[Flexradio] Flexwire (I2C) question

Hi Alan, You are not mentioning the UCB form where you tell the application what bits you want activated. The first two entries are dedicated to the V/U module, Be sure to press the FlexWire button on that form. And you must select each bit that you want activated for each band. You can get to

[Flexradio] Firewire card

While cleaning I also found a PCI Firewire card. This is not PCI-E Let me know if anyone is interested, I'll let it go for a small price plus shipping. Email off list. Thanks, Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] Firewire for sale

Hi, I have made the transition to ethernet for my radios and have a PCI-E Firewire adapter card and a 10 foot Granite Digital cable available. Is anyone interested? If so, please reply off list. Thanks, Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

Re: [Flexradio] BCD to follow Flex5000A RX2 VFOB only?

Actually this needs to go to Steve, K5FR who writes DDUTIL. Phil K3TUF On 10/23/2014 7:37 AM, Tim Ellison, W4TME wrote: Send BCD questions to Phil, K3TUF. His e-mail is his name @ his-call.com Tim Ellison, W4TME Customer Experience Manager FlexRadio Systems^(TM) 4616 W Howard Ln, Suite 1-150

[Flexradio] Settings for cw

Hi, What are the best settings to have quick cw, unfortunately I had to switch to a radio with knobs during the DX contest, was missing the first symbol. Tried some settings, but couldn't get it under the pressure of the contest. Using 2.3.5 on W7 machine with i7 processor and tons of ram.

[Flexradio] FlexWire peripherals

Don, I use it for switching transverters and through DDUTIL you can switch HF antennas as well. It simply needs a PCA9555A chip on the I2C port. I put together a little peripheral for this purpose. I documented it at k3tuf.com/FW.html 73, Phil K3TUF

[Flexradio] Flex 1500 and DEMI transverter questions

Emory, You have all you need in the transverter to get levels set correctly. It's the right way to go, drive your transverter at 0 dbm. All of my transverters are driven with low power. Check your DEMI manual, all of the level settings are documented there. 73, Phil K3TUF

[Flexradio] Preamp

I was asked today and didn't have an answer regarding the preamp button. What controls the state of the on and off in the window? There is a situation where the on is displayed but the display is faded. Change band and the on is displayed but it is in increased intensity. What governs the

[Flexradio] Split beyond the radio window

Can someone outline the procedure for operating split outside of the width of the radio. For instance. DX on 14.145 and TX on 14.255 I do have RX2, but feel dumb not being able to set this up. Thanks Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

[Flexradio] FlexWire accessories

I have begun to update the website with information on VHF transverter interfaces for the FlexWire port. See k3tuf.com and choose FlexWire Information Thanks, Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] Flex driver for N1MM

Just a quick note to say that there is now a custom driver for Flex Radios available for the N1MM logging software. Go to N1MM.com for the latest update. Thanks go out to the tireless efforts of John, K3CT for the programming and to Flex for providing the resources to get this finished. 73,

[Flexradio] FlexControl question

Regarding the selections in the settings menu. What happened to audio gain in the double click category? only available in the single click drop downs. thanks Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] HF Band Data

You can get band data out via the DDUTIL utility There currently is a way to get band data for VHF and above bands through the XVTR form and the FlexWire port. Soon, (next version) there will be HF band data out the FlexWire port. I have an interface board that decodes the I2C from the

[Flexradio] FlexWire interface for VHF UCB

I have several beta test positive results so I am now ready to take orders for the daughter board for the UCB. This will take FlexWire instructions from the 5000, 3000 or 1500, although I have not had it tested on a 3000. Currently PowerSDR only sends instructions out the FlexWire port for

Re: [Flexradio] UCB DDUTIL Help! Pse

Bob, Sorry I missed one of your emails. How are you driving your UCB from DDUTIL? What is the physical connection to the board? I am driving my UCB directly from the I2C port on the Flex, otherwise known as the FlexWire port with the addition of a single I2C chip which will soon be available

[Flexradio] F5K for sale

I have a 5000A with antenna tuner available for sale. $2300 shipped conus. Contact Phil K3TUF at this email or call 717-721-6262 ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] F5K for sale. Post Script

Just to alleviate any panic that might have been brewing, I am selling a spare F5K in anticipation of getting a 1500 for roving use. My need for multiple 5K's has been eliminated by the addition of a nearby (front yard) rotating Rohn 55 tower. Now all of my antennas are within large feed line

[Flexradio] USB Adapter

Does anyone have an SDR-1000 usb/parallel adapter they want to sell? Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives:

[Flexradio] Scratchy signal on 160

What can I do to eliminate sounding scratchy on 160 when driving an amplifier? The 1/4 wave vertical is over a hundred feet from the house where the radio is and presents at minimum a 1.2:1 vswr. No signs of rf in the shack at all. This occurs while using CW. The amp is a QRO 2500. Even if

Re: [Flexradio] CW Skimmer and PowerSDR

Thanks Mike, That made the difference. Phil K3TUF Mike Penkas wrote: It didn't work for me with WDM so switched to MME and it took off. Mike WA8EBM - Original Message - From: Phil Theis p...@k3tuf.com To: 'Tim Ellison' telli...@itsco.com; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sunday

[Flexradio] CW Skimmer frequency calibration

Now that I have the interface working I have another question on frequency calibration. The skimmer frequency readings are not consistent with the actual frequency, they appear to be about 8-10KHz higher than the actual frequency. I do not have SR on, so that is not the cause. Any info to head

[Flexradio] CW Skimmer and PowerSDR

Using the KB article to set up CW Skimmer Configuration using VAC Direct I/Q I get the error invalid device Using 5000 and 1.19 of PowerSDR Any thoughts? thanks, Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] CW Skimmer and PowerSDR

Yes, and I tried an earlier version; trunk. Same results. PowerSDR only on. VAC is set up with two cables and Configuration is as in the KB article. The error is PortAudio Error; Invalid Device. any more thoughts appreciated. Phil K3TUF Did you start PowerSDR and enable VAC before staring

Re: [Flexradio] CW Skimmer and PowerSDR

both cables to Cable Range. -Tim -Original Message- From: Phil Theis [mailto:p...@k3tuf.com] Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:38 PM To: Tim Ellison; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: CW Skimmer and PowerSDR Yes, and I tried an earlier version; trunk. Same results. PowerSDR only

[Flexradio] 5000 Power Connector

Where can I get a power connector for the 5000? Does anyone know the molex (or other) part number? Thought the cable might be an option, but not to be found. thanks Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] 5000 and N1MM

Hi Basil what other radio were you going to use? or were you thinking of using rx2 as the second radio? I am working toward the same configuration, but with the current state of the software I believe you are going to need two radios and two sound cards for full low band SO2R. Check the N1MM

[Flexradio] Intermittent Gain

I'm on a mountain working the contest and I brought along my 5000a for the 144 station. I'm using test branch (I know, a mistake) svn 3065 and can't get back to earlier branch. What I am experiencing is intermittent gain. I need to run fast agc. What happens is the gain doesn't come back all

[Flexradio] WSJT and PowerSDR using VAC

I am having an issue getting this configuration to work. VAC is set up and PowerSDR is setup. I am receiving just fine. But when I go to transmit I do not get tx audio. Radio keys ok. Also, the receive takes about 15 seconds to recover. Thoughts please, Phil K3TUF

Re: [Flexradio] WSJT and PowerSDR using VAC

-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Phil Theis Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:05 PM To: Tim (W4TME); flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] WSJT and PowerSDR using VAC I am having an issue getting this configuration to work. VAC is set up and PowerSDR is setup. I am receiving just fine. But when I go

Re: [Flexradio] WSJT and PowerSDR using VAC

a fairly good job of helping you figure out how to make sure the sound card interface is setup correctly http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50362.aspx I would check this first. -Tim -Original Message- From: Phil Theis [mailto:p...@k3tuf.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:52 PM

[Flexradio] Room at Dayton

Please don't buy another room at Dayton till my prepaid room is taken. Super 8 Englewood, just off rt 70 and only minutes from Hara. $305 for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights prepaid. Email me, Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

[Flexradio] Does anyone need a room at Dayton?

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[Flexradio] Thought on RIT

I just wanted to run this by the group. You are in a contest and calling cq. Many operators don't call you on your frequency. Just like the second right click brings up red cross hairs to click tune the second receiver, wouldn't it be nice to have an additional right click say bring up green

[Flexradio] Mute RX1 and listen to RX2

Is there a simple way to mute RX1 to allow listening to RX2? I've been sliding the AGC-T down, but there must be a better way. Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] Starting PowerSDR after using OZY

My default is using PowerSDR on Flex5000. I assisted a friend with an Ozy Janus SDR1000, now I can't get the instance to stop erroring and get back to the 5000 useage. What can I do short of losing the db? thanks Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems

[Flexradio] Undo (^Z)

Before I put this in for feature request I wonder if it's already there. Several times during the contest last weekend I ended up entering a wrong value thinking my focus was in the logging program and sent the flex off into never never land losing valuable time finding where I was again. I'd

[Flexradio] Multiple 5000a's

Can I run multiple instances of PowerSDR on the same computer? What is the impact of changing radios per instance of PowerSDR? Will it sense the sn change and replace the eeprom data? Just checking before I try. thanks Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio

[Flexradio] improvement request

Before I put this in the request bin I'd like to see if either the feature is already available or if it is attractive to others. When in the heat of a contest it is possible to be in the wrong focus and start typing a call or number (or whatever) intending the keystrokes for a logger, but

Re: [Flexradio] improvement request

that hitting the escape key resets the frequency to what it was originally, assuming of course that you have not hit the enter key yet ;o)) Does this solve your problem, hopefully? 73, Army - AE5P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Theis

[Flexradio] Dual Radio question

I have separate 160 meter antennas coming into both RX1 and RX2. I'd like to receive on the same frequency on RX2 and transmit on the Main radio. What are some tricks to mute RX1? I have tried dropping the AGC threshold and increase the squelch, but I'm sure there's a better way that I'm

[Flexradio] New error message

I just started getting the following message on startup: PABridge Checksum ERROR DB: DFEEPROM: DI Calculated: DF v1.15.0 SVN:2460 1.2.2.4 no changes for weeks, then the error. any assistance would be appreciated. Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems

[Flexradio] 1500

Can any one release information about the 1500? This seems like the prefect Microwave IF radio, low power and works with PowerSDR. Phil K3TUF ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] Transverters

Jim, I also paid early and have 5000a serial number 9. I have been using my 5000 on the microwaves since the day I got it. The 5000 has the connectors to go to a Downeastmicrowave (or other) intermediate transverter and on to microwaves up to 10G. Even though the transverter from Flex will

Re: [Flexradio] Processor Affinity for PowerSDR on Vista

That did the trick, thanks, Phil Dudley Hurry wrote: Phil, I wonder if it is the UAC, User Account Control in Vista.. I turned mine off by going to Control Panel = Users Accounts= Turn on/off UAC = uncheck UAC.Then reboot. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ Phil Theis wrote: I use Processor

Re: [Flexradio] Vista and PowerSDR

Thanks Eric, For the record, the issue was .net not installed. Phil Eric Wachsmann wrote: Phil, I don't think Vista will show you the found new hardware screen if you already have the drivers installed. If you are talking to the FLEX-5000 Control Panel, then the driver is installed and is

[Flexradio] 5K driver issue

Greetings, I have a 5K that is working fine with an older computer. My newer computer which has worked just fine for several months has now developed a driver issue. At this point the symptom is that when installing the driver, and at the point of restarting the computer and expecting to find

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Vista

Thanks for the tips. Found gadgets. Running PowerSDR as administrator causes the cpu indicator to appear. Thanks, Phil K3TUF - Original Message - From: Philip Covington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Phil Theis

[Flexradio] PowerSDR and Vista

Just got a vista machine going. Before I blow it away and put XP on it, I thought I'd try it out. powersdr installed like a breeze and the radio appears to work fine, but the CPU indicator is gone. What's up? thanks Phil K3TUF -- next part -- An HTML attachment was

[Flexradio] Contesting and Focus

I have seen some post regarding contesters and the flex radio. What do you do about focus of the applications? How do you switch between the logging program and the radio (flex) program. This demands a quick poke over to the mouse. Are there any pc aftermarket products that would enable the focus

[Flexradio] -11KHz junk

Can anyone pass along any successful tricks to minimizing the junk at -11KHz? I know it's dc hum, but what has worked for folks out there? thanks Phil K3TUF FN10we ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz