[Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread Neal Campbell
Hi guys The one thing almost everyone who buys a computer from me is interested in is remote control of their new Flex radio! I honestly would guess 75% or more are planning to do this. Subscribing, as I do, to a lot of computer builder magazines, I read recently about an ethernet card called

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread David McClain
umm maybe your timing statements are off by a factor of 10^3 ?? I see performance on the BigFoot site listed in milliseconds, not microseconds... - de Dave, N7AIG On Jan 22, 2011, at 10:40, Neal Campbell wrote: Hi guys The one thing almost everyone who buys a computer from me is

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread Neal Campbell
Okay, but still the question stands, is anyone doing this and have they seen any reduction, for instance, in skype latencies for audio? 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 Skype: neal.ansoftware On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, David McClain

[Flexradio] remote switching

2011-01-22 Thread Laurie
Hi all, Seeing Neals post reminded me of something. Someone asked me how do people turn the rig on and off when using remote. I am curious as well as to how everyone is achieving this? Tnx Laurie ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

Re: [Flexradio] remote switching

2011-01-22 Thread John Bair, KJ7B
I use this remote power switch. The fan is noisy at times, but otherwise it works well. http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html I set up a dynamic dns host name and opened a port on my router so that I can access it. It serves a web page that lets you

[Flexradio] FLEX-1500 CW Settings

2011-01-22 Thread Carter Craigie
Hi FLEXERS, I want to find the appropriate CW settings for my FLEX-1500. I am now running PowerSDR V. 2.0.16. My computer uses Windows XP-pro, Service Pack 3. When I try using my paddles (or my paddles and my external keyer with a foot switch) the sending is erratic, and doesn't send out the

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Neal Campbell nealk...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, but still the question stands, is anyone doing this and have they seen any reduction, for instance, in skype latencies for audio? You wouldn't. The latency on the local LAN is far less than the latency and

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread Neal Campbell
The latency its addressing is inside the computer! I read they are bypassing the Windows internet stack(?) and have the equivalent of a Xbox360, processing-wise, handling the I/O. 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 Skype: neal.ansoftware On

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread David McClain
I would add... in situations where bulk throughput needs to be maximized, an entirely different OS is normally needed. See the Project X-Kernel by Prof. Larry Peterson. (this has nothing to do with X-Windows from MIT). The difficulty being addressed in the X-Kernel has to do with data

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread David McClain
I'll also add several other thoughts on this topic: 1. The BigFoot marketeers have made a very careful re-definition of latency in their claims. To me, an end user, latency measures the delay for a response to a request. That includes the portion they call latency, which pertains only to

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread Neal Campbell
Since the premise for this card is multi-player gaming (and not being a gamer at all), I wonder what the nature of gaming communication is? Is it just voice communications or is it more complex? Ping is a particularly poor test of anything except connectivity and its questionable why it would be

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Bigfoot NIC?

2011-01-22 Thread David McClain
HI Neal, I'm not a gamer either. But if I were, and I were programming such a system, I would probably seek to implement a form of distributed shared-memory, which holds the game state at every participant's node. In that case, I would pound on the code to make it as thin as I possibly

Re: [Flexradio] FLEX-1500 CW Settings

2011-01-22 Thread Gerald Youngblood
Hi Carter, Where do you have the audio buffers set on the SetupAudio tab? You should set them to the lowest size that provides stable audio. 73, Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202

Re: [Flexradio] Now this is diplomacy...

2011-01-22 Thread Gerald Youngblood
The best part is that it is also true. :) 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...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com http://www.flex-radio.com/ Tune In Excitement (TM)

[Flexradio] Flex 1500 Transverter Operation

2011-01-22 Thread Tom
I am sitting here running the VHF contest on top of a mountain in Alabama. I have been running the Flex-1500 for most of the evening driving an Elecraft 2M transverter. The transverter is being driven through the XVTX/COM for both transmit and receive. I have the key line coming out of the

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 1500 Transverter Operation

2011-01-22 Thread Eric Watkins
I have observed this same operation. As a result I had to just use the PA output on the 1500 for 6M during the contest. If I switched to xvtr/com the power out went to zero. Reboot/restart of SDR was the only cure for me as well. Also using 2.0.16 on 64bit win7. SDR worked just fine on 6M as