I have becoming more and more concerned with displayed results.
I keep getting HIGH SWR warnings on the display.
So what you say press the ATU button, this happens after a FULL TUNE,
the ATU setting window states at the moment SWR 1.1 forware power 11
watts reflected 0 sweet, sorry not.
now
I have come to my believe that the ATU in my radio has a mind of its own.
for pwr 144 watt
refec 344 watts and this is after a tune.
not happy.
not even going to say ch33rs
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I have mentioned this several times before. The ATU in the Flex 5000 is
the WORST automatic antenna tuner I have ever seen in 50 yrs of hamming.
Plain and simple it does NOT work as advertised. I have had many
automatic tuners over the years and they all worked satisfactorily. I
own a MFJ 993B
Paul,
You need to take this up with FlexRadio Support directly, as the Reflector is
not intended for that purpose. I have copied Dudley on this to give you a head
start.
-Tim
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From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On
Likewise. I get a different result each time I tune...
5000A
XPPro SP3
any PSDR - doesn't matter.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Lazy Senior lazysen...@verizon.net wrote:
I have mentioned this several times before. The ATU in the Flex 5000 is the
WORST automatic antenna tuner I have ever
I am not going to speculate on the quality or functionality of your ATU,
however I would like to point out your measurement techniques.
Understanding the fundamentals of how your radio system works is important
to troubleshooting. I will try to explain some things below, and then
provide a few
There has been a spate of stuff (I hesitate to call it a discussion)
about the ATU in Flex rigs. There are some observations I would like to
throw into the pot for stirring:
1. The gentleman who got nonsense readings from his Flex when it was
connected to a dummy load is not confused. If the
I love my Flex-3000 but agree that to my very untrained and
unexperienced eye, that in operation the atu in the 3000 is only good
for extending the useful bandwidth of a resonant antenna...
Every other 'modern' radio I have used, has no trouble providing a match
to my G5RV, 3el 6m or 3 el G4MH on
Quick question, have you guys tried the pb-pal SVN branch? They fixed a race
condition with the auto tuner (not sure if it's just 3000 specific or not),
that made tuning much more reliable for me. I still use an external tuner
for the antenna switch, but the ATU now tunes properly for me every
Howard: I am curious why you need to switch your SGC for bands when it is
an automatic function of the SGC-500. I own two of them and they work fine
without external band switching. I do use external switching to reset the
SGC if it senses a bad SWR, etc condition, plus I do remote switch AC
Has anyone had any experience with ALE with Flex? Wud sure
appreciate your thoughts!!
73 Les
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If you want sell an ATU for FLEX-5000A send me an email off-list.
Excuse the off-topic.
73
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I have. PC-ALE works great with PowerSDR and supports the native CAT protocol,
even though it is mislabeled as the SDR-1000 rather than PowerSDR.
Don't worry too much about the relays in the FLEX-x000 radios. There are good
for millions of closure/open cycles.
-Tim
-Original
The following ad is up on QTH.com. As it is of specific interest to this group
I am reproducing it here...
I have for sale a Griffen Powermate and a ShuttlePro V2 Rig Controlloer. They
came with the Flex-5000A I bought used and I just do not use them. The
Powermate can be used like a VFO
Hi all,
Just wanted to give you some updates on the PC hardware front lines...
Many of you have bought, based on my recommendation, the Startech PCI1394MP
firewire card. I like it because it has a reliable TI controller and its
dirt cheap ($22). I have to sayl however, I am withdrawing my
Dear customers,
First let me acknowledge that we at FlexRadio understand that the ATUs in
both the FLEX-3000 and FLEX-5000 can be improved. All of these improvements
will be in software since the hardware tuning range is more than adequate in
both radios.
The current tuners use fairly simple BB
I don't use mine, plus after I installed it, the swr reading is off.
If I adjust it to read correctly, the power reads half.
Brett
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From: russ nofussr...@gmail.com
To: Lazy Senior lazysen...@verizon.net
Cc: flexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Very few companies would admit what was in the message below.
That is what differentiates Flex from the rest, a company with an owner that is
straight with the customers. The FCC gives us a license grant to learn from
technology, clearly Flex can be a challenge at times but that should be
I have tried every SVN and release PSDR in the last 2 months. The ATU on
my Flex 5000 works sometimes but mostly doesn't.
I have tried different SWR threshold settings.
NONE of my antennas are higher than 3:1 swr. All bands from 160 thru 10
and including 6 mtrs. The Flex ATU is not reliable,
Can you tell me what ...BB in a barrel... is ??
73, Dick, W1KSZ
-Original Message-
From: Gerald Youngblood ger...@flex-radio.com
Sent: Mar 13, 2010 5:41 PM
To: tpcj1...@crocker.com
Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Antenna tuners, etc.
Dear customers,
First let me
Thank you Gerald. It is a pleasure to do business with a company that
listens to it's customers and strives for improvement.
I sold some expensive radios to finance my Flex purchases and I have
never been sorry.
It just keeps getting better.
73
Wayne
K4ELO
Paul
The bridge is on the PA board before the ATU.
Dave
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From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Paul Mullins
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:57 PM
To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] SWR measurements
Actually, BB in a bowl might be a better analogy. It means that the
software hunts back and forth watching SWR and tuning L and C until it
finds a minimum. It is like what a human does with a manual tuner.
However, in tuners that use fixed binary values of L C vs. variable
capacitors and
Stan,
You haven't seen anything we are doing in this area yet. I think you will
be pleased when you do.
Gerald
Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR
President and CEO
FlexRadio Systems(TM)
13091 Pond Springs Road, #250
Austin, TX 78729
Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202
Email: ger...@flex-radio.com
Web:
Thanks Gerald for being so up front. Most companies would not respond or if
they did would not admit any fault. The Flex approach is refreshing...keep
up the good work!
73,
Harry
W0LS
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Sent:
Well said Burt. Many of us have decades of ham radio experience not to mention
the dozens of radios over that time. Flex is truly amazing on so many levels.
And did you notice, the company President sent this message after 5PM on a
Saturday?! His email signature even discloses his direct phone
I am getting slowly very very upset.
I should be enjoying this radio and not fighting with it, I am trying to
iron out all the bugs and setup for a major contest next weekend, I have
been very busy building and testing antennas, and not worrying about the
flex because it normally works fine,
Being English, our similar expression is shooting fish in a barrel, i.e.
point and shoot... I really don't know where it comes from but BB's are
ball bearings and used to be shot from small cheap air rifles...
actually the analogy could be more far reaching than this.
The close a company gets to
because enough is enough, people need to know, and how many people now
have taken that stand and said yes I to have these problems, the idea of
the forum is to work out how to fix the problems that others have or ideas.
i have help a number of people of line with problems and what I had /
I am a very strong critic of ham radio, search my call on You Tube, but after
this very minor episode you are selling all your gear. You, yourself and you
needs some tolerance and not take all your marbles and go home.
The Flex has issues but the company supports it like no other concrete radio
I doubt you have any radio problems, just computer problems.
I have not had a single problem with the radio working and doing what its
told since I got it 6 months ago.
I doubt you can have the radio work 100% of the time for a long time on a
regular computer, one that gets microsoft updates,
Paul,
You did not say what version of PowerSDR or the radio, but try a
Database reset. Always check you RF output power in Tune, it will be
the most consistent, because things like mic connections, and mixer
settings do change.
73,
Dudley
WA5QPZ
Paul Mullins wrote:
I am getting
I seem to have nothing but images of the AM broadcast band on my 5000A when
looking for non directional airport beacons between 150 and 500 Khz.
Has anyone else noticed this image issue? I understand that the radios specs
are for the ham band but I thought it would at least RX down there.
Bob,
You will need a low pass filter of the range you are planning to use.
Many have report good results with a 500 khz cutoff low pass or you can
build your own..
73,
Dudley
WA5QPZ
Robert delaney wrote:
I seem to have nothing but images of the AM broadcast band on my 5000A when
I hope that I am using this reflector correctly.?? I was setting up my
microphone this evening and have many times before when PowerSDR quit and when
I rebooted it I get a Fatal Error Message when it is in the process of loading
the main form with 2 seconds left to go.
The output char buffer
Bob, like Dudley mentions, you'll need a low pass filter that cuts off
at 400-500 KHz. In fact, I run two in series to keep all the broadcast
junk out.
Every radio I've even owned that tuned below 500 KHz worked the
same...all kinds of BCB junk unless you add a filter, including my
Drake R8,
Jerry, Thank you for the information about the Flex 1000 and it's
performance when a filter is added.
I am a bit concerned though with the Flex 5000. When tuning this area of
spectrum you will see all of thebroadcast images and then when you pass a
certain frequency the whole panadapter
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