Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 119, Issue 22

RF system ground. Conductors are too light and likely loop through many other points to some unknown eventual tie back to electrical common. That's for GFI safety return. ? 1. Flex Control and RF (David Edwards

[Flexradio] Flex Control and RF

My Flex control is very sensitive to RF. Occasionally knocks out the USB port, need to reboot the PC to get it going again. Running 6700 and Intel I7 with Win7 64 bit. Was more frequent with the 5000A. I have some split toroids on the cable but this happens at the most inopportune moments. Sure

[Flexradio] Flex 5000A Forsale

Forsale: Beautiful Flex 5000A . Looks and operates as new. 2nd Receiver Antenna Tuning Unit (ATU) Firewire cable Power Cable Original box and packaging In anticipation of upgrading to the 6700 I sent this radio back to Flex and had it calibrated and checked out. Technician report: Meets current

[Flexradio] More on VAC and PowerSDR

Previously I wrote: Using the Flex 5K, PSDR 2.7.2. Using VAC 4.13, WIN7 64 bit CW Skimmer and MMTTY. Things work fine for a while then I change bands or some other minor adjustment and the dreaded Whoops something went wrong with the audio. Sad part is there are only a few thing to change

[Flexradio] Flex 5K and VAC

Using the Flex 5K, PSDR 2.7.2. Using VAC 4.13, WIN7 64 bit CW Skimmer and MMTTY. Things work fine for a while then I change bands or some other minor adjustment and the dreaded Whoops something went wrong with the audio. Sad part is there are only a few thing to change and nothing works to get

[Flexradio] DSP NR

I have been using the Flex 5K with Win7 64bit running on an i7 with 12 gb memory for about 5 years now. Have upgraded software at least 4 major revisions now running v2.7.2 PowerSDR. This is an awsome radio and my best radio. Currently have 2 other HF radios: IC7800 and TS2000 and have had many

[Flexradio] powerSDR 2.7.2 upgrade question

Got this message after reboot on final stages of upgrade of my 5K from 2.5.2 to 2.7.2 unsing Win7: Radio firmware required, looked for v2.1.3.9 found v2.1.3.2 would you like to continue? Anyone know what this means? thanks de ___ FlexRadio Systems

Re: [Flexradio] powerSDR 2.7.2 upgrade question

Thanks to all for the responses, I was sure the firmware upgrade was necessary. The message stating looked for v2.1.3.9 found v2.1.3.2 was what confused me. Thought: Did I not have the latest firmware?. I did find it and manually upgrade to the later v2.1.3.9, it was in the folder with all

[Flexradio] Flex 5000A Power output

My radio doesn't seem to be making 100 watts. Running PowerSDR 2.5.3, Windows 7 sp1. on 80 m 66watts on 20 m 85 watts the SWR into the dummy load is 1.0:1 I thought I used to see 100 watts on all bands. ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

[Flexradio] Flex 5000A power out

Running Flex 5K, PSDR 2.5.3, Win 7 SP1 Power is low on some bands 75 M = 70 Watts 12 M = 70 Watts 10M = 112 Watts 40M = 95 Watts 30 M = 100 Watts 20 M = 90 Watts This is after runnning the 3 transmitter cal procedures (Filter Image and Carrier). All cables checked, restarted 5000A and the PC,

[Flexradio] Need AVC

Is there anyway to implement an AVC on the flex 5K? I am using 5K, powerSDR 2.5.3, and windows 7 64 bit. When listening to weak DX that is near the noise floor and loud stateside stations calling your ear drums get blown out when the locals are calling. The AGC raises and lowers all boats. Need

[Flexradio] CAT problem partially solved

I've tried everything to get vspMGR to work and not time out. Thanks to Jim KJ2P who alerted me to Zombie ports Nothing I do completely deletes the Eltima ports from Win 7 64 bit. You delete ports from vspMGR (Ran as admin) they don't go away. You go into control panel and uninstall the

[Flexradio] CAT control using vspMGR

No answers have surfaced for my CAT control problem using vspMGR and DX4WIN. Many responses saying I have the same problem if you find an answer let me know. Using PowerSDR 2.3.5 on Windows 7. Latest vspMGR and DX4WIN 8.05. Serial pair COM14(PowerSDR) and COM15 (DX4WIN) Tried lots of

[Flexradio] Radio interface keeps timing out

I am trying to use radio CAT control using DX4WIN and Flex 5K. Windows 7 with vspMGR 1.0.3.01 serial pair com 14 and 15. All works fine except radio interface keeps timing out every few minutes. Tried uping retries all the way to 20 and poll rate from 500-5000 ms. nothing seems to work. Using

[Flexradio] Flex 5K and DX4WIN CAT trouble

I am trying to use radio CAT control using DX4WIN and Flex 5K. Windows 7 with vspMGR 1.0.3.01 serial pair com 14 and 15. All works fine except radio interface keeps timing out every few minutes. Tried uping retries all the way to 20 and poll rate from 500-5000 ms. Any idea? thanks de WB1S

[Flexradio] Working wide splits wit RX2

Hello Is there a way to work wider splits then the sampling size using RX2 and a single antenna? Looking at the antenna menu looks like both RX's can't share an antenna. ?? thanks de WB1S ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] New PC Wow

Running PSDR 2.2.3 and a 5000A Recent upgrade from Pentium 4, 3.3 GHZ XP Home and 3GB memory. New ASUS P8Z68-V Pro MB with Intel, i7 2600K Quad core, 120 GB SSD(s) in Raid 5, 16 GB memory. Huge improvement in PSDR performance across the board but the things that are very noticeable 1. CPU

[Flexradio] Flex Control stopped working

Flex 5000a Power SDR 2.2.3 Windows 7 64 bit, i7 processor Rebooted and Flex Control comes up with lights out. During boot says found new hardware lights go on. Then new harwaree successfully installed lights go out. Same each reboot thanks de ___

[Flexradio] New PowerSDR Install fails

I am trying to load PowerSDR 2.2.3 on a new PC Pentium i7. Windows 7 SP1 64 bit Pro The Firewire drivers load and the Felx Radio Drivers load When loading the program to drive D: it fails with error code 1722 There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the

Re: [Flexradio] New PowerSDR Install fails

- From: Neal Campbell To: David Edwards Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] New PowerSDR Install fails Hi Dave Thats a known problem, you cannot install on any drive except the C Drive! 73 On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM, David Edwards w

[Flexradio] display issues flex 5k and PSDR 2.2.3

I just updated to SDR v2.2.3 from v2.0.8. Also updated my xp home addition to SP3 from SP2 and installed the hotfix 955408 Host is 3 ghz pentium 4, 3 gb RAM. windows ohci 1394 driver 5.1.2535.0 SDR mostly works except the Pan and Center slider has no affect at all. Also changing bands the

[Flexradio] RF Feedback

I am having some RF / Audio distortion and Feedback on higher bands (above 20m) Very difficult to isolate, tried ferrites on the firewire and audio cables, Other HF radios (IC7800 and TS2000) don't seem to suffer from the problem. Has there been any procedure documented to track this down?

[Flexradio] RF Feedback follow up info

Forgot to mention Radio is Flex 5000, Power SDR v2.0.8, OS Windows XP Home on Pentium 4, 3 Ghz, 4 gb ram thanks de WB1S ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] 5KA and NR

I am new to the 5KA and like it a lot however one disappointment is the noise reduction. It is inconsistent and not very effective. The NR seems to be most effective when it is initially turned on and then degrades with time to the point that when it is turned off it doesn't make any noticeable

[Flexradio] VOIP Gateway on Flex 5000

I stopped at the Flex table at the 2006 Boxboro ARRL Hamfest and again at 2007 Dayton. Both times I asked about an Ethernet port with VOIP gateway for the Flex 5000. Both times the Flex rep said that it is in the works and would be out within a year. Been considering a 5K but wanted to wait for