Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-25 Thread k6kdk
Jim, >>You are only going to get maximum AGC >>performance in critical listening situations by having ready access to and >>understanding, technically, how to adjust all the DSP engines AGC >>parameters. It is that simple. I wish that you could, in fact, put a >>simple >>control on the front pane

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-25 Thread Jim Lux
At 11:49 AM 8/25/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Jeff, > >Well, by this time, everyone knows where I stand on this sort of discussion. >To me, this is not a marketing issue. We are talking about how to allow >users of the rig (that have already bought and paid for it) to extract the >maximum perfor

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-25 Thread Eric Wachsmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 1:50 PM > To: Jeff Anderson; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653 > > Jeff, > > >>From my perspective, the SDR1K has, essentially, two gain controls. > > Conceptually, from the point of view of si

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-25 Thread k6kdk
Jeff, >>From my perspective, the SDR1K has, essentially, two gain controls. > Conceptually, from the point of view of signal flow, I picture these two > gains as "pre-agc gain" and "post-agc gain." That is, the gain applied to > a > signal *before* it's attenuated by AGC, and the gain applied to

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-25 Thread Ian Wade
From: Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 Time: 06:38:49 >The functional similarity between "Max AGC Gain" and the familiar "RF Gain" >control raises an interesting question - is it better give a control a name >that accurately represents what it does in the code (such as "M

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-25 Thread Jeff Anderson
Dan, K6KDK, wrote: > One of the reasons this is important is that there is really > no such thing as RF Gain any way in a DSP radio. Good point. And this actually raises an interesting question regarding the naming of controls... >From my perspective, the SDR1K has, essentially, two gain contro

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread k6kdk
> Jeff, not to worry. We received enough mail that it will stay on the front > panel. > > keep the RF Gain control (call it what you like: "Max AGC Gain" or > whatever > might be more intuitively appropriate) on the front panel. I use it all > the > time I never said to take it off the pane

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread John Basilotto
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:40 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653 Good idea to disambiguate (love that word!) the controls. Just please, until you get some sort of docking/setup scheme per Dan's recommendations, keep the RF Gain control (call it what you

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread Jeff Anderson
06 10:36 AM To: Eric Wachsmann; 'Charles Greene'; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653 > [Eric] No. The RF control sets the Max AGC gain. This is not the same as > setting the RX gain for VAC which sets a constant gain in order to > normalize > t

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread k6kdk
> [Eric] No. The RF control sets the Max AGC gain. This is not the same as > setting the RX gain for VAC which sets a constant gain in order to > normalize > the audio comfortably while still providing appropriate gain to the third > party software. If the RF control works for you, that's gre

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread Radio Station W5AMI
On 8/24/06, Eric Wachsmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Comments inline below. Thanks for explaining all this to the list Eric. Personally, I'm really pleased with 653. This is the first time I've really been using the official Flex console since I started using K6JCA's. The newly added slider

[Flexradio] svn 653 audio noise

2006-08-24 Thread philip gentile
hi - after getting tortoisesvn to run and downloading the binaries, i started running 653. WOW! the new layout is great, excellent work here guys. this only gets better and better! when i started tuning around, i noticed a clicking and popping on the audio on cw signals, even on wwv at 10 mhz

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread Ignacio Cembreros
Eric Wachsmann wrote > Comments inline below. > > > [Eric] I think someone mentioned this to your privately, but I wanted to get > this documented on the reflector. You can customize ANY of the pre-defined > filters by right clicking in the filter area and clicking the "Configure..." > button.

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Wachsmann
Comments inline below. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > radio.biz] On Behalf Of Charles Greene > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:40 AM > To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] SVN 653 > > Hi, >

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-24 Thread Charles Greene
At 02:05 AM 8/24/2006, Mel Whitten wrote: >Right clicking on the filter buttons will put you in a configure mode >and you can adjust the filters to 3Khz or whatever you want it.. >Mel, K0PFX Super! ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] SVN 653

2006-08-23 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I like the mode specific controls in SVN 653. I have some problems, suggestions and comments which follow: I have a problem with the CW bandwidth and controls. Concerning filters, I set MixW for a bandwidth in digital at 3kHz and in CW the same. You need to set the filter bandwidth about