Re: [Flexradio] Longwave Reception with Flex 5000

2009-01-26 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Harry et al. My SDR1000 worked great on frequencies between 100 and 600 kHz when using the lowpass filter described by Aldo Moroni of Italy in the low link. http://bp2.blogger.com/_yAFqROdeCF0/RiVGzW5S3-I/Aes/xrxaNbCUAHU/s1600-h/Softrock-NDB.jpg Aldo designed the filter for the Sof

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 PowerSDR v1.12.1 with dedicated I/Q settings per each band

2008-08-03 Thread Willi Reppel
Chris, My SDR1000 is not operational for the time being, but I remember that a found setting for best image rejection is changing rapidely when detuning some kHz from the frequency you used for the calibration. So I guess you would need an indefinite number of locations to store said optimal set

Re: [Flexradio] alternatives to PowerSDR

2008-06-25 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Brian, I use Winrad with my SDR1000 to find non-directional radio beacons on longwave. The waterfall display of Winrad is more suitable for this kind of works with weak signal detection. PowerSDR runs in the background but all operations are done on Winrad´s console. Winrad can also be used t

Re: [Flexradio] indian job

2008-06-18 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi all, I wrote to Mr. Prakash, responsible at SDRtech, India, and said that in order to be called innovative they could at least have integrated an USB-port on the single board instead of a vintage 25 pin parallel port. He answered: "We had to use the parallel port inorder to make the trx compa

Re: [Flexradio] Proposal: Field for messages on console

2008-03-10 Thread Willi Reppel
sometimes easier to communicate by writing instead of speaking. vy 73´s Willi SM6OMH - Original Message - From: "Jim, W4ATK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:48 PM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Proposa

[Flexradio] Proposal: Field for messages on console

2008-03-09 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi all, >From time to time I let less fortunate hams, who do not own an SDR, operate, see and listen to my SDR1000 via the Internet and LogMeIn-Pro. I can see on the console of my target computer what the guest on his local computer is doing and I assist with written guidance if I see the gues

Re: [Flexradio] [KB] New article posted to the Knowledge Base

2007-08-26 Thread Willi Reppel
"Inhuman punishment" hacker Scott McCausland called the sentence of a Californian judge to use Windows operation systems so that his net activities can be monitored more easily by his probation officers. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Government-Monitors-Movie-Pirate-After-Sentence-Served-86

Re: [Flexradio] r we Flexonians or Flexorites?

2007-05-21 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi, Frequently the Spanish word "aficionados" is used in the US for enthusiastic admirers or followers. So why not call them flexionados or aflexionados. Willi - Original Message - From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlexRadio List" Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:18 PM Subject:

Re: [Flexradio] Vendi, Vidi, Desideri

2007-05-21 Thread Willi Reppel
Tim, To honour Julius Cesar you should cite correctly "Veni, Vidi, .." Vendi means " I sold" . However, this misspelling makes sense in relation with Dayton because the SDR5000 was sold to desireous buyers before they got to see what they actually bought. Willi - Original Message -

Re: [Flexradio] Low recieve

2007-05-17 Thread Willi Reppel
. Remains to be seen how Flexradio protects the SDR 5000 investors against transients. gl es gn de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "Ahti Aintila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Frank Mayer" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Flexradio] Low recieve

2007-05-17 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Frank, To protect the receiver of my SDR1000 I stalled ahead of the RF-amplifier a microgap surge absorber element in discharge tube. See the below link. http://www.koaproducts.com/english/catalogue/sa.htm It may be the right opportunity to install one of these when you unpile the board sta

Re: [Flexradio] any Spanish speaking Flexer's ??

2007-02-17 Thread Willi Reppel
Holà Javier, Ignacio Cembreros EB4APL es un aficionado español del SDR1000. [EMAIL PROTECTED] vy 73 de SM6OMH Willi I suppose Ignacio Cembreros does - Original Message - From: "Ken N9VV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flex-radio Reflector" Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:13 AM Su

Re: [Flexradio] Unsubscribe my old email

2007-02-13 Thread Willi Reppel
Gary You can unsubscribe yourself at: http://mail.flex-radio.biz:80/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Vy 73 es gl Willi - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:27 AM Subject: [Flexradio] Unsubscribe my old email > Folks: I recent

Re: [Flexradio] PA calibration routine

2007-02-06 Thread Willi Reppel
Klaus, I had the same problem but on the 160 m band on which I reached only 90 W. As a non-programming ham, I had to find an other way to fix the problem. I choose in Setup / Audio " unsupported soundcard" on the field of soundcard selection. By doing so the default "output voltage" of the so

Re: [Flexradio] Help with Power Amp Calibration

2007-01-20 Thread Willi Reppel
Doug, You can also adjust the output for each band manually in the PA setup by changing gradually the default values assigned to each band while watching the output meter on the console. With my particular setup of SDR1000 and MP3+ soundcard I cannot reach more than 90 W on 160 m and the automa

Re: [Flexradio] meter freezes

2007-01-15 Thread Willi Reppel
Mike, Thanks for the hint. Ordered a sixpack of longneck bottles for $ 5.49 from popsoda.com. Willi - Original Message - From: "Mike Schelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] meter freezes > Down south we use kickapoo joy juice!

Re: [Flexradio] 1 watt radio

2007-01-11 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi, John of Flex-Radio asked for continued comments on the 1 W version. There are also other ways for Flex-Radio to keep inventory low and to know what potential Flexers want without need to look into the crystal ball. Hams interested in a 1 W version could write their name and approximate deli

Re: [Flexradio] Poor Audio Connections producing DSSB

2007-01-10 Thread Willi Reppel
Dave, Had the same problem when I got my SDR1k almost 4 years ago. I replaced all male plugs on the cables between soundcard and SDR1k with goldplated ones. Also, the female connectors of my SDR1k were not flush with the backplate of the cabinet and I drilled larger holes to make sure the plugs

Re: [Flexradio] Has Anyone Else Senn the Strange FrequencyDriftProblem?

2007-01-07 Thread Willi Reppel
en in general usage. Unless I can > correct this problem, the radio is quite useless to me in the digital > modes, my main operating activity. With this drifting problem, I have > not been able to use my radio since I received it, several weeks ago now, > > I hate to send the radi

Re: [Flexradio] More Strange Frequency Drift Problem

2007-01-07 Thread Willi Reppel
Peter, You wrote: >I am not sure where the power for the heater on the 200MHz oscillator come >from > I bought a new 1 W SDR1000 last month before the announcement about the 100 W-only version came. I disassembled the unit to have a look at the termistor. It is a small disk of approx 8 mm dia

Re: [Flexradio] No 1 watt units

2007-01-06 Thread Willi Reppel
Maarten, I do not understand Flex-Radio´s move either. There is a large potential for selling a receiver-only version without 1 W or 100 W PA to radiotic individuals like VLF, LF, MW, short-wave listeners and beacon hun-ters which are excluded as possible buyers because they are not licensed h

Re: [Flexradio] 10 kHz AM filter off center

2007-01-02 Thread Willi Reppel
Message - From: "Eric Wachsmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Willi Reppel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] 10 kHz AM filter off center > Sounds like you may have changed the setting. You ca

[Flexradio] 10 kHz AM filter off center

2007-01-02 Thread Willi Reppel
Hello all, I noticed that in version 1.8. the center frequency of the AM filter setting for 10 kHz is off center. The USB brickwall extends to +5600 kHz while the lower one ends at -4440 kHz, ie. the width is 10 kHz but off center. I tried the older version 1.6.3 and here the 10 kHz AM filter is

Re: [Flexradio] Installation problem PowerSDR

2007-01-01 Thread Willi Reppel
Hello Wim, I hope an Euroflexer can be of help here while the US-flexers celebrate or sleep. Probably you have to change the national settings in the control panel of your computer. I have to set it to "English(USA)" to get Power SDR to function because the program interprets a point as a comma

Re: [Flexradio] Need Help with popping in rx audio

2006-12-23 Thread Willi Reppel
Brian, May be changing progressively the process priority in Set-up/General/Options from NORMAL up to REAL TIME can eliminate audio popping. Willi - Original Message - From: "A.R.S. - W5AMI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Flex-radio Reflector" Sent: Saturday, December 23

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-05 Thread Willi Reppel
John, Make sure the printer cable is as short as possible. This was already a topic 2-3 years ago when you still could buy parallel line conditioners in computer shops. You can get mine for free, if you pay the postage from Europe to the US because I replaced the conditioner with the USB-Parallel

Re: [Flexradio] High Static Levels

2006-12-04 Thread Willi Reppel
Dave, Depending on the year of manufacturing of your SDR1000, you may need to perfom the ECO 001 (engineering change order) and to protect the rx input with two diodes. On my rig with input protection, rain static increases merely the noise floor and engulfs all other signals but never "knocks ou

Re: [Flexradio] Knowledge Base

2006-11-29 Thread Willi Reppel
Chas, I had the same problem but Tim helped me to find the ECOs (engineering change order). You have to log on with your ID and password. Then you place the word "ECO" into the search engine. The problem was that the search engine displayed a specific part of the knowledge base starting with pag

Re: [Flexradio] Still getting too much latency with Edirol FA-66

2006-10-18 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Tim, Tim wrote: "Noli nothis permittere te terere." For Roberts´s particular case the roman proverb "Abusus non tollit usum" is equally applicable. By the way, you can find all those words of wisdom at http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html for the event somebody else wants to puzzle fello

Re: [Flexradio] External 10 MHz reference.

2006-10-10 Thread Willi Reppel
Eddy, Have a look at: http://flex-radio.com/Download/Hardware%20Documentation/Ext%20Ref%20Kit%20Inst%20v1.1.pdf vy73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "Van de Velde Eddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:20 PM Subject: [Flexradio] External 10 MHz refer

Re: [Flexradio] USB sound devices

2006-10-07 Thread Willi Reppel
Alan, The list of sound cards in the setup of the latest Power SDR program 1.6.3 still shows the Soundblaster MP3+ and Soundblaster Extigy as supported usb soundboxes. It should not be too difficult to find used ones. I am still using the MP3+ while waiting for the ultimate sound device. I gue

Re: [Flexradio] External Keyer Audio and FireBox

2006-10-03 Thread Willi Reppel
Chas, I used once the external audio from a keyer to create cw signals. This was before the SDR1k keyer did work properly. The problem was that the tone of my keyer had harmonics which created additional un-wanted cw signals. However, you could use the new sub-rx function and look for replies

Re: [Flexradio] USB Audio Interface UA-1EX

2006-10-01 Thread Willi Reppel
;Sami Aintila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Klaus Lohmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FlexRadio" Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] USB Audio Interface UA-1EX > On 10/1/06, Willi Reppe

Re: [Flexradio] USB Audio Interface UA-1EX

2006-10-01 Thread Willi Reppel
T-Online eMailKlaus, Thanks for your report on the USB Edirol I bought. On the package on the device Edirol announced "Zero latency, direct monitoring" and I wonder what your findings about this statement are. vy 73 Willi - Original Message - From: Klaus Lohmann To: FlexRadio

Re: [Flexradio] Scanning?

2006-09-30 Thread Willi Reppel
Stig, So far I heard rules of the US FCC (Federal Commission of Communication) do not allow scanning of radio transmissions and Flex Radio had to remove the feature. vy 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Stig Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:3

Re: [Flexradio] clock ticking from sdr-1000

2006-09-30 Thread Willi Reppel
Dave, I think this comes from the negative logic which is used to switch on/off the relays of the SDR1000. Many relay solenoids are actually energized in the position "Standby" and de-energized, depending on settings, in the ON position. The ON/STANDBY switch is IMHO merely a kind of softswitch

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Reppel
Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression > Rather than enlarge the hole, I used a > knife to shave the plastic on the plug end. > > > Mike - AA8K > > > > Willi Reppel wrote: >> Larry, >> >> To the best of my knowledge, I cannot recall an offi-cial warning

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Reppel
only on dance floors. To avoid the introduction of new problems, I mentioned the required enlargement of the connector admission holes when using gold-plated plugs. vy 73 es best dx de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "Larry Loen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "

Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Reppel
Jeff, One possible cure to avoid said jiggling and twisting of the plugs is to drill larger holes into the backplate of the SDR1000 enclosure. The relatively small holes may prevent certain types of male plugs to reach the bottom of the female connectors. Gold-plated plugs here in the old count

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 17, Issue 24

2006-09-25 Thread Willi Reppel
Chris, This subject has already been a topic three years ago on the Forum and so far I remember OM Ahti Aintila from Finland was the first to detect and replace the noisy dc-dc converter with an external power supply. Sorry to see old topics repeatingly coming up all the time while information

Re: [Flexradio] Edirol FA-66 Firewire with 192 KHz sampling rateadded to list of supported sound cards

2006-09-25 Thread Willi Reppel
Jeff, Edirol offers also the UA-1EX USB soundcard. I bought one and I made my first phone and cw QSOs with it last weekend. I am going to send it today for evaluation to Klaus Lohmann, a distinguished member of the German SDR1000 group and official representative of Flex-Radio. Edirol claims "Z

Re: [Flexradio] Which way round?

2006-09-21 Thread Willi Reppel
attenuation I use ahead of my speakers a stereo amplifier with high input impedance. vy 73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "Eric Wachsmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Willi Reppel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'David Ackrill&

Re: [Flexradio] Which way round?

2006-09-21 Thread Willi Reppel
Mp3+ to the transmitter while the signalpath goes from J3 to J2 during reception. Hope this sheds some light on this matter. vy 73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "David Ackrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: &quo

Re: [Flexradio] Which way round?

2006-09-20 Thread Willi Reppel
Dave Make sure that the volume control on your MP3+ is turned to position "max" to get output from the transmitter. vy 73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "David Ackrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip M. Lanese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:

Re: [Flexradio] audio pop

2006-06-28 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi, I am still using the legacy MP3 sound device of Creative Labs while waiting for the Atlas and Janus board and I noticed the audio pop as well. Tried different settings of Asio for All and SDR1000 buffers but nothing cured the problem. However, enabling noise blanker NB2 of the console with

Re: [Flexradio] getting sdr1000 to work 100%

2006-06-15 Thread Willi Reppel
Paul, I had once the same problem and noticed that the SDR1000 came to life again when I dropped it from approx. 1" heigth on the worktable or exposed it to other types of gentle impacts. Sometimes it helped also to bend circuit boards carefully with a plastic stick. This indicated to me that

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 poor perfomance on receive.

2006-05-29 Thread Willi Reppel
Cecile, The SDR 1000 user manual says on page 8: "While the SDR1000 covers frequencies down to 11 kHz, additional filtering is required to minimize response to harmonics. The optional filter bank (on the RFE board) allows the user to customize the radio to add support for such frequencies". You

Re: [Flexradio] noisy fan

2006-05-28 Thread Willi Reppel
on" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bill Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 11:15 PM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] noisy fan Willi, I just ran a few tests to see if I observe the same 20dB electrical noise emana

Re: [Flexradio] noisy fan

2006-05-25 Thread Willi Reppel
noise and freezing of the SDR-1000 to 0 K to reduce thermic noise, I am looking for a engi-neering change order (ECO) to get rid of the more substantial electric fan noise. Best 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Tim Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Repp

Re: [Flexradio] noisy fan

2006-05-23 Thread Willi Reppel
Bill, Many months ago somebody suggested on the forum to make a large opening in the cabinet wall behind the fan instead of letting the cooling air pass through many small holes. The OM reported a sub-stantial noise reduction and mentioned that the small holes in the cabinet together with the a

Re: [Flexradio] Interesting artifact

2006-05-12 Thread Willi Reppel
Tim, After start-up I can see and hear what you describe on longwave between 300 and 400 kHz as well. I observed that said signal increases slowly and steady in frequency and it creates a diagonal line on the waterfall display. An educated guess is that this sig-nal originates from the DC conv

Re: [Flexradio] Again USB adapter problem

2006-05-04 Thread Willi Reppel
Peter So far I know, the usb adapter is made and has been developed in Finland by Sami Aintila who answered to your post. Perhaps you can arrange with him to send the adapter to Finland for checking. An other possi-bility is to send the adapter for checking to DK7XL, Klaus Lohmann, near Bremen

Re: [Flexradio] Am I Missing Something? Or Is Everyone?

2006-04-17 Thread Willi Reppel
- Original Message - From: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Am I Missing Something? Or Is Everyone? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Se

Re: [Flexradio] Help! RF out on SSB when the radio is notmodulated????

2006-03-24 Thread Willi Reppel
Tim, To start fault tracing, you can pull out connector J3 from the rear of the SDR1000´s cabinet to be sure that the tone you hear is not created in your sound card. Best 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Tim Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ken N9VV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; S

Re: [Flexradio] Tuning precautions for RFE driver

2006-03-22 Thread Willi Reppel
Christopher, So far I understand, the dual wideband op-amplifier OPA 2674 on the RFE board has an integrated output current limiter and protects itself. See data sheet http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/opa2674.html Best 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Christopher

Re: [Flexradio] Wav playback

2006-03-20 Thread Willi Reppel
Tom, I am not a programmer but as far as I understand the schematics of the SDR1000, the signalpass for playback has to go through the quadratur mixer chip for reception IC1 while the signalpass for transmission is passed through quadratur mixer chip IC2. Send/receive switching between the two

Re: [Flexradio] want to trade 746pro for SDR-1000

2006-03-19 Thread Willi Reppel
a type of e-bay. Before it gets improper to post adds, I want to swap a 58 year old Hallicrafter Modell S-40A for a SDR1k. Anyhow, ham radio is not that serious that you can´t make fun of it. Willi - Original Message - From: "w2agn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi

Re: [Flexradio] want to trade 746pro for SDR-1000

2006-03-18 Thread Willi Reppel
Ken, The reflector is no recycling plant for obsolete elec-tronic appliances. Anyhow, who wants to trade in a bleeding edge for a leading edge of technology. 73 es gl Willi - Original Message - From: "Ken N9VV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlexRadio Systems email reflector" Sent: Satu

Re: [Flexradio] USB Adapter problems

2006-03-18 Thread Willi Reppel
Ken, This problem was been reported many times in many ways. Normally the problem disappears when RFI is blocked near the parallel port connector of the USB adapter by coiling the cable on a suitable ferrite bead, ring or rod. 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Ken Klein" <[EMAI

Re: [Flexradio] wobbly carrier in focus

2006-03-07 Thread Willi Reppel
Hello Bill, I think the "crackles and wobbles" are brought about by a too high Max Gain in Setup/DSP/AGC. By default, a value over 60 is loaded and crackles disappear on my setup when choosing a much lower Max Gain value when listening to strong AM stations. Best 73, Willi - Origina

Re: [Flexradio] MORE EQ channels

2006-02-23 Thread Willi Reppel
Bill, This has been discussed during the townhall meeting last week and the German user group, presented by Klaus Lohmann, asked and demanded to increase the amount of eq channels to eight. Eric 1st. said it would be possible if the users accept an increase in latency of approx 30-40 msec. 73,

Re: [Flexradio] SDR 1.4.5 P15

2006-02-22 Thread Willi Reppel
: http://flex-radio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1863 I am going to ask Heino if the above post is available English. 73, Willi - Original Message - From: "Larry Loen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jerry Harley" <[

Re: [Flexradio] Expanded Vocabulary

2006-02-21 Thread Willi Reppel
José, Divided or not, they succeed with the slogan "E pluribus unum" , printed on every $ bill, something we are lacking here in the old countries. The development of the SDR1000 and its user group exemplifies the strength of this slogan. Willi - Original Message - From: "José Dumouli

Re: [Flexradio] SDR 1.4.5 P15

2006-02-21 Thread Willi Reppel
: In=32 samples, out=32 samples. Best 73 es gl de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jerry Harley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [Flex

Re: [Flexradio] SDR 1.4.5 P15

2006-02-21 Thread Willi Reppel
Jerry, I guess you are using ASIO4ALL with your Audigy sound box. I had once the same problem of not being able to use buffer sizes below 2048. Try to download the latest version of ASIO 4 ALL instead of using version 1.8. This did the trick for me and I can choose buffer sizes down to 256 agai

Re: [Flexradio] Future of SDR?

2006-02-21 Thread Willi Reppel
- Original Message - From: "Dan Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FlexRadio Reflector" Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Future of SDR? Dan wrote: My prediction is that in fifteen years, we will look back on the f

Re: [Flexradio] article on agc

2006-02-12 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Jiri, You can find the article at: http://www.n9vv.com/VK6APH-AGC-discussion-SDR1000.pdf Best 73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "Jiri Sanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FlexRadio" Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] article on agc I woul

Re: [Flexradio] v1.4.5 preview 14 error message on first time start-up

2006-02-10 Thread Willi Reppel
Joe,   I received the same message here. Moreover, the CPU reading shows 100 % when selecting the  keyboard mode for cw transmission.  It decreases to approx. 40% when I start to type characters and it increases again to 100% when the keyboard is idle. When the keyboard is not used for 10-20

Re: [Flexradio] CW Tab Greyed Out

2006-02-10 Thread Willi Reppel
bjr José, Amazing to see that SDR1000 support is a 24 hour activity and Bruce gets the answers served for break-fast in distant Alaska. 73, Willi - Original Message - From: "José Dumoulin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:05 AM Subj

Re: [Flexradio] CW Tab Greyed Out

2006-02-10 Thread Willi Reppel
Bruce, The cw tab is grayed out as long as the NEW KEYER is enabled. Open Power SDR Setup / DSP / Keyer and uncheck NEW KEYER and the cw tab will be highlighted. It is grayed out because the NEW KEYER is enabled by default when installing Power SDR. 73, Willi - Original Message - Fro

Re: [Flexradio] [OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT] Town Hall Meeting on February17 Teamspeak at 0100 UTC

2006-02-08 Thread Willi Reppel
Gerald,   It might be a good idea to reserv places for some disting-uished SDR 1000 disciples of other countries so that they can convey concerns of their local SDR1000 user communities and report to them in their native language.   73,   Willi - Original Message - From: Ger

Re: [Flexradio] Monitoring AM

2006-01-28 Thread Willi Reppel
Bill, You get a kind of stereo impression with BIN enabled when receiving AM with USB, LSB or DSB mode. However you have to tune carefully to zero beat to suppress the carrier in order to avoid a beat note. Best 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Bill Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Flexradio] USB sound device

2006-01-25 Thread Willi Reppel
Phil, It remains to be mentioned the still available Creative Live 24-bit Sound Blaster USB box. However, for transmission you have to open the box and to make a minor hardware modification to activate Mike In as described by DJ5ER, Heino, in the German forum. More info at: http://www.creat

Re: [Flexradio] Mute / Squelch / Eq

2006-01-23 Thread Willi Reppel
Ahti, The need of more equalizer channels was also discussed intensively on the 80 m band meeting of German SDR1k users last weekend. I heard here that K5SDR, Gerald, is coming to the Friedrichshafen trade show this year and hopefully he has time and opportunity to listen to what is going on h

Re: [Flexradio] Mute / Squelch / Eq

2006-01-22 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Bill, Squelch works fine here. However, you have to enable SQUELCH by clicking on it. The enabled state is indicated when SQUELCH turns yellow. Willi - Original Message - From: "Bill Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:34 PM Subject: [Flexradio] Mute

Re: [Flexradio] display question

2006-01-14 Thread Willi Reppel
Greg, The delay seems to be caused by the mathematical operations needed to average the spectrum. The delay is reduced significantly if you disable average (AVG) on the console. Best 73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "ab7r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, Janu

Re: [Flexradio] Confession

2005-12-20 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Mike, Nothing to be ashamed of. Most SDR1000 users belong to the silent majority when looking at the amount of posts sent to the forum. There are 690 registered users in the memberlist today and 452 of them have merely submitted 1 post or less. May be those silent 452 members are the real e

Re: [Flexradio] SSB audio question

2005-12-14 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi all, If the chosen buffer size of the Audio and DSP setup influences the audio quality of SSB transmissions as reported by Hank, I propose to make the buffer sizes separate and selectible for reception and transmission. One buffer size may be optimal for cw and digital mo-des while an othe

Re: [Flexradio] Web site down.

2005-11-29 Thread Willi Reppel
Tim, I have to spend $20 here for the p7m viewer to open your posts. Do you know of any free of charge down-load watering hole? Best 73 Willi - Original Message - From: "Tim Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:09 AM Subject: [Flexradio] Web site down

Re: [Flexradio] Echo - SSB Transmissions

2005-11-24 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Hank, I heard similar complaints from OMs during meetings of European SDR1000 users on the 80 m band. Some of them reported that the echo problem disappeared when connecting the mike directly to the sound card or sound box instead of coupling it to the mike connector on the front panel of t

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 for MW DXing - 9 kHz Channels

2005-11-21 Thread Willi Reppel
Guy, I had recently a visit of "beaconners" in my shack who wanted to see the performance of the SDR1000 for LW and MW DXing, starting from 70 kHz. These lurkers hunt  IDs  of airports around the world which are sent in slow CW and consist of 1-3 letters. They were impressed by the SDR1000 w

Re: [Flexradio] USB port deactivated when MOX is depressed

2005-11-13 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi all, The feeding point of my 400 Ohm transmission line is near the SDR1000 and I experienced the same problem, especially when SWR can get high while trying to match the PA to my double zepp antenna. Ferrite material on the connecting cable near the USB/parallel adapter housing solved the p

Re: [Flexradio] Radio has arrived - strange operation

2005-11-10 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Jeff,   I had the same problems before using the parallel/USB adapter. Make sure that you can hear relay clicks from the black box when stepping through the preamp. from position off to high and back to off. Each step must be accompanied by a  relay click.   Willi - Original Messag

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta v1.4.5 Preview 4 / Spectrum display

2005-11-07 Thread Willi Reppel
display mode at once. Willi - Original Message - From: "Bodo Scholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta v1.4.5 Preview 4 / Spectrum display Wil

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta v1.4.5 Preview 4 / Spectrum display

2005-11-07 Thread Willi Reppel
Bodo and Eric, I noticed also that the center frequency of the filter changes in version 1.4.5 Prev.4 from 600 to 1200 Hz when changing from 1kHz filter width to 500 Hz. This displacement of 600 Hz is also the setting for the pitch in my setup. So when homing in a signal to the center of the

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta v1.4.5 Preview 4 / Spectrum display

2005-11-07 Thread Willi Reppel
Eric, The spectrum display was actually changed recently to make the 25 Hz bandwidth visible because it was so narrow that it could fall between the pixels. Perhaps Bodo refers to this modification, explained in revision of PowerSDR 1.4.5 Preview 2. Willi - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flexradio] CAT CONTROL CHECK BOX P3 & P4

2005-11-05 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi all I guess not only new engineering graduates but also some SDR users are curious what is behind the acronym RPN. Wikipedia explains it and gives examples at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpn RPN was already used on HP´s desktop calculators in the sixties of the past century. Willi

Re: [Flexradio] Preview 2 RE-Observations - LONG!

2005-10-31 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Eric, You wrote: "[Eric] I completely agree. If one of the features is turned on by default, this is simply an oversight. I'll check VOX, Noise Gate, EQ, etc. Let me know if you find anything else like that." In earlier program versions (1.3.9 for example) the pre-amp was set by defaul

Re: [Flexradio] SoundBlaster Extigy and MP3+

2005-10-25 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Eric, Thanks for monitoring the rapid changing market of USB soundboxes. Beside audio quality and latency, the required USB bandwidth seems also to be an important parameter of soundboxes. I noticed this when connecting a 24 bit 96 kHz sampling rate Creative Life USB soundbox to an older not

Re: [Flexradio] M-Audio USB Sound Box

2005-10-22 Thread Willi Reppel
and have a nice weekend. Willi - Original Message - From: "ecellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Willi Reppel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Robert McGwier'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Jim Lux'" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Flexradio] M-Audio USB Sound Box

2005-10-22 Thread Willi Reppel
Message - From: "ecellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Willi Reppel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Robert McGwier'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Jim Lux'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'FlexRadio'"

Re: [Flexradio] M-Audio USB Sound Box

2005-10-22 Thread Willi Reppel
Eric, The possibility of "add in" of commercial products is a nice feature of the SDR1000 but also a problem when looking at the speed at which those consumer pro-ducts appear on the market and vanish into limbo. Traditional ham radio operators use their equipment for 10-15 years while the SDR

Re: [Flexradio] Info Laptop + SB LIVE 24 bit a,d SDR-1000

2005-10-18 Thread Willi Reppel
Bon jour Alain,   You should have put forward this question on the reflector before buying this card. Line-in and microphone of the surround mixer cannot be switched separately by software and you can only transmit or receive with this card. So far I know DL3UXI, Kurt, a member of the German

Re: [Flexradio] Help - Winkey Keyer /SDR1K

2005-10-09 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Serge,   You can first try to connect a straight key or wire jump to the pertaining contacts of com port 1 and find out if this works. If it does you need probably a relay between the Winkey output and the com port 1. Under www.k1el.com the schematics can be found for an additional relay 

Re: [Flexradio] Ver 1.4.5 Beta 1 Audio Buffer Setting

2005-09-28 Thread Willi Reppel
Bruce, The CPU speed of your computer may be too low. I used a notebook with 850 MHz before and got the same problem. 73´s Willi - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:51 PM Subject: [Flexradio] Ver 1.4.5 B

Re: [Flexradio] Receiver Sensitivity

2005-09-25 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Bob,   I had once problems with reduced sensivity. Make sure that you can hear a distinct relay click each time when you step through the positions of the preamplifier from off to high gain and back. Missing relay clicks indicate that you may have a problem with the parallel port connectio

Re: [Flexradio] Number of SDR-1000's

2005-09-21 Thread Willi Reppel
Larry,   Have a look at the development of the below membership list. The last entry is from Sept. 20, ´05 and the list contains a total of 617 registered users.     http://www.flex-radio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=joined&order=ASC&start=600&sid=4f0709a1c8c02a155460ad04700e4c03   I guess y

Re: [Flexradio] Where the heck is the USB to Parallel driver?

2005-09-15 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Larry, I downloaded the parallel-usb driver from www.flex-radio.com/Download I checked today and this address still exists and the driver is listed here. GL with your HF2V. Best 73 de SM6OMH Willi - Original Message - From: "Larry Loen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, S

Re: [Flexradio] Strange toggle to BIN mode after TX

2005-09-13 Thread Willi Reppel
Hi Kurt, I experience the same problem occasionally. It normally disappears after the next tx/rx changeover or cycling of the on/standby button. I did not report this before but want to confirm here that you are not the only one. I use also the MOX button or space bar for rx/tx/rx switching.

Re: [Flexradio] SDR EuroNET proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Willi Reppel
Beppe, A german SDR1000 group exists already and we meet on Sundays at 17:00 UTC on 3.777 MHz. The initiator and moderator of this group is Klaus Lohmann DK7XL. You can find his e-mail address on the reflector and you could ask him to coordinate a participation of the german SDR1000 group in t

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