Re: [Flexradio] Audio Interface

2010-01-11 Thread Dudley Hurry
Joe, You might be making it just alittle bit over complicated.. I use a Behringer EURORACK Pro RX1602 Line Mixer, See it here http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Behringer-Eurorack-Pro-RX1602-16Input-Line-Mixer?sku=631243 I can have 8 stereo inputs or 16 mono (the Flex is stereo o

Re: [Flexradio] Two MMTTY with VAC how?

2010-01-11 Thread Jerry Flanders
The external audio cable works OK until they get VAC working. Jerry W4UK At 09:48 PM 1/11/2010, you wrote: Like I said - I don't have RX2 (yet), and don't know what I'm talking about! But the audio repeater does seem a bit ignored. Jim - W4YXU __

Re: [Flexradio] Two MMTTY with VAC how?

2010-01-11 Thread Jim McLester
Like I said - I don't have RX2 (yet), and don't know what I'm talking about! But the audio repeater does seem a bit ignored. Jim - W4YXU From: Tim Ellison To: Jim McLester ; Boyan ; "FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz" Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 7:13:10 PM Subject:

Re: [Flexradio] Two MMTTY with VAC how?

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Ellison
The audio repeater will split RX1 into two audio streams. There is no way to get post-processed or pre-processed audio out of PowerSDR for both the RX1 and RX2 at the same time. -Tim From: Jim McLester [mailto:jb...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:47 PM To: Tim Ellison; Boyan;

Re: [Flexradio] Two MMTTY with VAC how?

2010-01-11 Thread Jim McLester
Check the "audio repeater" (I think that's the name) included with VAC. I have found it to be a useful bag of tricks! I don't have RX2 yet so I really don't know what I'm talking about!!! Jim - W4YXU From: Tim Ellison To: Boyan ; "FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz"

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread Jack Haverty
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 10:51 -0500, Peter G. Viscarola wrote: > Have people actually written "fully automated" robotic contest exchange > software? > If so, as a software engineer, I'd love to see it and see how it's done. Almost... I was the lead engineer on a research project at MIT to try to

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Pretty Betty Pal HPSDR

2010-01-11 Thread Ray J
No and I almost doubt there will be much because the HPSDR radio group is working on its own program. powersdr is still based on 1.10.4. hopefully someone will upgrade to 1.19 or something. A softrock group volunteer has got a Pretty Betty version running now for the softrocker's. Chris Ger

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread dan edwards
Ultimately, though, no matter how good our equipment is, station effectiveness is still largely determined by our antennas, IMHO...Hasn't it always been that way ?? so, you could turn the robot loose, i suppose, and measure how well your antennasperform... or, how good your location is...or how

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000 48K or 96K? SR?

2010-01-11 Thread Neal Campbell
Just remember that the 3K cannot do more than 96KHz! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: htt

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread FireBrick
And sometimes you do it just because you can, and because watching your robot work is just plain cool. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL And sometimes you do these things cus. Your as enept, forgetful and clumsy as me and while you can plan it. You just can't do it! ---

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Lee A Crocker wrote: > Mike took the words right out of my mouth > >Because you design a station that is efficiently automated does not mean you >run it in the total automation mode and go take a vacation for a year, what >you do is learn from the efficiencies y

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000 48K or 96K? SR?

2010-01-11 Thread Brett Gazdzinski
Why not try them all and see what you like and works best? You cant break it by trying different settings. I like 192KHz on phone, the audio buffer is 1024 safe mode 1, but I sometimes run normal mode will lower buffers. My dsp buffers are set at 1024 rx phone, 256 tx, and for CW 4096 rx 512 t

Re: [Flexradio] Two MMTTY with VAC how?

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Ellison
It is not possible with PowerSDR. It probably will not be possible until the new Deep Impact software is available. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Boyan Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 2:19 PM To:

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread Lee A Crocker
Mike took the words right out of my mouth Also there is no reason to not explore this avenue of contesting. I do not see it as boring, but as the equivalent of analyzing chess strategies prior to playing chess. For some of us building the contest station is more fun that actually operating th

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] [FlexRadio] Re: Flex 5000 has a 2.4 Khz Spur????

2010-01-11 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Ian Wade G3NRW wrote: >> Let's take our Flex 5000 and forward the I/Q stream over a local digital >> bus >> (gigabit ethernet would be my choice right now) to a bank of cooperating >> machines. > > This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for some time:

[Flexradio] Two MMTTY with VAC how?

2010-01-11 Thread Boyan
Hi, I have Flex5k + RX2, WinXP, VAC4.09, PSDR 1.18.3, using N1MM for contests. I would like to run two MMTTY for RX1 and RX2 each. With VAC set in stereo mode and MMTTY's set to left/right channel it is possible only in MultiRX mode. When RX1 and RX2 are separated there is output from RX1 to ded

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread AA8K73 GMail
My SteppIR vertical can do that automatically with frequency changes. I always laugh when a contester or DXer brags about being "unassisted" while using his memory keyer / voice keyer, automatic ATU, DSP radio with ANL and ANF and ALC, electronic frequency read out, antenna pointing softwa

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread Jim McLester
I've been watching this thread for a few days now as it brings to mind an article , QST I think(?), that I believe was printed in an April issue (natch!) some time in the mid to late fifties. However, I have been unable to find it. It was, I believe about a ham tech guru who did what we have bee

Re: [Flexradio] Audio Interface

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Winkis
I used the microphone into a Motu 828 MK lllthis "firewires" into a dedicated computer where Neuendo/Cuebase and a series of plug ins take over... See some of this at http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm -Bill Joe Camilli wrote: I am currently using a mixer from TOA. Was just wonderi

[Flexradio] Audio interface mixer

2010-01-11 Thread AB2CD
Hi Steve! I use a Motu Ultralite mk3. Everything is displayed on the monitor. Jim AB2CD ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archi

Re: [Flexradio] Audio Interface

2010-01-11 Thread Joe Camilli
I am currently using a mixer from TOA. Was just wondering if a computer based solution was workable Joe N7QPP On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Steve Potter wrote: > Hi Paul, > > which model or type is it, i am tempted to do the same, but mostly have > only seen line level mixers, not speaker l

Re: [Flexradio] Audio Interface

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Delaney - K6HR
Hey Joe, I use a small 6 channel audio mixer here to do the same thing. Works great! - Original Message - From: "Joe Camilli" To: "Flexradio" Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:36 AM Subject: [Flexradio] Audio Interface I am posting this here because many Flexers have experience wit

Re: [Flexradio] Switch Relay with TR (F5K)

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Ellison
This would be a feature request. The TR relay is only band centric, not TX interface dependent. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Nige Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:47 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
> > It's interesting to note that only 5 Xtreme category logs have been > submitted out of >5500 total log submissions so far and <0.1% > participation seems to indicate little interest in this category. > Being at the top of 5 total entries doesn't thrill me but it would be > easy to win a plaque

[Flexradio] Feature Request List

2010-01-11 Thread Nige
Hi. On Nov 28 2009 I left a message on the Flex support forum, asking about the status of the Feature Request List. That has remained unanswered for 6 weeks. So a kindly word from a Flex representative would be welcome. 73 Nige. ___ FlexRadio

[Flexradio] Switch Relay with TR (F5K)

2010-01-11 Thread Nige
Hi. Not seeing much movement on the Feature Request site so thought I'd post here. I presume this is not a bug, as I have no way of being completely certain. When changing the antenna port Ant 1/2/3 it would be nice if the TR relay is remembered. As an example, I have Ant 1 ported to an amp an

[Flexradio] Audio Interface

2010-01-11 Thread Joe Camilli
I am posting this here because many Flexers have experience with external sound interfaces – due to the early Flex radio. So here is a description of my current sources of audio: Flex-3000 – HF radio Icom 2200H – 2M radio Yeasu FT-60 – 2/440 radio RS Pro 97 – scanner Computer All except th

[Flexradio] [FlexRadio] A Flexy mess

2010-01-11 Thread Burt
I adjusted my sample rate up and down to see what the response would be and after that my Flex 5000 18.3 started acting erratically. Start was delayed if it worked at all, when it did work in trying to send CW it starting sending a series of dits. I tried a different database, no change, tried

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] Flex 5000 has a 2.4 Khz Spur????

2010-01-11 Thread Lee A Crocker
The user interface has had NO work marrying the user interface to the contest software for contesting. The K3 has had plenty of work marrying the radio to the contest software. If you look at N1MM for example there is a K3 SPECIFIC interface between the radio and the contest program, and that

[Flexradio] Fwd: [FlexRadio] Re: Flex 5000 has a 2.4 Khz Spur????

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Tippett
If anyone here is seriously interested in competing with a fully automated contest station, CQ set up a new category for this in 2009 and K3LR has sponsored plaques for both single and multi ops : Rules for CQ WW “Xtreme” Category Overview A wide variety of new technologies has emerged in amateu

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] [FlexRadio] Re: Flex 5000 has a 2.4 Khz Spur????

2010-01-11 Thread Alan NV8A
On 01/11/10 03:12 am, Ian Wade G3NRW wrote: This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for some time: why mess with all the complexities of the FireWire interface, with its attendant driver and hardware issues? Why not go straight to Ethernet connectivity between the SDR and the computer

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] [FlexRadio] Re: Flex 5000 has a 2.4 Khz Spur????

2010-01-11 Thread Ian Wade G3NRW
From: Brian Lloyd Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 Time: 08:18:25 We all love a conspiracy. Actually, I am glad this came up. It prompted me to actually test my Flex 5000. I learned something and I even got to give myself a dope-slap up-side the head. [Snip some extremely interesting ideas] Let's