Re: [Flexradio] 6000 Series SOFTWARE Questions

2012-05-19 Thread Bill Tracey
Some follow up questions At 02:52 PM 5/19/2012, Tim Ellison, W4TME wrote: 3. Did I read that the audio is kept in the radio on the first release? Yes So the demodulation is done in the radio, not in SmartSDR? If this is the case, things like filters, notches and noise blankers

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 and 60 meter band

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Tracey
Actually on an SDR 1000 there's no firmware and the PowerSDR code completely controls where it will transmit. I believe one can modify the band text table in the DB to add a new band. I'd think the band pass filters would be ok .. Flex supports 60M in the US, that would seem to imply the

Re: [Flexradio] vhf/uhf digital modes and repeater operation

2009-06-01 Thread Bill Tracey
One could certainly do it, but is it not the start of the path to madness? Imagine if you needed a dongle for PSK31, one for RTTY, one for WSJT etc. Personally I'd rather to see the SDR community advance the Free (as in freedom) state of the art than support solutions that are implemented

Re: [Flexradio] HD radio

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Tracey
It would seem unlikely (at least in the near future) as the wave forms used are proprietary. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 06:51 PM 3/25/2009, Jerry Harley wrote: Are we going to be able to listen to HD radio on our Flex in the future? ___

Re: [Flexradio] usbio.exe for vista 32-bit

2009-02-04 Thread Bill Tracey
Why is this an ez-usb driver? I thought the Flex Radio USB adapter was now using libusb - same as HPSDR. I can't comment specifically on the Flex Radio adapter, but we've got the HPSDR linusb stiff working on Vista 32 ... don't understand why that would not also work for the Flex adapter.

Re: [Flexradio] usbio.exe for vista 32-bit

2009-02-04 Thread Bill Tracey
at 12:01 AM, Bill Tracey b...@ewjt.com wrote: Why is this an ez-usb driver? I thought the Flex Radio USB adapter was now using libusb - same as HPSDR. I can't comment specifically on the Flex Radio adapter, but we've got the HPSDR linusb stiff working on Vista 32 ... don't understand why

Re: [Flexradio] usbio.exe for vista 32-bit

2009-02-04 Thread Bill Tracey
Hi Paul, I ran testlibusb-win.exe and it listed the device with a VID of 0x547 and PID of 0x2235, so that seems to be finding it. Couple things to try -- run with the most minimal set of USB devices you can and see if it's still hosed? I've not had a problem with the FX2 devices in this

[Flexradio] Electronic Design Article: SDR Transforms Amateur Radio

2008-08-20 Thread Bill Tracey
FYI - http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=19439 Some nice words on SDR, Flex and the 5000. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR v1.12.0 is now available for download.

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Tracey
Huh?!? Near as I can tell the DSP code (DttSP) supports different modes and settings for the watch receiver... seems to be a lack of UI to set them that is the limitation. Seemed like a reasonable UI idea to me. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 04:49 PM 6/12/2008, Tim Ellison wrote: That is

Re: [Flexradio] SSTV Programs

2008-06-09 Thread Bill Tracey
Try contacting the Chroma Pix folks - they sent me a program a few years back that lets me point ChromaPix to a specific sound card - think it's called spconf.exe Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 01:11 PM 6/9/2008, Doug McCann wrote: I am using a SDR 1000 with the Edirol FA-66 and want to use an

Re: [Flexradio] Janus/Ozy w/ SDR-1000

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Tracey
I know a bit about Ozy and Janus. Also the HPSDR reflector (Info at: http://hpsdr.org/reflector.html ) is a good source of Ozy/Janus questions. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 06:52 PM 5/20/2008, Dana Rawding wrote: Hi all, Can someone on the list that has integrated the Janus/Ozy combo with a

Re: [Flexradio] OZY

2008-01-23 Thread Bill Tracey
You should not need to remove Janus to get Ozy recognized. My understanding of what you're seeing now is Ozy will get recognized by the computer as a new USB device if you plug in the USB when it is the only card in Atlas bus, but it is not recognized when Janus is plugged into the Atlas. If

Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] OZY not invoking found new hardware wizard

2008-01-22 Thread Bill Tracey
Hi Phil, Some basic questions: Is Ozy/Janus powered? 5, 12, and -12 on the Atlas bus os used by Ozy and Janus, think you should only need +5 to get the PC to see it. Do you get any LEDs on Ozy and Janus lit when powered up? When you plug it into the USB socket? Are you connecting it to a

Re: [Flexradio] Janus/ozy setup with sdr1000

2007-08-27 Thread Bill Tracey
I don't think we J/O will mix PowerSDR and SDR I/Q audio as you'd like. We use the PWM outputs for recovered audio on Janus and there is no mixer hardware with that - just an LPF and the pins from the FPGA. Doing an outboard summing amp would probably work for what you want. Feeding USB to

Re: [Flexradio] Janus/Ozy Power Requirements For SDR 1000 Operation

2007-08-26 Thread Bill Tracey
No -- Ozy makes its 3.3v on board from the 5v bus. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 08:37 PM 8/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip To operate properly with Ozy control do you need to supply 3.3 volts as well? ...snip,,, Thanks for any help, Joe WD5Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flexradio] A/J/O + 100 watt SDR 1K

2007-08-14 Thread Bill Tracey
Yes. Just select USB control instead of Ozy control in the Setup panels, and select Janus/Ozy as the audio device. Regards, Bill At 06:13 AM 8/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, snip... Question: is it possible to use A/J/O in soundcard-only mode and control the SDR via the

Re: [Flexradio] A/J/O + 100 watt SDR 1K

2007-08-14 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmmm ...much to my great surprise and some embarrassment, there actually is a working code path to read the 100 watt ADC with the current AJO code. The way I'd planned to implement this was to call FX2 microcode on Ozy to read the ADC value similar to the way the Flex USB adapter works. In

Re: [Flexradio] A/J/O + 100 watt SDR 1K

2007-08-13 Thread Bill Tracey
Well I just looked at the code and the amplifier ADC is definitely not being read via OJ ... it in fact is being read directly from the parallel port which would seem to me that you'd get back garbage data since presumably there's nothing connected to the parallel port. If you want to confirm

[Flexradio] A/J/O + 100 watt SDR 1K (was Re: SVN: 1424 performance)

2007-08-12 Thread Bill Tracey
The current FX2 firmware on Ozy does not have support for reading the A/D converter on the 100 W amp board to determine SWR so running with the 100 watt amp enabled and A/J/O USB control is not something I'd recommend For the time being the recommended configuration is your pre AJO

Re: [Flexradio] svn numbers

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Tracey
One of these days one of us programming geniuses needs to automate the setting of the SVN number in the tbar! Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) At 04:42 PM 8/8/2007, Eric Wachsmann wrote: I'll fix that here shortly. ;) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flexradio] USB problem with SVN1307?

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Tracey
Hello Alex, The SDR-X branch got merged into the main line after I posted - that is why the folders are now showing as empty. The files can be found in the main branch @: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/trunk/Source/libusb/bin Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 05:31 AM

Re: [Flexradio] USB Device Not Found. (-4)

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Tracey
Take a look @: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio@flex-radio.biz/msg16603.html - suspect you're running into the same issue Stig hit. One caveat, the files referenced are now @: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/trunk/Source/libusb/bin Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 09:37

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR v1.9.0: Janus Ozy Problem

2007-07-04 Thread Bill Tracey
Hello Joachim, The Janus/Ozy support in 1.9.0 is not quite done yet - I'm still working on it. Once it is ready for use I'll post here. Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) At 06:00 AM 7/4/2007, DL7JP wrote: Dear all, I just tried the new version (importing the prev. database), but it won't communicate

Re: [Flexradio] svn1315

2007-07-03 Thread Bill Tracey
Take a look @ http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio@flex-radio.biz/msg16603.html with the change that the files referred to are now at: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/trunk/Source/libusb/bin Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) BTW - nice domain name! At 07:24 PM 7/3/2007, Steve

Re: [Flexradio] USB problem with SVN1307?

2007-07-02 Thread Bill Tracey
Stig - Ugh -- this is a compatibility problem with libusb shipped with the Flex USB adapter and the one I added to support Janus/Ozy. To get things to work correctly I think you need to upgrade the libsub0 dll and driver to the version we've now included to support Janus/Ozy. To upgrade the

Re: [Flexradio] SVN: 1292

2007-06-25 Thread Bill Tracey
For people having problems with SVN 1292 -- grab the LIBUSB drivers from HPSDR SVN @: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/PowerSDR-ForJanusOzy-LatestReleasedBinaries/libusb-driver-package Throw libusb0.dll in the path and things should be ok. If you're using the Flex USB

Re: [Flexradio] SVN: 1292

2007-06-25 Thread Bill Tracey
Same place you got the rest of 1292: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/branches/SDR-X/bin/Release/JanusAudio.dll Sort of confused why people are not getting this when they download the rest of 1292 -- some sort of TortoiseSVN weirdness?!? Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 06:04

Re: [Flexradio] Reference Oscillator

2007-06-02 Thread Bill Tracey
I have one of these little 4 output boards from AADE - have not used it with an SDR 1000. I have used it with Janus/Ozy -- it needs a little external comparator circuit to beef up the signal -- the board on its own only puts out a few hundred mV's peek to peek -- I needed to bump that op to

Re: [Flexradio] High CPU Usage Lockups - Help Needed

2007-03-31 Thread Bill Tracey
Ugh - good computer, gone bad -- maddening. Probably going to take a bit of detective work to sort out the issue. Can you think of any new hardware/software you installed in the near vicinity of things getting flakey? That would be the first thing I'd look at in terms of sorting out where

Re: [Flexradio] Filter measurements

2007-02-18 Thread Bill Tracey
I'm not a dsp guru, but I think what you're seeing at the smaller filter sizes is an artifact of spectrum leakage (http://www.dsptutor.freeuk.com/analyser/guidance.html#leakage) from one bin to another.The basic FFT bin size is 11hz, so for a filter 30 hz or below you've only got 3 bins to

Re: [Flexradio] USB Problem update

2007-02-18 Thread Bill Tracey
Not sure this is correct -- I suspect what it is telling you is what the device claims it needs, not what it is actually drawing. Regards, Bill At 01:24 PM 2/18/2007, Ken N9VV wrote: ... - If you are adept at using the Device Manager, you can examine

Re: [Flexradio] Filter measurements

2007-02-18 Thread Bill Tracey
Think this is correct. The sampling rate determines how many Hz you can see and the FFT size determines how many bins those Hz are divided into. Bill (kd5tfd) At 11:08 AM 2/18/2007, Ahti Aintila wrote: On 18/02/07, Bill Tracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic FFT bin size is 11hz, so

Re: [Flexradio] Flex Radio Serial Number Decoding

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Tracey
Don't know if the numbering scheme is the same for the current radios, but on my first edition vintage SDR 1K boards the S/N is shown as TRX030046, BPF030046, - I believe this indicates it was TRX and BPF board number 46 of 2003. Think the PIO board also has an S/N. My upgrade RFE board

Re: [Flexradio] [Moon-net] MAP65 status report

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Tracey
Neat looking stuff .. is the needed PowerSDR mod essentially putting the IQ stream coming into PowerSDR out on some sort of VAC or multicast connection so MAP65 can suck it in and process it as well? Suspect there are some other progs out there that would find such a thing useful, like

Re: [Flexradio] Linux, any chance of a knoppix like setup?

2007-01-01 Thread Bill Tracey
Yes and No. Ozy/Janus send frames containing audio samples and some control status bits over a USB pipe that can be read via LIBusb. It reads frames containing transmit data and data destined for the monitor speaker. No in that I don't think the USRP handles that data for the speakers and

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

2006-12-24 Thread Bill Tracey
If it is the wireless adapter, it is probably the device driver handling the radio on the wireless card that is causing you grief - would suspect some of his interrupt handling is a bit too long for PowerSDR's needs. First thing - do you need the wireless adapter or can you use wired

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

2006-12-23 Thread Bill Tracey
Brian -- these things can be positively maddening to track down. Can you think of any new applications or hardware you installed in the near vicinity of the problem starting?If you've added new USB or Firewire attached hardware you can try booting with it disconnected as a diagnostic to

Re: [Flexradio] Flex Noise Reduction

2006-12-17 Thread Bill Tracey
From Wikipedia: A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28information_theory%29signal having statistical properties that vary cyclically with time is called a cyclostationary process.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclostationary#_note-gardner06[1] A cyclostationary process can be viewed as

Re: [Flexradio] CW on SVN740

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Tracey
Hello Chas, From the developer's song book... Works on my Machine! Even downloaded the binaries from SVN and tried 'em and still seems to work - at least with the internal keyer. at 32 wpm. Running an Athlon 2100 so not a speed daemon. More info on your setup? Anyone else seeing problems

Re: [Flexradio] Hey Bob- TX IF, Less TX Noise?

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Tracey
I can confirm it does work -- using a variable TX IF to do xmit on a SoftRock style xmitter today. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 08:20 PM 10/11/2006, Robert McGwier wrote: It will work and we should do it especially with separate channels for TX IF and monitor with the four channel cards. It is

[Flexradio] CW Serial Port connections - SoftRock xmit support

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Tracey
Folks, I'm currently working on adding SoftRock xmit support to PowerSDR. One of the things we need from the computer is a T/R indication to the SoftRock board. I'd like to do this using a serial port, potentially the same one that is being used for keying. The documentation currently lists

Re: [Flexradio] Erlang, my first steps

2006-09-30 Thread Bill Tracey
Lap the field?!? Hell some of us have not even made it to the starting blocks on this one yet! FB Bob -- you're one of the pioneers. Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) At 06:55 PM 9/30/2006, Frank Brickle wrote: Sigh. Once again, G3UKB laps the field. Is it getting a little lonely out there, being so

Re: [Flexradio] USB Interface on the Horizon?

2006-09-26 Thread Bill Tracey
A number of us SDR experimenters have been building such a thing. The sound card part is called Janus and I believe it has quite good performance. It's based on the AK5394a chip, and can be jumpered to not have an attenuator on the inputs. More details on it at:

Re: [Flexradio] Using a Steppir with the Flex

2006-09-23 Thread Bill Tracey
It's a small matter of programming. At the moment the PowerSDR code only has support in it for 1 CAT serial port. It would not be all that difficult to add support for more, just needs a bit of code. I believe Phil Covington (N8VB) had a TCP-Serial bridge going a while back, seem to

[Flexradio] Tonight's Teamspeak audio

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Tracey
Tonight's audio from Teamspeak is posted at: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/ts915.mp3 Cheers, Bill ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link:

Re: [Flexradio] Anyone know how to debug into the Native code fromPowerSDR

2006-09-05 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmm -- pretty sure I tried this without success. Breakpoints in the native Port Audio code did not fire and trying to trace into a native port audio call from C# did not work either. I do remember seeing it load the syms for the PortAudio DLL so the debugger was certainly seeing the code.

[Flexradio] Anyone know how to debug into the Native code from PowerSDR

2006-09-04 Thread Bill Tracey
This is probably only of interest to the developer types. Anyone know how to get Visual Studio to debug into native code from the PowerSDR C# code? I'm trying to run down a bug where PortAudio initialization resets the Delta 44 sampling rate even when another soundcard is setup to be used

Re: [Flexradio] Serial ports

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Tracey
I've fixed the issue with Keyspan USB serial port adapters -- is in SVN 660. Bill At 06:08 PM 5/29/2006, Dave Kiefer wrote: ... however when I start PowerSDR it seems to poll my serial ports which are usb to serial converters, I have 3 of them the brand is Keyspan, unless that port is already

Re: [Flexradio] F.Y.I. Flex-Radio has workaround for Presonus at 96Khz

2006-08-01 Thread Bill Tracey
Once someone finds the time to put a UI on the DttSP multi receiver code, the greater sampling rate will give you a wider tuning range for sub receivers. Bill (kd5tfd) At 05:41 PM 8/1/2006, Mike WA8BXN wrote: I wonder if its really something to enjoy. Is there much benefit to the 96KHz beyond a

Re: [Flexradio] F.Y.I. Flex-Radio has workaround for Presonus at96Khz

2006-08-01 Thread Bill Tracey
Don't think it will increase latency -- the DttSP code runs on blocks of some number of samples. So if you're running at 96khz instead of 48khz the time per block is halved. True you do have to move 2x the amount of data/unit time but it will not have the effect of increasing latency. Bill

Re: [Flexradio] Simple Watchdog circuit for the SDR in case of power line failure

2006-07-18 Thread Bill Tracey
Some level of fail safe functionality is in the works for the Janus+Ozy soundcard and controller gizmo some of the HPSDR.org folks are working on. The board and the PC communicate via USB using a protocol that includes (among other things) a sync sequence every 512 bytes. Current thought is

Re: [Flexradio] Scanning function removed

2006-07-09 Thread Bill Tracey
What was the FCC reg the scanning function had a problem with? Don't think there was an answer as to the specific reg that is a problem. Is this a hardware of software issue? Could the software be 'dumbed down' to make it compliant with the reg in question? Regards, Bill At 10:49 AM

[Flexradio] Teamspeak Audio

2006-06-26 Thread Bill Tracey
From the better late than never category -- Teamspeak audio from over the weekend Teamspeak Audio: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/ts-Jun24.mp3 Eric from Germany: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/eric-friedrichshafen.mp3 Cheers, Bill ___

Re: [Flexradio] DSP Question

2006-05-29 Thread Bill Tracey
Wonder if you need to use a full FFT/DFT -- the Goertzel algorithm may work for what you want to do (single tone detection). Clipped this article from Embedded.com a while back: http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20020819S0057 - does a good job introducing the algorithm. I've never used

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

2006-05-29 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmmm - wonder if the DDS is oscillating where it should be? If you turn off spur reduction, the DDS should be oscillating 11025 khz below the frequency of interest. You should be able to hear the DDS on another HF radio if you put its antenna (just some wire should do) near the SDR 1000.

Re: [Flexradio] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

2006-05-21 Thread Bill Tracey
I've posted an .mp3 of the Flex Saturday evening Dayton session audio @: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/flex-dayton.mp3 Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Hamvention Activities.

2006-05-13 Thread Bill Tracey
A translation for English acronym to English: DVR == Digital Video Recorder Guess the acronym does not translate well into French! Cheers. Bill At 05:05 PM 5/13/2006, José Dumoulin wrote: Eric Call your wife back and try to obtain a camera so we can listen and view. Regards José Eric

Re: [Flexradio] Software Defined Vector Network Analyzer

2006-05-13 Thread Bill Tracey
One fly in the ointment ... the SDR 1000 hardware is not full duplex. So you can't measure the response to the signal your sending into the device under test. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 11:08 PM 5/13/2006, Rob Frohne wrote: Hi Everyone, It appears to me that it would be principally only a

Re: [Flexradio] Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Sound Card

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Tracey
OK -- I'll take a look at adding support for handling +/- 1 sample offset in the DttSP audio callbacks - looks like a good chokepoint to put it in. Will make it settable independently for transmit and receive, although the 1 instance of this problem I've seen (the PCM2900) had the same glitch

Re: [Flexradio] sound card testing

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Tracey
A soundcard test utility would be useful ... when I was playing with the PCM2900 I used a little PC based audio siggen program and Audacity (a fine program). The sample offset issue is clearly evident in the last screenshot (from Audacity) on: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/sdr1k/sr2900.specpics/

Re: [Flexradio] Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Sound Card

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Tracey
I wonder if this is because this is one of those cards where one channel leads the other by a sample? I seem to recall someone mentioning on the SoftRock list that and Audigy something or other had this problem. Rocky and KGKSDR have added a +/- 1 sample offset option to deal with these

Re: [Flexradio] SDR keyer port code location

2006-04-16 Thread Bill Tracey
Some places to look: PollPTT in console.cs all of cwkeyer.cs - KeyThread.cs probably the most interesting There's also some stuff in DttSP but I don't think you'd have to go in there for adding support for a new hardware gizmo. Actually just starting to look at adding this support for the

Re: [Flexradio] WA6AHL Code

2006-04-15 Thread Bill Tracey
I'd also advocate not getting too wrapped up in cleaning up the code to release it.I've put out a number of PowerSDR patches, some of which were pretty grungy and don't think I've ever received comments on the grunginess of the implementation. I have received comments on the goodness or

Re: [Flexradio] Multiple Sound cards

2006-04-09 Thread Bill Tracey
Cecil. How loud are the noises? White noise? Digital type squeak noises? Sort of intrigued as to what the mechanism for these would be -- if the PC is powered off then the Delta 44 has no power - not sure how it makes noise sans power? Are the speakers powered? Does the problem persist if

[Flexradio] Audio buffer sizes locked at 2048?

2006-04-08 Thread Bill Tracey
Somewhere between 1.4.5 preview 12 and 1.4.5 preview 16 it appears the buffer size selection on Setup-Audio got disconnected from the value the code is actually using. Currently (1.6.0) it looks like the block_size is locked to 2048 in audio.cs (private static int block_size1 is initialized

Re: [Flexradio] Audio buffer sizes locked at 2048?

2006-04-08 Thread Bill Tracey
I'd posted to the list because I thought discussion of what's going on inside the code was a good thing. My thought was open discussion of code changes for an open project with multiple developers was a good thing so other people mucking in the code are aware of changes/questions/etc. I'll

Re: [Flexradio] release 19 compile error

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Tracey
At 11:02 AM 3/25/2006, Jerald Jones wrote: ... So what now? Jerry WK0J Here it's a beautiful spring day so I'd say antenna work! Sorry - couldn't resist. Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd)

[Flexradio] Teamspeak audio - March 25 0100 UTC

2006-03-24 Thread Bill Tracey
Tonigth's Teamspeak audio is now posted @: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/forum-0324.mp3 Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd)

Re: [Flexradio] visual c solution file add

2006-03-12 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmmm ... depends on what you want the C code to do. What I did to add support for the Wolfson/Xylo lashup was to create a new C project under the PowerSDR solution to hold my C code. The output of this project is a DLL with a set of entry points. I then created a .cs file within the Console

Re: [Flexradio] 96000 Sample Rate and DRM

2006-03-12 Thread Bill Tracey
I saw this as well with Delta 44, but did get a good decode of Sackville on 9800 khz this afternoon. Suspect the guy sending the data (DSP) is sending 96 k data and the guy displaying it is assuming 48k, so it looks 2x as wide on the display. Probably a 48000 hard coded somewhere that needs

Re: [Flexradio] Build Attempt, Part II

2006-03-12 Thread Bill Tracey
Larry, Hmmm .. this still smells a bit like you've got wrong headers and/or library files. I think I recall you downloaded the newer free command line compiler, but also has an older version running around. I'd be surprised if you need to remove /Gs with the newer compiler. Are you running

Re: [Flexradio] Build Attempt, Part II

2006-03-12 Thread Bill Tracey
Comments in line. At 11:19 PM 3/12/2006, Larry Loen wrote: Currently, I'm involing cl.exe and link.exe fully qualified. I wonder if the silly thing could be loading the individual passes of the compiler off the path ... one would really hope if cl was explicitly qualified it would do

Re: [Flexradio] DRM Use

2006-03-11 Thread Bill Tracey
I use the Dream DRM decoder ( http://drm.sourceforge.net/ ). They do not distribute in binary form due to some potential patent issues. However, a binary for Windows can be found at: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) At 08:25 PM 3/11/2006, Sid Leben wrote: I would

Re: [Flexradio] Build Attempt, Part II

2006-03-10 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmmm .. it appears you're missing some C Run time type things. I suspect you're picking up the CVTRES from your older C compiler - CVTRES here claims to be version 5.00.1720.1. Did the freely downloadable command line compiler include CVTRES? Looks like you're getting close .. Regards,

Re: [Flexradio] Build Process Woes

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Tracey
Larry, I put the build logs for a virgin build of 1.4.5 Preview 16 created by Visual Studio at: http://tracey.org/wjt/temp/buildlogs.zip Looks like it has all the info you need to build the C pieces with the command line compilers. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 10:53 AM 3/9/2006, [EMAIL

Re: [Flexradio] Build Process Woes

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Tracey
Comments in line Bill (kd5tfd) At 10:27 PM 3/8/2006, Larry Loen wrote: Bill Tracey wrote: the projects above are C projects -- they don't distribute the tree as a built tree - it's a clean source tree Right. But, somewhere I remember (perhaps wrongly) a claim that the C# IDE had

Re: [Flexradio] Compiling the Software step 1

2006-03-06 Thread Bill Tracey
I've got the December 2004 edition of the DirectX 9.0 SDK on the Windows 2k machine I use for SDR stuff and it works fine. I do know a later version of the SDK did not work - the readme from the newer SDR did indicate it was not supported on 2k. I don't know what the Flex folks are

Re: [Flexradio] Clicks and Pops With Firebox

2006-03-01 Thread Bill Tracey
Some comments below. At 07:02 PM 3/1/2006, Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: Traditionally (and by this, I mean in testing done over a year ago), the Pentium 4 will outperform the Athlon processors in real-time applications such as the PowerSDR software. I think this is a tough test to do

Re: [Flexradio] Silly VAC question

2006-02-26 Thread Bill Tracey
To determine if the motherboard is actually disabling the on board sound card when one is installed on the PCI bus look at the BIOS settings of the machine in question. In the case I had it would show the on board as disabled when there was a PCI sound card installed.If it shows it as

Re: [Flexradio] watch receivers

2006-02-21 Thread Bill Tracey
With the FPGA based sound I/O work we're doing, independent D/A channels are fairly easy, just instantiate a PWM decoder in the FPGA and an R and C in hardware can be used as an output channel. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 10:58 AM 2/21/2006, Frank Brickle wrote: Wouldn't this necessarily

Re: [Flexradio] Saturday Morning Meeting

2006-02-18 Thread Bill Tracey
My unofficial mp3 of the town hall audio is at: http://www.tracey.org/wjt/temp/forum-town-hall-18feb.mp3 I forgot to strip the front silence on this - the audio starts about 2.5 minutes into the file. Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) At 05:16 PM 2/18/2006, Lyman H. Wolfla II wrote: Would it be

Re: [Flexradio] more ideas for CPU utilization diagnosis

2006-02-12 Thread Bill Tracey
While getting faster and faster computers may be an efficient pragmatic approach, an unexplained 2x degradation is something I think one would want to track down - it's a pretty severe performance regression and is a sign something not understood is going on. Cheers, Bill At 11:54 PM

Re: [Flexradio] Repost - Multiple SDRS one CPU

2006-02-04 Thread Bill Tracey
I think most USB devices have a S/N - whether or not the vendors implement it is potentially another story. I know in building some of my own USB gizmos the programming software I use allows me to set the VendorID, ProductID and device S/N for the device in an EEPROM on the device. Cheers,

Re: [Flexradio] Beginners - Experts - Terminology and stuff

2006-02-03 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmmm... perhaps a two tier distribution of beta's is worth considering.Initially distribute a beta drop in source form only and let the bleeding edge people that like playing with such things build it and see how it does. If it looks good after a week or so, release a binary distribution

[Flexradio] Preview 12 Source

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Tracey
As reported on Teamspeak this evening -- it looks like the Preview 12 source code did not make it to the web site -- link on the site brings down preview 12. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd)

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL FMT: one more win for the SDR-1000

2006-01-18 Thread Bill Tracey
I missed the '05 FMT, had put the date down on my calendar but forgot to adjust for UTC so was off by a day this year and missed it. I did run the FMT in '03 and '04 calibrating a TS 2000 to WWV and CHU and using Spectrum Lab for the analysis. Scored in the .01 to .04 ppm range - respectable

Re: [Flexradio] Resvisiting an old request for changes

2006-01-12 Thread Bill Tracey
In defense of the filter width control: works fine for CW and Digi modes. The original implementation of that slider was visually much wider than it is now. That makes it's use for wideband modes pretty limited (putting it nicely) Now that we have DigU and DigL modes, perhaps someone could

[Flexradio] Software taming the wandering oscillator - a thought

2005-12-26 Thread Bill Tracey
Current thoughts on disciplining the wandering 200 MHz osc are to tap off the output of the 200 MHz clock. buffer it and then feed it to an FPGA or microcontroller to be counted against a GPS locked 1pps or 10 khz reference and then to supply the count data back to the PowerSDR software where

Re: [Flexradio] fftw_wisdom.exe question

2005-12-19 Thread Bill Tracey
I believe you only need to run it once, it saves some data so the FFTW3 runtime code can pick optimal bits of code for your machine. Don't think it matters what sound card is setup/configured. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 06:15 PM 12/19/2005, Michael Blake wrote: Is it necessary to run this

Re: [Flexradio] Spurs on 10 meters

2005-12-12 Thread Bill Tracey
Tim, Were your screen shots done with spur reduction on or off? With spur reduction on, I do not get the nine spurs you see on 28.581, I get one big spur about 5.9 khz above. Spur situation does not change @ 28.582 except the big spur is now only 4.9 khz above. For my setup with spur

Re: [Flexradio] Spurs on 10 meters

2005-12-11 Thread Bill Tracey
How sure are folks that grunge they are seeing and hearing at 28.500 MHz and thereabouts are DDS spurs? I did a little playing with this with different DDS frequencies and listening with another radio to the same frequency and have a feeling I'm hearing my computer. What I'm hearing is

[Flexradio] SSB vs CW transmit paths

2005-12-05 Thread Bill Tracey
Warning: boring technical details of software internals follow - posted here as others playing in the code may find it of interest. Been poking at PowerSDR and the DttSP code to see how to support transmit with SoftRock style hardware. SSB is pretty straight forward, and I've gotten that

[Flexradio] OT: Xylo 24.576 Mhz Oscillators - quick replies needed

2005-12-04 Thread Bill Tracey
Folks -- off doing a Mouser order for some 24.576 MHz Oscillators ( http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=displayproductlstdispproductid=563101 ) to be mounted on the Xylog board to use for clocking the Wolfson 8785 .. and when divided by two in the FPGA will clock an 8951. Figured I'd get

Re: [Flexradio] FlexSDR Software components

2005-11-13 Thread Bill Tracey
Visual Studio 2003 is what is used to compile it. No block diagram or roadmap that I know of. - just sort of have to wade in and dig through it. The top level source directories and what I know about them DttSP -- the DSP engine, C code - core DSP stuff is in here. Compiles to DttSP.dll.

Re: [Flexradio] SR40 frequency error display corrected but....

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Tracey
I noticed this as well -- will look into it. Bill (kd5tfd) At 10:43 AM 11/12/2005, Michael Blake wrote: Thanks for correcting the panadapter display range when a frequency correction has been applied for the SR40. An interesting by-product is that you can now see signals at least 10 kHz.

Re: [Flexradio] SR40 frequency error display corrected but....

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Tracey
) + DttSP.SampleRate/2; I'm assuming Eric Waschman will pick up the change for the next release. Cheers, Bill (kd5tfd) At 12:01 PM 11/12/2005, Bill Tracey wrote: I noticed this as well -- will look into it. Bill (kd5tfd) At 10:43 AM 11/12/2005, Michael Blake wrote: Thanks for correcting the panadapter

Re: [Flexradio] Shiny new unstable branch

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Tracey
Hear hear (or is that here here?) -- we need the shiny new unstable I promise to wear a hard hat and safety glasses when running branch. It seems the pace of improvements and feature additions over the past few months has fallen off - think some of this is due to the current focus on

Re: [Flexradio] CAT Control

2005-10-27 Thread Bill Tracey
wrote: Tom Thompson wrote: Bill: I connected pins 1,6, and 4 together and 7 and 8 together on the computer end . It made no change. 73, Tom W0IVJ Bill Tracey wrote: Hmmm ... the one time aspect of this sounds potentially like it may be a flow control thing.Will have to go look

Re: [Flexradio] CAT Control

2005-10-27 Thread Bill Tracey
Take a look @ the PowerSDR install archives on the Download page Bill At 09:11 AM 10/27/2005, Tom Thompson wrote: Bill: I'll be glad to try the earlier version with my setup. Eric, how do I get the version that Bill is talking about? 73, Tom W0IVJ Bill Tracey wrote: I still think

Re: [Flexradio] CAT Control

2005-10-26 Thread Bill Tracey
Hmmm ... the one time aspect of this sounds potentially like it may be a flow control thing.Will have to go look @ the code and see how we default the flow control. How do you have things cabled between the SteppIR box and the computer? Did a quick read of the SteppIR docs this evening

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