Re: [Flexradio] OT FWD :::::Wanted:::::

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Wachsmann
Even a software guy can appreciate this kind of humor. :) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Allen Boehm Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:47 PM To: FlexRadio Reflector Subject:

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Reppel
Jeff, One possible cure to avoid said jiggling and twisting of the plugs is to drill larger holes into the backplate of the SDR1000 enclosure. The relatively small holes may prevent certain types of male plugs to reach the bottom of the female connectors. Gold-plated plugs here in the old

Re: [Flexradio] Lack of audio

2006-09-26 Thread SERGE BERTUZZO
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Re: [Flexradio] Lack of audio

2006-09-26 Thread Tim Ellison
I've done this: is the MUTE button on? -Tim --- Integrated Technical Services Too much of everything is just enough. -Rob Barlow -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FlexRadio - Eric Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:48 AM To: 'SERGE

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff, That is exactly my thought. Have Jon do a two tone transmit at max power from his QTH to yours and see what the spectrum looks like on your panadapter. Have Jon keep the transmission to a few seconds. Tom W0IVJ Original Message: - From: Jeff Anderson [EMAIL

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Larry Loen
Willi Reppel wrote: Jeff, One possible cure to avoid said jiggling and twisting of the plugs is to drill larger holes into the backplate of the SDR1000 enclosure. The relatively small holes may prevent certain types of male plugs to reach the bottom of the female connectors. Gold-plated plugs

[Flexradio] update DC/DC Converter (DC1) Replaced with Linear Supply

2006-09-26 Thread john_eckert
. If you screw it up, just suck it up, fix the mistake and move on. 73, John k2ox -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060926/b8a92a1f/attachment.html

[Flexradio] Rf amplifier

2006-09-26 Thread Klein, Ken
Recently I built a couple of wide-band common-base transformer feedback (CBTF) amplifiers as described by Dallas Lankford in this article : http://www.kongsfjord.no/dl/Amplifiers/Ultralinear%202N5109%20And%202N3053% 20Amplifiers.pdf#search=%22dallas%20lankford%20CBTF%22 I built the push-pull

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Reppel
Larry, To the best of my knowledge, I cannot recall an offi-cial warning from Flex.Radio against the use of gold-plated plugs. In contrary, these were praised many times as problem solvers on the forum and reflector without objections. Anyhow, they solved my problems and twisting is now done

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Mike Naruta
Rather than enlarge the hole, I used a knife to shave the plastic on the plug end. Mike - AA8K Willi Reppel wrote: Larry, To the best of my knowledge, I cannot recall an offi-cial warning from Flex.Radio against the use of gold-plated plugs. In contrary, these were praised many times

Re: [Flexradio] Rf amplifier

2006-09-26 Thread Cecilio Bayona
Klein, Ken wrote: Recently I built a couple of wide-band common-base transformer feedback (CBTF) amplifiers as described by Dallas Lankford in this article : http://www.kongsfjord.no/dl/Amplifiers/Ultralinear%202N5109%20And%202N3053% 20Amplifiers.pdf#search=%22dallas%20lankford%20CBTF%22 I

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Reppel
Mike, Good suggestion, but less useful for those who use gold-plated plugs in solid brass. Willi - Original Message - From: Mike Naruta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'FlexRadio Mailing List' FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Poor

[Flexradio] Help with voice mode transmission

2006-09-26 Thread stevesturges
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Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Ken - N9VV
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Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Cecilio Bayona
Ken - N9VV wrote: There are, of course, many 12VDC computer systems on the market. They are especially popular with the Car computer for gaming crowd. May I suggest these resources for info: Embedded computer examples (pictures) http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8498487406.html

Re: [Flexradio] Rf amplifier

2006-09-26 Thread dx
Thanks for the great information, Cecilio. I have read this article before but had not thought of using the design ith the SDR. From your description of the benefits, these amps sound very useful for the weak foreign signals I DX on the MW split frequencies. BTW, my friend Craig at

[Flexradio] +/-15VDC encapsulated P/S

2006-09-26 Thread Ken - N9VV
JAMECO Catalog - 9-18VDC in = +/-15VDC out URL: http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1storeId=10001catalogId=10001productId=217066pa=217066PS Isolated Encapsulated DC-to-DC Converter DKE10 Series: Dual Output The Mean Well DKE10 family of regulated DC-to-DC

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Tayloe Dan-P26412
It would sure be great as an initial start to simply provide this portion of the project as a gang busters audio card though. I for one am disappointed with the current state of the art in sound cards such as my Firebox. It requires entirely too much gain to get the best sensitivity out of the

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Cecilio Bayona
Tayloe Dan-P26412 wrote: It would sure be great as an initial start to simply provide this portion of the project as a gang busters audio card though. I for one am disappointed with the current state of the art in sound cards such as my Firebox. It requires entirely too much gain to get the

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Cecilio Bayona
Ken - N9VV wrote: There are, of course, many 12VDC computer systems on the market. They are especially popular with the Car computer for gaming crowd. May I suggest these resources for info: Embedded computer examples (pictures) http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8498487406.html

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Bill Tracey
A number of us SDR experimenters have been building such a thing. The sound card part is called Janus and I believe it has quite good performance. It's based on the AK5394a chip, and can be jumpered to not have an attenuator on the inputs. More details on it at:

[Flexradio] Edirol Firewire box

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Amos
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

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread pvharman
Hi Dan, The Janus board (hpsdr.org) has a jumper selectable 15dB attenuator fitted to its input so the board can be used with an existing SDR1000. The attenuator can be taken out of circuit and the input connected directly to the A/D converter on the card for optimum SDR performance. This

[Flexradio] Calibrate sound card

2006-09-26 Thread Mike
In the official 1.6.2 release where there is an option in the audio tab to test the output voltage, what is the level being input to the Delta 44 if chosen in the sound card selection?¿ On a second note...How much latitude does the PA gain by band settings calibrate function have to adjust to

Re: [Flexradio] Calibrate sound card

2006-09-26 Thread Jimmy Jones
Can anyone offer any advise on making the recorder work. I can play back to myself now but I can't play back a recording over the air. Mike wrote: In the official 1.6.2 release where there is an option in the audio tab to test the output voltage, what is the level being input to the Delta 44

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Larry Loen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, The Janus board (hpsdr.org) has a jumper selectable 15dB attenuator fitted to its input so the board can be used with an existing SDR1000. The attenuator can be taken out of circuit and the input connected directly to the A/D converter on the card for optimum

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Lyle Johnson
Larry Loen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, The Janus board (hpsdr.org) has a jumper selectable 15dB attenuator fitted to its input so the board can be used with an existing SDR1000. The attenuator can be taken out of circuit and the input connected directly to the A/D

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread pvharman
2) Will there be an added provision to put the CW keying downstream of the software (I'm thinking of a design point where the software transmit (in cahoots with this option) really was continuous wave and the key plugged in downstream far enough to actually do the On/Off keying in

[Flexradio] Selectivity Approaching Perfection

2006-09-26 Thread Charles J Fontenot
As a selectivity enthusiast, I must bring to everyone's attention that SVN 692 is a major milestone in the human-to-machine interface for two key selectivity functions. The keyboard shortcut for IF Shift is now operational, along with the keyboard shortcuts for Filter Width. Programming

Re: [Flexradio] Selectivity Approaching Perfection

2006-09-26 Thread A.R.S. - W5AMI
The selectivity control of the SDR1K has be be one of the absolute most impressive functions of this rig. I can't say how great it is operating SSB or AM, there are no words ;) Just when I thought that selectivity control could not get any better, it did! Thanks! Brian On 9/26/06, Charles J

[Flexradio] Another great night on 80 meters - recording of W2ZM

2006-09-26 Thread A.R.S. - W5AMI
Good long haul propagation on 80 meters tonight. The local (0 - 300 mile) stations were not copyable at all, however the east and west coast were heard here Q5. Here is a recording I made from my QTH of Bob/W2ZM in Penn Yan, NY (Upstate) while in QSO with him. There were others, Bob/K0NT in

Re: [Flexradio] Another great night on 80 meters - recording of W2ZM

2006-09-26 Thread A.R.S. - W5AMI
I see the URL I posted was not interpreted well in FireFox, so I shortened it: http://w5ami.net/W2ZM_1.mp3 Sorry for any confusion... ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz