Re: [Flexradio] Lightning Strikes

2014-09-13 Thread Bob McGwier
Do you have any other FireWire device of any kind? Before you say no, I have backup drives that have every io: usb2, FireWire, eSata, Bob Sent from my iPad On Jul 17, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Hunter Ellington via FlexRadio flexradio@flex-radio.biz wrote: Lightning hit the shack last

Re: [Flexradio] Lightning Strikes

2014-09-13 Thread Bob McGwier
Let me help with it could have been worse. W5ZN, former ARRL prez, and my good friend, had 160 through 10 Ghz, multiple radios, etc and had unplugged antennas and grounded them. Lightning came in and wiped it ALL out, almost total loss. Bob Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2014, at 11:42 PM,

Re: [Flexradio] Newbie help needed with 5000A in area of W.MD/NE WV

2014-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
I know you would NEVER believe this of microsoft, but they have some SERIOUS bug fixes, not just security holes, that get fixed every Tuesday. I just don't see how to keep a system pristine these days and doing the updates without lots of inconvenience. Bob -- Bob McGwier, N4HY Flexradio

Re: [Flexradio] Distorted TX audio PWRSDR-2.6.4

2013-06-28 Thread Bob McGwier
In device manager, click on the device. Click on the driver tab. Tell it to update and pick the new driver. If this looks like a foreign language to you, don't do this without help. Bob Sent from my iPad On Jun 26, 2013, at 6:14 PM, John Vandenberg jvandenbe...@shaw.ca wrote: After

Re: [Flexradio] NR Settings

2013-04-21 Thread Bob McGwier
Try these Taps 64 Delay, the largest you can set it to Start gain 10 Start leakage 1 Sent from my iPad On Apr 20, 2013, at 10:43 AM, W8BYA w8...@mchsi.com wrote: I was playing around with the NR function on my 5000A (V2.5.3) for the first time trying different settings of Taps, Gain,

Re: [Flexradio] FLEX-6700 to be used for the N6V Special Event Station

2013-04-21 Thread Bob McGwier
The best receiver I've ever sat down in front of is my opinion. I hear signals I can't hear with others I have or hear much more clearly. I don't have lab equipment that can measure it so this can only be anecdotal. Sent from my iPad On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Mike Sch. (IMAP Acct.)

Re: [Flexradio] PSDR 2.5.3 using CWskimmer 1.8

2013-03-03 Thread Bob McGwier
I WROTE that code and I forget to do it Ha! Sent from my iPad On Mar 1, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Dave Blaschke w...@wt.net wrote: Thanks to all of you who responded (and there were many of you). Dumb me, I forgot to turn off Spur Reduction. All working exactly as advertised now. Dave,

Re: [Flexradio] Question about NB1 and NB2, not working as I expect it to

2013-02-20 Thread Bob McGwier
-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/ -- Bob McGwier, N4HY Flexradio Systems, Inc. Consultant

Re: [Flexradio] DIY 10 MHz sources for putting Flex 5000A DEAD ON orreally close

2013-02-20 Thread Bob McGwier
/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ -- Bob McGwier, N4HY Flexradio Systems, Inc. Consultant ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Question about NB1 and NB2, not working as I expect it to

2013-02-20 Thread Bob McGwier
%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ -- Bob McGwier, N4HY Flexradio Systems, Inc. Consultant ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman

Re: [Flexradio] Panafall artifacts and things that make me go, HMMMM...

2013-02-10 Thread Bob McGwier
Another thing to get used to is the S meter reads the integrated signal power from the entire passband filter, not just the display power in the single FFT bin (the few bins) that goes into a pixel in he panadapter. This is most easily seen by setting a filter and slowly decreasing the filter

Re: [Flexradio] Feld Hell

2013-01-18 Thread Bob McGwier
How can you be certain that the listener on the OTHER end is calibrated? Maybe you are perfect and they are off. On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Steven Catani sjcat...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried FLDigi and the problem was slightly less but not eliminated... and I have checked frequency

Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer Setup Data Updated

2012-12-11 Thread Bob McGwier
Ray: Thank you very much for continuing this work. It really is appreciated. Bob N4HY On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Ray, K9DUR k9...@rnacs.com wrote: The setup data for SDRDataTransfer has been updated for PowerSDR v2.5.3. It may be downloaded installed using the facility built into

Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer Setup Data Updated

2012-12-11 Thread Bob McGwier
I always say Avagadro's number because it sounds sexier and somebody might learn something looking up what the heck I mean...! HY On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tim Ellison t.m.ellison...@gmail.comwrote: I concur times 10^20 Tim Ellison On 12/11/2012 11:43 AM, Bob McGwier wrote: Ray

Re: [Flexradio] AM with new software

2012-09-15 Thread Bob McGwier
I always got complaints no matter where we put the ANF. The ANF is a complex filter running at IF, and it is BEFORE the agc. If you notch the carrier, which the ANF can and does do, the AGC raises the levels of the sidebands. This is because we got complaints that when the ANF worked well, it

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 1500 keyer and PSDR 2.4.4

2012-09-08 Thread Bob McGwier
It's pretty amazing and the improvements, which have been steady, came from both concerted effort to replace the first keyer and impediments to good latency in response to keying stimulus AND serendipity! The last big step was a complete surprise realized by Tim, and I will leave it there

Re: [Flexradio] Trying to improve DPCLAT, now SDR crashes

2012-07-11 Thread Bob McGwier
I agree! GBoost is a well done tool for performance geeks, mostly gamers, who count every cycle and know more than we ever could about how to squeeze your machine AND give you control over how far to go and a Meter to show you how well you've done. I am not sure how good it would be for

[Flexradio] Ed White, WA3BZT, SK

2012-07-06 Thread Bob McGwier
Flex lost a strong supporter in Ed White, WA3BZT of Delaware. He was at Charlotte, NC at the SVHFS meeting a short while ago and shortly after was diagnosed with mesothelioma and is now SK. Ed was a great big kid about his ham radio, enjoyed life to the max, and was a hoot to be around. We were

Re: [Flexradio] Looking to buy a 1500 and for some advice

2012-06-16 Thread Bob McGwier
I agree. I love traveling with my FT857D. It never leaves the trunk when at home and can make a mad dash to the travel cases. What it lacks in performance, it more than makes up for in size and ease of use portable. Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid -Original message-

Re: [Flexradio] VU5K End of Production Notice

2012-06-02 Thread Bob McGwier
I will definitely be using mine regularly and while it will become my second rig, it won't stay cold, dark, and lonely! Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid -Original message- From: Neal Campbell nealk...@me.com To: Patrick Greenlee patric...@windstream.net Cc:

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-6700

2012-05-18 Thread Bob McGwier
Add up top two transceivers of ALL other ham transceiver manufacturers. It does not equal the raw processing power in the 6500 and the 6700 is... well wow. Bob On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Bill Dailey docdai...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. I was surprised by the built in processing.

Re: [Flexradio] Imagine digital starting at the antenna connector...

2012-05-15 Thread Bob McGwier
Ha ha. The kimono opens slowly. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Gerald Youngblood ger...@flex-radio.comwrote: ...and a bit of arithmetic. Imagine with us May 18th. GAME CHANGER AHEAD 73, Gerald, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems

Re: [Flexradio] Real Radios

2012-04-30 Thread Bob McGwier
No network protection mechanism worthy of being called such will EVER survive in the modern environment with a CDN which starts with an SDN. You need multiple innovations these days and work is already being done in these areas (most of the IP is declared and protected). 1) A software defined

[Flexradio] Chip Margelli on The Tonight Show had a big impact

2012-04-01 Thread Bob McGwier
And Google decided to take advantage of it. http://www.gmail.com/tap ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives:

Re: [Flexradio] PSDR v2.3.5 and CW Skimmer

2012-03-11 Thread Bob McGwier
And it works great! Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid -Original message- From: Tim Ellison, W4TME t...@flex-radio.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 18:38:18 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PSDR v2.3.5 and CW Skimmer Absolutely you can. Just configure

Re: [Flexradio] Problem with PSDR v2.3.5

2012-03-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Yep you must tell VAC to allow 192000 in the control panel for VAC before it will. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid -Original message- From: Tim Ellison, W4TME t...@flex-radio.com To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 21:19:50 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [Flexradio]

Re: [Flexradio] Problem with PSDR 32.3.5

2012-03-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Necessary evil. It has always worked well enough not to spend tens of thousands of dollars to replace it. I was awfully glad when I. first got this going but wish we could afford the time to do our own . It is a big deal to replace all the wires! Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless

Re: [Flexradio] FlexMemory v2.0.1 Released

2012-01-13 Thread Bob McGwier
Shh! Ray's very busy right now. Don't distract/tempt him. ;-) Hope everyone has a great wrekend. I am ready to get home! Bob N4HY Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone -Original message- From: Robert Costa, KB6QXM kb6...@yahoo.com To: Ray, K9DUR k9...@rnacs.com,

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] Re: Transmit spikes - continuing problem

2012-01-06 Thread Bob McGwier
I consult for Flex, did the SDR software with AB2KT with contributions and suggestions from many here. I own only two manufacturers HF radios except for my mobile rig. I have multiple Flex radios and multiple Elecraft radios that I built. You want to find what most fits your needs and

Re: [Flexradio] New Year's PC Resolution

2012-01-01 Thread Bob McGwier
Well well you can teach an old dog a new trick! Thanks Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone -Original message- From: Neal Campbell abrohamn...@gmail.com To: FlexRadio List flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sun, Jan 1, 2012 19:48:27 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Flexradio] New

Re: [Flexradio] AMD chip

2011-12-20 Thread Bob McGwier
My experience with the AMD II-X4 machine from Wally world is identical to Brett. I ran 192000 with 256 and the rest at 128 and I NEVER ONCE heard a glitch with VAC running WDM-KS, 8000, 512 and any of JT65-HF, FlDigi, MMTTY, MMSSTV along with logging programs DXlab with spot collector, dxview,

Re: [Flexradio] AMD chip

2011-12-20 Thread Bob McGwier
Warning to all! It is PCIe only. Get the recommended firewire!! ! Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone -Original message- From: pierceday pierce...@comcast.net To: Alan NV8A n...@charter.net, FlexRadio Reflector FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 15:27:10

Re: [Flexradio] AMD chip

2011-12-20 Thread Bob McGwier
I'm going to replace PS, and then hard drive with upgrades eventually. I am backing up all logs for N3AO, N3KN, N1SMM, and myself starting in a little over a week with one of these outboard drives. They last a long time because they shut down when not being accessed. And regularly from

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17

2011-12-18 Thread Bob McGwier
Absolutely NOTHING. That is the REASON for having the (synchronous AM) SAM detector. Maybe we should not have included the AM detector at all but I thought it would be of interest to compare them side-by-side so the differences in signal processing could be seen. When the selective fading takes

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17

2011-12-18 Thread Bob McGwier
, 2011 18:09:29 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17 On 12/18/2011 12:33 PM, Bob McGwier wrote: Absolutely NOTHING. That is the REASON for having the (synchronous AM) SAM detector. Maybe we should not have included the AM detector at all [...] I am glad

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 80, Issue 17

2011-12-18 Thread Bob McGwier
, (like the Sherwood sync detector box) between reduced convergence time and increased intermodulation distrotion products produced by low audio frequencies? Thanks, Chuck, K1KW - Original Message - From: Bob McGwier n...@flex-radio.com To: ke...@3950.net; flexradio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] OT: Re: Misinformation about k3 being srd

2011-12-16 Thread Bob McGwier
Gordon: Pt (It's a secret but it won't lead us back into the protocol wars.) (Inside joke). Bob On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:45 PM, J.Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT w2...@att.net wrote: So Bob, The TNF is the penultimate effort for me... and I am working hard on the ultimate for me for

Re: [Flexradio] Misinformation about k3 being srd

2011-12-15 Thread Bob McGwier
Stand alone does not preclude software defined. I offer up as evidence the Ettus USRP E100. It is completely stand alone but runs GnuRadio on an embedded processor. The ability to change the code running on ANY ASSOCIATED processor doing the signal processing is what defines an SDR. It

Re: [Flexradio] Misinformation about k3 being srd

2011-12-15 Thread Bob McGwier
Now there we can all most certainly agree. If they don't do the S part often enough to make it useful or at least exciting, then the utility of the S part is to the manufacturer and not the user. One of the things I was involved with for Flex was the TNF. I made an addition to the waveform

Re: [Flexradio] Heil Headset and FLEX-5000

2011-12-09 Thread Bob McGwier
Thanks to everyone who helped. I got time to go over to N3AO last night and we got his headset working. My Heil Proset set is Tango Uniform. I think there is a break in the cord as neither element works. This induced aggro which led to an improper setting in the aggro environment which

Re: [Flexradio] Heil Headset and FLEX-5000

2011-12-09 Thread Bob McGwier
http://ark.intel.com/products/42491/Intel-Desktop-Board-D945GCLF2 in a homebrew computer Mini-ITX box. Carter and I have been having a blast. He has made several digital, voice, and both of us have made CW QSO's. It works great BUT it did not before I ran GBoost and turned off all of the crap.

Re: [Flexradio] Heil Headset and FLEX-5000

2011-12-09 Thread Bob McGwier
Will do! 73's Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE Phone -Original message- From: Jeff DePolo WN3A w...@wn3a.com To: Bob McGwier n...@flex-radio.com Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 01:42:19 GMT+00:00 Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Heil Headset and FLEX-5000 http

Re: [Flexradio] Heil Headset and FLEX-5000

2011-12-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Thanks guys. I think we are having a serious problem with the headset. Carter has two of the adapter plugs. I am REALLY hoping it is the headset and not the rig. I'm going to take over a Traveler and RCA phono plug adapters and make sure we have the mixer settings right which is of course new

Re: [Flexradio] Heil Headset and FLEX-5000

2011-12-07 Thread Bob McGwier
The RCA adapter plugs are for the back panel inputs (line in and PTT) so we can make sure the front plug is working. Bob On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Bob McGwier n...@flex-radio.com wrote: Thanks guys. I think we are having a serious problem with the headset. Carter has two

Re: [Flexradio] FlexControl install fail

2011-11-22 Thread Bob McGwier
When you run the installer for PSDR 2.2.3, SELECT FLEXCONTROL as part of the installation. It is one of the check boxes. Bob On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Larry n7bcp.la...@gmail.com wrote: A user on the list suggested I reinstall PowerSDR - this gave the option to choose the flex

Re: [Flexradio] Why doesn't MON button work in AM

2011-10-28 Thread Bob McGwier
In order to get the carrier through the QSE (the exciter), it must be offset from zero. This means you would hear a loud heterodyne and offtuned double sideband speech. It would not be very pleasant to listen to. Bob N4HY On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Rod Brink k...@comcast.net wrote: In

Re: [Flexradio] Why doesn't MON button work in AM

2011-10-28 Thread Bob McGwier
/Tune In Excitement^(TM) PowerSDR^(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems/ On 10/28/2011 4:42 PM, Bob McGwier wrote: In order to get the carrier through the QSE (the exciter), it must be offset from zero. This means you would hear a loud heterodyne and offtuned double sideband speech

Re: [Flexradio] VAC and JT65-HF

2011-10-20 Thread Bob McGwier
Put the radio in DIGITAL mode, upper probably and ALC should not be a problem. This is why we did the mode. If you are already in digital mode, let me know Bob N4HY Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE Phone -Original message- From: Ed Wilson ed.wil...@ymail.com To:

Re: [Flexradio] Windows Services Optimization

2011-10-01 Thread Bob McGwier
Gordon!! Welcome to Flex-ville! Bob Sent from my iPad On Oct 1, 2011, at 12:58 PM, J.Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT w2...@att.net wrote: Neal et al, What ways are best to identify and either tune or tweak the most common Windows Services elements in order to make the PowerSDR software sing

Re: [Flexradio] high pitched squeal Flex 1500

2011-09-20 Thread Bob McGwier
Have you somehow set your IF Offset in the setup panel to something near zero? There is sometimes a DC offset that dies after transitions. The slow decay is caused by the large capacitor in the AC coupling. It is gone after a couple of seconds and is not audible or even impacting unless you

Re: [Flexradio] CPU Utilization Spike When FM Is Squelched

2011-08-10 Thread Bob McGwier
Through magical incantations learned from a logical trial and error process. That is what you call it when it is fixed, you don't understand WHY the fix works, but you just know it does. ;-). Bob On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Bill Roberts k8...@comcast.net wrote: Just got around to

Re: [Flexradio] DPC's and other things that go bump in the night

2011-06-26 Thread Bob McGwier
I love the title. I hate DPC's and the poor drivers/hardware/OS that causes them. Good luck. Bob N4HY On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Bob b...@iafrica.com wrote: Hi to the group. I have run the new latency program and got a result back that actually has a name to it. My worst DPC is ~250

[Flexradio] SDR-1000 wanted

2011-06-08 Thread Bob McGwier
I need a four board SDR-1000. I AM NOT INTERESTED IN ANY EXTRAS, just the four board stack (RFE included). Send price and condition first email. Bob McGwier N4HY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 wanted

2011-06-08 Thread Bob McGwier
Thanks to all who have responded. I have settled on one already. THANK YOU. Bob McGwier N4HY On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Bob McGwier n...@flex-radio.com wrote: I need a four board SDR-1000. I AM NOT INTERESTED IN ANY EXTRAS, just the four board stack (RFE included). Send price

Re: [Flexradio] Dayton and Texans

2011-05-24 Thread Bob McGwier
That is LITERALLY true. All models are designed, built, tested, and shipped from Austin to the world. On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Brad A. Steffler bst...@comcast.netwrote: Gerald, Although I no longer live in the Lone Star State, I take great pride in being a native Texan. I remember

Re: [Flexradio] TX Audio Chain

2011-05-10 Thread Bob McGwier
Thank you Rob! Bob N4HY On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, W1AEX - Rob w1aex.f...@cox.net wrote: Larry, I emailed a step-by-step article to Neal today for consideration as a possible addition to the Flex Wiki. Most people do exactly what you and I did, plug in a mic, adjust the mic slider in

Re: [Flexradio] VAC 4.10

2011-05-03 Thread Bob McGwier
But you have to do EXACTLY what was suggested. You buy 4.10. You ask Eugene to give you the link TO THE SIGNED VERSION OF 4.09 Bob N4HY On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Dave Beumer WØDHB d...@w0dhb.net wrote: Yes Dave W0DHB -Original Message- From:

Re: [Flexradio] CPU load for Firewire

2011-04-30 Thread Bob McGwier
Install sp1 FIRST so it does not overwrite your firewire driver setting. On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote: In Win7, make sure you are using the legacy 1394 Firewire driver and have installed SP1 http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50433.aspx

Re: [Flexradio] CW bandwidth too wide with PSDR 2.0.22

2011-04-23 Thread Bob McGwier
The shape factor degrades as you go up in sample rate. This is on the to do list but requires extensive code rewrite to make one shape factor for all rates. Bob N4HY On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Dennis Petrich radio...@frontiernet.netwrote: Hello all, Has anyone experienced a bug with

Re: [Flexradio] Off topic: Hard Drive

2011-04-11 Thread Bob McGwier
I agree with Ignacio. Acronis True image is all I use to copy/clone hard drives when I want to replace a failing one or upgrade to a larger one. In my case, it has never failed. Bob On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:08 PM, EB4APL eb4...@cembreros.jazztel.es wrote: Acronis True Image does that (and

Re: [Flexradio] Off topic: Hard Drive

2011-04-11 Thread Bob McGwier
My experience with 2011 differs. While admitting completely that I am not an average user and have 30+ years of computer programming and user experience, I do not have trouble navigating the GUI. I have used Acronis with BlacX dual drive machinery to clone failing notebook drives, desktop

Re: [Flexradio] Notch Filter and PB tuning?

2011-04-08 Thread Bob McGwier
reasonably rapidly on interfering tones and this seemed inconsistent with CW. I can only promise that all of this stuff in adaptive LMS (ANF, NR, etc.) is under active consideration. Bob On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Bob McGwier n...@flex-radio.com wrote: Reduce the gain on the setup dsp

Re: [Flexradio] Notch Filter and PB tuning?

2011-04-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Reduce the gain on the setup dsp tabs for ANF and report your results please. Bob N4HY On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Mike mi...@m0aws.co.uk wrote: Hi John, The notch filter on my other radios kills the constant carrier but doesn't kill the CW signal so much thus it is still readable, it

Re: [Flexradio] More info: ANF not working

2011-04-04 Thread Bob McGwier
It would. The only thing that we need on CW is the manual notch, which I have designed, but not yet coded. It will be in upcoming releases. Bob N4HY On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Brian Lloyd brian-wb6...@lloyd.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Mark Lunday wd4...@triad.rr.com

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR 2.0.22 FMN Operation?

2011-04-04 Thread Bob McGwier
It is really straightforward. THERE IS NO PRE_EMPHASIS OR DE_EMPHASIS. It is flat audio. Incorrectly handles is the wrong phase. Bob N4HY On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Dave Beumer WØDHB d...@w0dhb.net wrote: Jack I'm not sure what incorrectly handles means either. I did try creating

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR 2.0.22 FMN Operation?

2011-04-04 Thread Bob McGwier
phrase and phase On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob McGwier n...@flex-radio.com wrote: It is really straightforward. THERE IS NO PRE_EMPHASIS OR DE_EMPHASIS. It is flat audio. Incorrectly handles is the wrong phase. Bob N4HY ___ FlexRadio

[Flexradio] Firewire Driver NOT legacy after SP1 installed

2011-03-31 Thread Bob McGwier
About the time one of the recent updates from Flex came out, I starting having Blue Screens of Death on Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1. So I was blaming it. HOWEVER, contemporaneous with the Flex Beta code install, Windows came out with SP1. It updated lots of things, including going BACK to

Re: [Flexradio] N1MM VAC Audio

2011-03-27 Thread Bob McGwier
Here is how I have solved the problem with OTHER programs which misbehaved. I made one of the VAC cables have one be the default SYSTEM sound card for playback and another for recording. (Control Panel, Sound setup, make the cables as described). This will remove your external speakers from the

Re: [Flexradio] Yaesu Production Suspended

2011-03-17 Thread Bob McGwier
Man, FUKUSHIMA? As in Fukushima that holds the Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant? I would expect them to NEVER be able to reopen that plant. This is not good news for amateur radio. Competition in Japan and in the US has brought us to a level of radio technology that many of us NEVER believed we

Re: [Flexradio] why am I seeing this ?

2011-03-14 Thread Bob McGwier
Ed: The Flex equipment, the TX included, is a baseband SSB mixer. We inject the transmit signal high side. You will see the image of this low side in another receiver. BUT, please note HOW FAR DOWN IT IS FROM THE MAIN SIGNAL. It way below the legal requirements and you need to be very close

Re: [Flexradio] Some used Flex-5000s on the market

2011-03-08 Thread Bob McGwier
I agree with Bill on this.We have seen and been a part of hunting down signals much weaker than this on 160m because DX are typically right at the noise floor. We have mounted campaigns to get the offending commercial transmitters to fix their mess. It is simply the right thing to do and now

Re: [Flexradio] FLEX5K Drops Amplifier

2011-03-03 Thread Bob McGwier
CPDR on, and set to 1, is very light compression. It is IMPOSSIBLE for it to overshoot. If there is overshoot with that on, it is a hardware spike. I suggest an experiment with CPDR on, set to 1, to see if the ACOM stops tripping. This would isolate it to the DSP sections working on the

Re: [Flexradio] FLEX-5000 160m CW spur ECO

2011-03-02 Thread Bob McGwier
It fixes both sides. The opposite spur was weaker and less problematic since it was lower than the image in every case tested. Fewer than ten owners complained to Flex. It is fully realized how many heard the problem and how many competitors laughed behind their hands or even out in the open.

Re: [Flexradio] CW Side Tone Lag

2011-02-10 Thread Bob McGwier
I cannot wait for all of you to get the 2.0.17 release coming very soon. All this crap just disappears and CW is what it should be. Hang in there. We are close. Bob N4HY On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:34 PM, n...@comcast.net wrote: Jerry, What settings are you using for Sample Rate and Buffer?

[Flexradio] RIP W5GI

2011-01-13 Thread Bob McGwier
I am broken hearted that after one of the bravest battles against cancer I have EVER been witness to, John, W5GI has passed away. HE WILL be missed. Bob N4HY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 1500 Panadapter

2011-01-01 Thread Bob McGwier
Good idea. Lots of people were unhappy that CW did not show up on the panadapter during transmit because of the way we did it before the guys in Texas rewrote the whole thing. I neither want nor desire to see it on the screen with the exception of looking at the keying sidebands during

[Flexradio] HNY

2010-12-31 Thread Bob McGwier
A big happy new year to all Flexers! 73's N4HY ___ 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

[Flexradio] Apology to Cornell Drentea, Larry Wolfgang, QEX, etc.

2010-08-12 Thread Bob McGwier
knew Mr. Drentea was a skilled engineer. May I add my voice to the chorus who really like the direction and content and evolution of QEX. Doug Smith was doing a great job and it is clear this tradition will be improved upon. My best 73's Bob McGwier N4HY was sent to QEX after the last

[Flexradio] Congratulations Brian Lloyd!

2010-05-17 Thread Bob McGwier
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=179399id=827451648saved#!/photo.php?pid=4257177id=827451648fbid=411342171648 -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. “One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a

[Flexradio] Flex Radio Banquet album

2010-05-17 Thread Bob McGwier
Open to the public. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=179399id=827451648saved#!/album.php?aid=179399id=827451648page=2 -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. “One must be a fox in order to recognize traps,

Re: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes towards SDR!

2010-05-16 Thread Bob McGwier
Amen brother Lee! Bob It was a great Dayton Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Lee Mushel herbe...@centurytel.net Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 06:53:25 To: Stanwa2...@taconic.net; k4...@fastmail.fm; Flexflexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Man I

[Flexradio] Dayton SDR Forum

2010-04-14 Thread Bob McGwier
Speakers at Dayton SDR Forum 2:30-5 PM for Friday May 14. Me, N4HY SDR status, ARRL SDR committee evolution Lyle Johnson Choices in Embedded DSP for SDR Scotty Cowling, Open HPSDR Status John Melton, Linux ghpsdr Gerald Youngblood, Flex Radio new offerings, amateur and commercial (Flex

Re: [Flexradio] QSK -- It's not...

2010-02-22 Thread Bob McGwier
You would be wrong about some of the things you say. When I operate outside of my car. CW. I have top tens in DX contests, my cw speed is 40 wpm with good copy, 50 wpm in contest mode and I have been a developer of software for the Flex radios since the 3rd month of their

Re: [Flexradio] About recently ALC changes in digi modes

2010-02-20 Thread Bob McGwier
On 2/20/2010 1:13 PM, Jim wrote: Just don't mess with that fine job the guys have done with SSB alc overshoot. Looking good. 73 de KE4WY Jim That is job number one after the changes to make sure we didn't mess that up. I think we are in pretty good shape now. Eric made me comment every

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-5000A

2010-02-19 Thread Bob McGwier
There is one serious stand out that fits your needs. DXLabs is written by one of the finest programmers around. Dave has taken this task of providing quality software in for years. He natively supports flex radio cat. I have used no other for a decade at home. it is a huge suite, doing much

Re: [Flexradio] Will Flex-1500 have wide FM?

2010-02-14 Thread Bob McGwier
What is legal besides NBFM? We are adding full FM repeater support including tones, proper shaping of the audio (which is what I think you mean instead of what you said). this is for everything but is precipitated by v/u. Bob --Original Message-- From: David McKenzie Sender:

Re: [Flexradio] Will Flex-1500 have wide FM?

2010-02-14 Thread Bob McGwier
and the Flex is astounding. If proper shaping of the audio fixes this, I'll be a happy camper. 73's Dave K1FSY On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Bob McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: What is legal besides NBFM? We are adding full FM repeater support including tones, proper shaping of the audio

Re: [Flexradio] Voice Shaper 0.93 beta

2010-02-04 Thread Bob McGwier
Alex has his own distribution process/site for the many programs he sells and/or gives away. FLEX cannot distribute it with PowerSDR, but we can and should test for the presence of this dll and make use of it. We can and will be doing this a lot in the replacement code coming this year after

Re: [Flexradio] Voice Shaper 0.93 beta

2010-02-04 Thread Bob McGwier
Because it is not an open source product and even if it was we would really be in trouble if the license granted by Alex was not consistent with the GPL. What Alex is proposing and it is a proposal I wholeheartedly agree with is providing the hooks to integrate it since we want to do that

Re: [Flexradio] Spur in PSK31 output even with no rf out into Dummyload.

2010-02-03 Thread Bob McGwier
I was going to say this perfectly demonstrates both the great power (sensitivity) of the panadapter and our greatest curse at the same time. I was going to give my usual long winded commentary but I must admit that your 3 letter comment is right to the point. There are design compromises in

Re: [Flexradio] I don't understand this consequence of running FLDIGI

2010-02-02 Thread Bob McGwier
If there is built in to the fldigi development and intent to allow for remoted operation EVENTUALLY, and the use of sockets, named pipes EVEN IF THEY ARE ALL LOCAL TO YOUR MACHINE, will still show up as activity. You can run wireshark for windows and determine if data is being sent out your

[Flexradio] Obit of XYL of AB2KT

2010-01-30 Thread Bob McGwier
My deepest symapthy goes out to the family of Sandra Leiblum (husband Frank Brickle, AB2KT and son Jake). Here is obit in NYT: http://bit.ly/9AWKej Bob -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. the only

[Flexradio] Obit of XYL of Frank, AB2KT

2010-01-30 Thread Bob McGwier
My deepest symapthy goes out to the family of Sandra Leiblum (husband Frank Brickle, AB2KT and son Jake). Here is obit in NYT: http://bit.ly/9AWKej Bob -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. the only

[Flexradio] NO KNOBS, An interesting piece on army web site

2010-01-28 Thread Bob McGwier
http://www.twitpic.com/105rzu I wonder why it disappeared? Maybe coincidence. This was mentioned at the recent SDR Forum technical conference. SDR Forum has become the newest buzz word in town, Wireless Innovation Forum (you have to stay relevant right? You cannot believe how many times

Re: [Flexradio] QSK -- True Grist

2010-01-28 Thread Bob McGwier
dan edwards wrote: mark, FWIW dudley is right. i upgraded from a pc like yours to a homebrew rice rocket dual coreintel processor with LOTS of L-2 cache. e8400, i think..2 gig ram..firewirecard on non-shared IRQ...'fair to middlin' graphics card win7 32 bit. made all the difference in the

[Flexradio] CW performance

2010-01-28 Thread Bob McGwier
The current situation with Pretty Betty using a recent model firmware and recent driver (neither yet released, all of this in development and not available on the web site) IN THE MONTH LONG EFFORT ON CW is producing some results. Receive to transmit transition performance: CW

Re: [Flexradio] Jack audio connection kit instead of VAC?

2010-01-25 Thread Bob McGwier
The answer is no. Jack does not appear to other programs as a sound card. So all of them, not us, would have to rewrite their code to use jack. Until recently we did a jack search in portaudio and we might still. Sorry but we chose VAC because other programs require no change to use it.

[Flexradio] My old XP machine

2010-01-22 Thread Bob McGwier
My old XP machine, which was to be my last windows machine because of Vista, has a problem. I know that I am not the only one with this problem. For a year I have downloaded at various times, the Hotfix for the SP3 Firewire issue. I go and get the email message with the link and the

Re: [Flexradio] My old XP machine

2010-01-22 Thread Bob McGwier
this. Sp3 see the hotfix as unnecessary and won't install it. -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bob McGwier Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:43 PM To: FLEX USERS Cc: flexe...@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio

Re: [Flexradio] Drop Outs!!

2010-01-22 Thread Bob McGwier
On my machine and several others, the official Microsoft KB955408 just will not install. I was supplied by a friendly voice K952825 and while it is not aimed at this specific problem, it is a late enough version that it fixes the problem and it installed seamlessly if you are SP2 or SP3 (as

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