Re: [Flexradio] just got this email from TigerDirect

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Greene
Good price. How about a Hard Drive, DVD/CD drive, Video card? Sound card? Some of this stuff could be on the MB. Chas At 07:32 PM 7/16/2008, FireBrick wrote: 3.4 dual core, 3 gigs of memory for 180 bucks.

[Flexradio] SDR-1000 for sale

2008-07-14 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I am selling my SDR-1000 to raise cash for the 5K. It has a PreSonus Firebox, a 100 watt amp, built-in antenna tuner, USB to parallel converter. RFE board and a poor man's UCB controller. It works perfectly; there are no issues. All cables included. It has the 4 pin Mike connection.

[Flexradio] Transmitting on MARS frequencies

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Greene
GM, How do I get Power SDR to transmit on MARS frequencies, 4032 KHZ USB, for example? Chas, W1CG ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives:

Re: [Flexradio] Windows XP...Home or Professional ??

2008-05-20 Thread Charles Greene
Ray, I'd say keep the XP Home, but if you buy a new computer buy XP Pro. Chas At 10:30 PM 5/20/2008, Ray Fallen wrote: Hi... Brand new guy here. I'm in the process of upgrading my shack computer for the newly ordered 5000A. The Knowledge Base article on what features to look for is great. My

Re: [Flexradio] computer power

2008-02-16 Thread Charles Greene
Hi Dale I'm running a Sony VAIO, 1.8 GHz, P4 with 2 G memory. PowerSDR 1.10 series with Firebox on SDR1K runs 20 to 30%; should be the same on Flex5K. Memory helps, but 1.5G should be enough. Watch your security software; mine sometimes run 60%+. Best keep off internet and don't run any.

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-5000 and Win 2K

2008-01-29 Thread Charles Greene
Ross, What modem are you using? I successfully used a AEA 2232 radio modem with my SDR-1000, on Pactor I and HF packet. PII and PIII should work as well if I had a SCS modem. If this is of interest, contact me off line and I will send your the details. I am using a Firebox but did not

[Flexradio] Used/reconditioned Computers

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Talking about used/reconditioned computers, I have had good luck with them. A friend, K1NPT said: I don't buy new any more just bought an off lease IBM/Lenovo M50 tower for $189 via eBay vendor EPC Sales in MO. See: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZepcsales Chas W1CG

[Flexradio] Pactor

2008-01-12 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, What's the best way to hook up a HF Modem that does Pactor to the SDR-1000? I have tried HF packet using MixW and VAC, but MixW will not transmit on Pactor. Normally, the HF modem would interface to the PTT and Mike input of the HF transceiver, and take its AF input from the speaker

Re: [Flexradio] SVN's and new database.

2008-01-08 Thread Charles Greene
All There has been a lot of talk lately on data bases, SVN's and don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I would like to make a suggestion. Even though we have a program that we can transfer data between the old and the new data bases, and I have MS Access and can do all kinds of things with

Re: [Flexradio] VAC, VCOM. WSJT Questions

2007-12-29 Thread Charles Greene
or a Mac, or Linux and Windows virtual machines both running side by side on a Mac. 73 Alan NV8A On 12/28/07 11:29 pm Charles Greene wrote: The use of another os is always going to have some +s and -s. Linux is a good choice and probably the only one, but you are forcing us into a two

Re: [Flexradio] VAC, VCOM. WSJT Questions

2007-12-28 Thread Charles Greene
All, The use of another os is always going to have some +s and -s. Linux is a good choice and probably the only one, but you are forcing us into a two computer configuration, one for the SDR and one for other applications. Might as well get an embedded system and not worry about it. For a

Re: [Flexradio] Power Amp recommendation(s)

2007-11-18 Thread Charles Greene
I am using a Ameritron AL-811 Amplifier with three 572Bs as tubes. It gives me 600 watts PEP on SSB and CW and with the increased dissipation of the 572Bs, 400 to 500 watts PEP on digital. It is compact and easy to drive and load to a Windom and trap vertical without a tuner. 73 Chas. At

Re: [Flexradio] 512 buffers @ 96 kHz on 5000A

2007-11-11 Thread Charles Greene
Super Bob, This is one of the most important operating enhancements I have seen in PowerSDR. The performance just keeps getting better. Is there no end in sight to all the good things you guys dream up? Now give us a variable, manually controller notch filter, and we will really enjoy a

Re: [Flexradio] OT: K3 SDR Panadapter

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Greene
every day. 73, Chas W1CG At 10:07 AM 11/5/2007, Jim Lux wrote: At 06:48 PM 11/4/2007, Charles Greene wrote: Rob, I think it's good advertising. I have a few enhancements in mind that would make PowerSDR better for the Softrock Xcvrs. Why limit the selection in PowerSDR to the Softrock 40? Why

Re: [Flexradio] CW Keying Timing

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Greene
All, I was having some tremendous problems with timing this weekend, using an external keyer and FireBox with the 1K. I then changed sampling to 48000 s/s from 96000 s/s and backed off the latency time from 2 ms to 4 or 8. I was not trying to get anything close to full QSK, so I was using a

Re: [Flexradio] OT: K3 SDR Panadapter

2007-11-04 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, There's a kit out now, the Softrock Lite, you can order with an xtal for the K3 IF, I bought one for my K2, with a rock for the K2 IF. Goggle softrock 40 to see what it's all about, and softrockradio for details on the latest version. Costs $12.00 incl shipping. 73, Chas W1CG At

Re: [Flexradio] FA: FlexRadio SDR-1000 Receiver w/ HPSDR Atlas/Janus/Ozy Boards

2007-11-04 Thread Charles Greene
Guy, You can write my e-bay entries anytime. Chas W1CG At 08:17 PM 11/4/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flexers: Over the last two years I've thoroughly enjoyed my SDR-1000, and more recently the enhancement offered by the HPSDR boards. However, I'm moving on to other radio hobby activities and

Re: [Flexradio] OT: K3 SDR Panadapter

2007-11-04 Thread Charles Greene
Rob, I think it's good advertising. I have a few enhancements in mind that would make PowerSDR better for the Softrock Xcvrs. Why limit the selection in PowerSDR to the Softrock 40? Why not the Softrock 80, 30, 20 and so on? Doesn't seem to be a big seller in Flexradio land. There's some

[Flexradio] USB to Parallel Adapter

2007-10-31 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I tried to change USB ports, and now I can't get the adapter to run at all. Windows and PowerSDR cannot find it. I tried reloading the driver(ezusb.sys), the windows hardware wizard, built a new data base, nothing works. Any ideas? Sony Laptop, XP Home, PowerSDR all versions and SVNs,

[Flexradio] Receive Equalizer

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I have been using the receive equalizer to reduce some of the high frequency audio noise on the SDR-1000 which is particularity annoying when using NR. The audio noise is a problem only on voice modes such as SSB. However, when I use digital modes, the audio bandwidth is greater than

Re: [Flexradio] Receive Equalizer

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Greene
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Greene Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:49 AM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Receive Equalizer Hi, I have been using the receive equalizer to reduce some of the high frequency audio noise on the SDR-1000 which is particularity annoying when using NR

[Flexradio] Band Plan

2007-10-17 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Very similar to the frequency by bandwidth plan RM-306 ARRL proposed and FCC turned down with most of the same problems that caused the FCC to turn it down. Screws CW and digimode operators. What happened to the 7070 US digimode subband? I operate digimode DX on 7035, so now Region I

Re: [Flexradio] Open Source

2007-09-30 Thread Charles Greene
I don't see a $12.00 Flex 5000 either. Chas At 01:57 PM 9/30/2007, k5nwa wrote: At 11:31 AM 9/30/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: softrock family !! groeten Peter petervn(a)hetnet.nl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; pa0pvn(a)hetnet.nl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; pa0pvn(a)gmail.com ;

Re: [Flexradio] Advice with Laptop

2007-09-22 Thread Charles Greene
Ruben, I am using a Sony Lap top, VAIO model VGN-FS760, going on 3 years old. The CPU is a Pentium M processor running at 1.862 MHz, and I have 1.5 GB RAM. I don't know what a Pentium M is, but it is not one with dual CPUs. I think it is the lap top version of the Premium 4. I have a

Re: [Flexradio] Easiest Linux Yet!

2007-09-10 Thread Charles Greene
Neal, Agree on all points. I downloaded and installed it, after first backing up my HD. Nice GUI. Now where can I find some applications? Chas At 01:20 PM 9/8/2007, Neal Campbell wrote: I just installed Ubuntu on my thinkpad with Wubi which is a Windows utility that allows you to install

Re: [Flexradio] Analog S meter

2007-09-10 Thread Charles Greene
Trevor, It was a nice S-meter and a worthwhile addition. The only problem I had was finding a place for it. Chas At 07:51 AM 9/10/2007, Trevor Smithers wrote: Anyone interested in seeing an analog S meter included in the consul? I don't mean replace the existing meters but having a choice

Re: [Flexradio] OT: GFCI outlets and RFI

2007-09-05 Thread Charles Greene
Jim, I had that problem last year when using my linear amp on 80 meters. The upstairs bath GFI was about 14 ft from my 135' OCF antenna. So I bought a new GFI outlet and that solved the problem. Seems the new GFI outlets are less susceptible to RFI than the older ones. 73, Chas W1CG At

Re: [Flexradio] Esdtimated shipping dates for the Flex-5000 by sales order number

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Greene
John, On the C model, can you use a second display with it? Can you run third party software, such as MixW with it? I am considering it, as I need a new computer anyway, but if I need a second computer anyway to run third party software, then I think I should just buy a new computer and the

[Flexradio] softrock

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Does anyone know where I can buy a softrock , or softrock lite or similar board? I want one that covers, or that I can modify to cover 4.9 MHz +/-. I found some in UK for 160 - 30 meters, but is there a US source? Chas ___ FlexRadio mailing

Re: [Flexradio] RFPL - Virtual Antenna

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Greene
Gerald, The virtual noise will raise some virtual doubts about the wisdom of such an antenna. :-) C At 03:27 PM 9/3/2007, you wrote: My SDRs keeps being described as a Virtual or Imaginary Radio by the owners of radios with real knobs, buttons, lights and switches. I've been reading the

Re: [Flexradio] Samlex 1223 for Flex5000a?

2007-08-20 Thread Charles Greene
Ray and all, I'm using the Diamond GZV4000, 40 A continuous. Great for SO2R or just two radios. Small, quiet switcher, fully metered, front adjustable output voltage. Reviewed by QST in Sept 2000 or check web site. I've detected no RFI. Sells for $180. At 12:27 PM 8/19/2007, Ray Andrews,

[Flexradio] High Rx/Tx audio

2007-08-16 Thread Charles Greene
hi, I just downloaded SVN: 1445. The Rx audio level is 110 dB higher than normal (the last SVN, v1.9 and v1.91), and the Tx audio so high that it over drives the PA when the Tx gain is set at the lowest value which is -40. Normal setting is about a -5 dB. Only problems I noted. 73, Chas

Re: [Flexradio] added memory

2007-08-16 Thread Charles Greene
Surprise, suprise. C At 04:06 PM 8/16/2007, FireBrick wrote: Newegg just delivered 2gig of additional memory for my pent 4 3.2gig machine. Total of 3 gigs of memory now. Everything runs faster (newegg had a promo last week) I think it's still running if you need memory.

Re: [Flexradio] CPU Usage - need to reduce overhead?

2007-08-08 Thread Charles Greene
Carl, Use the Tips for Optimizing Windows XP at the web site, Q10307. My CPU went from 35% average to 20% average on a 1.86 GHz P4 Sony laptop with 1.5 GHz of RAM, running SVN 1408 with a FireBox after I optimized my XP Home. The extra RAM helps too. However,you probably have sufficient

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL just doesn't get it (SDR)

2007-08-08 Thread Charles Greene
Richard, Suggest you send this or similar e-mail to ARRL: Dave Summer, Steve Ford, Joe Hallas or all. They do have some computer literate persons on staff. Chas, W1CG At 12:21 AM 8/8/2007, you wrote: Have you seen the review in the September QST of the Hendricks QRP FireFly SDR transceiver?

Re: [Flexradio] Transmit problem

2007-08-02 Thread Charles Greene
Mark, I had the same problem except on 20 meters. I applied some RFI elimination fixes and the problem went away. 73, Chas W1CG At 06:52 PM 8/1/2007, Mark Amos wrote: Flexers, I'm having a transmit problem with my SDR1000. Here's the lineup: SDR1000 with all the options (ATU, PA, RFE,

[Flexradio] SVN 1373

2007-07-31 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I get a fatal error with SVN 1373 also. Chas ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio

Re: [Flexradio] SVN 1373

2007-07-31 Thread Charles Greene
Ray, At 2 seconds during loading. Chas At 09:27 PM 7/31/2007, Ray J wrote: At what point do you get the error...? I run the 1 watt SDR1K (with Janus/Ozy) and get no error with SVN 1373 Ray Johnson W9RAY Charles Greene wrote: Hi, I get a fatal error with SVN 1373 also. Chas

[Flexradio] Fwd: Re: SVN 1373

2007-07-31 Thread Charles Greene
Johnson W9RAY Charles Greene wrote: Hi, I get a fatal error with SVN 1373 also. Chas ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive

[Flexradio] SVN URL

2007-07-24 Thread Charles Greene
hi, I'm trying to get SVN to work. The URL I got from the Flexradio web site gives me the error message Error: Non-svn URL passed to svn server: 'SVN://206.216.146.154/SVN/REPOS_SDR_WINDOWS' and a bad noise. Can someone please send me the correct URL. Tnx, Chas W1CG

Re: [Flexradio] USB Adapter

2007-07-22 Thread Charles Greene
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Greene Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio Reflector Subject: Re: [Flexradio] USB Adapter Clyde, Good advice for a person using a desk top. I am using a lap top, and as you probably know

Re: [Flexradio] USB Adapter

2007-07-21 Thread Charles Greene
the status of the ports in Device Manager. Hope this helps, Dudley WA5QPZ At 09:02 AM 7/20/2007, Charles Greene wrote: Hi, I'm had to reinstall my system and I'm having problems with the USB to Parallel adapter. I downloaded USBIO.exe from Flex web site and installed it, but when

Re: [Flexradio] USB Adapter

2007-07-20 Thread Charles Greene
. Also you might want to check the status of the ports in Device Manager. Hope this helps, Dudley WA5QPZ At 09:02 AM 7/20/2007, Charles Greene wrote: Hi, I'm had to reinstall my system and I'm having problems with the USB to Parallel adapter. I downloaded USBIO.exe from Flex web site and installed

[Flexradio] Problems with system software.

2007-07-14 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, When I run PowerSDR with the SDR-1000, it first sounds like a chu chu train for about two min, then calms down. CPU 25 to 40%, XP. When I change bands, I get an unhandled exception message which usually takes a reboot to fix, then it will change bands for awhile then repeat the problem.

Re: [Flexradio] Manual notch filter?

2007-07-11 Thread Charles Greene
All, As I was [one] of the submitters of the manual notch filter, I have given some thought on how it can be implemented. Open discussion. I like to click on a signal to do something with it, and I am dedicated to the mouse. However, that is not going to work, as clicking on a signal moves

[Flexradio] Griffin PowerMate

2007-07-04 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I have a Griffin PowerMate VFO Control Knob for sale. It's hardly used and works fine; I prefer the mouse to control the VFO. $20.00 plus shipping from 02809, or I will ship for $28.00 to US Cont. Software included. I'm selling stuff to raise money for the Flex-5000. Chas W1CG

[Flexradio] Griffin PowerMate tuning knob.

2007-07-04 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Yhe Griffin PowerMate tuning knob has been sold. Tnx for the offers. 73, Chas W1CG ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link:

[Flexradio] SVN

2007-07-04 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I downloaded the latest SVN. It looked like it was done, and I stopped i t, but evidently it was not done. It locked the SVN and it wants me to run the cleanup command. How do I do this? I saved the DB file sometime before the update, so I can go back to the saved copy. 73, Chas W1CG

Re: [Flexradio] Noise floor, specifying

2007-06-16 Thread Charles Greene
David, I'm not a practicing engineer, but I always thought Noise power=10*log BW. So the noise power in a 10hz filter was 10 times that in a 1Hz reference. Tell me what I am thinking of. Chas, W1CG At 03:05 PM 6/15/2007, Dave Haupt wrote: You're getting very close to instrumentation

Re: [Flexradio] VAC problems....

2007-06-16 Thread Charles Greene
Jim, I had that problem with 4.05 too. The only solution is to contact Eugene Muzychenko at: http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.html I did this and Eugene gave me a procedure for removing the old version and reinstalling 4.05. 73, Chas At 06:09 PM 6/16/2007, you wrote: I hate

Re: [Flexradio] I'm still a bit worried about my audio level

2007-06-04 Thread Charles Greene
Firebrick, I looked at your picture and didn't see anything unusual. Your power output should be flat over the audio spectrum range and then some. I don't know what you are doing, but something is wrong. How are you measuring power? The meters in the PSDR Console are useless for making

Re: [Flexradio] audio punch

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Well, it seems to me that if VE3NEA can do it, then the FlexRadio software engineers can too. I do have a FireBox. so I will try it per below. 73, Chas W1CG At 04:30 AM 5/31/2007, Giuseppe Campana wrote: Hi for all interested increase the audio performance in his SDR1K, please look at

Re: [Flexradio] Microphone for FLEX-5000

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Greene
Alan, I use a Heil PR20. Nice response and won't break your budget. 73, Chas. Casual SSB operator. At 02:51 PM 5/30/2007, Alan NV8A wrote: I see that Flex offers a Heil hand-held mike to suit the FLEX-5000, but I don't want a hand-held: I'd rather have a boom mike or a headset mike. So which

Re: [Flexradio] VAC 4.x on OLIVIA with MixW

2007-05-19 Thread Charles Greene
Steve, Run two copies of MixW simultaneously in two windows from two different directories, one on the SDR and one on your Pro2. Instant comparisons. Chas At 03:50 PM 5/19/2007, Steve Kallal wrote: I upgraded to VAC 4.06 this week. I always ran 3.12 at 20 ms per int. I had problems decoding

Re: [Flexradio] Video Cards

2007-05-04 Thread Charles Greene
Firebrick, Tnx. I am aware of the two card approach. However, most motherboards today have only two PCI slots and two video cards means you have to use the on-board audio or else a USB audio card. I have a nice PCI audio card I wouldn't be able to use, but I have a USB audio card. So is

Re: [Flexradio] Video Cards

2007-05-04 Thread Charles Greene
That is one of the two I am zeroing in on. Does it run two monitors? Tnx, Chas At 10:05 AM 5/4/2007, Lee A Crocker wrote: I'm using this http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16814121057 Its silent. I use the extended desktop feature of windows. I don't run games so I

Re: [Flexradio] Need your recommendation on a new PC for Flex-5000

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Greene
Boeb. I found a place called micro magic using the typo, in Wisc who is sending me a quote. Hard to beat this guys prices though. I need to research the video cards and a bit DVD W to see it does CDs. 73, Tnx, Chas At 03:03 PM 5/1/2007, Bob Maser wrote: Typo, It is www.magic-micro.com

Re: [Flexradio] Need your recommendation on a new PC for Flex-5000

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Greene
Bob and all, Try http://www.resellerratings.com/store/MagicMicro for reviews. Some favorable, most not. Looks like if you order from them, you take a chance. Chas At 03:03 PM 5/1/2007, Bob Maser wrote: Typo, It is www.magic-micro.com Bob - Original Message - From: Bob Maser [EMAIL

[Flexradio] Computer

2007-04-30 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, My other computer that I used to run PowerSDR before I started using my Lap Top, went belly up this morning,, and frankly is not worth repairing. There was someone who had dealer for a customized PC at a good price, and I didn't bookmark the site. Any recommendations. 73, Chas W1CG

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR filter shape factor?

2007-04-28 Thread Charles Greene
Tim, It probably is at 48000 s/s and a 4096 buffer. I did some work on measuring filters earlier. If you like, I will email you a copy of Spectrogram 5.7 which is the last free program, and you can verify it. It works well with VAC 4.x Chas, WiCG At 11:25 AM 4/28/2007, Tim Ellison wrote:

Re: [Flexradio] (no subject)

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Greene
Guenter, You can figure it out, knowing the BDR of the receiver and attenuation of the (two) bandpass filters. I have a 20 meter two element beam inside a 40 meter Moxon beam, and the distance is zero to five feet, depending on how you measure it. SO2R works well at 100 watts, and a KW is

Re: [Flexradio] Q23. Regarding the FLEX-5000, can we assume ...

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Greene
Jim, Probably a good judge of performance is to see what the top DXers and contesters are using. There has been a preference for the Yaesu 2K; its too early see where the 9K will come in. It's no accident a current TEN TEC ad shows ON4UN with two Orion IIs. (Why two)? I'm not sure where

Re: [Flexradio] Q23. Regarding the FLEX-5000, can we assume ...

2007-04-13 Thread Charles Greene
Ray, The 1K doesn't work as well as a receiver with a narrow roofing filter and a good front end although it is better than a receiver without them. For example, there is a station across the bay and only 5 miles away runs 1K watts on psk31 in a contest. He wipes out the 1k about +\- 20

Re: [Flexradio] Q23. Regarding the FLEX-5000, can we assume ...

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Price is all relative. Isn't the Omni-VII about $2500 or a little more, and it's not even a top-of-the line transceiver. I paid $3200 + - for my Omni-VI in 1992, in 1992 $. What does the top-of-the line transceiver of the big 3 plus Ten Tec go for? Can you compare the Flex 5K to them?

Re: [Flexradio] MixW SDR-1000 and Lockups

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Greene
Brian, At times I have gotten SDR-1k to crash if there is a mismatch between the SDR and MixW settings. For example, sound card sample rate. Check all. At 01:48 PM 4/12/2007, Brian Kassel wrote: Folks: When using the MixW program, ONLY in the OLIVIA and MFSK modes, MixW crashes after I

Re: [Flexradio] CW Memory title

2007-03-25 Thread Charles Greene
Ignacio, When I look at the memory using ACCESS, the group title has a 0 or a 2, presumably translating into AM or SSB. Where is the additional information to translate the number into a mode? TNX, Chas W1CG Clyde, You can add/modify the groups by just opening the database with access and

Re: [Flexradio] Help!

2007-03-25 Thread Charles Greene
Tom, I have one each toroid core with 3 to 6 turns of the cable on both ends of all cables going into my computer, RF isolators on the outside of all coax between all RF units, baluns at the antenna and where the antenna lead-ins come into the house and then a few, good grounds, and I don't

Re: [Flexradio] HELP RTTY without VAC!!!

2007-03-19 Thread Charles Greene
. VAC 4.04 is installed as per Q10218 - Howto. It works well for PSK or SpectraPlus YKS for your help. José F5JD Charles Greene a écrit : Jose, First tell me which computer you want the SDR in, which you want MMTTY in, and from there we can see if we can figure it out. I have gotten 2

Re: [Flexradio] HELP RTTY without VAC!!!

2007-03-18 Thread Charles Greene
Guys, I use the main and sub-receiver on CW and all digital modes with VAC 4.x, with one audio channel on the main receiver and the sub-receiver on the other audio channel. It's no problem to set up, you just need to set SDR on stereo for this part of it. Then I use MixW 2.18 with two

[Flexradio] Grounding Laptop

2007-03-07 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I am getting some RF feedback when I use a Linear amp that causes the USB to Parallel connection to occasionally disconnect. The system ground is about as good as I can reasonably get it except for the Laptop itself. It doesn't happen with the SDR-1000 100 watt amp. There doesn't appear

Re: [Flexradio] Grounding Laptop

2007-03-07 Thread Charles Greene
, does it do the same when running on the battery and disconnected from any network? Good luck, 73, Dudley WA5QPZ At 07:48 AM 3/7/2007, Charles Greene wrote: Hi, I am getting some RF feedback when I use a Linear amp that causes the USB to Parallel connection to occasionally disconnect. The system

Re: [Flexradio] Grounding Laptop

2007-03-07 Thread Charles Greene
Jim, When my coax feed lines come into the house in the basement, they have a 1:1 balun. The Windom has an air balun consisting of about 30 turns of RG8x on a 2 gallon chlorox bottle. I had big RFI problems with another linear before the balun. The feed line for the Hustler 6BTV vertical

Re: [Flexradio] Grounding Laptop

2007-03-07 Thread Charles Greene
cable as you can on the core. Tom W0IVJ Charles Greene wrote: Hi, I am getting some RF feedback when I use a Linear amp that causes the USB to Parallel connection to occasionally disconnect. The system ground is about as good as I can reasonably get it except for the Laptop itself

Re: [Flexradio] CAT Dictionary update

2007-02-28 Thread Charles Greene
Bob, I get a meaasge that the URL is not syntactically valid, and no site when I click on it. Chas W1CG At 10:22 PM 2/27/2007, Bob Tracy wrote: All, I just posted a new version of the CAT Dictionary on my website (http://btracy.com follow the SDR-1000 link). There are only minor additions

Re: [Flexradio] [Fwd: RX only Antenna]

2007-02-25 Thread Charles Greene
Luer, Here's a cheap and easy way insure the antenna receive antenna is disconnected from the SDR (transceiver) and the antenna is grounded before the TX is keyed. Use a DPDT relay, it can be small as it switches little power. One pole has the swinger connected to ground and when energized

Re: [Flexradio] Filter measurements

2007-02-19 Thread Charles Greene
Jim, Two questions. Why are you assuming a DSP buffer size of 512 with a sample rate of 48Ks/s? Some of us are using a DSP buffer size of 4096 whether we are sampling at 48Ks/s or 96Ks/s. I think that size buffer will affect CW performance only when going from TX to RX, which is going to

Re: [Flexradio] Filter measurements

2007-02-19 Thread Charles Greene
:26 AM 2/19/2007, Charles Greene wrote: Jim, Two questions. Why are you assuming a DSP buffer size of 512 with a sample rate of 48Ks/s? I was assuming 512 so that the filter transition width would be approximately 100 Hz. If you had a 4096 buffer, then the skirts would be 48000/4096, about 12

Re: [Flexradio] Filter measurements

2007-02-19 Thread Charles Greene
will take some magic. C At 09:24 PM 2/19/2007, Tim Ellison wrote: Chas, What was the info for 4098 @ 96K -Tim, W4TME Si fractum non sit, id reficere -Unknown Roman consultant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Greene Sent: Monday

Re: [Flexradio] Filter measurements

2007-02-18 Thread Charles Greene
Mark, Nice piece of work. This series of measurements is a good illustration of the effects of the size of the DSP buffer. Did you run the test with the DSP buffer set at 4096? I always run my DSP buffer at 4096, and get basically the result that the 25 Hz filter is 25 Hz at -6dB with a

Re: [Flexradio] Sharper Filter Skirts with a sample rate of 48000 ?

2007-02-16 Thread Charles Greene
Gerald, On my FireBox at 48000s/s, the 25 Hz filter is 25 Hz at -6dB, and at 96000s/s it's about 50 Hz at -6 dB. It's substantially wider at -40 dB too; I couldn't measure it much more than about -40 dB because of lack of dynamic range with my setup. I'll email anyone who wants to see some

Re: [Flexradio] Transmit image calibration

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Greene
Mark, I found this to be true also, and I got the same results with the search engine. I don't know if it searches the manual either, but the details are pretty well hidden in the manual too, unless of course, you are really familiar with the manual. Several pointed out where you could find

Re: [Flexradio] searching PDF Operating Manual

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Greene
. Type in Tx Image or Image Rejection and all searches point to PDF page 97 with all the pertinent info. Ken Charles Greene wrote: Mark, I found this to be true also, and I got the same results with the search engine. I don't know if it searches the manual either, but the details

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR filter bandwidth

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Greene
Mark, I measured the bandwidth of the narrow filters previously using Spectrogram, a DSP and display program, and a RF noise generator. As Eric pointed out, the largest DSP filters give the narrowest filter widths. Using the FireBox at 48Ks/s, the 25 Hz filter was on the order of 6o Hz at

[Flexradio] TX Gain Variations

2007-02-13 Thread Charles Greene
GM, I am experiencing big changes in TX gain settings from one ant to another to get the same output. Setup: mode DIGU, MixW in PSK31, drive 100, band 40 M. When the vertical antenna, a Hustler 6BTV, is selected, the SWR is 1.2:1 and the TX drive is -8 to get 25 watts PEP output, measured

Re: [Flexradio] 887 PA Won't Calibrate on 160, 15 10M

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Greene
Zack, I can't either; close. So I ran the PA settings up and down manually, using a high quality output and a 300 watt resistive dummy load, until I got the ones I was interested in to read 100 watts. Results also checked on the Heath Cantenna. Left 10 meters at 90 watts. 73, Chas W1CG

[Flexradio] FireBox Beta Firm Ware Upgrade

2007-02-10 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, What's the story on the FireBox firmware upgrade, described in KB Article Q10321? I tried to download the FirmWare Upgrade zip file, but it's not there. Instead there is a FireBox driver 1.21. Perviously, I could not run the FireBox at 96Ks/s. After I installed an additional RAM of 1GB

Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question

2007-02-08 Thread Charles Greene
is why I'm so surprised of the cyclical increase to 60% that I see on my laptop. - Jeff --- Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far as I am concerned, 512 MB has not been sufficient memory for ANY Microsoft OS under pressure since Windows 98/ME. Bob Charles Greene wrote

[Flexradio] Transmit image rejection

2007-02-07 Thread Charles Greene
Hello, I decided to use another receiver and perform the Transmit Image Rejection. I can't find any thing on transmit image rejection (enter that in the knowledge base) or in the manual. I need to know which frequency to tune my second receiver to, if I am using 7.1 MHz as the frequency.

Re: [Flexradio] Transmit image rejection

2007-02-07 Thread Charles Greene
was working. I'm using a K2, and the S meter does not have much resolution. 73, Chas At 10:40 AM 2/7/2007, you wrote: At 08:50 AM 2/7/2007, Charles Greene wrote: Hello, I decided to use another receiver and perform the Transmit Image Rejection. I can't find any thing on transmit image

[Flexradio] Transmit Rejection Calibration

2007-02-07 Thread Charles Greene
Thanks to all who offered suggestions on adjusting Transmit Rejection. I now understand what it is all about. I pressed a TS-940 into service as it has a real, high quality analog S meter, put the SDR into a dummy load, adjusted the power level to 30 watts with the tone enabled and adjusted

Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question

2007-02-06 Thread Charles Greene
... - Jeff, K6JCA -Original Message- From: Charles Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:22 PM To: Jeff Anderson; Reflector Flex-Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question Jeff, I'm surprised the 2.8 GHz uses so much CPU time. Have you optimized XP

Re: [Flexradio] CPU Percentage question

2007-02-05 Thread Charles Greene
Jeff, I'm surprised the 2.8 GHz uses so much CPU time. Have you optimized XP per the guide? I am running a 1.8 GHz Sony VAIO Lap Top with XP Home and a PreSonus FireBox. The the CPU runs 6 to 22 percent but usually stays between 11 and 19 percent, and it updates once every one to two

Re: [Flexradio] HRD PSK31 with SDR-1000

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Greene
Ned, Assuming you have VAC setup and working with SDR-1000, start HRD, go to the PSK31 screen and select SOUND CARD. You should see Virtual Audio Cable 1 and Virtual Audio Cable 2. Select the opposite of what you have setup in SDR-1000. In other words, if Virtual Cable 1 is setup as Input

Re: [Flexradio] Waterfall

2007-01-31 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I like the new waterfall display. Can someone tell me what the colors are? I think I can see back (what I set for the lowest level) blue, light blue, white, green, yellow, orange purple and red. That's great color selection. At what level do the different colors turn on? I now can

Re: [Flexradio] Waterfall Settings

2007-01-31 Thread Charles Greene
Dave, Tnx for your info. I am using the waterfall on 40 meters on the digital modes. It is quick to display a new signal and give an indication of its strength. I tried -135 dBm and black for the baseline and -80 dBm for the max, but it varies a bit as the noise on the band varies. 73,

[Flexradio] CW Monitor tone high

2007-01-27 Thread Charles Greene
GM, I am using SVN 854, and the CW monitor tone is high. When I clicked on a station, his received signal comes to my transmit line on the panadapter screen. My CW pitch pitch is set at 600Hz. My transmitter tone in my monitor is not the same as the received tone; I estimate it to be

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 in the VHF SS

2007-01-25 Thread Charles Greene
Phil, I noticed with the last SVN I installed, 838, I lost the connection between the SDR and its keyer. I have a electronic keyer plugged into the SDR hardware box. In theory when you key the electronic keyer it keys the SDR. In the last SVN it stopped working twice, but it restored when

[Flexradio] MIXW AND SDR IN CW

2007-01-23 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I have the SDR and MixW both working fine in semi-auto break-in. The only annoying thing is that when I want to transmit, I need to manually push the PTT in MixW or else send it the TX macro. That puts the MixW in TX, but the SDR and mixw screen still display signals. MixW however,

Re: [Flexradio] VFO control without software focus

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Greene
Doug, You can control the VFO using MixW while SDR does not have focus. MixW is not primarily a logging program like N1MM, and leaves something to be desired in contests. I will play around with N1MM and see what I can do with it. How did you solve the CW keying problem in N1MM? Chas At

Re: [Flexradio] Air Filter Inserts for Fan

2007-01-12 Thread Charles Greene
You can tell he's from Texas. I propose the alternate scents: Aroma of New England Clam Cakes being fried Main Pine forest Scent of Samuel Adams beer Scotch Chas At 02:04 PM 1/11/2007, A.R.S. - W5AMI wrote: On 1/11/07, Norman Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use bounce sheets for my

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