Re: [Flexradio] N4HY + K5SDR defend Ham Radio at FCC

2007-07-10 Thread Robert McGwier
And these comments were pointed to with some regularity by me and others. It was well thought out, and very helpful. TAPR did a great job with this. If I had one disappointment, it was that individuals with leadership roles at the time in GnuRadio, who could have been severely impacted by

[Flexradio] PA Duty Cycle

2007-07-10 Thread John Spangler
I know the maximum continuous power output is 40 watts. What is the duty cycle (and period) at 100 watts? Is airflow the limiting factor or is there another issue? I just read recently (EDN magazine?) that air blown directly at a heat sink, rather than across it, provides more effective

Re: [Flexradio] PA Duty Cycle

2007-07-10 Thread Lee Mushel
I've spent a lot of my life in HVAC. It is difficult for me to accept the idea that air should be blown against a (I assume finned and not some simple plate) heat sink for maximum efficiency! Lee K9WRU - Original Message - From: John Spangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread n3wt
Over the past 8 months, there has been a couple of enhancement requests to add Manual Notch filter for CW. I always thought a manual notch could be useful on PowerSDR, same as it is on other conventional steamboat rigs. But this is one of the few good enhancement requests that has not been

Re: [Flexradio] RIT cleared on click tuning- RTTY problem

2007-07-10 Thread Ray Andrews
by more traditional methods. I expect no less from the Flex-5000. Flex on forever! 73, Ray, K9DUR -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070710/3744bac8/attachment.html

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Ellison
The manual notch filter is important. All of the programming effort for the past few months has been towards getting the FLEX-5000 working with PowerSDR and not on providing new features. Enhancements and new features will get put back on the programming to do list once support for the FLEX-5000

[Flexradio] New user up and running using Vista!

2007-07-10 Thread KE2SL
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[Flexradio] Can Shuttle Pro control radio when Power SDR window is in background?

2007-07-10 Thread KE2SL
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Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread KE2SL
I agree a manual notch filter would be useful and would be even better if you could right click the offending signal when in panadapter display and have a selection to apply notch filter. Also it should be available in other modes as well as CW. Just some wishful thinking :-) Dave WO2X

Re: [Flexradio] Can Shuttle Pro control radio when Power SDR window is in background?

2007-07-10 Thread Neal Campbell K3NC
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Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Jim McLester
Maybe implemented as a reverse of the present bandpass. Would really help in getting the 1khz by +40db pks31 signal down to a mild roar! Jim - W4YXU - Original Message - From: Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Ellison
How about a click, drag and set filter in addition to a fixed width notch filter? Place the crosshairs on one side of the offending signal and define the filter width by dragging dynamically created filter width across it, nulling it out. -Tim Integrated Technical Services www.itsco.com

Re: [Flexradio] RIT cleared on click tuning- RTTY problem

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Naruta
Back when I built my Twin Cities and HAL ST-6 TUs, transmitters with FSK FM'd the transmit frequency back and forth between Mark and Space. A very few transmitters had FSK. You usually had to dig into the VFO and use a diode and capacitor to shift the frequency. Later, as a shortcut to getting

Re: [Flexradio] Can Shuttle Pro control radio when Power SDR window is in background?

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Ellison
the radio. Any way around this or is this a Windoze limitation? Thanks, Dave WO2X -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ attachments/20070710/e33699f7/attachment.html

Re: [Flexradio] PA Settings

2007-07-10 Thread Frank Mayer
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Re: [Flexradio] Can Shuttle Pro control radio when Power SDR window is in background?

2007-07-10 Thread KE2SL
Yeah. I've been trying to find a third party program that would send a specific keystroke combo to a dedicated program.. No luck so far. Dave WO2X - Original Message - From: Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Part of it is a Windoze thing. The powermate is essentially a pointing device

[Flexradio] woodbox radio company control

2007-07-10 Thread elan paim
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Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000a flexwire plug

2007-07-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:05 PM 7/9/2007, Gerald Youngblood wrote: One of the pins will be blocked to prevent you from plugging in a RS-232 port. We chose DB-9 because they are easy to find and easy to hand wire. Have you ever tried to hand wire one of those DIN connectors on the back of most radios? I have. Gerald

[Flexradio] Fw: PA Settings

2007-07-10 Thread KE2SL
I too had this issue with the current 1.91B available for download from the Flex web site. Installed 1.80 release and all is fine. What is a good stable SVN release at this time? Dave WO2X - Original Message - From: Frank Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al, I have determined where the

Re: [Flexradio] Fw: PA Settings

2007-07-10 Thread Frank Mayer
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Re: [Flexradio] RIT cleared on click tuning- RTTY problem

2007-07-10 Thread Mark Mumaw
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Re: [Flexradio] PA Duty Cycle

2007-07-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 07:26 AM 7/10/2007, Lee Mushel wrote: I've spent a lot of my life in HVAC. It is difficult for me to accept the idea that air should be blown against a (I assume finned and not some simple plate) heat sink for maximum efficiency! Depends on the heatsink and chassis design. For a lot of

Re: [Flexradio] RIT cleared on click tuning- RTTY problem

2007-07-10 Thread Ray Andrews
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Re: [Flexradio] RIT cleared on click tuning- RTTY problem

2007-07-10 Thread Ray Andrews
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Re: [Flexradio] woodbox radio company control

2007-07-10 Thread Ruben Navarro Huedo
elan paim escribió: Why not to ask the WoodBox radio to Design a nice control for the 5000a? they can do a good job on this one excuse me, but i am new with sdr... can the one of sdr-1000 be buyed in woodbox? ___ FlexRadio mailing list

[Flexradio] New with sdr-1000

2007-07-10 Thread Ruben Navarro Huedo
Hello friends: I finish to buy an offer for sdr-1000 with edirol sound card. I want test it and if i like it, in some months i will but the new flex 5000. Please...is there any advice for a newbie? What software version do i install? 1.8.0 or 1.9.1 beta ? What is svn ? and...can i connect my the

Re: [Flexradio] PA Settings

2007-07-10 Thread Jim, W4ATK
H, I don't know about the drive increasing, but the average power certainly does and that is as it should be. I do not have a peak reading wattmeter here unless the FWD PWR meter function might qualify and I see peaks up to 70 watts or so on occasion, but average reading on my Bird is around

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread lwloen
I agree a manual notch filter would be useful and would be even better if you could right click the offending signal when in panadapter display and have a selection to apply notch filter. Also it should be available in other modes as well as CW. Just some wishful thinking :-) Dave WO2X

[Flexradio] Fw: PA Settings

2007-07-10 Thread Frank Mayer
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Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Ken N9VV
Interestingly, in the digi world (PSK31) both HamScope and MixW have notch filters built right into their waterfall's. You simply right click on the offending signal and notch it out (up to about 40db I think). de ken n9vv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree a manual notch filter would be useful

[Flexradio] Pics of SteppIR on crank up tower

2007-07-10 Thread deuhs
Hi, Does anyone have any pics to send me showing a 3 or 4 element SteppIR on a crank up tower, preferably raised and in the lowered position? I'm going through as home purchase and want the neighbor's OK before proceeding. My direct e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, Greg K0PJ/9

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Guy Atkins
Tim, Would a notch like this be able to work outside of the filter passband, but within the panadapter window? It would be great to put a wide manual notch on an adjacent channel signal to knock down splatter. However, this might work better (or at all) with software phasing algorithms such as

Re: [Flexradio] New with sdr-1000

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Ellison
Ruben, Welcome to the club! Please use only the released version 1.8.0 of PowerSDR until you have your system up and running successfully. Yes, you can connect a Heil ProSet to a SDR-1000. Refer to the PowerSDR Operations Manual for the microphone pin out. You will probably need to make a

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Ellison
The notch filter should be able to work anywhere in the passband of the audio ~180 KHz when running at 192 KHz sampling rate. Eric has the last word on that. -Tim -Original Message- From: Guy Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:22 PM To: Tim Ellison

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Eric Wachsmann
There are multiple issues at hand here. First, the technical aspect of how to implement the filter. I'm sure there are latency considerations unless we somehow combined this into our existing RX filter. Those issues are really for our DSP gurus N4HY and AB2KT to figure out. While there are

Re: [Flexradio] Pics of SteppIR on crank up tower

2007-07-10 Thread deuhs
Sorry, wrong group - 73. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 10, 2007 4:56 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Pics of SteppIR on crank up tower Hi, Does anyone have any pics to send me showing a 3 or 4 element SteppIR on a crank up tower, preferably

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Robert McGwier
KE2SL wrote: I agree a manual notch filter would be useful and would be even better if you could right click the offending signal when in panadapter display and have a selection to apply notch filter. Also it should be available in other modes as well as CW. Just some wishful thinking

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Robert McGwier
Sounds like a plan to me. Bob Jim Lux wrote: At 03:47 PM 7/10/2007, Eric Wachsmann wrote: There are multiple issues at hand here. First, the technical aspect of how to implement the filter. I'm sure there are latency considerations unless we somehow combined this into our existing RX

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Ray Andrews
Guy, Of course, a notch filter could be coded to work anywhere in the range of the panadapter display. However, don't hold your breath waiting for it to do what you want. If the splatter is caused by an improperly adjusted transmitter somewhere else on the band, then the splatter consists of

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Ray, Point well taken. I shouldn't have described what I had in mind as splatter. Over modulation would probably be more correct. I DX foreign medium wave stations from Asia and the Pacific, and the #1 reason this type of DXing is a big challenge is due to the wide signals from domestic

Re: [Flexradio] A More Radical UI Idea - WAS: Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Duane - N9DG
--- Eric Wachsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While there are questions in that arena, I suspect the more problematic issue at hand is how to interface with the notch. We have just about exhausted the combinations of mouse clicks/drags with the display. Adding another interactive element

Re: [Flexradio] A More Radical UI Idea - WAS: Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Jim McLester
I keep visualizing a click - add a notch button, after which a notch would appear as a hole in the passband whose edges would adjust like the outer edges of the passband. This could REALLY help psk31! Jim - W4YXU - Original Message - From: Duane - N9DG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric

Re: [Flexradio] A More Radical UI Idea - WAS: Manual notch filter?

2007-07-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Duane - N9DG wrote: --- Eric Wachsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...We have just about exhausted the combinations of mouse clicks/drags with the display... How about introducing multiple horizontal zones in the vertical axis of the panadapter/waterfall window?... Nearly everything