Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Warner
Craig, I am going to raise the antenna first, but it may get to installing a whole bunch of ferrites. Gary WG1I On 2/16/2011 8:39 PM, Craig Sande wrote: I had the same problem with chirping smoke detectors and burglar alarm system when I operated with my amplifier. I remedied the situation

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Craig Sande
I had the same problem with chirping smoke detectors and burglar alarm system when I operated with my amplifier. I remedied the situation by using snap on ferrite beads on each sensor and the wires into and out of the alarm box as well as at each control pad. Craig, AE7I _

[Flexradio] Dayton Banquet

2011-02-16 Thread Mack
Are any details available on the Flex Radio banquet this year? I'd like to attend with my fellow Flexonians. 73, Mack de WB4MAK - Sent from mBox Mail Hotmail for iPhone and iPod Touch http://www.fluentfactory.com/mboxmail ___ FlexRadio Systems M

Re: [Flexradio] only Clicking out of headphone jack

2011-02-16 Thread William H. Fite
I have tried this using a Grado, a Sony, and a David Clark headset and have not experienced it with any of them. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Larry Goga wrote: > Gentlemen: > > From the day I received my Flex 5K, now over a year ago, I noticed what I > believed to be an excessive DC level

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Bill
Ha! Reminded me of a single chip keyer I built back in my 'post novice' days. Tiny little chip, 9 volt battery and 30lbs of .01 disc caps. man you couldn't op at any power level without the rf locking that keyer on. On 2/16/2011 2:37 PM, Ray - K9DUR wrote: I had the same problem with my electro

Re: [Flexradio] only Clicking out of headphone jack

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Goga
Gentlemen: From the day I received my Flex 5K, now over a year ago, I noticed what I believed to be an excessive DC level on the front panel headphone connector. Scott's message below made me go do some testing and here is what I found. It's easy to experience this DC level. All you have

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Warner
Ray, Thanks. This sounds like something that is easily doable. I am hoping this will solve the problem Gary On 2/16/2011 12:46 PM, Ray - K9DUR wrote: Gary, Yes, if the wiring is in the walls, running shielded cable would be a bit difficult, but that should not be necessary. As I said i

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping

2011-02-16 Thread Ray - K9DUR
Gary, Yes, if the wiring is in the walls, running shielded cable would be a bit difficult, but that should not be necessary. As I said in my earlier post, liberal use of some .01 uF by-pass capacitors on the sensor lines right at the control panel would be a good start. If that doesn't take care

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Ray - K9DUR
I had the same problem with my electronic door bell @ 100 Watts. Every time I transmitted on 40m, I rang the door bell. Solution was a .01 uF capacitor across the button contacts. In your case, try some by-pass capacitors (.01 uF is a good start) across the inputs to your alarm system. Should n

[Flexradio] Using 3DConnextion Space Pilot with PowerSDR - How to

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Ellerson
Hi folks, I put up a little how-to on my blog http://ks4ju.wordpress.com/ about using a 3DConnextion Space Pilot as a tuning / operating aide with PowerSDR and DM780. Enjoy KS4JU ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping

2011-02-16 Thread AA8K73 GMail
Clamp-on ferrite can help a lot. If there is slack in the cable, you might get two or three turns through the core. On 02/16/2011 02:05 PM, Gary Warner wrote: Mike, Too bad I was not into amateur radio when the house was built. That is going to be a bit difficult to do now. Gary WG1I ___

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Warner
Mike, Too bad I was not into amateur radio when the house was built. That is going to be a bit difficult to do now. Gary WG1I On 2/16/2011 10:37 AM, AA8K73 GMail wrote: Those alarm wires are excellent antennas. It's hard to make those radio waves stop at the house walls. For my house ala

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Warner
The antenna is a horizontal dipole that is 140 feet long. It runs over the house, and is at present about 20 feet higher than our two story house at the lowest point. I plan to raise the antenna another 40 up as soon as my pneumatic launcher gets here. All power in my neighborhood is unde

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Bill
I'm a retired FF, and have Smokes and CO's on every level of my basement + 2 storie home. And my tower is on the back wall and the 80/40 dipole hangs just 10' above the ridge of my house. I went through a couple of brands and now use 'FireX' purchased at Home Depot. No false alarms. They are

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping

2011-02-16 Thread AA8K73 GMail
Those alarm wires are excellent antennas. It's hard to make those radio waves stop at the house walls. For my house alarm system, I ran shielded wire to each sensor and have ferrite on each cable where it enters the alarm panel. No RFI problems with the house alarm yet. I also have shielded ca

Re: [Flexradio] USB3 - Firewire

2011-02-16 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Leif Asbrink wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Have a look at how this discussion started. It was not about > the Flex products but about the RFSpace ones. You are talking > about the Flex hardware. I am not. > > What was said previously and what I object to is that the s

Re: [Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread ken
Is your antenna close to house wiring? Is you antenna running close to and parallel to incoming power lines? 73, Ken W2DTC "Everything works wonderfully, except now my house alarm keeps chirping like it is going from electric company power to battery backup when I transmit above about 500 wa

[Flexradio] How do you keep the house alarm from chirping?

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Warner
To all, I know that this is a bit off the Flex Radio prime topic, but I just added an amplifier to my Flex 3000. Everything works wonderfully, except now my house alarm keeps chirping like it is going from electric company power to battery backup when I transmit above about 500 watts. In f

Re: [Flexradio] only Clicking out of headphone jack

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Campbell
Are you getting good sound out of the powered speakers? 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:

Re: [Flexradio] RE -Full spec's of the V/U module

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Valentine
Bob, I live in an intense RF environment for VHF/UHF emitters. I have had all sorts of problems enjoying 50 MHz and above that I finally solved with filters of various sorts. My knoll-top QTH is line-of-sight to almost every TV and FM broadcast and two-way radio or paging transmitter in town.

Re: [Flexradio] only Clicking out of headphone jack

2011-02-16 Thread Tim Ellison
Are you using stereo headphones? http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50145.aspx -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Scott Simmons - WA4DOS Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:08 AM To: flexradio@

[Flexradio] only Clicking out of headphone jack

2011-02-16 Thread Scott Simmons - WA4DOS
Just received my new 5000a and smiling ear to ear..no glitches setting up and getting it running (PSDR V 2.016, Win 7 64 home premium). BUT no sound out of the headphone jack except rhythmic, LOUD clicking. Mixer was checked for headphones and powered speakers. I've tried two sets of headphones.

Re: [Flexradio] CPU Usage & Interupts

2011-02-16 Thread Tim Ellison
Dave, See my comments below -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of David Walker Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 5:04 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] CPU Usage & Interupts Hi folks,

Re: [Flexradio] Email address change

2011-02-16 Thread Tim (W4TME)
Actually, the easiest way is to access your Reflector subscriber management interface (how to do it and the user ID & Password were sent to you when you initially subscribed) and just change your password. You do not have to wait for the list admin to approve your subscription request. -Tim --

[Flexradio] CPU Usage & Interupts

2011-02-16 Thread David Walker
Hi folks, On my Athlon II 3GHz Win64 OS and using the onboard firewire (VIA) of my Mo Bo M489TD Pro / usb3 my cpu usage swings wildly from 3% to 30% running PwrSDR. The 4th core can get up of 99% of usage occasionally and when this occurs audio cracks and pops and CW keying timing falters a