Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR filter bandwidth

2007-02-14 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
If you didn't forget to turn your agc OFF The big unknown here would be the signal from your signal source. A lot of signal sources to calibrate frequency and level are also not narrow if you start looking down below. Having phasing, 120 Hz artifacts (particularly if you powered a signal

Re: [Flexradio] Contesting question

2007-02-01 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
The overload may not be the fault of the SDR-1000 setup at all. Having worried with cross-station interference at multi-transmitter contesting stations for 40+ years, just about anything can be driving even the best of devices to fits. A small list, hardly complete, that I have encountered, a

Re: [Flexradio] Noise floor driven, threshold based AGC?

2007-01-21 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
- Original Message - From: Alex, VE3NEA [EMAIL PROTECTED] The noise-driven, non-inertial AGC is especially useful in the situations when the DX operator is working simplex and several strong stations are calling him on his frequency, since the weak signals can be heard between

Re: [Flexradio] Sub-receiver and other mods in SVN819 +

2007-01-06 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
In Europe, in SSB contests and for certain kinds of DX SSB operation on 40m, the station will listen BOTH on his transmitting frequency and on a QSX frequency, often up 200 or 250 kHz, usually blending the audio. This is quite easy with current Ten-tec, Yaesu, etc transceivers. Will/does the

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-27 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
Shaping and delaying the CW waveform in the PC or a slave device is clearly the way to go. It is not a stretch of coding possibilities, when using an SDR1000/amp combination, to (pre)shape the CW waveform to cancel out whatever distortion is in the SDR1000/amp and transmit a pristine CW signal

Re: [Flexradio] Iambic Keyer

2006-09-23 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
2. I think this is the 'wrong' iambic from the one I'm used to. I really cannot get the hang of it... Of all the things that should be child's play and totally configurable in a software defined radio, one would think generating CW, keyer memories, yada, yada. As should be configurable

Re: [Flexradio] Image Null Calibration.

2006-09-15 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
Would the narrow range encompass a listening bandwidth of say 500 Hz on CW? -- Guy - Original Message - From: Eric Wachsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Lee A Crocker' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Flexradio' FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio]

Re: [Flexradio] Filter bandwidth question

2006-08-20 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
Measuring simply by viewing them on an oscilloscope presentation, a string of dits generated by keyers and logging programs set to 30 wpm generates dits about 40ms and spaces of 40ms. Using the 50 dits per word to mean 50 sent dits plus 50 dit lengths of space, 30 wpm would be 30 x 50 = 1500

Re: [Flexradio] SPAM:(L1) Re: Amp Keying

2006-07-04 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
What amplifier are you using? Guy. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John L Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'FlexRadio' flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 10:45 AM Subject: SPAM:(L1) Re: [Flexradio] Amp Keying This only happens when the sdr is

[Flexradio] Placing 22khz image in order of magnitude

2006-05-22 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
It would be helpful if someone could tell me about the degree that an image comes through in a properly adjusted SDR1000 setup? The following is an entirely plausible situation at an existing contest station. 40m, listening on 5 ele quad to NE suspended from and spaced across 170' of

Re: [Flexradio] Cw Latency Problem Solved?

2006-05-22 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
Experience from use of existing radios... The FT1000MP for CW has a bucket brigade delay for CW that can be set to x milliseconds between 0 and 30. When the key is hit, if assert transmit state to the amplifier is not already on, it is asserted immediately. The actual CW power is delayed for x

Re: [Flexradio] Strange behaviour

2006-05-18 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
Of all the setups sensitive to RF in the shack (aka grounding/shielding problems), perhaps an SDR is most sensitive. One real marker is that it happens on 10 meters, where grounding insufficiencies will be most apparent. We lost the shield connection on an in-station 20m coax connector in a

Re: [Flexradio] orion-sdr1000 comparison

2006-04-30 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
How can SDR make use of dual core processors, which are becoming quite affordable? So far the SDR has been modeled after a transceiver, which transitions back and forth from RX to TX and back. Much is lost in the transitions. The original model was separate TX and RX, but SDR should be able

Re: [Flexradio] New AM Modulation mode

2006-04-29 Thread Guy Olinger, K2AV
Whether or not they achieve the patent may be problematic, but likely of little consequence. When single sideband was first coming out, the modulation methods used were quickly seen as a way to produce double sideband, with the carrier reduced only to that point which would still allow