currently available in Alpha (SVN) releases, performance is as good or better than sound cards operating at sampling rates of 48KHz or 96kHz. Additional features of the FA66 include: virtually no latency at high sampling rates, pristine audio on receive and transmit, 48 volt phantom power for use with condenser microphones, microphone preamp, and an input level gain adjustment knob. The Edirol FA-66 has a list price of $499; however, our sales price is $349.90. The FA-66 can be ordered on our website at www.flex-radio.com or by calling us at (512) 250-8595. We expect to begin shipping on or about September 29th. John P. Basilotto W5GI Marketing and Product Manager FlexRadio Systems Office 512-250-8595 Mobile 512-663-6727 ___ 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 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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 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 ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] This Link Correct?
Below is what I use and it works fine, it looks the same, make sure when you cut and pasted it that you don't include an extra space. svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/trunk/bin/Release On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 22:09 -0400, Scott wrote: Is this the correct link to the SVN Tortouise download? svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/trunk/bin/Release It does not work for me? Scott KQ8RP ___ 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] SVN for Linux
After playing with the software I find that RapidSVN and ESVN are pretty easy to use. Both visual SVN packages that can be installed from the Synaptics software manager. The script that are added to Nautilus I was not able to get it to work, nothing shows up other than the regular items when you right click on a SVN folder. Now if I can find a SVN server in Perl, or PHP I'll be one step closer to being a happy camper. Thanks for the information. On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 00:35 -0400, Frank Brickle wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 23:19 -0500, Cecil KD5NWA wrote: What SVN software works well with the Flex SVN servers? I have Ubuntu 6.06 in particular. How about /usr/bin/svn? Sorry, couldn't resist. RapidSVN is pretty good. There's also a set of Nautilus scripts http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/source/nautilus-svn-scripts which let you do the usual things from the file browser, much as from Explorer on Windows. Thing is, using svn from the command line is so easy, the graphical tools are kind of superfluous. But they're there if you prefer them. 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] SVN for Linux
Is he SVN server down at this moment? On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 20:41 -0500, Cecil KD5NWA wrote: After playing with the software I find that RapidSVN and ESVN are pretty easy to use. Both visual SVN packages that can be installed from the Synaptics software manager. The script that are added to Nautilus I was not able to get it to work, nothing shows up other than the regular items when you right click on a SVN folder. Now if I can find a SVN server in Perl, or PHP I'll be one step closer to being a happy camper. Thanks for the information. On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 00:35 -0400, Frank Brickle wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 23:19 -0500, Cecil KD5NWA wrote: What SVN software works well with the Flex SVN servers? I have Ubuntu 6.06 in particular. How about /usr/bin/svn? Sorry, couldn't resist. RapidSVN is pretty good. There's also a set of Nautilus scripts http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/source/nautilus-svn-scripts which let you do the usual things from the file browser, much as from Explorer on Windows. Thing is, using svn from the command line is so easy, the graphical tools are kind of superfluous. But they're there if you prefer them. 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
[Flexradio] SVN for Linux
What SVN software works well with the Flex SVN servers? I have Ubuntu 6.06 in particular. -- 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] Installing Ubuntu on an existing Windows PC
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 03:48, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 04:29:07PM -0500, Cecil Bayona wrote: 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. This is not quite true; there is some support for these fake RAID implementations in the dmraid software. eg see http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/readme Maybe I should have been more specific, the install disk don't support phoney raid controllers very well, yes you can add drivers after the fact but if that is the only drive you have you are in trouble and are going to wreck the array. The process of installing the software destroys the RAID array you already have in place and all the data is gone. That is not a sign of good support. The alternative is to have a second system where you create a kernel with the proper drivers and modify the install disk to create a new install disk that understands the array that is already there. Not a very good solution that the average Joe can deal with, again that is poor RAID support. The first clue is that is sees the two drives as individual drives instead of one combined container. An inexpensive RAID controller is just the same as a non-RAID controller, so you'd best use Linux software RAID. But that is not compatible with anything other than Linux, so if you have Windows, you again wrecked the Array and lost your data. In my book that is not very good support of RAID controllers. Hamish -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows! ___ 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] Delta 44 interface Kit availability from Tony - KB9YIG - Update
How about a link to information on the device so people that don't know what it is can figure out if they want one? I would post it but I'm at work and theis PC does not have the links. On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:53, Eric Ellison wrote: Hi Folks, and fellow Flexers! I've been talking with Tony KB9YIG about his new offering of the Delta-44 interface kit that he and I offered earlier. He indicates that he has all the parts and boards on order. Five hundred kits will be provided in this kit run. The kit will come with all the parts for a module including the two-pin headers and jumpers for the external cable grounding options. Additionally an extra 1206 ferrite filter and an extra 1206 capacitor will be provided in each kit for loss of one of the parts during kit building. The Delta 44 interface module kit prices are as follows: Kit for US/Canada mailing:$11.00 USD Kit for DX mailing: $12.00 USD Fully assembled unit for US/Canada: $15.00 USD Fully assembled unit for DX: $16.00 USD Orders can now be placed, with Tony directly at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony informs me that he has filled over 4500 SoftRock** orders in the past 6 months! And I thought MY dining room table was 'worn'! Way to go Tony! Thanks for everything you have given to the Ham Radio Community! Folks. This IS a winner! Eric2 - AA4SW - V31SR. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060725/20f237b3/attachmen t.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 -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows! ___ 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 Core Optimization
Not everyone can afford to keep upgrading the hardware everytime Microsoft comes out with the next even more bloated OS. Multiple profiles is very simple, while I'm on my trip I will try to write an example, but I can't make any guarantees. I have to socialize with the other companies crews otherwise they will think I'm a snob, mind you I rather go back to the hotel than go out with these guys, all they want to do is drink themselves under the table, I usually don't drink so it's no fun hanging out with a bunch of drunks. Getting started; 1. Right click on My Computer select properties. 2. Select the Hardware tab. 3. Click on the Hardware buttom towards the bottom of the screen. 4. Highlight the present profile by clicking on it once. 5. Click on the Copy button 6. Give the new profile a new name, mine is called SDR-1000 but call it something meaninfull 7. At the bottom of the screen select First profile listed 8. change the time to 4 seconds Your PC has now two profiles, one the default usually called Profile1 and an identical one you just created called SDR-1000 or whatever name you selected. When you PC boot is will wait for 4 seconds to let you choose the profile that you want, if you don't pick anything then the default profile will be used, it's the first one on the list. Now you you can reboot you PC, when it ask you to choose a profile select the new one. You will still be booting as yourself but you are now running in the brand new identical profile. At this point you can start making changes to that profile. There are two things you can change, the services that are running and what hardware is functional. Since in this profile you want maximum performance you will be turn things off that you do not need such as anti-virus, firewalls, networking and other uneeded services. To be on the safe side you will want to turn off the network card so it is not functional while you have no firewall or anti-virus. You can turn of devices; 1. go to the device manager 2. right click on the network adapter, select properties 3. At the bottom is a pull down window called Device Usage 4. Click on the down arrow and select do not use this device in the current profile You now have set you profile so if you select the SDR-1000 profile the network card will be disabled, if you select Profile1 or ignore it then the network card will be functional. The services can be turned of for this profile in a similar manner. To be continued later. On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:22 -0500, Ken N9VV wrote: Larry, please forgive me, but I strongly disagree with the throw more hardware at the problem to fix it. There is a three letter mega-company who has made 50+ successful years by following that schematic :-) and correspondingly cost it's customers mega-bucks!. **You DO NOT need to REMEMBER what to turn ON or OFF** but rather use the method suggested by Cecil KD5NWA called Profiles. They are built in to Windows and have been there ever since NT. You log in with one ID (say your personal lloen ) and you get everything you want to use on the internet. You log in with your callsign (w0oz) and that personality or user profile AUTOMATICALLY turns OFF all the junk and leaves you optimized and protected for your PowerSDR Console (with or without fancy drivers and so on). Now, if only someone knew how to implement the Profiles! Cecil is out of town, but when he gets back, maybe we can persuade him to help us :-) It sounds like a great Teamspeak topic, eh? all the best, de ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, N9VV, is correct. He has done us all a real service with his notes on XP optimizations on his web site. Number 15 on the instruction list may be the most helpful. http://www.n9vv.com/XP-optimization.html If that is the approach people feel the need to perform, I recommend purchasing a dedicated PC and having done with it. Real human beings turning all that stuff on and off are going to make mistakes and become virus ridden et. al. Me, I'm not going to give up my Mix2 or N1MM and their integration with DX spotting networks, just for openers anyway. Even in Belize, we were connected to the Internet, full time, all CPUs. IMHO, this is too draconian. Upgrade to 2.4 GHz instead where (at least I) have had no trouble running any level of console with XP whatever, without any change to the defaults and firewalls, virus checking, etc., all fully enabled. And, I got lots of junk you don't, because I do the odd bit of telecommuting, so I have a variety of corporate things going on as well. It would certainly be useful to turn off [EMAIL PROTECTED] and like programs if you use them. You should also learn about component services so you can go in and turn off some of the optional services, but beyond that, if you are even thinking about following this advice, just upgrade your CPU or else
Re: [Flexradio] Windows Stability for emergency communications
Our local IT policy is when we first receive a computer from Dell we format it clean and re-install the OS. We find that a lot of the software that Dell installs makes the machine slow and unstable. We also install the minimum number of applications needed to do the job. We also turn off unneeded services for the same reason. At 05:58 PM 6/28/2006, Eric Wachsmann wrote: I completely agree. The first thing I did when I got my new work machine was to format it and reload it without all of the pre-configured junk. In fact, I even did some benchmarks with Sisoft Sandra '07 to prove to myself that it would be faster on a clean load. I don't have the numbers, but things were definitely faster on a clean load (2-4%). Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerald Capodieci Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:02 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Windows Stability for emergency communications Start Fresh, It's the only way to gain excellent stability. I went to Fry's and bought a Intel mainboard with a boxed 2.8 GHz and 512 MB ram containing on board Video, sound and NEC connections for $208 TOTAL. Then I did a new install of W2000 with only the software I needed. I've owned it for a month and an SDR1000 for two weeks. Given them both lots of use - no crashes or any problems at all. I bet a fresh install on AMD would be at least the same. When you buy an appliance PC, it includes lots of sample software much of which you never need but loads into memory anyway - just look down at the systray. I did a reformat and new install of W2000 on an unstable Sony Vaio running ME - It's been fine ever since and a lot faster startup. Jerry, kd6et 40m -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060628/9dd01842/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 ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] SDR for emergency comms?
It's not quite like the Windows PC is controlling an elevator, a failure would be catastrophic in that case. There is always the re-boot off course, but if one wanted to cover oneself for the worst possible situation, one would have as part of the emergency kit a spare HD with an identical copy of the setup in case Windows eats the HD. XP is fairly reliable compared to it's predecessors, but one must keep that machine absolutely clean of miscellaneous software that might affect system stability. The games he plays is not the best software in the world to rate a PC's stability by. I've always been a harsh critic of Microsoft but XP if kept clean it is very reliable. My main PC's and My son's have error correcting memory and I can't remember the last time we crashed our PC's other than power failures. In the future Linux will also be an option. At 10:50 AM 6/27/2006, you wrote: My teenage son questions the suitability of any software-defined radio -- especially one depending on a computer running Windows -- as a reliable means of communications in emergencies. Any takers? If I take the plunge and buy an SDR-1000, I expect to install my Icom IC-706MkIIG in the car permanently, so that would be the backup/emergency rig. Alan NV8A ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] SDR for emergency comms?
Multiple profiles is not very difficult, it's not widely used but it fairly easy. Each user have their own profiles, but you can have more than one and select at boot time which profile to load. In the device manager you can control each device and what profile they work under, the same thing with services. In that way the machine while running the SDR software is running with the minimum of devices and services. That makes faster and sometimes more reliable. So you have a profile in which all the networking services, anti-virus, firewall, etc are turned off. Have you ever gone to a library and found the floppy drives doesn't work? They did not disconnect them, they disabled them for the public profile, if the librarian login as themselves, then floppy drive works fine. Sometime on TeamSpeak if we are both running Windows I can walk you through making a couple of changes so you can see how to do it yourself. At 11:11 AM 6/27/2006, you wrote: Sounds like your son is a Linux user :-) Embedded systems with dedicated processing may indeed be better than a common Windoze desktop, however, with some care and optimization, XP is proven to be a suitable platform for the invention and development of the next generation of Ham Radio equipment. Perhaps your son would enjoy reading about the history being written by Gerald K5SDR and Flex-Radio Systems :-) Despite his prejudice, he should use Google and find the following info: Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio are the future of communications for all Armed Forces, Emergency responders, and plain old Cell phones. The April issue of Scientific American (in your local library or online) has a nice article about Cognitive Comm. technology. URL: http://www.sixsigmasummit.com/cgi-bin/templates/document.html?topic=329event=8948document=65317slauID=3; http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/~sdr/WebHome?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=nwacc-sdr.txt http://satjournal.tcom.ohiou.edu/issue10/PANEL6/PPT/Fred_Frantz.ppt http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/aplnews/2003/infralynx.asp http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/~sdr/WebHome?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=nwacc-sdr.txt http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?productid=1282667xs=rg=1curr=USDkw=view=toc === XP optimization includes go to Settings -- Control Panel -- System -- Advanced and make sure that you have turned OFF all visual effects, optimize for performance. Turn off the system restore functions. Turn off any mirroring software. make sure that you are giving the PowerSDR console priority make sure that you are using a FIXED paging file size and NOT allowing the O/S to manage the paging space you turned OFF all system sounds you have turned OFF all O/S upgrades and checking for upgrades you have turned off virus checker, firewall, and auto update did you turn off ALL Email and Browsing? Have you gone into your BIOS and selected Maximum performance or something close to that? did you make sure that NONE of your CDROM drives are checking periodically for their auto-start of media files? have you used the System utility like msconfig to make sure you are not starting un-necessary programs or utilities (firewall, virus checker, palm pilot synch, MSN Mail notification, Acrobat AcroRead, Windows Defender, SpyBot, and so on?) none of them are needed when you are operating your SDR-1000 KD5NWA suggested this very important technique: You could have a separate profile that starts normal services when you are on the internet, and a dedicated profile when you are using your SDR-1000. As far as I can tell: Profiles seems to be an *advanced* System Administrator skill. you can go into Settings -- Control Panel -- Add Remove Programs and remove everything you aren't using with the Console. Go into the Windows area and REMOVE all that NetBios crap, all file and print sharing, MSN Messenger, + anything that is extraneous. turn *OFF* system restore, because you aren't making any changes to the O/S while you are on the air. Do you possibly have any of this running in the background? what does it show if you use CTRL+ALT+DEL and choose PROCESSES? what do you see? if you are using DUAL-CORE technology, by all means experiment with the AFFINITY CPU selection for your PowerSDR in the Processes list. Use an optimized core XP set http://www.litepc.com/ that reduces the footprint of XP to only 150MB. Alan NV8A wrote: My teenage son questions the suitability of any software-defined radio -- especially one depending on a computer running Windows -- as a reliable means of communications in emergencies. Any takers? If I take the plunge and buy an SDR-1000, I expect to install my Icom IC-706MkIIG in the car permanently, so that would be the backup/emergency rig. Alan NV8A ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo
Re: [Flexradio] Power management Re: Notebook computers
Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty at work here. What profiler does not in itself change how the system runs. On my PC it goes from roughly 20% to 10% utilization, and how accurate is that? It would be interesting to see how much time the software is spending waiting for audio packets to come in so it can process them. A good portion of the time is also spent talking to the sound card and getting the data also. I have a cheap sound card (ChainTech $23) that has excellent DMA capability, with it you see drastic drops in the CPU utilization, more so than turning the display off or using the Delta card, utilization drops to 3% with displays off and %10 with displays on (8CPS). At 12:05 PM 6/27/2006, Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: Jim, I haven't done any formal testing, but in my experience, the display alone accounts for around 90% of the used ticks by the PowerSDR.exe process. I think the last time I tested a profiler (none of which have I been happy with), it said that the DSP was taking something like 0.2% of the CPU load on an Athlon XP2000+. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Jim Lux Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:37 AM To: FlexRadio Subject: [Flexradio] Power management Re: Notebook computers My HP/Compaq TC1100 Tablet PC has both a throttling CPU and a variable speed fan. On battery, it runs at full speed (unless it's getting warm) but the backlight dims. Runs at 1GHz normally, but on CPU bound tasks (e.g. running NEC4) it slows down to around 300 MHz. It uses a Pentium M of some sort Not that I would contemplate running PowerSDR on it, but at least its a datapoint for how power, CPU speed management works on at least one computer. Has anyone done any testing to see what fraction of the CPU is consumed by UI and what by dttsp? Jim ___ 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 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] PowerSDR v1.6.2 Released - CW Improved / Click 'n' DragAdded
http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Install/PowerSDR_v1.6.2.exe http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Source/PowerSDR_v1.6.2_Source.zip http://flex-radio.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=24 Any bets if my links above are OK instead? To have a link not break, for the widest variety of email programs do the following always. Type followed by two spaces and then as shown here; Then you paste the link in-between the two spaces. It's important to do it in exactly that order, some mail programs if the spaces and brackets are not in place will cause it to fail when added after the URL is typed. Doing it that way you can have URLs that are over 10 lines long and they still work. At 02:12 PM 6/23/2006, Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: Longer links were broken as usual ala Outlook. Please visit www.flex-radio.com and click on the Downloads link for the program and the source. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flexradio] PowerSDR v1.6.2 Released - CW Improved / Click 'n' DragAdded FlexRadio Systems is proud to announce the latest official release of the PowerSDR software v1.6.2. In this version there are two major improvements to the software: 1. CW Performance We have seen unanimous praise regarding the improvement in CW performance in alpha test versions of this software. The latency has been reduced and optimized to the point that many high speed CW ops are now happy to use our internal keyer. Semi break in performance is the best we have seen with the SDR-1000 to date. Interestingly, the improvements in the transition latency affect all modes, so there are other benefits of these improvements such as SSB monitor and digital mode turnaround time. Give it a try. 2. Click 'n' Drag In an effort to continue to make the interface easier to use, we have added click 'n' drag features to the display. This allows the user to click and drag both filter high/low cuts in transmit and receive. A great way to use this feature is when you are listening to a station and strong station transmits nearby causing interference inside your passband, simply adjust the filter by dragging the filter edge on the display so it no longer includes the offending signal. This feature also works to tune signals. Just click on any signal in the passband and drag it into your filter. This can be used for fine tuning or just to scroll through the band with ease. This is yet another feature that shows the power and versatility of a truly software defined radio. As always, we would not be able to continue releasing quality software without the sharing of ideas, testing, and bug reporting that our faithful customers do for us. We all benefit from your tireless work and we want each and every one of you that contributed to know how much we appreciate you. Thanks for helping make this radio better over time. Eric Wachsmann Director of Software Development FlexRadio Systems Software Download: http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Install/PowerSDR_v1.6. 2.exe Source Code Download: http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Source/PowerSDR_v1.6.2 _Source.zip Release Notes: http://flex-radio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2042 Up To Date Operating Manual: http://www.flex-radio.com/SDR-1000_Operating_Manual.pdf ___ 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 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] SDR-1000 and a 2M transverter.
I would like to thank all the people that sent me advice on using a transverter with the SDR-1000. About ten persons sent me private emails, the funny thing was all the advice was pretty much identical, so I will follow the advice. As soon as I figure out a spurs issue on 10M I will look into this project a little more. Thanks Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] SDR-1000 2M transverter
I'm thinking of getting the 2M transverter for the SDR-1000 from Flex and wanted some feedback. How good is it? At present I see lot's of spurs on 10M, when hooked up to the transverter will they still be there or will they be buried in the noise base? Are there other transverters that are reasonable in price that can be used externally or internally? Lot's of questions, any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] Improved CW Performance SDR 1000
Happiness is a toy that keeps getting better. At 08:17 PM 6/18/2006, James C Samuels wrote: I had a chance to load SVN534 this afternoon. Thank you, thank you, thank you people. This is the first time in over a year that that I have owned the SDR-1000 that I have been able to carry on CW QSOs without any problems. Ditto on the what a difference. BTW, did I say thank you! The CW OPS are back in the game. Jim, W3BG -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Fredrickson Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:57 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Improved CW Performance SDR 1000 Well I finally loaded up Tortoise and downloaded the latest SVN. Apart from the click and drag goodie what has really grabbed my attention is the huge improvement in the CW keyer. In semi QSK (I don't use full QSK) the latency has gone. I cannot believe the difference - the change is like night and day. So well done Bob N4HY and the Flex team - a great effort! BrianVK1BF ___ 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 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] S-Meter calibration
On most radios nowadays they call it pre-amp but it's really the RF amplifier of the radio which is inside the radio not external. I suppose they started calling a pre-amp because it precedes the first mixer, but that is misleading because prior to recent times a pre-amp was a external amplifier put between the antenna and the radio. So if we call a pre-amp an outside amplifiers it shows to all that we have quite a bit of grey hair. Personally I believe the way it is, is the correct way to handle it. The problem with having it be a option is that when people discuss things between each other now signal strength becomes an uncertain item instead of a known absolute item that it is now. A lot of older radios did have the readings change as you changed the RF gain, but that was incorrect, because the S-Meter was just a voltmeter connected to the AGC line. At 12:32 PM 6/15/2006, Radio Station W5AMI wrote: I can see all points of view on this, however a pre-amp has always been placed somewhere between the antenna and the input to the rig, therefore amplifying the signal AFTER the antenna, feed line, etc., and before the radio. Of course there is no way to place a pre-amp before the aerial ;) I've always thought of the pre-amp as an integral part of the antenna/feed line, in essence amplifying the gain from the antenna and compensating for losses in the feed line, all this of course done ahead of the receiver. This is a tough one, and maybe something that could be definable by the individual user. Personally, I would like to not only have the boost in gain of a pre-amp, but also see it's effects on the meter... 73, w5ami On 6/15/06, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The S-Meter reading is supposed to be how strong the signal is at your receiver antenna terminal. So it should not change any as you change the pre-amp settings within that radio, because the signal at the antenna terminal has not changed. If you make it change with the pre-amp setting the number becomes meaningless. With a UHF system you have basically two radios the UHF front end and your IF radio, the S-meter will change as you change the pre-amp on the UHF rig because the signal at the HF IF radio is changing so it's S-Meter shows that change in input signals. At 11:54 AM 6/15/2006, Radio Station W5AMI wrote: On 6/6/06, FlexRadio - Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike is right. We take care of the Preamp setting in the calibration. :) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems I hate to beat a dead horse, but I've been thinking about the S-Meter/Pre-amp calibration issue. To me, it makes no sense to calibrate to S-9 with a 50uV signal TO all four settings of the pre-amp. In other words, if you are listening to a signal with a 20dB pre-amp that displays 20 dB on the S-meter, and you turn off the pre-amp, that signal should drop to S-9. Or just the opposite; if you had an S-9 signal on someone while the preamp was OFF and switch in a 20dB preamp, that signal should not remain at S-9, but rise to 20dB. A pre-amp (note the prefix PRE) in effect, should magnify the 50uV to a level (depending on the preamp gain in dB's) where it would be reflected as such on the S-meter. The way the SDR1K calibration works, this is not the case. Signals remain at the same level on the S-meter regardless of the pre-amp setting. Maybe I'm missing something on this logic, however every pre-amp I ever used on HF or VHF+ in the past would actually boost the level into the front end, and thus increase the reading on the S-Meter as well. Is this really a three stage pre-amp on the SDR1K or an attenuator? BTW, a 20 dB attenuator would in every case I've ever seen, drop the S-meter readings by 20 dB. w5ami -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Mike Naruta Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:46 PM To: Brian Sherrod Cc: flexradio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] S-Meter calibration I think I recall that the routine calibrates at the different settings of the preamp sequentially. See if you can catch the preamp changes. What a fun rig! Mike - AA8K Brian Sherrod wrote: Howdy Flexers, I just had a thought about calibrating my S-Meter and wondered if I should turn off the preamp first, or does it do this during calibration? Seems to me that the S-Meter should be calibrated with no preamp, but maybe I'm wrong. That happens to me as I get older ;) TIA Brian / w5ami ___ 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 -- There is nothing more uncommon
Re: [Flexradio] S-Meter calibration
You are comparing apples and oranges the amplifier you are talking about is inside the meter, it should be adjusted to read the same because the voltage at the terminals has not changed. At 12:40 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: On 6/15/06, Mike Naruta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, if I use my digital volt meter to measure a voltage and I switch scales to read a low voltage, it compensates for the added gain and shows the actual value, not a higher voltage. True Mike, but if you boost that voltage, let's say with a transformer (in this topic the pre-amp), don't you want to be able to measure that voltage too? The radio knows the boost took place, however you only _hear_ or sense the effect the way it is now. Thanks for the input Mike... 73 KD5NWA wrote: The S-Meter reading is supposed to be how strong the signal is at your receiver antenna terminal. So it should not change any as you change the pre-amp settings within that radio, because the signal at the antenna terminal has not changed. If you make it change with the pre-amp setting the number becomes meaningless. With a UHF system you have basically two radios the UHF front end and your IF radio, the S-meter will change as you change the pre-amp on the UHF rig because the signal at the HF IF radio is changing so it's S-Meter shows that change in input signals. ___ 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 -- There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] S-Meter calibration
It's 50 uV at the receiver antenna terminal, not at the antenna, all that stuff doesn't matter. At 01:01 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: It's all pretty arbitrary I suppose. In reality, it is not measuring the RF voltage at the antenna since we calibrate the S-meter directly on the input of the SDR1K with 50uV. 50uV collected at the aerial in most cases will be reduced by losses in the feed line, tuner, amp relays, and anything else between the aerial and input to the rig, particularly on the higher freqs. If there were a way to inject 50uV of RF to the aerial, that would be the way to calibrate the S-Meter for voltage at the antenna. But really, who cares ;) I've always looked at an S-Meter as a relative indicator anyway. I can live with it the way it is and continue to love the SDR1K as I do. Hi HI This was just a thought, and IMHO, as valid one depending on how you think an S-meter should behave! 73 w5ami On 6/15/06, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are comparing apples and oranges the amplifier you are talking about is inside the meter, it should be adjusted to read the same because the voltage at the terminals has not changed. At 12:40 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: On 6/15/06, Mike Naruta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, if I use my digital volt meter to measure a voltage and I switch scales to read a low voltage, it compensates for the added gain and shows the actual value, not a higher voltage. True Mike, but if you boost that voltage, let's say with a transformer (in this topic the pre-amp), don't you want to be able to measure that voltage too? The radio knows the boost took place, however you only _hear_ or sense the effect the way it is now. Thanks for the input Mike... 73 KD5NWA wrote: The S-Meter reading is supposed to be how strong the signal is at your receiver antenna terminal. So it should not change any as you change the pre-amp settings within that radio, because the signal at the antenna terminal has not changed. If you make it change with the pre-amp setting the number becomes meaningless. With a UHF system you have basically two radios the UHF front end and your IF radio, the S-meter will change as you change the pre-amp on the UHF rig because the signal at the HF IF radio is changing so it's S-Meter shows that change in input signals. ___ 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 -- There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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 -- There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] S-Meter calibration
Relax, take a look at this medicine it will fix you on the spot, it's Panexa the Miracle Drug. http://www.panexa.com/ Relax, you are getting sleepy, sleepy..sleepy At 01:17 PM 6/15/2006, Radio Station W5AMI wrote: Hey, several have said on this thread 50uV at the antenna okay? That was what I was trying to clarify and point out in my message. 50uV at the antenna will NOT be 50uV at the back of the rig no matter what you do! On 6/15/06, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's 50 uV at the receiver antenna terminal, not at the antenna, all that stuff doesn't matter. At 01:01 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: It's all pretty arbitrary I suppose. In reality, it is not measuring the RF voltage at the antenna since we calibrate the S-meter directly on the input of the SDR1K with 50uV. 50uV collected at the aerial in most cases will be reduced by losses in the feed line, tuner, amp relays, and anything else between the aerial and input to the rig, particularly on the higher freqs. If there were a way to inject 50uV of RF to the aerial, that would be the way to calibrate the S-Meter for voltage at the antenna. But really, who cares ;) I've always looked at an S-Meter as a relative indicator anyway. I can live with it the way it is and continue to love the SDR1K as I do. Hi HI This was just a thought, and IMHO, as valid one depending on how you think an S-meter should behave! 73 w5ami On 6/15/06, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are comparing apples and oranges the amplifier you are talking about is inside the meter, it should be adjusted to read the same because the voltage at the terminals has not changed. At 12:40 PM 6/15/2006, you wrote: On 6/15/06, Mike Naruta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, if I use my digital volt meter to measure a voltage and I switch scales to read a low voltage, it compensates for the added gain and shows the actual value, not a higher voltage. True Mike, but if you boost that voltage, let's say with a transformer (in this topic the pre-amp), don't you want to be able to measure that voltage too? The radio knows the boost took place, however you only _hear_ or sense the effect the way it is now. Thanks for the input Mike... 73 KD5NWA wrote: The S-Meter reading is supposed to be how strong the signal is at your receiver antenna terminal. So it should not change any as you change the pre-amp settings within that radio, because the signal at the antenna terminal has not changed. If you make it change with the pre-amp setting the number becomes meaningless. With a UHF system you have basically two radios the UHF front end and your IF radio, the S-meter will change as you change the pre-amp on the UHF rig because the signal at the HF IF radio is changing so it's S-Meter shows that change in input signals. ___ 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 -- There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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 -- There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever Don Seglio Batuna -- There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] [OT] test your Microsoft Vista readiness
If you are interested I can start putting a set of instructions on how to get Delphi and CBuilder (Kylix) to function under Linux 2.6 kernels. It is not sluggish at all and it works as you are used to since in reality it is a Windows version of the software with a Wine wrapper around it, they provided a set of Linux objects and libraries to create native programs. They no longer make the software available but I found an old page left behind that you can use to download the code, they still issue licenses. http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_kylix.html You want to download the open edition, you need to answer a couple of questions and setup an account, then a license key will be sent to you via email. The following link is a different approach, you install parts of Kylix under Windows Delphi and after the program is working you ask it to generate Linux binaries. http://crosskylix.untergrund.net/ I also found copies of the Open versions of Windows Delphi V7 and CBuilder V6 that are no longer available but I don't have the links on this PC. At 10:10 AM 6/11/2006, you wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I am not sure what exactly you are looking for, but eclipse is a good multi platform development environment for java, C++ and C. Is C++Builder mainly a Windows tool? James James, I am sure there are a lot of good C++ compilers for the Linux platform, but I am looking for one that resembles the C++Builder in its straightforwardness, simplicity and ease of use in building the user interface. As an example, the Visual C++ compiler of Microsoft for me is a misnomer, as the only real Visual part of it is in its name... With C++Builder, each widget (e.g. a frequency scale, a level meter, etc.) is an object that I can not only place interactively on the screen using the mouse, but that has properties, methods and events, as a true object must have. So to change the indication of a level meter, I simply send to it a message, telling it to position the needle at the value of, say, 7.3. So simple. What I am looking for is a Linux compiler that allows me to continue to use this paradigm when writing a program. So far Kylix is the one that comes closest. But unless Borland has corrected it, when I tested it more than three years ago, it was slow and sluggish as molasses... I could start it, and go to have a cup of coffee before the main IDE screen did show. Completely unusable...so the search still continues. 73 Alberto I2PHD ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] [OT] test your Microsoft Vista readiness
I'm getting ready for that event myself, four of my PC's have Linux installed, soon they all will. I have no desire to install Vista in my PC's. I've also worked on getting the Linux versions on Delphi and CBuilder so they work on the modern Linux Kernels. That is almost complete, I can create visual applications in the IDE, compile them and they will run correctly, the only problem right now is the debugger, it will not run and hangs up. I need to work on it, I feel there is the possibility of a fix in sight, I've just been busy lately but I will have some time available soon. An alternative would be an external debugger. It's either not finding something it wants, or the binaries are assigning the code and variables to the wrong segments. Both those problems existed in the Compiler IDE and they are fixed now. To further protect the user Linux does not allow writing in the code segments so a buffer overflow is not allowed to change the code. Kilix would put buffers in the code segment so with the new Linux Kernels it would not function. I've been using Ubuntu since there is a SDR support group for it on TeamSpeak, and it works quite well, it boots faster and is more responsive than Windows. I'm looking forward to release 17 so I can work on the Linux side of the Universe. At 09:49 AM 6/10/2006, you wrote: Ken N9VV wrote: Are you (your computer) ready for Vista? go here and get the Vista Upgrade Advisor http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx and find out. de ken n9vv Oh no I am scared by the possibility that my PC indeed _is_ ready for Vista... and instead of upgrading (?) to Vista, I would then prefer to switch to Linux.. and this declaration, made by me, is truly an epochal event... :-) 73 Alberto I2PHD ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] vista shista
There is a Ubuntu group that meets on the TeamSpeak reflector with the goal of using Linux and the SDR-1000. It recently was started so we are mainly concentrating in getting people started at this time. At 03:31 PM 6/10/2006, you wrote: So what version of LINUX are we going to use? I guess billy boy is going to learn the hardway!!! Bill Nagle ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] [OT] test your Microsoft Vista readiness
A lot of them will work if you stuck to the Borland API, if not they could be modified to work on both It all works with Ubuntu except the debugger at this time, it was quite a battle to figure it out but I think a similar problem is occurring with the debugger. At 03:44 PM 6/10/2006, you wrote: KD5NWA wrote: I've also worked on getting the Linux versions on Delphi and CBuilder so they work on the modern Linux Kernels. That is almost complete, I can create visual applications in the IDE, compile them and they will run correctly, the only problem right now is the debugger, it will not run and hangs up. I need to work on it, I feel there is the possibility of a fix in sight, I've just been busy lately but I will have some time available soon. An alternative would be an external debugger. snip That's very interesting...please Cecil keep me posted on your progresses in having C++Builder (or Kylix if you prefer) running under Ubuntu. I am afraid I would have to kiss goodbye all the VCL components I harvested, modified and/or wrote during the last years, but one can always start afresh on the new platform... thanks. 73 Alberto I2PHD ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] [OT] test your Microsoft Vista readiness
I don't know about Alberto, but for me the Borland development environment is best there is, many others I've tried are very clumsy compared to Borland. The visual interface development is so incredibly easy. But I guess for many it's what you are used to. At 05:10 PM 6/10/2006, you wrote: Alberto I2PHD wrote: KD5NWA wrote: I've also worked on getting the Linux versions on Delphi and CBuilder so they work on the modern Linux Kernels. That is almost complete, I can create visual applications in the IDE, compile them and they will run correctly, the only problem right now is the debugger, it will not run and hangs up. I need to work on it, I feel there is the possibility of a fix in sight, I've just been busy lately but I will have some time available soon. An alternative would be an external debugger. snip That's very interesting...please Cecil keep me posted on your progresses in having C++Builder (or Kylix if you prefer) running under Ubuntu. I am afraid I would have to kiss goodbye all the VCL components I harvested, modified and/or wrote during the last years, but one can always start afresh on the new platform... thanks. 73 Alberto I2PHD I am not sure what exactly you are looking for, but eclipse is a good multi platform development environment for java, C++ and C. Is C++Builder mainly a Windows tool? James ___ 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 Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] 10 Mhz input
Good luck in finding it, there is a optional 10MHz clock reference input. The IF of the SDR-1000 is around 11KHz. You can connect the input of the radio to the IF output, turn off the pre-amp, and tune it to 10.7 MHz. At 05:16 PM 6/8/2006, DAVID LEDUC wrote: A co-worker of mine has told me that there is a 10Mhz IF input on the SDR1K. This would work great for my Ic-R8500 which has a 10.7Mhz IF output. I can't find any documentation on this feature. If it does exist can someone point me it the right direction. Dave N1IX -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060608/c9e3ac23/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 Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] SDR 1000 Fan Noise
Fan noise, what fan noise? I have a 1 GHz network Level 3 switch on my desk, it has 2 fans that are so noisy that I can't hear the SDR fans at all. At 03:35 PM 6/7/2006, you wrote: If your considering making a mod to lower the SDR's fan noise, I found this site http://www.cpemma.co.uk/index.html covered about all the bases on the subject of Fan Noise Solutions. You'll see the (fan's) throat has a curved wasp-waist profile, known as a venturi, which optimizes air flow. Extending the venturi profile through the panel wall, blending it in by chamfering the cut-out edge, reduces turbulence, noise and flow losses due to drag and obstruction at the cut-out. (from: http://www.cpemma.co.uk/mount.html) Doing the above mod and mounting the fan in new rubber grommets will reduce the noise. Mel, K0PFX -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060607/5286f2a4/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 Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] [OT] vSOUND Development Starts June 5, 2006! - Vista
Vista will do more to push people to Linux than anything else. That is one important reason for the Flex V17 software to be available so people can start migrating SDR-1000 controlling software to Linux, BSD and OSX. From what I'm hearing pieces will start being released soon, I'm looking forward to it myself. At 01:10 PM 6/5/2006, you wrote: At 07:49 AM 6/5/2006, Mike Naruta wrote: Amen, Cecil. I haven't seen so far anything of an advantage to changing to Vista and lots of reasons to stay on XP. It seems to me that Vista might be change for the purpose of change. XP will be around for 2 or 3 years, at least, since there's wide acceptance in the business world. Vista, however, will eventually supersede it. In the consumer world (read: inexpensive computing for the masses) I would expect it to arrive earlier, and be accompanied by hardware that will attempt to lock it in (to address the concerns of the content industry). And, the impact to applications that use audio (or video) interfaces will be substantial, for much the same reason. There is ENORMOUS economic pressure on the PC hardware industry to make the tie between Windows and the hardware tight and authenticable (i.e. a serial number of Vista would be tied to a specific processor serial number) I'm migrating to Linux as well. The only app I may need to keep Windows for is my ATI TV recorder. I love to time-shift the ever-lessening TV shows that I watch. The nice thing about the ATI video card software is that I can playback about 15% faster than wall-time, plus instant scroll ahead. That makes some shows watchable. And it is specifically this sort of thing that Vista is designed to control more tightly. Jim Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever 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] Vista, DRM, and new Flex architecture.
More people to Linux is not the majority, who wants a bunch of sheep anyway. I'm interested more in many who like to tinker with software and do their own thing, and shareware publishers. If Microsoft locks them out in the name of protection, they are not going to give up playing with computers they will move to Linux or OSX where they have some freedom. Also if Microsoft also thinks that hackers won't be able to penetrate the systems they are going to be in for a rude shock. Personally the Video/Music industry and Microsoft has anything that happens to them coming. At 06:06 PM 6/5/2006, Jim Lux wrote: Off list... At 12:27 PM 6/5/2006, you wrote: Vista will do more to push people to Linux than anything else. Nope.. The vast majority of consumers are perfectly happy with MS's products, and, more to the point, the software that third parties provide (e.g. games). They'd like to be able to play next generation DVDs on their media center PCs too. The primary hold up for this is that Windows XP doesn't provide a level of digital rights management that content providers feel comfortable with (viz. the Sony rootkit copy protection as a way to impose a level of security that XP cannot). Especially when you start talking about MS wanting to be in the set top box software business so that you can do Tivo like functionality with a PC, but with content delivered via your friendly cable or telecom company. (Interestingly, my Motorola/DiGeo Moxi set-top box from Adelphia actually runs Linux, but you'd never know it) And MS is quite upfront about catering to this need. Last October at Gartner, they had a whole session on it. I believe there was a session at TechEd, too. Given the overall openness thing with Linux, I don't see game mfrs or movie distributors supporting Linux. Sure, today there is DeCSS for Linux, but heck, that was mostly because a)CSS is cryptologically unsound, being little better than ROT13 and b) A manufacturer inadvertently published their key in cleartext, and given the implementation of CSS, that compromised all keys. As a practical matter, too, the industry didn't think they needed any better, because all they needed was something so they could hang their hat on the anti-circumvention part of DMCA. I don't see them making that mistake a second time, but I also don't see them abandoning an approach relying in part on security through obscurity, so they'll never publish interfaces specs, etc. that would allow a secure Linux implementation. That is one important reason for the Flex V17 software to be available so people can start migrating SDR-1000 controlling software to Linux, BSD and OSX. yes, that would be nice. From what I'm hearing pieces will start being released soon, I'm looking forward to it myself. I'll believe it when I see it. Flex said, last year, that the new architecture would be published real soon now, but, they are relying on N4HY to do it for them, and he's got a lot of things on his plate. Jim Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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] SDR-1000 poor perfomance on receive.
The main problem it's not that I'm receiving signals that don't belong in the AM band but that it's totally deaf below 790KHz I have that one Mexican station way at the bottom, which it's probably due to filtering but my main problem is lack of signals. At 03:52 PM 5/29/2006, you wrote: Cecile, The SDR 1000 user manual says on page 8: While the SDR1000 covers frequencies down to 11 kHz, additional filtering is required to minimize response to harmonics. The optional filter bank (on the RFE board) allows the user to customize the radio to add support for such frequencies. You need a preselector and / or antenna tuner to enjoy listening on long and medium wave. I have done very successful dx reception of non directional beacons on long wave with the SDR1000. However, I use a preselector with three parallel tuned circuits and Q-multiplier in front of the SDR1000 to minimize the reponse to harmonics. I cannot see an easy fix to get rid of spurs on these frequencies. Best 73 Willi - Original Message - From: KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlexRadio FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 8:10 PM Subject: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 poor perfomance on receive. I recently bought a SDR-1000 at Dayton and have been playing with it. I'm using a Delta-44 card with my 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 PC, parallel port connect, and V16.1 software. I have no reception of AM broadcast stations from 520KHz to 780KHz, my alarm clock picks up several stations, the SDR-1000 nothing, not even a trace that there are stations there. I keep picking up a Mexican station on 40KHz and every 20KHz or so thereafter up to around 300KHz even with the pre-amp off. On several of the bands below the AM band I have massive spurs -40dB to -55dB, as you tune near them they disappear and new ones show up a few KHz away. General lack of signals on the band, when I hook the same antenna to a TS-930, I see lots of signals and AM stations below 790KHz. I have tried adding delays to the printer port to no avail. The radio's power supply is a 12A Astron linear power supply, and computer are plugged on the same outlet. Any clues? -- 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://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Teamspeak Audio - 05-13-06 lots of announcements
Correction, 120 Watts. I like this Power board for those need more power. http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.13/it.A/id.300/.f On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:34 -0400, Robert McGwier wrote: Never was there a better picture of why envelope elimination and restoration transmitters are so important. With Class E power amplifiers and Class S modulators (PWM, etc.) we too can produce power with efficiencies so high they *DON'T NEED MAJOR COOLING IF ANY*! Maybe these pictures (of a switching power supply) will help others understand the importance of this collection of ideas. How would you like an amplifier section that needed almost no more territory than that (per band) and produced no more heat than that will produce and yet deliver 100 watts to the load? I have been looking for an example of what the modulator (switching power supply with a twist) would look like. Thanks ;-). Bob Christopher T. Day wrote: Steve, It is the picoPSU-120. http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.13/it.A/id.417/.f This site also carries a variety of 12V switching power supplies to feed it. I bought the 90W version. Chris - AE6VK ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] SDR-Breadboard
You have at least one comment, mine. The way out in the fringe way of doing the software looks interesting and your displays look a lot nicer that the last time I looked. Seriously, I'll take a detailed look on Sunday. Off the top of my head, I would be more interested in a Linux port, I'm slowly moving away from Windows, and another functional SDR software package that I could fiddle with would be welcomed, that is if you have release the code to the public. As far as multi-platform if it can be reasonably done so it's supported in multiple platforms so much the better, if you can run under OSX that would be a big plus for me. I'm curious what sort of PC have you used this software with, so I can determine approximately the CPU power required. I'll give you more opinions and questions after I look at it more thoroughly. At 04:13 PM 5/11/2006, Cowdery, Bob [UK] wrote: Folks Version 4.0 is now released and on the SqueakMap. The web site http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g3ukb/ is up to date and contains a fair bit more info. I have even joined hamsdr.com so the link is there as well. This version has a lot of improvements and is much easier to manage. If all this means absolutely nothing to you then please spend a few minutes just looking at the web site. If interested then just a few hours of your precious time would be much appreciated to give it a whirl. Thanks to those that helped shape this release. It is still a work in progress but the current functionality is stable and very self contained so it won't pollute your system with random files! If there is enough interest I will do the Teamspeak thing to answer questions. I really am interested in your views and would love to have a discussion. I don't mind adverse comments in the least but it would be really disappointing to have no comments. Do you have a view on cross platform versa single platform? On languages? On single versa multi-machine deployment? On software front panels that imitate hardware versa software focused controls? On monolithic versa component GUI's? On the price of beer? Can anyone donate a brand new SDR1000 to a poor old guy that only has an old 3 board stack and may not have a job in a few months so can't get XYL approval to spend money? The forum has been very quiet lately; perhaps there really is no one out there... - 73 de Bob (G3UKB) *** Confidentiality Notice *** Proprietary/Confidential Information belonging to CGI Group Inc. and its affiliates may be contained in this message. If you are not a recipient indicated or intended in this message (or responsible for delivery of this message to such person), or you think for any reason that this message may have been addressed to you in error, you may not use or copy or deliver this message to anyone else. In such case, you should destroy this message and are asked to notify the sender by reply email. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060511/3306ef8f/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] test
No discussions of Beta software on the list, so it's quiet. At 05:04 PM 5/10/2006, Jim Lux wrote: No traffic recently, just wondering if the list is still alive? James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows, the most successful software virus ever Don Seglio Batuna ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] MatLab R14 on eBay
Like all things in life, it depends. I have bought some really great bargains on eBay (got skunked once), because the guy selling had no clue what he was selling. I bought a copy of LightWave 6.1 for $38 it was the current version at the time and cost over $1000, the guy had no clue what it was, he though it was a program to doodle pictures, he had it listed as kids doodling software. It was the real thing with dongle and all, right now that software is registered in my son's name. At 11:08 AM 5/5/2006, Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: If there's one thing I've learned about buying things on the internet it would be: If something seems to be too good to be true, then it probably is. I would suspect that this is not a legitimate copy of Matlab, or at least not the version this seller claims. If it is the real deal though, then whoever buys that is getting one heck of a deal. I've seen stranger thingslike trading a paperclip for a years worth of rent... ;) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of KD5NWA Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Flex Radio Subject: [Flexradio] MatLab R14 on eBay There is a vendor in eBay that is selling MATLAB V7.1 R14 which is the latest version for approximately $35 If you like to write SDR software, this software is great for verifying the algorithms. I normally sells for $100's of dollars and there are two copies left. http://cgi.ebay.com/Matlab-and-Simulink-7-1-Release-14-SP3-3CDs- version_W0QQitemZ7239575116QQcategoryZ96945QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZ Vi ewItem Have fun. Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex- radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060505/96981ce2/attachment.htm ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] Homebrew Hardware Upgrade?
The software is open but I don't believe the hardware is, someone correct me if I'm incorrect. As far as I've been able to see you can only get the schematics if you own the radio. In regards to the documentation of the software, there is the old saying the code is the documentation, I have never believed that saying. Welcome to the fold. At 12:54 PM 5/1/2006, you wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm interested in getting back into the software defined radio area again. The last thing I did was the R2-DSP, and it looks like there have been some good strides made since then. It looks like the SDR-1000 is an open design, but I'm still looking for the schematic and possibly source code of the control circuitry board. I'm also looking for the source code and the description of the protocol used to communicate with the DDS and relays (or possible micro-controller that controls them). Can someone direct me to all that information? I don't want to just purchase an SDR-1000, and play with the software; I would like to play with the hardware a little more this time, than I did with the R2-DSP. Analog Devices is sampling the AD9954 now, and it looks possibly more attractive than the AD9854. First, it has 14 bits on the D/A, and I think it should have lower phase noise; third, it dissipates about 1/4 the power, which is really nice because the AD9854 some special requirements when it came to the circuit board design because of the heat dissipation. Down sides are that you will need to use two AD9954's or perhaps you could use a Johnson divider and drop 6 meters, and the supply voltage is 1.8 volts, and I suppose there may be some issues with the serial programming instead of parallel and syncing the two DDS devices. What other things should I consider? Are there better reference oscillators available now? Are there other tweaks to the circuit that you would recommend? Why has nobody made Gerber files available for the PC boards for the SDR-1000? If I did a revised design, in keeping with the open nature of this project, I would want to make those available under GPL. In our lab at school, we have had very good luck with using surface mount components and the toaster oven method of applying them. It is so much faster than soldering through hole parts in, and a lot less tricky than soldering surface mount components by hand. We have also been making our own boards using a direct printing method on thin PCB material using a Xerox wax ink printer and acid etch. The cost of producing a couple of sets of boards using these methods is appealing to me at least, and I think I could use them in at a couple of classes I teach. 73, Rob, KL7NA -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: frohro.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 318 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060501/17dc9d8a/frohro.vcf ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
Re: [Flexradio] Homebrew Hardware Upgrade?
Both work for me with Firefox V1.5. Alberto, I received my copy of CBuilder V6.0 on this afternoon's mail, I will be compiling your code in a little bit after I make copies for safe keeping. Thanks again. At 03:34 PM 5/1/2006, Alberto I2PHD wrote: Philip Covington wrote: If you are interested in experimenting with SDR, check out the HPSDR project at http://hpsdr.org That results in a completely blank page, both with Firefox and IE... Tried also www.hpsdr.org, same result... 73 Alberto I2PHD ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
[Flexradio] Linux SDR group
Is the Linux SDR group meeting tonight on Teamspeak? I need some assistance in installing Ubuntu on a PC with a RAID controller. Thanks Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
Re: [Flexradio] [Humor] rain scatter and SDR
Wait a minute, what if you are on Scarbrough Reef, and there is a full moon (werewolf detection) but its raining also. There needs to be multiple options in the software that let you pick any combination of options available. At 07:19 PM 4/27/2006, Tim Ellison wrote: How about a Scarbrough Reef optimized detector too! -Tim --- Tim Ellison ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Integrated Technical Services ( http://www.itsco.com ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duane - N9DG Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:01 PM To: Paul Wade W1GHZ; Robert McGwier Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] rain scatter and SDR Hmmm, very interesting. Could an aurora optimized detector be far behind Duane N9DG --- Paul Wade W1GHZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Bob, at the VHF conference last weekend, Tom was talking to you about adding a rain scatter optimized detector to the SDR. to help you, I recorded some 10 GHz rain scatter on my SDR. www.w1ghz.org/new/rainX.wav ^ where X is 0 thru 7. 0 is the signal with no scatter, just about visible in the noise. others are 5 to 15 dB above noise, a typical signal. 73 paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
Re: [Flexradio] VC STudio express free download
It's been reported and several persons tried to make it work. At present it's not usable for compiling the PowerSDR software. VS 2005 use NET2.0 but the code is written for VS2003 which uses NET1.1. In the future 1.7 version or greater they may switch to NET 2.0 in which case the free software will be welcomed by a lot of persons who want to tinker with the code. For new projects that software is nice and handy. At 01:01 PM 4/25/2006, you wrote: I don't use OSes from Redmont, but may be this is useful for others. I am also not sure whether powerSDR can be built with this, but here is a free VisualStudio version called VisualStudio Express for free download: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-19VSExpressFreePR.mspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/express I am not sure whether this was already reported here in this list. Thanks -- Ramakrishnan - VU3RDD http://www.zerobeat.in ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060425/6ec57bfc/attachment.htm
Re: [Flexradio] compiling PowerSDR with Express version?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/default.aspx Look on the left side there is a box with links to the other languages like C++, VB, J#, SQL Unfortunately at this time you have to make major changes to the code to get it to compile with VS 2005, the main problem being NET2.0 vs NET1.1. But if it get moved to NET2.0 with 1.7 then we are all set with the availability of a free development environment. Still it's great for new projects in the meantime. I recommend you download the ISO image and burn CD's so you don't have to download it everytime that you want to install it. At 01:05 AM 4/21/2006, Ken N9VV wrote: Dear Flexers, forgive the same question again, but I can't search the archive to find the answer. There are inexpensive (free?) versions of the Microsoft compilers. Looks like there is C#, C++ and VB. Can any of those Express versions be used to compile the console? I know Eric has answered this a million times: why do we have to purchase the VS2003 in order to compile the console? tnx for your patience and answers, de ken ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060421/a233c9f1/attachment.htm
Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros
As the duck in Babe got told That is just the way things are. Of course he had a different opinion on the subject. One distribution has to be chosen as the supported distribution. Not everybody will be happy no matter which one you choose. Not that it matters much but I installed Ubuntu in three separate and totally different PC's and I didn't have one lick of trouble with any of them, so as far as choosing a distro that the non-Linux expert can install Ubuntu is a good choice. The Synaptic Program Manager is a great tool, very easy to use. Installing and compiling DTTSP is my next goal. See yah in the funny papers. At 12:30 PM 4/21/2006, you wrote: All, I cannot help but chuckle when I see normally rational people become totally irrational over Linux distributions. The main reasons that ubuntu was selected as the favored distribution for DttSP and are listed below. 1) There are ubuntu supported packages for all of the dependencies that are required for compiling DttSP. In fact there are over 17,000 supported packages. 2) Ubuntu has an excellent system installer. It isn't perfect, but it is as good as any and better than most. I have seen one instance where ubuntu would not install. That was on an ASUS P4P800E - Deluxe motherboard. It was not an installer problem, it iwas a Southbridge controller problem. The probability is high that this issue will be resolved in the next release of ubuntu. 3) Ubuntu has a regular upgrade cycle. Because ALSA modules are now compiled into the kernel and many of us use the Delta 44, we need the added ALSA support that a recent stock kernel gives us. 4) Ubuntu uses the Synaptic Program Manager. Managing packages and dependencies is way too easy with Synaptic. 5) Ubuntu has a comprehensive set of software development tools. One command, sudo apt-get install build-essential will make your ubuntu system development ready. 6) Seventy-seven amateur radio packages are supported by ubuntu. Granted some aren't worth the hard drive space they occupy, but it's the thought that counts. There is a supported package for gnuradio. My guess is the same will soon be true for DttSP. 7) There is an excellent chance that ubuntu will be around five years from now. Of the 200 distros that Jim Lux mentioned, how many will disappear in the next two years? I have said this many times before and I will say it again. If you are truly comfortable with a different distribution and feel that it meets your needs, use it. If you want support for DttSP and SDR related projects, use ubuntu. 73, Dan N4XWE - Celebrate Earth Day everyday! Discover 10 things you can do to help slow climate change. Yahoo! Earth Day -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060421/d02b840d/attachment.htm ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060421/6ab4187a/attachment.htm
Re: [Flexradio] Linux + VMware?
One thing to remember is that, that software is a player it can't create the virtual environment to run the other OS, to do that you need the paid version or have somebody who does create it for you. The player is of limited use in our environment where everyone's hardware is different. Something interesting that I've read is that the player will recognize are work with Microsoft Virtual Drives. I have the software to create those MS Virtual drives, so I need to test and see if I create a Virtual Drive with no OS in it, will the VM Player allow a OS install? If that is the case, then setting up a couple of Virtual spaces of different sizes out on a web site where anyone can pick them up will make the software quite usable. At 01:16 PM 4/21/2006, you wrote: I remember that VMware recently announced a *FREE* version of their virtual machine for home users or others who wanted to experiment http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ I imagine one could run VMware on top of Ubuntu? and have Windoze2K or WindozeXP or whatever you wanted. No? [or go the other way and run Ubuntu on VMware on top of Windoze? mix and match? BK de ken n9vv w2agn wrote: I see all the Linux discussion, which is interesting. I run both Linux and Win2000. About the only thing I run Windows for any more is the SDR Console. What I would like is to be able to run my SDR-1000 from Linux, just as I do from Win2000. I set up Jack at one time and dTTSP, but never could figure out how to get it to work with the SDR-1000. At the risk of being considered an idiot, I would just like a nice GUI that would run my SDR-1000 without having to leave Linux. Is any of the work going on towards that? _____ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ John L. Sielke ( W )( 2 )( A )( G )( N ) http://w2agn.net \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ http://www.blurty.com/users/w2agn CRUSTY OLD CURMUDGEON, AND PROUD OF IT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060421/676d15b8/attachment.htm
Re: [Flexradio] Am I Missing Something? Or Is Everyone?
Can you repeat what you are trying to say, I can't quite hear you. :-P At 08:45 AM 4/18/2006, Gerald Youngblood wrote: Hello Flexers, ;) In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. In case I did not make it clear: Beta will always be published on our website download page. Oh, In case you missed it: Beta will always be published on our website download page. 73, Gerald FlexRadio Systems ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060418/74df2e52/attachment.htm
Re: [Flexradio] Am I Missing Something? Or Is Everyone?
The Tortoise SVN is extremely easy to use, basically right click on a folder and select update and that is it, you will get you source copy updated. If you have made personal changes to you copy it keeps them by updating the file instead of replacing it. I have no clue if you have bad experiences with other SVN sources, but Tortoise is easy as could be. If you want some help in trying it out let me know. At 11:49 AM 4/16/2006, you wrote: I have a Flex on order,.. It is due to ship in a couple of three weeks. Part of my purchasing decision was to have ready access to source and Beta releases. I'll call Gerald Monday moring and explain that he can cancel my order if I have to deal with SVN. So there! IS that a simple enough business decision for Gerald? -Dan K6KDK - Original Message - From: Dale Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Don AE5K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Am I Missing Something? Or Is Everyone? I must agree with Don on this. I really like using and playing with the beta versions. It is the joy of experimenting that makes the SDR unique. There needs to be an easier way to download and use the beta versions. I also agree with Gerald along the lines of business sense. One has to present the SDR as stable and ready to go to the majority of operators. That being said, I still like the idea of easy downloads of beta versions. 73, Dale AA5XE Don AE5K wrote: At the risk of getting my hands slapped (yes, this list now has a bunch of Thou Shall Nots... which are hard to keep up with)... In a recent communication to this list, Gerald wrote: That is to publish BOTH the source and the executable code on the SVN server and you will have access. You do NOT need to compile any code to get and run the latest. Sounds good! So, I believed Gerald and decided to try out the very latest alpha. I am sorely unexperienced with Subversion, but have TortoiseSVN installed on my Windows 2000 machine that I've been using in the past to run PowerSDR. Briefly, here are my experiences last evening: 1. Made a directory to hold the svn stuff and clicked on the only thing I could find that would download from the URI given by Tim E. the other day. Lucky I have a DSL connection out here in the boondocks of the Ozarks ... it took more than several minutes. Ended up with 95.9 MB (with 172 MB of disk space taken up) in the directory, including 5660 files and 714 folders! 2. Made my way to the release folder under trunk-bin and found a powersdr.exe. Clicking on it started up the wisdom program for a few minutes. Then, instead of starting up the PowerSDR console, it told me of a fatal error: File or assembly name Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput of one of its dependencies was not found 3. Copied powersdr.exe into it's own folder and started it. Now I consistently get a fatal error which starts out: The system cannot find the file specified ... at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEX (ProcessStartInfo startInfo) and continuing with 4 more lines similar. Even though I might be considered a software type, my expertise is not in the area of svn or MS Windows. It used to be simple to try a new beta version. Just download a couple megabyte file and go. Gerald, it just isn't that way any more! What am I missing? (besides some files) Maybe some good directions on how to use subversion and to properly execute the latest alpha? Or do those who wish to try out the latest need to become software gurus? I can accept the shift ... but I feel many of us are now left out. 73, Don AE5K ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20 060416/db57734c/attachment.htm ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows
Re: [Flexradio] Am I Missing Something? Or Is Everyone?
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Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] Increased frustration....
as well on the SDR Console. There is evidently something very wrong here and I suspect it is most likely going to be simple and obvious. I just have no where else to look at the moment. I will not apologize for either the length of my transmittals or their perceived naiveté by others. I am not shy about things that I am passionate about like this. I feel like giving the entire picture at once will facilitate a clearer understanding of the matters at hand. Given this ONLY AVENUE of support, I hope that for those, like me with issues/problems, there will be someone that can help. Harold KD5RD ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
Re: [Flexradio] frustration..
There used to be a utility that would go into the registry of NT workstation and turn it into NT server, I tried it a long time ago for fun and it seem to work I was able to install software that only ran on server and use the PC as a server. I inherited two Dell PowerEdge 4400 servers from work, with 2 Gigs of RAM and 400 Gigs of Raid 5 disk array, they running Server 2003 at this time. One is the PC that has all my development software on it and it's sitting between my legs in the workbench I'm typing this from, the other is powered off and sitting in a corner waiting it's day I have not tried the PowerSDR software on it due to it not having a sound card, but I have a sound card for it and soon it will find it's way in. I've been told that the PowerSDR software runs better on server software but I have not tried it out. At 02:50 PM 4/15/2006, Jim Lux wrote: Ah, the mysteries of trying to run real-time DSP code on a computer and OS designed for office-automation.. Seriously, there can be all sorts of things that trap you. Some real gotchas are things like: Virus checkers and firewalls, which insert themselves into various and sundry I/O operations, and can have a real (and totally unpredictable) performance impact. McAfee was notorious for this. I'm not so wild about the impact of Symantec's RTV. system maintenance and administration tools, like Patchlink SMS. While these are more common in a corporate environment, they're showing up in consumer systems too, to make the process of responding to customer service calls easier. Windows Automatic Update can have all sorts of unintended consequences. Not only will your computer spontaneously burst into action to seek out the updates from home, but you might have transparently installed a software update that has some other consequence. -- To a certain extent, trying to do hard-real-time processing on a machine that gets used for other things has a whole lot of issues. The optimum system setup (in the OS parameters and services sense) is different. Back in early Windows NT days, there were two versions, workstation and server. The actual software was identical, with the only difference being all the multitude of operating parameters. NT server edition was a dog for interactive use from the keyboard, because all the resources were devoted to handling network traffic and disk i/o. (I have several friends who spent many, many hours trying to reverse engineer the differences, because the price differential between workstation edition and server edition was substantial.. they kept hoping that if only they could figure out ALL the settings, they could get server performance from workstation NT. Perfectly legally.) This is why I think that going to a two PC model is a good idea. The one running the realtime DSP can be a pretty much standalone box, running ONLY the OS and the software needed to support the radio, and configured optimally to support the DSP processes. Doesn't even need a display or keyboard, really. The second PC is your normal desktop which runs the user interface, etc. That DSP machine, for instance, doesn't need a huge (or any) disk, nor does it need a lot of memory, nor does it need good graphics performance. It just needs to be fast enough and have the right interfaces. So, I eagerly await the opening of the great chasm between UI and DSP. Let's start defining the SOAP 1.2 envelopes for all those parameters, and decide what audio transport protocol we're going to use. (RTP,RTSP,RTCP,SIP?). There's some very interesting issues surrounding doing things like high speed CW over an internet pipe (latency..) that I don't think have been addressed at all by the usual Internet community. Jim, W6RMK ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
Re: [Flexradio] frustration..
It can be simpler than that, you can setup multiple profiles, and set some of the services and hardware to only run on one profile. So when you boot to profile SDR the network card is disabled, no updates, no firewall, no anti-virus. Otherwise the PC is intact, word works..etc. At 03:08 PM 4/15/2006, Jim Lux wrote: At 12:50 PM 4/15/2006, Jim Lux wrote: This is why I think that going to a two PC model is a good idea. The one running the realtime DSP can be a pretty much standalone box, running ONLY the OS and the software needed to support the radio, and configured optimally to support the DSP processes. Doesn't even need a display or keyboard, really. The second PC is your normal desktop which runs the user interface, etc. That DSP machine, for instance, doesn't need a huge (or any) disk, nor does it need a lot of memory, nor does it need good graphics performance. It just needs to be fast enough and have the right interfaces. Actually, it just occurred to me that setting up your Windows PC for dual boot might be a good way to handle this. You could have your usual configuration for day to day work, with all the virus checkers, firewalls, etc, and you could have an alternate configuration that's still Windows, but stripped down, lean and mean, with all the other services stripped out. Presumably, while radioing you're not web-browsing, email virus infecting, etc. This is fairly easy to set up... I don't recall off the top of my head, but it's actually part of Windows, and you don't need any aftermarket programs (although, there are some that make life easier). Jim. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus
