Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread EB4APL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZS6AVM Wrote: First of, thank you to all who replied to my posting regarding the high static levels, and the power-up issue The SDR was bought in around June 2006, so it should have the mods as suggested I'm not using USB, normal parallel cable I only have the

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread Jim Lux
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Re: [Flexradio] 6m Power

2006-12-05 Thread Jerry Harley
Maarten N1DZ wrote: I am using an elecraft transverter driving a homebrew Transistor PA With a SD1407 (or MRF422) see http://www.nr6ca.org/50mhzamp.html. This will give me an easy 50 wats to drive my Acom 1000. One could also use a M57735 and a transistor PA. Not difficult to get power on

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread Ken N9VV
O.K. Dave thanks, now we know much more about your setup. Disconnect your Parallel cable and measure the VOLTAGE on some of the pins of the PC Parallel connector. The NEW PCs are barely keeping the parallel and serial ports alive. Some of the motherboards only apply +/- 3,0vdc INSTEAD of the

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread Charles Greene
At 09:13 AM 12/5/2006, Ken N9VV wrote: O.K. Dave thanks, now we know much more about your setup. Disconnect your Parallel cable and measure the VOLTAGE on some of the pins of the PC Parallel connector. The NEW PCs are barely keeping the parallel and serial ports alive. Some of the motherboards

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread John Sweeney
Ken, You hit on something very interesting. I also have the very occasional flat line, or receiver going deaf, when switching from transmit to receive. Clicking on Standby and back to On always brings the PowerFlex back to life. I'm using the standard Parallel cable with a newer, but

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread Willi Reppel
John, Make sure the printer cable is as short as possible. This was already a topic 2-3 years ago when you still could buy parallel line conditioners in computer shops. You can get mine for free, if you pay the postage from Europe to the US because I replaced the conditioner with the

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread Dudley Hurry
I also thought that the cable had to be more than just a printer cable. Mine is a full 25 pin cable 6 feet long and works perfectly..Not having a good parallel interface and cable can cause a lot of problems Also on the movement of the cursor causing a the receiver to go deaf, mine is