[Flexradio] free!

2006-04-21 Thread David Queen
It is a fair amount of work to dump .NET 1.1 and its managed extensions to go for CLI based .NET 2.0. We may very well do exactly that for 1.7.0 but we are not there yet... Bob That is good news! Not that your taking votes but I would vote if I could for a switch when its possable. -- If

[Flexradio] Firebox

2006-04-13 Thread David W Gardner
Hello to All: After installing the firmware fix I have noticed some bleed over on the filters. I can hear signals both up and down in frequency. When I mute the radio I can still hear audio but very low in level. Happy Easter to All. Dave-W4DWG -- next part -- An HTML

[Flexradio] PCMCIA Firewire adapter

2006-03-28 Thread DAVID LEDUC
Is anyone successfully using a PCMCIA firewire card with a laptop. I am trying to use an Adaptec AUA-1422 USB/Firewire card without success. Dave N1IX

[Flexradio] Low output power

2006-03-17 Thread DAVID LEDUC
The output power on my flex radio is a bit low. I was getting aprox 65 watts into a dummy load on 40 meters. The power supply that I am using is capable of 30 amps and all of the connections to the flex radio are good. I calibrated the PA using a dummy load. I am now getting 80 watts out. Is

[Flexradio] Playback of new 96k option.

2006-03-09 Thread David Queen
Can you play back IQ waves recorded at 96k with power SDR if your sound card still is an cheap one that does not have a setting this high. Will Power SDR use the wide wave file and output at a lower rate to my poor sound card? If it will anyone have a good wave I could download sampled at 96k?

Re: [Flexradio] OT: tiny PC

2006-03-08 Thread David Hickman
What was the cpu? The one benefit to a mini pc is that I could run one off of 12vdc. -- David H Hickman On our Belize DXpedition, AA4SW brought along his min-ATX form factor PC. These did not originate with the Mac Mini, at least not as such. You can get them in several sizes

[Flexradio] Impulse generator?

2006-03-08 Thread David Woodhead
Is the impulse generator used in the latest code? I don't see any updates on the Forum. David. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 09 07:33:35 2006 Received: from ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.42] helo=ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com) by www3.qth.com with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FHLGp

[Flexradio] OT: tiny PC

2006-03-07 Thread David Queen
Anandtech.com has a review of a PC that looks just like a macmini. Might be just the ticket to with the SDR-1000 if you have the firewire sound card box to go with it. http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2707 -- If you can read, thank a teacher. If you can read in English., thank a

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] Wireless USB is coming...

2006-03-07 Thread David Hickman
Just what we need. More RF floating around in the shack. 73 KB0FHF -- David H Hickman - Ken - N9VV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very interesting. Wireless USB (firewire and bluetooth too) is about to debut: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6046560.html Wireless USB runs

Re: [Flexradio] OT: tiny PC

2006-03-07 Thread David Hickman
as a mythbox client. It seems to me that the home built pvr is the market that this type of pc is made for. -- David H Hickman - Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:12 AM 3/7/2006, David Queen wrote: Anandtech.com has a review of a PC that looks just like a macmini. Might be just

[Flexradio] test drive CPU ussage

2006-03-06 Thread David Queen
Is the CPU usage on the test drive of PowerSDR listening to a way higher than normal use? I am getting 40% cpu usage on my Athlon64 3000+ system. Hmmm... I just ran the program for the 2nd time and now the CPU usage is 100% and no audio. --

Re: [Flexradio] test drive CPU ussage

2006-03-06 Thread David Queen
Partial foot in mouth. The current 100% cpu usage is due to the defrag program running. Sorry about that. Its very early is my only excuse. The no audio was another foot in mouth issue to silly to give the reason. Lets just say it concerns a yellow button. I have got to learn not to post before

[Flexradio] Parallel port conditioner?

2006-03-05 Thread David Woodhead
Looking through the Flex Forum I came across a schematic for a Parallel port conditioner. Is this required when connecting a SDR-1000 to PC parallel port? Thanks David. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 05 11:52:42 2006 Received: from ylpvm12-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.43] helo=ylpvm12

[Flexradio] 11khz hide and go seek

2006-03-05 Thread David Queen
Is there a way if a VERY strong signal just happens to be on the 11khz IFimage to move the IF so the image is outside the audio pass band of interest? I had the silly idea of if the software sensed the image was strong enough to be a problem to move it automatically. Would this be useful or just

[Flexradio] I/Q Balancing like in Rocky 1.41 ?

2006-02-26 Thread David Queen
Would there be any advantage to multipoint IQ balancing like VE3NEA uses in Rocky 1.41 http://www.dxatlas.com/Rocky/. It looks like you start the calibration and let the software go over night and it searches over and over for strong signals and computes the balanced needed at each frequency as

Re: [Flexradio] I/Q Balancing like in Rocky 1.41 ?

2006-02-26 Thread David Queen
to it as soon as I can since this will get us instantaneous perfection. Bob N4HY David Queen wrote: Would there be any advantage to multipoint IQ balancing like VE3NEA uses in Rocky 1.41 http://www.dxatlas.com/Rocky/. It looks like you start the calibration and let the software go

[Flexradio] QRP on the 100w/auto tuner version

2006-02-23 Thread David Queen
I live in an Aprtment and think it would be better if I kept my power output low. Around a watt. This will make it a bit of more of a challenge making contacts but so be it. How well does the 100w/auto tuner work as a QRP rig? Also I want to try really low power out less than a tenth watt for

[Flexradio] WTB: SDR-1000 boards or complete unit.

2006-02-19 Thread David Woodhead
Looking for a used unit - boards or complete. David KM5TZ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 19 15:30:35 2006 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]) by www3.qth.com with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FAw8Y-0003v0-JT for FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:30:34 -0600

[Flexradio] Windows VIsta and signed drivers

2006-02-19 Thread David Queen
Will the requirement that drivers be signed in vista have an impact on PowerSDR? From the http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/23/1719232 comments. ... In other words, it's Microsoft's way of shutting any open source project out of Vista development. Think about it, unless they all use

[Flexradio] #9

2005-12-22 Thread David W. Gardner
Eric and Group: Mine runs just fine until I activate the receive eq Dave-W4DWG

Re: [Flexradio] close in phase noise and DDS I/Q on freq vrs /x

2005-12-22 Thread David Queen
I take it back. The close in phase noise fro the 9854 on the data sheet seems much better. But still one one analog path with a Johnson counter vrs 2 paths on frequency, which would be better?On 12/22/05, David Queen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Part of the reason the SDR1000 is so good with strong

[Flexradio] Spurs on 10 meters etc

2005-12-11 Thread David Queen
Would having a 2nd refence for the DDS chip and being able to select between 200mhz and oh for example161.1328MHzbe a cure for the spurs? The frequency where the spur occurs would shift and surely a PC could do the math to provide the DDS with the proper number to hit the same frequency. -- If you

[Flexradio] QS4A210/PI5V3331 upgrade etc

2005-12-11 Thread David Queen
I seem to remember in the QEX articles the the performance curve on the QSD chip started to get worse right about 10 meters. Are there better choices out there now? I have been thinking a lot bout the SDR the last few weeks and about the New IC-7000. I am having a hard time resolving in my mind

Re: [Flexradio] [Fwd: Re: no constant Output]

2005-12-07 Thread David Broger
Wallace Watson wrote: David, Make absolutely sure that you have connected the SDR cabling to the Delta 44 sound card as advised in the Delta 44 Quick Start Guide available from the www.flex-radio.com/Download http://www.flex-radio.com/Download website page. The bulk of that information

[Flexradio] [Fwd: Re: no constant Output]

2005-12-05 Thread David Broger
David Broger wrote: David, I would be suspicious of the output voltage from the line-out from your sound card. I would recommend that you use the calibration routine for determining the line-out voltage, thus with the M-Audio Delta 44 sound card and utilizing the recommended

[Flexradio] no constant Output

2005-12-03 Thread David Broger
is not constant - it goes form 5W to15W. Restart the computer or the sdr1k doesn't solve the problem. After successfull calibration and restart the system it could there is low power. With 1.4.4 there ist the same behavior. What's the Problem? David, HB9RVS

[Flexradio] (no subject)

2005-11-01 Thread David W Gardner
Hello to All: Just installed Preview 3. When transmitting in SSB the monitor is on all the time-loud feedback Anyone else seeing this happen? Dave-W4DWG

[Flexradio] Delta 44 Interface card

2005-10-03 Thread David W Gardner
Hello to All : When connecting the card I found that in order to transmit in ssb I had to jumper the via's for the mic ground. Is this the experience of others? If not, share your experience. Dave-W4DWG

[Flexradio] FW: SDR EuroNET proposal

2005-08-24 Thread David Ackrill
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Giuseppe Campana Sent: 24 August 2005 08:43 To: flexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] SDR EuroNET proposal Hello Euro-SDXER, How many FLEXer we are ? We can try to make a NET

Re: [Flexradio] Hardware mods

2005-08-22 Thread David Ackrill
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Larry Taft The wierd mic jack was used on lots of radios including the Drake TR-7's. I have repaired many TR-7s for a variety of ills but NEVER for a bad mike plug or jack. The 4

[Flexradio] (no subject)

2005-06-25 Thread David w Gardner
Hello to All: I noticed that when I change the Tx bandwidth on the low setting that my receive bandwidth seems to change. I am running 1.3.12, Delta 44, USB control line, P-4 1.7 processor. Delta 44 DMA buffer at 512, Card 1 buffer at 1024. Run up the transmit low side bandwidth and the

[Flexradio] 1.3.10

2005-06-24 Thread David w Gardner
Hello: Anyone noticing lower audio output with this version? Dave-W4DWG

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