For my FlexPedition to Bequia (J8K2CM) I took my Dell dual core laptop with me along with the F3K. Everything worked right out of the box; however, I had problems with the realtime anti-virus scan hogging the system causing my word processor, my spreadsheet, internet, and PSDR to hang periodically. I disabled the RT file scan, and all worked without issue.
Initially I blamed the problems on the wireless internet; but, by trial and error traced the problem to the anti-virus RT file scan. On Bequia, I had N1MM logger running, internet spotting, internet news, as well as PSDR. I was able to run the F3K and PSDR (1.18.2) for a day at a time without any issues. The brick wall filtering, on CW, was absolutely astounding. I got frustrated due the pileups that I generated; but, Tim and Dudley suggested that I narrow the passband to 50 HZ, and slowly tune through the mess. That worked like a charm. The signals popped up one at a time. I ran into some problems with RF getting into the laptop which I fixed by putting RF cores on the laptop power supply in/out cables, as well as on all cables that went into the laptop. The issue was that there was no place to get an RF ground....except to use the ground rod for the phone system. The soil was very dry, so I didn't chance using that ground rod. Next time I do this I will place a "counterpoise" on the ground as suggested by Dudley. For the station in the shack, I use a home built quad core system with an F5K and PSDR (1.18.2), with RT file scan disabled. It too runs N1MM logging, internet spotting, internet, and PSDR. I initially had some driver bugs that caused problems 15 months ago; but, those bugs have long been corrected. The stability of the software, at this point in time, is such that any ham that can use a computer should be able to load the software and get his Flex up and running in a few minutes! It is not a requirement to be a software Guru. George K2CM/J8K2CM _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
