Bill,
That is exactly how I have routed the receive audio on my FLEX-5000A since I
got it. There is nothing wrong with this approach. The additional A/D
conversion should not be detectible by the human ear (at least not my
64-year old ears...hi..hi.). I believe that the phrase "...receive - not
How can he retire?
I saw his picture donating a Flex to ARRL, he looks 45
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Day 9 of ownership
1. RTFM still in force
2. The digital mode filters are INCREDIBLE! DX station right next to
very strong US station on RTTY, and I was able to establish a BRICK WALL
between them with one click. BAM, no more QRM from US station, "full print"
on the DX RTTY. Won
You're hooked. :-)
Actually, it is RTFM+KB (Knowledge Base)
This truly is a different radio experience. It will take some time
before you are thinking totally out of the box, but that is the thrill
of the journey.
-Tim
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"Tune in Excitement
Due to a non-paying "wanter"...I have 1 - 6 meter preamp for the flex 5K
available...designed to go into the Rx loop. $75 + $7 shipping (CONUS only)
shipped via Priority mail w/insurancemakes my Flex5000a a super 6m weak
signal rig...night and day difference.
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One other observation I forgot to add. The SSB parameters and capabilities
on receive area sight to behold (and hear). I adjusted AGC-T and AF gain on
20 SSB last evening to the point that I could not hear any static or
background noise...just the voice like it was someone in the room with me.
I
One really cool thing I was impressed with when I first received my 5000 was
the fact that in the SSB mode you could tune in one of the sidebands of an AM
broadcast station on 40 meters and if the filter was set right with the carrier
just outside the filter bandpass, you could hear the station
I am still using 1.8 with my 3K and never really have played with the AGC-T
until I read your post Mark. I must say that it is a wonderful adjustment!
I get a lot of QRM from my plasma tv on 20 and I am listening to weak
stations now that I did not know where there before. Guy's do yourself a
How do I change the email address that the reflector sends to, my blackberry is
ringing all the time!
I have the account already but can't find a way to change it at the reflector.
Lyndon (Lynn) Willoughby, AE5LK
Willoughby & Voss, LLC.
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Hello All,
I need some help with setting up my new 5000A (with RX2) with N1MM in a SO2R
configuration. Any pointer to setup documentation is very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Basil / W6BT
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Ray Andrews, K9DUR wrote:
> There an additional advantage to using this method -- I found a useful
> application for my Griffin PowerMate. Like many, when I bought my SDR-1000,
> I was nervous about not having a VFO knob, so I bought the Griffin
> PowerMate. I qui
Following advice from this forum about a year ago, I bought the Behringer
Eurorack Pro RX1602 audio mixer.
The manual is difficult to understand, but once I got it figured out, I was
really impressed with the high quality at a reasonable price. I do not use
any virtual audio cable software.
http:
Brian,
I have solved this problem with a mouse wheel that is the type that is
weighted and spins. I have a logitech MX620 mouse that works very well in
this application. Then I use my N4PY software that has parameters in it to
allow a step multiplier when the wheel is spun fast. You can cus
Refer to this KB article
http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50035.aspx
-Tim
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[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Lynn Willoughby
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:36 PM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sub
Note heading change, as this is no longer anything to do with speakers.
I have completely disabled keyboard shortcuts, as I find that, when I
have several apps open at once (eg logger, chat window) I am forever
forgetting to change focus. I start typing, only to find that PowerSDR
had focus,
Would be curious what the typical tune step size folks are running in PowerSDR?
I typically run at either 1 or . 5 kHz step size. It is coarse enough that when
I click on the appropriate edge of a SSB signal that I see I will hit it dead
on 95% of the time. And for CW right on top of it. Occas
I solved the powerSDR not keeping up with the pulse rate by buffering the
pulses in my N4PY program and only sending the new frequency to powerSDR
every 100 msec no matter how fast the pulses come in. This scheme works
perfectly.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC
I use 500 or 1000 Hz step size for regular phone operation. A 100 Hz step size
for phone during a contest. My hit rate is 99% unless the operator has a radio
that is off frequency.
Most people who have problems with click tuning are not tuning to the correct
part of the wave for (where the su
Correction. The follow should have been the sentence I wanted to write
"Most people who have problems with click tuning are not tuning to the correct
part of the waveform (where the suppressed carrier would be for SSB) and have
the steps size too large."
To many priority threads going on at o
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:07 AM, N4PY2 wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I have solved this problem with a mouse wheel that is the type that is
> weighted and spins. I have a logitech MX620 mouse that works very well in
> this application. Then I use my N4PY software that has parameters in it to
> allow a step
Every time I change bands on RX2 it defaults to XX.010 CW for that
band. Am I doing something wrong, or does RX2 not remember the last
frequency it was on for each band?
This happens in 1.18.0 also.
73, Robert KR7O/YB2ARO, DM07ba/OI52ee (ex. N7STU)
k...@vhfdx.com
www.vhfdx.com (KR7O/YB2ARO
There are no bandstack registers for the RX2, just band selection.
-Tim
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:49 PM
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Subject: [Flexradio] RX2 defa
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Tim Ellison wrote:
> Interesting conversation on "spin tuning". I truly find that a waste of time
> and motion now that I have a lab grade RF spectrum analyzer (Panadapter) for
> a radio and an interactive way of tuning dead on a frequency with ClickTuning
> wit
Is that the Pretty Betty screen that is shown on the Flex web site? I would
like to see what it really looks like up close.
Flexer hopeful,
Mark K5XH
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From: "Brian Lloyd"
And my experience seems to be substantially different than yours. I
can't get on frequency by click-tuning to save my soul. I get close
but still need to manually tune after that. Don't get me wrong -- I
can move pretty quickly and am pretty com
Yes, those are several variations of the Pretty Betty "skin" architecture for
PowerSDR.
-Tim
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:18 PM
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Brian,
I normally run N1MM Logger all the time. Because N1MM likes to hog the
focus, I uses the keyboard shortcuts in N1MM to fine-tune the frequency.
Frankly, I have to look up the keyboard shortcuts in PowerSDR whenever I
decide to use them.
73, Ray, K9DUR
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Doug,
I use 100 Hz step size.
73, Ray, K9DUR
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Hi gang,
Tmate, presented at HamRadio 2009 - F'hafen.
http://www.cqdx.it/woodbox/Tmate.html
It works like a charm, without focus, without lags, like a real VFO Knob
Compatible with PowerSDR/PERSEUS and traditional ICOM&Kenwood rigs
too (if needed 8-) )
The production started this week, first
Beppe,
Will the knob continue to communicate with PowerSDR even if it is not in focus
(the active window on the CRT)?
-Tim
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009
Personally I use a 10Hz step size for both SSB & CW.
Whilst I find I can get in the general ball park 80% of the time, and can do
the rest with a little mouse wheel turning, I do find that lengthy sessions of
tuning around the bands becomes less and less comfortable due to arthritic
fingers.
T
Beppe,
What is the cost in Euro's plus shipping to UK??
73
David - G4PNX
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I may have solved the lock-up problem I discribed yesterday. I decided the
only course would be to install 1.18.1. Of course, I had to also install the
new Device Driver and Net 3.5. Once I did this and installed 1.18.1 and
brought up the radio, it worked fin and has been working fine since.
A
When I want to make a large frequency excursion,
I hover the mouse pointer over the digit in the
frequency display and roll the mouse wheel. I
can jump in 10 KHz, 100 KHz, 1 MHz steps. No
spinning needed.
Mike - AA8K
Tim Ellison wrote:
Interesting conversation on "spin tuning". I truly
This looks like a Ten Tec 302R - Remote encoder/keypad. The Ten Tec 302R
costs $139.00, the Tmate costs 189.00 euro or $264.00. I'm sure Carl N4PY
would be interested in this :>)
73 Jeff kb2m
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As Carl noted, the Logitech mice that utilize what Logitech refers to as
"microgear" wheel action, work extremely well. (For those who are not
familiar with this technology, the mouse wheel is weighted, and it just
'free-wheels' without any mechanical click detents. It will spin five or
six re
The issue to was to get used to the mouse and mouse wheel. The other issue is
getting used to clicking on the panadaptor and to look where you are (locking
the center on the panadaptor will really help with this issue) you are and are
going, tough for us that are all thumbs etc.
But it gets eas
I saw a few threads about PB being more resource intensive. I guess the
only way to find out is to try it on my system. Is it CPU draw or greater
traffic over the Firewire?
Also, I downloaded 1.19.1 beta (Pretty Betty). I found bug tracker and
feature request list, but I am confused about th
I won't get my Flex 5K until Monday but have been using PowerSDR-IF and
LPBridge with LPPan on my K3. On
my Q6600 dual quad with 4g of Ram I normally run 8 or 9 percent CPU usage.
I downloaded Pretty Betty in Demo mode and am running 25 percent.
Mike WA8EBM
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Mark:
We are putting together another reflector for the discussion of the test
code and moving off this reflector which will be limited to discussion
of the radio hardware and the official releases and use of the radio
with same.
In the Flex EDGE reflector, experimenters, people with interes
I took delivery of my Flex 5000 a couple of days ago - everything is
working fine except for...
- Periodic hangs where PowerSDR "freezes" and the audio output
stops. Pressing Stop then start on PowerSDR gets everything going
again. I've run the latency checker and the max its seen wa
Bob,
Thanks for the second pair of eyes on the fault matrix for
troubleshooting!
My station is remote (about 0.25 miles from the house) controlled via
Ethernet and audio via a phone patch on the PBX... took a few to walk
down and swap everything around.
Freeze - I've seen the problem on both no
Stu:
WOW, those are some signals.
Yes, you will need the BCI filter. The front end is being hit pretty
hard. And yes, you can put it into the loop and it will work perfectly.
You have entirely too much gain in the radio for 160m-40m anyway so
there will be no degradation.
Try the buffer
Thanks, Bob.
Mark Lunday
WD4ELG
wd4...@arrl.net
http://wd4elg.net
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:03 PM
To: Mark Lunday
Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Performance differences, Pretty Betty versus
Bob,
Thanks to you and John - I'll cook up the BCI filter tomorrow - pretty
sure I have a set of LC in the junk box for a second filter.
I have line of sight to most of these stations - none of them are more
than 20 miles away and AM860 as an example is a regional class B station
running 50 Kw in
At 20:07 7/2/2009, Brian Lloyd wrote:
I
can't get on frequency by click-tuning to save my soul. I get close
but still need to manually tune after that. Don't get me wrong -- I
can move pretty quickly and am pretty comfortable with that mode of
tuning but would probably go back to a knob ... if i
I had a freeze when I started some DOS programs. I increased the priority
in powerSDR to "above normal" and all is well since I did that.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
www.n4py.com
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To:
Sent: Thursday
Brian,
I have another option for your fast tuning.. Just in case you have not
hear me say this yet, I found that the fairly new, Logitech MX620 ,
Hyper Tuning mouse is just what a good SDR needs to react just like a
weighted tuning knob.. What makes this mouse special is the weighted
roll
Hi Clay;
I had a friend in NH run some tests on 6 meters with the 5000A VS the
756 Pro III , his test confirmed
what you said about the need for the preamp on 6 meters . Apparently
he was able to hear stations on the Pro III that were not present
on the Flex .He said this was true with eithe
Can anyone that has the FLEX5000C tell me anything about the DC Cable and
plug. What length of DC Cable come with it. I am installing a RIGrunner
4005. I am trying to determine the placement of the unit. I will be using
an over kill power supply. I have the Astron 70M in place. I would like
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