Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-03 Thread Stu Phillips
Bob, Close out report... I build a Hi-pass filter to the design that Gary Breed used for his K9AY pre-amp front end - the schematic is at: http://www.aytechnologies.com/TechData/FilterPreamp_160-80.pdf I haven't had a chance to run this on a Network Analyzer yet it's the same design

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-03 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Hi, Stu I live a few miles away from KNX 1070, which comes in about as strong as your BCI did. Not having the inclination to research and build a filter like you did, I bought one from I.C.E. *ALL* the funny noises I was hearing went away on my 5000A, and my noise floor dropped. Amazing what

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-03 Thread Bob McGwier
Congrats and nice work! Happy 4th! Bob N4HY Phillips wrote: Bob, Close out report... I build a Hi-pass filter to the design that Gary Breed used for his K9AY pre-amp front end - the schematic is at: http://www.aytechnologies.com/TechData/FilterPreamp_160-80.pdf I haven't had a

[Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-02 Thread Stu Phillips
I took delivery of my Flex 5000 a couple of days ago - everything is working fine except for... - Periodic hangs where PowerSDR freezes and the audio output stops. Pressing Stop then start on PowerSDR gets everything going again. I've run the latency checker and the max its seen was

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-02 Thread Stu Phillips
Bob, Thanks for the second pair of eyes on the fault matrix for troubleshooting! My station is remote (about 0.25 miles from the house) controlled via Ethernet and audio via a phone patch on the PBX... took a few to walk down and swap everything around. Freeze - I've seen the problem on both

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Stu: WOW, those are some signals. Yes, you will need the BCI filter. The front end is being hit pretty hard. And yes, you can put it into the loop and it will work perfectly. You have entirely too much gain in the radio for 160m-40m anyway so there will be no degradation. Try the buffer

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-02 Thread Stu Phillips
Bob, Thanks to you and John - I'll cook up the BCI filter tomorrow - pretty sure I have a set of LC in the junk box for a second filter. I have line of sight to most of these stations - none of them are more than 20 miles away and AM860 as an example is a regional class B station running 50 Kw