Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread Alan
At Dayton last year, Gerald committed to fixing the last real deficiency which affects me and many others who bought the VU-5K for satellite and VHF/UHF digital use in general: the lack of a "9600 baud" FM mode. Flex is developing a "Digital FM" mode for SmartSDR, so they understand the need a

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread amsctalx
A word about "porting" any code between architectures... PowerSDR is built with primarily with standard Microsoft Windows development components, and some rather ancient DSP routines. This is exactly what the OpenHPSDR lead programmers found when using version 1.X as the basis for PSDR mRX. 2.

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread Tim Ellison, W4TME
Terry, The source for PowerSDR has always been available, it is part of the GPL license. You can get it by sending an e-mail to g...@flexradio.com PowerSDR uses VS2008. I have converted the projects to work with VS2010, but we still use VS2008 because there is no compelling reason to make t

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread Terry Fox
Thanks Tim, I stand corrected! Does the source include the capability to add the TNF feature? I remember a discussion about that a while back that it did not, as that was a "secret sauce", and would not be made available to the general public under the GPL. I will admit that I haven't asked fo

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread pete M
Does the source include the driver part to comunicate with the radio? -Message d'origine- From: Tim Ellison, W4TME Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 8:38 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices Terry, The source for PowerSDR has always been av

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread Alan NV8A
I was under the impression that the firmware (which often has had to be updated along with new versions of PowerSDR) is *not* open source. So it may be difficult to introduce significant new features by updating PowerSDR on its own. 73 Alan NV8A On 03/03/2015 01:57 PM, pete M wrote: Does t

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread Larry Loen
Only if you need a firmware change. Without looking at the code, this should not ordinarily be hard. Remember, too, that the software supported many brands of radios, including receive-only rigs like the softrocks. So, a lot of the firmware clearly behaves like most firmware -- it does things Fle

[Flexradio] looking for a 5000a

2015-03-03 Thread wt4t
Decided to go back to a 5000a,after using my 1500 for a while. Looking for a rig that is basic. Not looking for the second receiver and or the antenna tuner included,but will consider a 5000 with either or both. Would like to use pay pal,I will pay all the service costs from here,

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-03 Thread Jay Nation
Just a guess, during the evolution of PowerSDR, there were "firmware" upgrades each time the Firewire driver for the DICE chip provided by TC Applied Technology was upgraded, , Never having seen the "Firmware" in the radio I have no Idea what it actually consists of. but whenever the Firewire