Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR
Jim (et al), Am I satisfied with artificial grounds? I don’t know as I haven’t done them yet but from what I have read and info from an EE/ham friend with 35 years antenna design experience, I don’t have too many good choices. I will be putting a DXE-BAL-050-Series at the base of the Hy-Tower and a DXE-FCC-050-A where the coax comes out of the ground to enter the building containing the shack. I will be putting a Polyphaser lightning protector there next to the entry to the bld too. I am open for suggestions. There are lots of possible if not really practical options not the least of which is remoting the F5K inside the metal bld on which the antenna is being mounted. That involves considerable more technological complexity. I’m going to try (unless I get some super duper suggestions) the approach outlined. 73 Patrick AF5CK Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:16 PM To: patric...@windstream.net ; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR I am not a hirech guru. But that hasn't stoppped me from ponitificating before. You want to connect DDutil to PowerSDR. DDu has the capability to switch hardware things by band or by macro. You connect it to PSDR with a virtual serial cable. There are a couple of good VSP programs, such as VSPE and VSPmgr. VSPmgr is written by the author of DDutil, Streve Nance. DDu can switch antenna switches, and a few auxiliary switches. Review it at k5fr.com, and find the Yahoo group, to see what hardware can be switched. Are you satisfied with artificial grounds? Jim KJ2P From: patric...@windstream.net To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:40:08 -0500 Subject: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR I'm in information overload (and loving it, mostly.) Could some of you hitech gurus point me toward where the most understandable explanation of how to use PSDR to remotely switch equipment would be found? The good news is I have a new Flex Radio (5K) and the not so good news is my shack under development to house it is on the second floor. So... I'm investigating artificial grounds and related topics. I'm thinking it should be relatively straight forward to tune my ground connection from shack to grounds rod(s) to series resonance for each band or sub band of interest with a little fiddling to construct a collection of fixed artificial grounds and select the one to use automatically with PSDR. I can easily handle the tuning of the individual artificial grounds but need a little nudge in the right direction (OK picked up and bodily thrown toward) the info for getting PSDR to do that automatically for me. First respondent with an answer approved by a simple majority of contest judges will have their name or call sign entered into a drawing where they may qualify to win a swell prize. 73 Patrick AF5CK ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2433/5076 - Release Date: 06/17/12 ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR
Tim and the group, I am installing a Hy-Gain Hy-Tower multiband vertical antenna on top of a metal bld about 200 ft from my shack. Shack is on second floor. I will be trenching in 3 inch PVC conduit from bld with shack (house/shop/garage) to the bld with antenna which is a 36x71x18 (at eaves) metal bld with 2:12 pitch gable roof. I will be fabricating a base mount to attach through the roof to a pipe truss in the center of the bld. This will replace the cubic yard of steel reinforced concrete normally used. To accommodate stronger winds and reduce strength requirements of the base mount I will guy the top of the triangular tower section (24 ft) with Phillystran. The DX engineering DXE-BAL-050-Series will be installed at the base of the antenna. Polyphaser lightning protection and a DXE-FCC050-H05-A will be installed at the point where the coax comes up out of the ground and enters the house/garage/shop. Thanks to Tim for the suggestion to just tie all equip in the shack to a single point. That will be one of my candidate solutions. I assume that the computer running PSDR is included in that ground community. Thanks to everyone for their consideration. 73 Patrick AF5CK -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 6:31 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR Can't answer the question completely because you only described on half of the RF circuit; what is your antenna? If your shack is on the second floor, you do not need (or want) an RF ground because you are too far away from the actual ground (earth) that what ever you install will radiate. If your antenna is balanced, then all you need to do is ground the coax shield at the dwelling ingress point (a good place for a lightning arrest / DC drain) and the place a common mode choke after the grounding point. If you have an unbalanced antenna, a few more common mode chokes will probably be necessary. This will keep a lot of RF out of the shack. In the shack, just ground all of you RF hardware to a common single point ground so they are all at the same potential. -Tim --- Tim Ellison, W4TME Product Management FlexRadio Systems (Sent from my iPad) On Jun 17, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Patrick Greenlee patric...@windstream.net wrote: I'm in information overload (and loving it, mostly.) Could some of you hitech gurus point me toward where the most understandable explanation of how to use PSDR to remotely switch equipment would be found? The good news is I have a new Flex Radio (5K) and the not so good news is my shack under development to house it is on the second floor. So... I'm investigating artificial grounds and related topics. I'm thinking it should be relatively straight forward to tune my ground connection from shack to grounds rod(s) to series resonance for each band or sub band of interest with a little fiddling to construct a collection of fixed artificial grounds and select the one to use automatically with PSDR. I can easily handle the tuning of the individual artificial grounds but need a little nudge in the right direction (OK picked up and bodily thrown toward) the info for getting PSDR to do that automatically for me. First respondent with an answer approved by a simple majority of contest judges will have their name or call sign entered into a drawing where they may qualify to win a swell prize. 73 Patrick AF5CK ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2433/5076 - Release Date: 06/17/12 ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
[Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR
I'm in information overload (and loving it, mostly.) Could some of you hitech gurus point me toward where the most understandable explanation of how to use PSDR to remotely switch equipment would be found? The good news is I have a new Flex Radio (5K) and the not so good news is my shack under development to house it is on the second floor. So... I'm investigating artificial grounds and related topics. I'm thinking it should be relatively straight forward to tune my ground connection from shack to grounds rod(s) to series resonance for each band or sub band of interest with a little fiddling to construct a collection of fixed artificial grounds and select the one to use automatically with PSDR. I can easily handle the tuning of the individual artificial grounds but need a little nudge in the right direction (OK picked up and bodily thrown toward) the info for getting PSDR to do that automatically for me. First respondent with an answer approved by a simple majority of contest judges will have their name or call sign entered into a drawing where they may qualify to win a swell prize. 73 Patrick AF5CK ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR
I am not a hirech guru. But that hasn't stoppped me from ponitificating before. You want to connect DDutil to PowerSDR. DDu has the capability to switch hardware things by band or by macro. You connect it to PSDR with a virtual serial cable. There are a couple of good VSP programs, such as VSPE and VSPmgr. VSPmgr is written by the author of DDutil, Streve Nance. DDu can switch antenna switches, and a few auxiliary switches. Review it at k5fr.com, and find the Yahoo group, to see what hardware can be switched. Are you satisfied with artificial grounds?Jim KJ2P From: patric...@windstream.net To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:40:08 -0500 Subject: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR I'm in information overload (and loving it, mostly.) Could some of you hitech gurus point me toward where the most understandable explanation of how to use PSDR to remotely switch equipment would be found? The good news is I have a new Flex Radio (5K) and the not so good news is my shack under development to house it is on the second floor. So... I'm investigating artificial grounds and related topics. I'm thinking it should be relatively straight forward to tune my ground connection from shack to grounds rod(s) to series resonance for each band or sub band of interest with a little fiddling to construct a collection of fixed artificial grounds and select the one to use automatically with PSDR. I can easily handle the tuning of the individual artificial grounds but need a little nudge in the right direction (OK picked up and bodily thrown toward) the info for getting PSDR to do that automatically for me. First respondent with an answer approved by a simple majority of contest judges will have their name or call sign entered into a drawing where they may qualify to win a swell prize. 73 Patrick AF5CK ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
