[Flexradio] Location of 2.0.16 version of PowerSDR

2010-11-12 Thread Dudley Hurry
I had an earlier request as to where to get the 2.0.16 Beta version.. Go to http:\\www.flexradio.com Then to Support and down to Downloads In the search window type beta *http://support.flex-radio.com/Downloads.aspx?id=353* *http://support.flex-radio.com/Downloads.aspx?id=354* Be sure to read

Re: [Flexradio] For the record

2010-11-12 Thread Burt
I still have a Timex Sinclair 1000 will it match up with the Flex 1000? --- On Fri, 11/12/10, Jerry Harley wrote: > From: Jerry Harley > Subject: [Flexradio] For the record > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 7:53 AM > I'm an original Apple II, 6502 bit > fiddler,

Re: [Flexradio] SDR 1000 Bob's S meter

2010-11-12 Thread Barry Matson
Brian, Thanks for your thoughtful response. I switched back to an older configuration using Power SDR 1.18.6 on a partition with XP Pro and the same SDR 1000 was operating quite normally there. Both S meters were giving the same reading and sensitivity was fine. I could pick up WWV on 10 an

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Neal Campbell
Heck, you are all newbies. I started out with two big pieces of crystal and a doorknob; we programmed in Dude. Dude worked by shouting at your colleague to do the work or you would throw one of the crystals at him. If he didn't perform correctly (a bug) you showed him the doorknob. The second crys

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Jim Barber
You guys are making me feel OLD... I just looked up at the bookcase and saw that "Starting FORTH" was sitting right next to "Programming the Z80" and other 8-bit CPU references that I haven't looked at in 30 or so years. I hope it's not just nostalgic GEN-1 CPU geeks buying Flex radios. Ther

Re: [Flexradio] For the record (and a little off topic)

2010-11-12 Thread BILL GUYGER
NORAD is jointly manned by US and Canadian personnel. From: Drax Felton To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 10:41:41 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] For the record (and a little off topic) VA's working at NORAD? -Original Message-

[Flexradio] Difficulties accessing www.flex-radio.com

2010-11-12 Thread Tim (W4TME)
To all, Our registrar who hosts the DNS for the flex-radio.com domain is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. You can alternately access any of the other web based services from FlexRadio Systems by substituting flexradio.com in place of flex-radio.com for the domain name. O

Re: [Flexradio] Antenna 1 (TX1/RX1) and RX2 protection

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Brown N4TAB
I use a high spec SPDT mag latching relay that I had left-over from a project. Like this: http://www.rfrelaystore.com/productdesc.php?pid=RDS-2S3DB-I . Almost any decent coax relay could be used; I used what I had on-hand. 73, Tom N4TAB On 11/12/2010 2:16 PM, w...@charter.net wrote

Re: [Flexradio] Antenna 1 (TX1/RX1) and RX2 protection

2010-11-12 Thread paim
http://www.woodboxradio.com/uk/Switchbox.html i have nothing to do with this company it work nice with the perseus sdr rx E.P         --- On Fri, 12/11/10, w...@charter.net wrote: From: w...@charter.net Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Antenna 1 (TX1/RX1) and RX2 protection To: w...@charter.net Cc:

Re: [Flexradio] Antenna 1 (TX1/RX1) and RX2 protection

2010-11-12 Thread w1zz
What is the outboard RF relay do you use? On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Tom Brown N4TAB wrote: See http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50385.aspx .FWIW, I use an outboard RF relay to protect my RX2 front end during TX. 73, Tom N4TAB ~~~ On 11/12/2010 11:51 AM, w..

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Peterson
Can't be, I don't see the TI-99/4A Sent from my iPod On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:10 PM, "Richard W. Solomon" wrote: > Is this the list of approved computers for the Flex Radio !! > > 73, Dick, W1KSZ > > > -Original Message- >> From: Brian Lloyd >> Sent: Nov 12, 2010 10:32 AM >> To: Flex R

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Is this the list of approved computers for the Flex Radio !! 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- >From: Brian Lloyd >Sent: Nov 12, 2010 10:32 AM >To: Flex Radio >Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective > >--1972-- >IBM 360 >IBM 370 >IBM 1130 >CDC 3170 >DG

[Flexradio] Which Windows 7?

2010-11-12 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Hi everybody I'm strongly considering a new PC for my 5000A. The one I have now (Windows XP Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo 3GHz, 2GB memory) runs quite well, but since the days of XP support are numbered, I'd like to migrate to Win 7 64-bit. I've built several machines with Win 7 Pro 64-bit, but was wonder

Re: [Flexradio] For the record

2010-11-12 Thread Terry Fox
On 11/12/2010 7:53 AM, Jerry Harley wrote: I'm an original Apple II, 6502 bit fiddler, published in Hardcore. I still have an Altair 8800 and some of the Apple's. I'm very sorry I no longer have my SDR1000 number 25. Jerry ___ FlexRadio Systems

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Brian Lloyd
--1972-- IBM 360 IBM 370 IBM 1130 CDC 3170 DG Nova B-6700 8008 8080 6800 PDP-8I PDP-8M PDP-8A P-machine Nanodata QM1 Fairchild F8 HP-2100 HP-21MX PDP-11/[10|20|23|34|40|45|60|70] VAX-11/780 DecSystem-10 DecSystem-20 8086 8088 --Advent of the IBM PC-- 68000 80286 B-6800 80386 HP-3000 SPARC MIPS IBM

[Flexradio] PSDR 2.0.16 with Flex 1500, Close but No Cigar

2010-11-12 Thread Clark Macaulay
Well, fellas, after reporting last night how well the install went and the lack of jitter in sending CW, I tried my hand at some QSO's. I'm still fighting latency (audio buffer is set to 128K). Example, the keyer misses an occasional DAH in "C" when squeeze keying or the first DI in "D". One thi

Re: [Flexradio] Antenna 1 (TX1/RX1) and RX2 protection

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Brown N4TAB
See http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50385.aspx .FWIW, I use an outboard RF relay to protect my RX2 front end during TX. 73, Tom N4TAB ~~~ On 11/12/2010 11:51 AM, w...@charter.net wrote: Flex'r still have not had any response on my email below. All I am reading is ch

Re: [Flexradio] Antenna 1 (TX1/RX1) and RX2 protection

2010-11-12 Thread w1zz
Flex'r still have not had any response on my email below. All I am reading is chest pounding about lines of code. blah blah, blah could care less about that. W1ZZ Ed On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:22 PM, w...@charter.net wrote: Hi Bill you email caught my attention. How do you have your fk5 co

Re: [Flexradio] For the record (and a little off topic)

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Walker
That is what happens when the sister to Cheyanne Mountain is in Ontario. :) There were a lot of VE's working in "The Hole". Canada was halfway to Russia.. :) Mike On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Drax Felton wrote: > > VA's working at NORAD? > > > -Original Message- > I was for

Re: [Flexradio] For the record (and a little off topic)

2010-11-12 Thread Drax Felton
VA's working at NORAD? -Original Message- I was fortunate enough to have been hired out of College by IBM where I worked in Norad (SAGE) on the ANFSQ-7 air defense computer in 1979. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FSQ-7. No wonder I have such a love for the technology. Mike VA3MW ___

Re: [Flexradio] SDR !000 Bob's S meter

2010-11-12 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Barry Matson wrote: > > The receiver seems noisy and insensitive on all bands. > Any ideas why this is so? > The only way to know for sure is to hook up a calibrated signal generator and test the receiver with a known signal. The problem with, "it seems worse,"

[Flexradio] Flex Open Source Software Development

2010-11-12 Thread Russell Magnuson
With all the recent QRN/QRM around the latest PSDR release... I was reminded as to one of the reasons I decided to go with Flex (and the 3000)--which is our ability (at least theoretically) to actually get in and muck with things with the GPL/Source Code for PSDR. Has anyone done anything around t

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Ed Wilson
Well, I might as well chime-in here as another old-timer! In my undergraduate studies at Ohio State, I was introduced to computing with a high-level language called Scatran, which was similar to Fortran. When I started working in the aerospace industry (part-time while in school and full-time su

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Ross Stenberg
I don't go back to the 60's, but I have fond memories of my time at Honeywell Micro Switch in Freeport,Il in the early 70's. I would schedule many days of time in "the computer room" teaching myself BASIC in order to perform low inertia servo motor calculations for use in tape drives. I can't t

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread William H. Fite
LISP = Lots of Irritating and Silly Parentheses I'm a statistician, not an engineer, but had to learn JCL so that I could teach my students how to run SAS from cards. What fun. Especially the time when, at 0200, I dropped two boxes of uninterpreted cards (that's 4000 cards) down the stairwell of

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread jim
LISP = "Lots of Insipid, Silly, Parentheses"! Or so I heard was what the acronym stood for. Jim - W4YXU -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Frank Goenninger Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:09 AM To: FlexRadio

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Steve Potter
Ah, yes I do mean Lisp Frank my bad, as the kids say. Whilst all this tub thumping is using bandwidth, it pleases me that I must be one of the (much) younger ones hihi Z80, 6502 and 32K were the order of my day Cheers Steve G6HOQ From: flexradio-boun...@fle

[Flexradio] I guess we are in good company.

2010-11-12 Thread Gerald Youngblood
Dear Flexers, I just had to share this when I saw it. Some people were concerned about why it took us just under eight weeks to release v2.0.16 after the release of v2.0.8. I don't feel too bad after reading this about iOS 4.2. My guess is that Apple has a couple more engineers and testers than

Re: [Flexradio] SDR !000 Bob's S meter

2010-11-12 Thread Tim Ellison
What does the actual pSDR meter show? If it is right, then enter a bug report. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Barry Matson Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 2:26 AM To: 'FlexRadio Reflector' Subject:

Re: [Flexradio] For the record (and a little off topic)

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Walker
Wow... there is a lot of OLD talent here! :) I was fortunate enough to have been hired out of College by IBM where I worked in Norad (SAGE) on the ANFSQ-7 air defense computer in 1979. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FSQ-7. No wonder I have such a love for the technology. The computer had (and

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Frank Goenninger
> -Original Message- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz > [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Steve Potter > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:03 PM > To: Alan NV8A; FlexRadio Reflector > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective > > What's wron

[Flexradio] For the record

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry Harley
I'm an original Apple II, 6502 bit fiddler, published in Hardcore. I still have an Altair 8800 and some of the Apple's. I'm very sorry I no longer have my SDR1000 number 25. Jerry ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http:/

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Ray - K9DUR
Solid state? What's that? My 1st experience was with a Bendix G-15 computer. It had 4k of drum memory & used hundreds of 12AY7 tubes in the flip-flop circuits. Yes, this was the same Bendix that made brake shoes in South Bend, IN. 73, Ray, K9DUR http://k9dur.info -Original Message- Fr

[Flexradio] [FlexRadio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-12 Thread Don
Ok you got me thinking, Anyone remember an NCR (3-15?) machine that used the type 29 TTY terminal as the main console? Language was called "Neat", NCR version of assembly. But the most interesting (to me) was the "Cram" deck it used. A stack of 255 magnetic cards dropped down around a spinning he