Re: [Flexradio] HRFIO Board For Sale - SOLD

2015-03-10 Thread Chuck ONeal
Board is sold pending payment. Thanks for the interest! best, Chuck K1KW - Original Message - From: Chuck ONeal cdon...@comcast.net To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:38 PM Subject: HRFIO Board For Sale I have a new HRFIO board for the Flex 5000A for sale

[Flexradio] HRFIO Board For Sale

2015-03-10 Thread Chuck ONeal
I have a new HRFIO board for the Flex 5000A for sale. Part # is 5000-HRFIO-34C. Bought as a spare for the 5000A I no longer own. I believe it's the latest rev. of this board. Make me a reasonable offer, I forgot what I paid for it. Chuck K1KW - Original Message - From: Bill

Re: [Flexradio] Market for 5000A's

2015-03-01 Thread Chuck ONeal
I have my Flex 5000A w/2nd Rx and ant tuner for sale. $1850 and have had several interested but no final sale yet so it's still available. I agree on the performance of the 5000A vs. most radios selling for equal and sometimes much more! It's an excellent rig for the money. Chuck K1KW

[Flexradio] For Sale: Make your Flex 3000, 5000 work on the BC band

2015-02-08 Thread Chuck ONeal
I have an extra 880KHz elliptical low pass filter by Clifton Laboratories that will allow the Flex 3000, and 5000 work through the Broadcast band down to about 400 KHz without the birdies and mixing products that make the radio otherwise unuseable. Switch this filter in at about 1000 KHz and

Re: [Flexradio] Flex Community

2014-09-05 Thread Chuck ONeal
Yup! Chuck, K1KW - Original Message - From: Gedas w8...@mchsi.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex Community Me Three ! Gedas, W8BYA Gallery at http://w8bya.com Light travels faster than sound This is why some

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7 RE:WSJT, VAC and Flex radios.

2014-07-14 Thread Chuck ONeal
Hey Tom, It appears to me that Neal is offering help to those that don't buy his Flex ready PC's. I have one and he is very generous with his time and help. Your RANT is totally uncalled for. Chuck K1KW Flex does not supply the PC. - Original Message - From: Tom Gentry

Re: [Flexradio] Software issues

2014-07-12 Thread Chuck ONeal
Absolutely!!! Plus you can clone another HD and have a second set up all done in no time. I use Acronis True Image. Works great! Chuck, K1KW - Original Message - From: Jim Gilliam por...@hotmail.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 2:14 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Flexradio] Power Supply Advice

2014-06-12 Thread Chuck ONeal
I have three of these, bought at separate times. The oldest is 20+ years to the most recent one at 10 years. Had one failure where the PC board that bolts to the terminals of the filter cap came loose, heated up and let out the smoke. Fixed that, checked the others, found one loose, fixed it

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 108, Issue 22

2014-04-26 Thread Chuck ONeal
Hi Bill and others, To truly optimize any transmitter for AM, including SDR's, you should employ some form of negative peak limiting to eliminate distortion and clipping due to overmodulation. None of the Hi Fi boxes folks put on their rigs do this since this functionality in not included.

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 Overdriving in Some Bands

2013-10-18 Thread Chuck ONeal
Another possibility: The load presented to the transmitter may (probably) is different band to band. This is a problem for solid state amplifiers that are designed for a 50 ohm load. If the load is higher than 50 ohms, the transmitter output is undercoupled and will produce more IMD with

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000 support

2013-08-27 Thread Chuck ONeal
The ad stated that it was hit by lightning. Maybe he already sent it back to Flex and Flex found it to be unrepairable due to extensive damage? - Original Message - From: Keith Watson ke...@keithwatson.com To: Jon Hall jh...@hallsweb.org Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Flexradio] TOO DAMNED MUCH

2013-02-22 Thread Chuck ONeal
Sheesh! Frank, stop your whining! Chuck, K1KW - Original Message - From: Frank Haas KB4T k...@kb4t.us To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] TOO DAMNED MUCH I wasn't going to comment on this but the arrogance and rudeness of

Re: [Flexradio] Heads up on Astron Power supplies

2012-10-26 Thread Chuck ONeal
That's normal, mine does it also. It's caused by the inrush current charging the power supply capacitor with the resulting current surge in the power transformer making it ring. The amount of the surge will depend where on the 60 Hz power line waveform you happen to switch it on. At the

Re: [Flexradio] Pecker anyone ?

2012-08-23 Thread Chuck ONeal
I'm not sure why folks use the pecker to tune a rig. Is it because you are trying to squeeze out that last few dB that you can get on peaks but not on a 100% duty cycle? If so, it won't result in the best loading for your amplifier especially on SSB for linearity. What works much better is

Re: [Flexradio] Question while waiting

2012-05-31 Thread Chuck ONeal
DDUtil will emulate the Kenwood protocol to a RS-232 port if you have one. That's what I use. Chuck ONeal K1KW - Original Message - From: Lester Veenstra les...@veenstras.com To: 'Jerry Flanders' jefland...@comcast.net Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:42

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-6500 antenna port (s)

2012-05-26 Thread Chuck ONeal
In a single SCU with let's say two slice receivers, one set to look at just the 160M band and the other set to look at 6M, how is the front end preselection done? Would two band pass filters be put in parallel to handle the preselection for the two slice receivers' frequency ranges? If so,

Re: [Flexradio] Behringer DEQ2496 RFI Spikes

2012-02-24 Thread Chuck ONeal
Mark, How far away is your transmit antenna from the rig/audio chain? Chuck K1KW - Original Message - From: Mark Weidhaas mweidh...@cox.net To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:43 PM Subject: [Flexradio] Behringer DEQ2496 RFI Spikes I have tried cheater

Re: [Flexradio] New Release

2012-02-24 Thread Chuck ONeal
Why not here as well??? I don't do facebook... - Original Message - From: Tim Ellison, W4TME t...@flex-radio.com To: Robert Costa, KB6QXM kb6...@yahoo.com Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; t...@flexradio.com Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] New Release

Re: [Flexradio] Small cheap mono amp to drive speakers?

2012-01-29 Thread Chuck ONeal
Also, look at the distortion spec. on these cheapo amps! It's an awful 10%! You will hear this and the audio will be fatiguing to listen to. Why waste the nice low distortion audio recovery of the Flex on a lousy audio amp? Spend enough to get a low distortion stereo amp and with some

Re: [Flexradio] Array Solutions Bandmaster III on Flex 5K

2012-01-17 Thread Chuck ONeal
That did it! 73, Chuck K1KW - Original Message - From: k4...@fastmail.fm To: Flex flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Array Solutions Bandmaster III on Flex 5K Try reversing pins 2 and 3, or use a null modem cable - same thing.

[Flexradio] Split operation

2012-01-09 Thread Chuck ONeal
Hi Folks, Is it possible to run split frequency and use a different mode on transmit? For example, receive SAM on VFO A and transmit LSB on VFO B. I tried the AB to load VFO B for transmit on B but the mode doesn't follow, just the frequency. Am I missing something in a menu somewhere or

Re: [Flexradio] Split operation

2012-01-09 Thread Chuck ONeal
Hi Dave, That's what I've been doing, using RX2, but I was just wondering if I was missing something simpler. Thanks! Chuck - Original Message - From: Dave Beumer WØDHB d...@w0dhb.net To: 'Chuck ONeal' cdon...@comcast.net; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17

2011-12-18 Thread Chuck ONeal
Speeding up convergence of the SAM would be great as a selection in DSP to set it for one's operating style on AM. Fast AM break-in QSO's are sometimes difficult when folks are spread out hundreds if not thousands of cycles! Question: Would there be the same compromise that occurs in

Re: [Flexradio] 160m and Enhanced Signal Clarity?

2011-12-18 Thread Chuck ONeal
Keep replies on the reflector if possible. I'm interested as well as probably others are... best, Chuck K1KW - Original Message - From: Stu Phillips s...@ridgelift.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:30 PM Subject: [Flexradio] 160m and Enhanced Signal

Re: [Flexradio] Priorities, was RE: New freq, new modes, new power for 60 Meters

2011-11-22 Thread Chuck ONeal
Burt, You are really off base here...forward looking statements by the companies you listed are for EARNINGS, dividends, and market share issues related to share price, not their future technology roadmap. A totally unfair comparison. A better comparison, should one want to do one, is to

Re: [Flexradio] Old ATU problem

2011-08-27 Thread Chuck ONeal
I agree with Steve's reply 100%. My 2 cents Chuck K1KW - Original Message - From: Steve Sterling f...@sgsterling.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Old ATU problem I doubt this is defined as a problem that prevents

Re: [Flexradio] Pan Adapter Spectrum Width

2011-08-06 Thread Chuck ONeal
Hi. FWIW, I always run my 5000 at 192K (with a 28 screen) and would like a little more, up to the width of the band I'm on. I use it to eveluate band activity and identify changes in signals as I rotate my antenna. It shows where the band is open to quickly! I'm primarily a phone operator

Re: [Flexradio] Fw: DDutil error

2011-05-30 Thread Chuck ONeal
Hi Tim, Thank you for that info. I was about to remove my previous versions, probably about 5 of them prior to 2.0.22, since I don't use them now. How do I know which one installed the Flexwire driver? Should just leave them alone? I have not gone to RC1 yet, still on 2.0.22. Thanks!