this is the best for several reasons, its affordable, flexible and neat to
play with.
73, Larry K2LT
At 10:48 AM 10/7/2005 -0700, you wrote:
What you say is true. However my point is that you
miss the 800 pound gorilla in the room when touting
your rig as having MAN'S BEST RECIEVER, and
e sure you did something other than MOX before getting up to
get that snack!
Larry WO0Z
most communications audio that is
heard.
I hope that helps.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From:
Tim Ellison
To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:44
PM
Subject: [Flexradio] Microphone
recommendations
I finally ordered my SDR
Why weren't you guys on TeamSpeak tonight?
Larry K2LT
At 09:39 PM 10/14/2005 -0400, you wrote:
It's alive. Now only if my SDR1000 would arrive.
73,
John N1JM
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Nance
Sent: Friday,
it ever is
proposed.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Lee A Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] Another use for flex technology
There is a proposal winding its way through the FCC
that will chan
but John, your
suggestions seems to favor that mode as does the present Power SDR screen
presentation. I would really not like to see it changed in such a manner.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject:
change between these
two (and Off), just click within the TextBox area of the clock.
Eric Wachsmann
FlexRadio Systems
I have wanted it to work that way for a long time! Thank you!
Larry WO0Z
PS, I haven't done preview two yet, but UTC should probably be the
default, if it is not al
s,
especially compared to our own day to day environments where things are
simply more favorable all around and a few extra wires not a big issue.
I'd vote for this even if it was a minor CPU _loser_.
Larry WO0Zrecently V31LL
PS, This argument would also apply exactly, among other
h the amp, it probably will be enough
for DXCC since I am making contacts as it stands and, despite a little
disappointment, better than before (I barely made one or two with the
G5RV and CW at that). Come to think of it, my competition at EI6S was
not verticals, but other types.
Larry WO0Z
too.
My reading suggested that "around 60" was about as good as I could
expect. My only question now is whether I need a handful of longer ones.
From the sound of all this expert help I'm getting, that's really not
my problem now. The problem is rigging up something to make frequency
shiting practical.
It is helpful to know it is mostly about reactance, though.
Larry WO0Z
Tom Thompson wrote:
Tom Thompson wrote:
Larry,
See http://www.eham.net/articles/10877 for a comparison
between verticals and dipoles.
73, Tom W0IVJ
Helpful, thanks.
Larry WO0Z
.
Stan
AH6JR
Sure, let me know how it works out. But, do you have the edge of
saltwater? If so, you're likely to outperform me regardless of the
intrinsic differences in the antennas. I just saw what saltwater does
for verticals down in Belize. A lot.
Larry WO0Z
ual Studio anyway. But, if I
didn't own the development package, but just the .Net runtime, I'd be
even more apprehensive about it. Why mess with working code? What's
the rush?
Larry WO0Z
many need that amp more than I know. The question of whether it
can transmit is still up for grabs.
There was a Ukranian on 40 meters that I tried to get and failed. On
the G5RV, that would be a chip shot at only about 5000 miles. Even at
100 watts.
So, still some things to figure out.
Larry WO0Z
hape, 3)
Accepting a few other sources than the paddles for CW (c.f. the old
keyer). And so on.
All of which would be enabled by the "digital" check box that would, in
effect, create a set of alternate settings. Thus, all 3rd party
software and hardware could be accommodated in that manner.
Larry WO0Z
lemental SDR interface board that made
it easy to do these sorts of things, especially if it protected the rig
against most errors and stupidity, would be a real boon to me, right
now, today.
Larry WO0Z
hatever troubles (e.g. intermittents) these 1/8 inchers give?
I'm not necessarily excited about having the connectors right on the
board as long as there is a proper "landing area" to attach wires to
whatever is needful to something that can mount in the case or something.
Larry WO0Z
ecellison wrote:
Larry
I have never disagreed with the problems with the mini jacks. However, they
are readily available, small, come in different length patch cables, come
with rf suppression etc.
We could use RCA Phono jacks which have a lot of friction and are also
readily available. I
ng a few things into the forum
over the next several days and, in at least one case, weeks.
A lot of this will relate to my current activities on 80 meter DX plus
my probably now forgotten postings about low power 80 meter experiements.
Larry WO0Z
ecellison wrote:
Larry
Thanks. I think the RCA Phono for PTT and Amp key is a done deal. Although
Larry has stated no size concerns, if we ignore size then we have the bulk
of a 15 pin through HD cable 6 ft long. That is heavy and is a monster on
the desk. The design should allow attachment
100 milliwatts, after attenuation) but end up tinkering around until
I get the value I need. On 80m right now, that's about "13".
So, in both cases, I spend a lot of time, by band, tinkering around,
trying to find out what the output really is.
Larry WO0Z
ecellison wrote:
Larry
My thinking is that potentially everyone would like to have an inexpensive
ptt and amp interface which protects the radio. Some may like to play with
the other pins so a much lighter header could be provided to make the other
open collector pins available with a light
rogramming would presumably be a bit easier than a
separate thread -- this would merely alter behavior of the existing
display process.
Larry WO0Z
I think I neglected to post up a concentrated, running journal I kept in
Belize.
If so, that has been rectified. If this isn't hopelessly old news to
you by now, you can go read about it in the SDR Forum under Success Stories.
Larry V31LL
luctant to do experiments that are driving
output at > 100 watts by the SDR's forward output.
Larry WO0Z
he go ahead and figure it all out, I'll send word in here.
Fair warning: Since there is a potentially new audience there, I'll
have to start over a bit. We'll see if I can remember what I wrote a
couple days ago!
Larry WO0Z
ind Tony's schematic for the linear, which might be more
important given the Softrock developments than it was originally perhaps.
For sure, if you have a favored web page, google for it now, because a
lot of stuff is already gone.
Larry WO0Z
instance) that won't be practical to do on
this forum, at least not in entirety.
Check it out!
Larry WO0Z
est, this is more helpful than
it may look.
Larry WO0Z
peripheral devices*, sort
of like a fancy printer, perhaps, when I'm using it. The rest of the
computer stuff is available and, in fact, used. Just like any other
important computer application.
Larry WO0Z
the tuning we required.
(Clearly, my "minimize to the tray" mode is for running only).
Having lived without it in a shack with limited space, I don't think I'd
want to contest with the USB stuff. Less stuff is less complexity. We
had too many wires as it was.
Larry WO0Z
27;t have wanted any more than that,
even were there space, which there was not.
Larry WO0Z
operating modes.
I'd have one "profile" for CW DXing with the amplifer, without the
amplifier, and for RTTY.
Larry WO0Z
other good way to manage this stuff.
Larry WO0Z
of it.
I've always thought of it as the latter. If you think of it that way,
you're much, much less interested in a dedicated machine.
Larry WO0Z
ng AM station, they appear balanced).
Calibrate apparently isn't up for a gap this big, so that fix seems out.
This seems to be the same whether I use 1.4.1 or Preview 7.
Suggestions?
Larry WO0Z
Larry Loen wrote:
I can't figure my radio out this morning.
It is off at least 6 KHz and I'm not sure that's the whole story.
Radio worked fine (wonderfully, in fact) last night.
This morning, I decided to get on and see what is going on. Couldn't
find the DX as spo
Larry et all,
I was talking to Dave W9AD this morning and he started telling me
the exact same story with his SDR1K. All he did was turn the radio off (PS
also) and powered it back on and all was OK. He did not reseat any of the
plugs. Dave is running preview 7 also. The SDR1K he was using
ntly, very predictable and outstanding results from it
(e.g. zone 39 on 80 meters, which is about as far away as one can get
from Minnesota).
The desense never happens in passthrough mode. That is, if I'm using it
normally and the amplifier coax switches are in the "normal" positi
Jeff Anderson wrote:
Hi Larry,
Which version of the code are you running?
V1.4.4 does have a software/hardware problem that can cause unwanted relays
to erroneously switch when the software is controlling other relays - the
symptom that I experienced was that my receiver would desense when I
k up a
transverter to the 50 MHz unit"?
A1. the 144MHz unit
A2. ...the 14/28 MHz unit, with considerations for PA.
A3. ...the 50 MHz unit (is this a real case?)
Larry WO0Z
L1WN
I have received complaints that my PSK signal is too wide, about 700 Hz
(including a picture to prove it). I have not had time to investigate.
Larry WO0Z
d not be a very elegant
way to do it. Doing it that way would require the AGC to recover etc. I have
noticed the software mute button on "Power SDR" but that would be cumbersome. I
can't find anything in the documentation that points me in the right direction.
Any ideas?
--Larry W8ER
but in doing so the Flex hears the big local signal and upon
return to receive, the AGC has to recover and so forth. A good clean mute is
what I am after.
Thanks Eric,
--Larry
- Original Message -
From:
Eric Wachsmann
- FlexRadio
To: 'Larry W8ER' ; 'Fl
can't
understand why someone else hasn't needed a "mute" function before this.
-- Larry
- Original Message -
From: Jim Lux
To: Larry
W8ER ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 'Flex Reflector'
Sent: Wednesday, December
14, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [
rig desenses.
Is there something I don't know? Is the rig at risk? Except for the
desense, seems to be working just fine.
Larry WO0Z
BTW Preview 8 is a darn nice Christmas present. Thanks Eric!
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Robert McGwier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "KD5NWA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Beta 8, DirectX
move forward from there. That's what I always do. I still use
1.4.1 for some things.
Larry WO0Z
PS, have you downloaded the latest manual and read it? Odd as it seems,
after you've played with the radio a bit, the manual actually makes more
sense than it did the first time arou
inging it up. Don't know how MixW could take the SDR out
of that, but getting all those compression/compander things shut off was
what kept me on 1.4.1 before preview 7.
Larry WO0Z
PS, if you get it working as far as this note advises, ask someone how
broad your signal is. Mine works (
come on like that when you might be out
of the shack?
Larry WO0Z
eview 8! The AGC enhancements are superb.
Happy Holidays to all!
--Larry W8ER
one know what I have found, not
to be critical of anyone associated with writing the code. I just can't go
along with others who seem to think that it's the answer to audio tailoring.
Sorry!
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Robert McGwier" <[EMAIL PR
erful concept that
has made ham radio fun for me again. I wish you and Gerald and Eric the
happiest of holidays !!
-- Larry W8ER
PS. I am not an audiophile either ! ;-)
- Original Message -
From: "Robert McGwier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "w2agn" <[EMAIL PR
have
it partially posted at: http://w8er.com/error1.jpg
Any ideas that will help get me away from this
computer before Santa gets here?
--Larry W8ER
We could port it to BASIC so the least of us could understand it!
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Naruta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] A bit of light entertainment
If we could port it to COBOL, then it
would be self-document
Wally,
I don't presume to answer for Eric but I am using x2-12 to mute my SDR1000.
It was put into Preview 8. You must however go to the options screen and
enable it by checking the box.
-- Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Wallace Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ight away and
yet wait on these boards, hand keying the T/R will work. That's what
I'm doing for now.
Larry WO0Z
their
settings remembered. Even doing the filter selection on a setup panel would
work. What would be my selection .. 8, 6, 5 ,4, 3.6, 3.2, 2.8, 2.6, 2.2, 2.0
khz.
I wish to be somewhat careful in being so negative about the issue (ouch)
but it is perhaps my strongest dislike of the transceiver.
--
Bill,
Changing the behavior of the slider helps but the filter selection still,
very heavily, favors digi and CW modes and leaves all voice modes hurting in
this area.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday,
QSLing. We may now be able to dispense with that, or
largely so.
I already have 23 states towards a RTTY WAS, for instance, an award I do
not have today nor have little in the way of QSLs for.
Larry WO0Z
ing the SDR
console. And, naturally, I sometimes use the "chase DX" feature when
actually doing RTTY with MixW.
Larry WO0Z
The mute button works fine here.
The squelch does not.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:34 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] Mute / Squelch / Eq
The MUTE button has ceased working on preview 12
Haha Oh I am the newbie? Click on the squelch button and it works here too
.. as I go hide my head in shame! Again MUTE works fine here also.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Bill,
It's an either/or situation. If you activate the option, the panel button
will not work and the x2 pin WILL mute the receiver. If you don't select the
option the panel button works but the x2 pin will not. The option appears
first in Preview 9.
--Larry W8ER
- Origin
Congratulations to Eric! Seems he does a nice job
no matter what he's doing!!
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From:
Gerald
Youngblood
To: MailFlexRadio
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:36
AM
Subject: [Flexradio] Congratulations to
Eric, KE5DTO,an
ntaged in
the pileup, my ears would not hurt.
I know there's a million priorities, but just now, I'm not enjoying the
rig as I customarily do and I thought it worth reporting.
Larry WO0Z
PS, if the panadapter's width could be varied, and that was easier to
code, that, too
ve to change to make the radio act the
way he is describing?
It is independent on the Panadapter display, but not the spectrum
display. At least through 1.4.5 it isn't. The panadapter isn't
practical for CW pileups. though.
Larry WO0Z
cables. It is perfect in most every way. It is available
immediately for $1450 plus shipping of your choice.
email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 440-967-0654
--Larry
The radio has been sold. Thanks to
all.
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From:
Larry W8ER
To: Flex Reflector
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:52
PM
Subject: [Flexradio] Flex SDR-1000 For
Sale
Reluctantly I am selling my SDR-1000. It has the
100 watt
have is a blowtorch however ... you might
want to send it back!
--Larry W8ER
- Original Message -
From:
Jeff
Anderson
To: Flex Reflector
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:05
PM
Subject: [Flexradio] 160 Meter
Filter?
Does anyone know what 160 meter filter L
ency wrong)
than it is right. I didn't really have to watch this so closely before.
(It was always possible, it's just that until now it mostly worked).
Maybe that's a clue for someone, especially perhaps comparing the
lifetime of this on preview 7 versus 12.
Larry WO0Z
aterial we create as well. Even the archive of this is not
an ideal way to find what you want. A real forum is going to be more
focussed.
Larry WO0Z
d into it. I would regard
that as a more serious problem than not supporting hubs.
As long as we're still using what is, at core, the parallel port
interface, I presume that we will have more restrictions than usual.
Larry WO0Z
hanged once set and there's no point in
organizing the world so that people end up doing so. Stuff that's more
like personal taste (e.g. equalizer settings) might be left off of this,
since the idea would be that this would be read in separately at upgrade
time, not any old time.
Larry WO0Z
best when done while in
split (independent because sometimes, you just want to set the VFO in
prep for something else).
The feature would make working DX split a lot easier. On DXpeditions
like this, it really is more than a convenience if you're a "little guy"
trying to seize
ycle of three"
with the same basic interface (right click on the adapter space). That
might make people all around happier about the idea.
Larry WO0Z
roughly the same contest conditions (anywhere on 40 RTTY right now).
Larry WO0Z
Dale Richardson wrote:
I have been using version 14 for rtty/psk without any problems here. I
use Digipan and MMTTY. Worked 3Y0X on 17 rtty with the sdr without any
problems.
73,
Dale AA5XE
I didn't say it didn't work (it does). I said 1.4.1 was markedly better.
Larry WO0Z
ing our minimum
computation requirements."
It's quite another to say "oh, heck, let's give away 10 per cent this
time." You can do that once in a while, or even let it dangle and hope
to figure it out later on, but in the long run, it won't do.
Larry WO0Z
'll find the panadapter ("scope")
features and the high quality receiver make up for being a bit on the
leading edge. And then some. There is no combination of features
available at anywhere near the price of the SDR 1000. In fact, some
things it can do aren't available at any price.
Larry WO0Z
hat we
did in Belize even with the existing code).
If we can get there, user interface variations can go far beyond what we
have today and, I suspect, some of us will. As a side effect, it will
be a lot easier for this to start happening in Linux than it does today.
Larry WO0Z
don't care which). With that,
I'd be happily switching between both computers and doing some of both.
Where did Tony go? Don't remember him posting in a while. This would
be a great thing to use a Softrock for. If I could get one.
Larry WO0Z
Wow! You have me beat all hollow!
I haven't been able to maneuver the SDR to work 3Y0X on any band. My
hat is off to you, especially for the 160 work!
Larry WO0Z
ab7r wrote:
I've been using the SDR working the 3Y0X pileups and has been doing well
indeed. Been getting use
a matter of
personalities and so on. But, _technically_, they need not and have not
stopped other similar open source projects from succeeeding.
Larry WO0Z
Is there a list of minimum packages and levels of same needed to dvelop
and run the Linux stuff so we know that it would work once one bothers
to download it so one cold quickly get going?
Larry WO0Z
Larry Loen wrote:
I think maybe I should at least make a suggestion that solves my own
problem.
Just to be hyper clear, the idea behind a Knoppix style solution is that
you leave your Windows hardfile alone, boot Linux from CD not to
install, but to run. This is often called a "Li
7;t work for me in a windows program. I suppose
if the knobs work with the mouse wheel and arrow keys it's ok.
Circular knob controls are the spawn of Satan. Like all things Satanic,
they're tempting, especially in regard to things radio.
Larry WO0Z
do we want it on a networking path that will already introduce
substantial latency?
Larry WO0Z
at least, flowing easily without
the resort to anything as state-heavy as XML. In fact, I'd be very
surprised if that much, at least, couldn't be managed by something that
looked like an extended Kenwood CAT style interface (and, hence,
available to be implemented "out the bottom" for a simpler device, at
the very least).
Larry WO0Z
Frank Brickle wrote:
Larry Loen wrote:
FlexRadio - Eric wrote:
I don't think there will be any significant performance hit due to
using
XML.
Here we are, living in a regime where we can barely make CW paddling
work as it is, and we want to burden our slowest path with this?
It
net result is what we want.
At any rate, I offer it as a practical suggestion that would let me, and
perhaps others, participate.
Larry WO0Z
evel functionality is not universally available in low
level embedded environments. Am I incorrect?
Larry WO0Z
in, every upgrade, by hand. Be nice to import just those.
Larry WO0Z
Willi Reppel wrote:
Larry,
Thanks for your reply. I am using at present A4A version 2.6 which I
downloaded at the end of last year. May be a new version has been
released since then. I use the Creative MP3+ usb soundbox and the
follow-ing ASIO 4 All settings:
ASIO buffer size: 512 samples
Willi Reppel wrote:
Larry,
I installed A4A v.2.6 due to findings of Heino DJ5ER, a member of the
German user group, who claims to have shortened the latency close to
the one obtained with a Delta 44 card when using a Creative Life 24
usb sound box together with A4A v. 2.6. His post can be
ra, but this is smaller than that (I
checked). Anyone already happen to do this one?
Anyone else do anything interesting in terms of hanging the breakout box
off a wall?
I know this all sounds paranoid, but I try and treat the audio parts of
this with kid gloves and disturb it all as seldom as possible.
Larry WO0Z
3rd party
software, as is noted here, it is particularly likely to cause problems.
Frequency change is too vital to be allowed any old time -- certainly
not when doing something intense like being in a contest or a pileup.
Larry WO0Z
e even there. How much
hardware could it be?
Personally, it would be great to get this to the point where you don't
have to be Bob or Frank to code this stuff. A little less "real time"
in the pathways would really help, I would think.
Larry WO0Z
drop down fit in the place now taken by the two
buttons? Maybe that's easier to do than my checkbox given the way that
real estate lies and the IDE works. We'd only need SSB and DIGITAL as
selections.
Larry WO0Z
also used the Extigy at
the time. It's inexpensive and it works, but it does introduce the
ASIO4ALL drivers and their headaches.
Larry WO0Z
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