[Flexradio] AGC-T Filters
Hi Folks, Well... aren't I the last person in the flexshpere to discover that dropping filter to 100hz and lowering AGC-T to 95 or below does wonders to dig out weak CW sigs. That should be in the manual! Cheers Dave. ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
[Flexradio] VOX on VAC
VOX has not worked while using VAC for several versions. It was broken some time ago. This has been reported a number of times by many people, especially those who use remote control a lot as VOX is the best way to work SSB remote. OpenSDR still has VOX working on VAC. It works fine on my ANAN-10. Harry ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
[Flexradio] Looking for alternative SDR software for Flex 3000
I see in the youtube demo how the SmartSDR for 6700 keeps the spectrum fixed, and allows me to drag the receiver throughout the spectrum. I currently cannot do that with PSDR. What are my alternatives, if any? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4...@arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Looking for alternative SDR software for Flex 3000
Buying a 6700 that will run SmartSDR should get you that feature. Otherwise, no PSDR doesn't work that way. On 8/24/2013 8:17 AM, Mark Lunday wrote: I see in the youtube demo how the SmartSDR for 6700 keeps the spectrum fixed, and allows me to drag the receiver throughout the spectrum. I currently cannot do that with PSDR. What are my alternatives, if any? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4...@arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6603 - Release Date: 08/23/13 ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Looking for alternative SDR software for Flex 3000
Mark, You can do that to a limited extent (within the spectrum already showing on the screen) in PSDR, but it's almost a six of one half dozen of another kind of thing. It's different, and may only be marginally better or worse depending on your preferences. Both are good. Ned, K1NJ - Original Message - From: Mark Lunday wd4...@triad.rr.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; flexra...@yahoogroups.com Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:17 AM Subject: [Flexradio] Looking for alternative SDR software for Flex 3000 I see in the youtube demo how the SmartSDR for 6700 keeps the spectrum fixed, and allows me to drag the receiver throughout the spectrum. I currently cannot do that with PSDR. What are my alternatives, if any? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4...@arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Transmit Profile Index
Larry, As Ray indicated, this can be done manually, but you have to pay very close attention as you do it. When I manually edit a database, I use the export function in PowerSDR to save 2 copies to the desktop and simply rename one copy to edited.xml so that I know it's the one I have tinkered with. When you've done that, close PowerSDR down and open up edited.xml in Notepad. Use the Find function in Notepad to locate the name of the particular TX profile you want to move. Then scroll up and down and study all the entries for that profile. (There are lots of them!) Examine the point where the TX profile you want to relocate begins and where it ends in the database. Then, paying very close attention to the beginning and end points, select the whole TX profile you wish to move and do a cut. This will remove that TX profile from the database and lift it into your system clipboard. Scroll through the database and find where you want to insert the TX profile that you wish to move. Look closely at where the TX profile above ends, and where the TX profile below it begins, place your cursor at that point, and then do a paste. This will insert your relocated TX profile into its new position. Save the edited.xml file, exit Notepad, and then open up PowerSDR and import the edited.xml database back into PowerSDR. If you did everything correctly, it will work fine and your TX profiles will be in the order you desired. If you messed up, PowerSDR will almost certainly choke on it, so simply import the other clean database you saved to your desktop and you will be fine once again. If you want to take another shot at it, delete the mutated edited.xml database and export another copy to play with and try again. This kind of stuff isn't for the faint of heart but once you get the hang of it, the task isn't really that bad. Good luck! Rob W1AEX -- One thing I'm certain of is that there is too much certainty in the world. ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 100, Issue 18
Mark, The 6K radios have different hardware technology inside the radio that allows that to happen.. The FLEX PSDR radios just can never do it.. AL, K0VM On 8/24/2013 12:00 PM, flexradio-requ...@flex-radio.biz wrote: Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:51:31 -0700 From: Steve Sterlingf...@sgsterling.com To:flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Looking for alternative SDR software for Flex 3000 Message-ID:5218d683.70...@sgsterling.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Buying a 6700 that will run SmartSDR should get you that feature. Otherwise, no PSDR doesn't work that way. On 8/24/2013 8:17 AM, Mark Lunday wrote: I see in the youtube demo how the SmartSDR for 6700 keeps the spectrum fixed, and allows me to drag the receiver throughout the spectrum. I currently cannot do that with PSDR. What are my alternatives, if any? Mark Lunday, WD4ELG Greensboro, NC FM06be wd4...@arrl.net http://wd4elg.blogspot.com ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage:http://www.flexradio.com/ - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG -www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6603 - Release Date: 08/23/13 ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] questions concerning remote operations.
Hi Dudley, According to the response from the group, it worked in some past version of PSDR. Do you have any ideas why it was deleted? How do I request that it be reinstated? 73, Tom K5VOU Sent from my iPad On Aug 22, 2013, at 2:23 PM, FlexRadio Support, Dudley Hurry supp...@flex-radio.com wrote: Tom, VOX will not work when VAC is engaged UNLESS you manually push the external PTT switch..You will have to use the MOX button on the console to key the radio.. Now, remember that the space bar will repeat the last button pushed in the console .. So this will make it a little easier remote, just push the space bar..Remote audio is usually done by have two Skype accounts. One account calls the other.. The settings in the remote does not change, the settings on the radio end, Skype is pointed to VAC as the sound card in/out.. By the way you have to purchase VAC.. Hope this helps, 73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 535-4713, Option 2 Email: supp...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com Chat FlexRadio Systems™ 4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 logo_300x37.bmp Tune In Excitement™ PowerSDR™ is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Tom Gentry t.gen...@verizon.net wrote: I too run the Chrome Desk Top extension on both my office station over the house wireless network and at my shop which is through the internet (cloud?) via the Chrome Browser and the Remote Desk top. I do not use an audio connection during digital mode operation. I have attempted operation on SSB over the link but have not yet been 100% successful. I can get audio from the Flex using the VAC1 but have not had much luck with transmitting using remote audio and vox keying. For digital the Chrome setup is very nice. I use FLdigi xxx.72, My Flex 3000 runs Flex 2.53 on an old dual core Intel with only 4GB. Tom K5VOU On 8/21/2013 12:00 PM, flexradio-requ...@flex-radio.biz wrote: -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:51:10 -0700 From: Barry Winters bawint...@outlook.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Remote Operations Message-ID: blu0-smtp24884d354da916531d34cb3bf...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have seen some exchanges of emails on this subject and want to share my recent experiences. There was an article in a recent QST about using Chrome Remote Desktop app as a method for remote operation. I tried it and it works extremely well using both a home wi-fi connection and an internet connection using wireless phone hotspot. I am a long time user of Chrome browser, so I have that running on all of my computers. I downloaded the app from the Chrome store (free) and installed it on three computers. First is the MacMini running Windows 8 Pro to drive the Flex 3000. (Bootcamp). Second was a 17 HP Envy also running Win 8 Pro, and third was a MacBook Air running latest OS X. The MacMini was set as the target machine. I now regularly work the Flex remotely from my living room, one flight up from the radio/computer room. I do run only digital modes due to poor hearing. I use HRD's DM-780 and the Logbook (version 6). So far I have done about a 100 QSOs using this approach. Most with the HP but probably a quarter of them with the MacBook Air running OS X. Since Chrome runs on all major OSs, the host PC doesn't care what the remote OS is, it just connects between the two systems. I have also made connections using a wireless hotspot device. In that instance I did encounter some slow down since the connection speed was not at 4G or LTE levels, but it worked. I have also run the Flex radios from a Surface Pro tablet. The surface has 4GB ram and runs Win 8 Pro x64. The major weakness is screen size and ram. The size of type faces is quite small-not bad if only a foot from eyes but more difficult if sitting on table so you can use a keyboard. Their is some occasional very short freezing as RAM gets maxed out (running SDR, DM-780 and Logbook). But it works. I have moved to the MacBook Air as my primary field PC because the 13 screen is much easier to read. When running the Flex 1500 directly I boot to Win 8 Pro x64 using BootCamp. Once again I am only doing digital through this system. However, I have a friend with a MacBook Air and a 1500 who does CW and some phone. 73 de K7BAW Barry Winters barryk7...@gmail.com ___ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List
Re: [Flexradio] questions concerning remote operations.
Tom, I don't think it has worked, at least every time I want it to work and forgot it doesn't. 73 -- Original Message -- From: Tom J. Gentry t.gen...@verizon.net To: supp...@flex-radio.com supp...@flex-radio.com Cc: Flexradio flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: 8/24/2013 9:40:51 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] questions concerning remote operations. Hi Dudley, According to the response from the group, it worked in some past version of PSDR. Do you have any ideas why it was deleted? How do I request that it be reinstated? 73, Tom K5VOU Sent from my iPad On Aug 22, 2013, at 2:23 PM, FlexRadio Support, Dudley Hurry supp...@flex-radio.com wrote: Tom, VOX will not work when VAC is engaged UNLESS you manually push the external PTT switch.. You will have to use the MOX button on the console to key the radio.. Now, remember that the space bar will repeat the last button pushed in the console .. So this will make it a little easier remote, just push the space bar.. Remote audio is usually done by have two Skype accounts. One account calls the other.. The settings in the remote does not change, the settings on the radio end, Skype is pointed to VAC as the sound card in/out.. By the way you have to purchase VAC.. Hope this helps, 73, Dudley WA5QPZ FlexRadio Systems (512) 535-4713, Option 2 Email: supp...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com Chat FlexRadio Systems™ 4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 logo_300x37.bmp Tune In Excitement™ PowerSDR™ is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Tom Gentry t.gen...@verizon.net wrote: I too run the Chrome Desk Top extension on both my office station over the house wireless network and at my shop which is through the internet (cloud?) via the Chrome Browser and the Remote Desk top. I do not use an audio connection during digital mode operation. I have attempted operation on SSB over the link but have not yet been 100% successful. I can get audio from the Flex using the VAC1 but have not had much luck with transmitting using remote audio and vox keying. For digital the Chrome setup is very nice. I use FLdigi xxx.72, My Flex 3000 runs Flex 2.53 on an old dual core Intel with only 4GB. Tom K5VOU On 8/21/2013 12:00 PM, flexradio-requ...@flex-radio.biz wrote: -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:51:10 -0700 From: Barry Winters bawint...@outlook.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Remote Operations Message-ID: blu0-smtp24884d354da916531d34cb3bf...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have seen some exchanges of emails on this subject and want to share my recent experiences. There was an article in a recent QST about using Chrome Remote Desktop app as a method for remote operation. I tried it and it works extremely well using both a home wi-fi connection and an internet connection using wireless phone hotspot. I am a long time user of Chrome browser, so I have that running on all of my computers. I downloaded the app from the Chrome store (free) and installed it on three computers. First is the MacMini running Windows 8 Pro to drive the Flex 3000. (Bootcamp). Second was a 17 HP Envy also running Win 8 Pro, and third was a MacBook Air running latest OS X. The MacMini was set as the target machine. I now regularly work the Flex remotely from my living room, one flight up from the radio/computer room. I do run only digital modes due to poor hearing. I use HRD's DM-780 and the Logbook (version 6). So far I have done about a 100 QSOs using this approach. Most with the HP but probably a quarter of them with the MacBook Air running OS X. Since Chrome runs on all major OSs, the host PC doesn't care what the remote OS is, it just connects between the two systems. I have also made connections using a wireless hotspot device. In that instance I did encounter some slow down since the connection speed was not at 4G or LTE levels, but it worked. I have also run the Flex radios from a Surface Pro tablet. The surface has 4GB ram and runs Win 8 Pro x64. The major weakness is screen size and ram. The size of type faces is quite small-not bad if only a foot from eyes but more difficult if sitting on table so you can use a keyboard. Their is some occasional very short freezing as RAM gets maxed out (running SDR, DM-780 and Logbook). But it works. I have moved to the MacBook Air as my primary field PC because the 13 screen is much easier to read. When running the Flex 1500 directly I boot to Win 8 Pro x64 using BootCamp. Once again I am only doing digital through this system. However, I have a friend with a MacBook Air and a 1500 who does CW and some phone. 73 de K7BAW Barry Winters barryk7...@gmail.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
