Re: [Flexradio] Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Frank Brickle
suggested Ubuntu is that Frank Brickle among others recommended it on this list five years ago. More than good enough reason for me.    73 Ross K9COX -- Before I had time to frame a reply, the dark-haired girl spoke. Bang is an absolute bloody liar, she said. -- Donald Barthelme

Re: [Flexradio] Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Frank Brickle
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Drax Felton draxfel...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't be able to use all my other software at the same time.  I'd be booted into the flex os No. You wouldn't be running anything else you need to know about on the dedicated headless SDR server. There still are

Re: [Flexradio] John Basilotto, W5GI

2011-01-13 Thread Frank Brickle
Sad news. Sincerest condolences to his wife and family on their loss. 73 Frank AB2KT On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Ray - K9DUR k9...@rnacs.com wrote: It is with a heavy heart that I report that I just learned that John Basilotto, W5GI, became a silent key last evening. Arrangements are

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
This idea has surfaced lots of times since the earlier days of the SDR-1000. Nice that somebody has actually followed it up. Once again, a demonstration that a radio interface can steal quite a bit from the couple of generations' worth of accumulated knowledge in the design of interfaces for

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
Can you say 'MIDI'? It was designed exactly to capture fairly complex gestural information from multiple sources, in quasi-parallel. There are skillions of control surfaces that will emit programmable sequences of MIDI messages. Every OS one might care about already has capabilities for

Re: [Flexradio] Disk Jockey User Interface

2010-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Brian Lloyd brian-wb6...@lloyd.com wrote: MIDI makes sense for this. I have always liked the idea of MIDI for the control inputs. It strikes me as much better than HID. Among other things, MIDI makes it preposterously easy to pre-record arbitrarily hairy

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-04 Thread Frank Brickle
FWIW there is an article by Victor K1LT for QEX about work with this same technique, using multiple SoftRocks and Linux DttSP. Victor has been developing his own software for phased combining of multiple antenna inputs for a couple of years now, with considerable success, as related in the

Re: [Flexradio] Upgrades and bug fixes to test

2009-03-18 Thread Frank Brickle
John -- I think you'll see that a number of these issues either hadn't crept into the Linux version, or else had been addressed previously. Bob has been very good about maintaining the canonical version on CGRAN; I've tried to do the same. A lot of what needs to be done is simply reconciling the

Re: [Flexradio] [dttsp-linux] Intel ATOM WHOOAAAAA Nellie

2009-02-19 Thread Frank Brickle
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Bob McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: ...HOWEVER, for those folks who want to build an small board computer for supporting the Flex family of firewire devices, the Intel motherboards are your only choice. You need the PCI slot to get the firewire support...

Re: [Flexradio] What would you like to see in an accessory box?

2008-10-14 Thread Frank Brickle
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Lux, James P [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Remember that the dttsp core has to get an input from the ALC signal, and then go in and adjust the gain, which then changes the levels of the signals emerging from the DAC. The DSP wouldn't ever see anything like an ALC

Re: [Flexradio] Issue with V1.14.0

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Brickle
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Lux, James P [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: ...There are almost certainly some interesting interactions with things like compressors and limiters, though. In general, you want enough (analog) gain on the mic input to get the signal well up into the dynamic range of

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] Mac mini as PowerSDR machine

2008-08-20 Thread Frank Brickle
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, K6JEK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have a Cray 1. If they'd fire it up, maybe we could get a chunk of the Flex software running on it. Wouldn't that be a kick? A Cray-1 ain't *nearly* enough machine to run it, sad to say. And, speaking as one of the

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] Mac mini as PowerSDR machine

2008-08-20 Thread Frank Brickle
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:31 PM, K6JEK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fought Moore's law bravely for over thirty years and thought I had the hardware guys on their knees most of the time. But now maybe they've finally got the lead. Dang. :-) And a noble campaign it was, old soldier! They're

Re: [Flexradio] knobs

2008-08-11 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: So, where's the protocol documentation? As mentioned, have a look at canvas, and mochagui. That's enough to keep anybody busy for awhile, if you really want to contribute something. 73 Frank AB2KT -- All who think

Re: [Flexradio] knobs

2008-08-10 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: OTOH, I can see the *HUGE* gap between what the F5K is and what it could be. I find that gap frustrating. I hear a lot of talk about how the next version will be the panacea but I am still waiting to hear *how* the next

Re: [Flexradio] On software development by groups, in general

2008-08-03 Thread Frank Brickle
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp In any case, as it pertains to our SDR development, the dichotomy in the article you cite is a false one. Right now the game is in providing developers with a rich set of resources with which to create a variety of tailored user

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I like Frank's idea for a miles per ERP approach to contesting. Not my idea by a long shot. It's been batted around in V/U/SHF for a long time, evidently. Zack Lau W1VT is the one who's done the most extensive thinking on

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Brickle
FSM - Finite State Machine C/SDR - Cognitive/Software Defined Radio VR - Virtual Radio GBG - initials for a set of words still secret to me, but not hard to figure out AFAP - As Far As Possible *nix - shorthand for the family of operating systems descended from Unix 73 Frank AB2KT PS The

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Robert Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A thinking SDR should be fascinating... The word cognitive is kind of misleading. By convention, a Cognitive Radio is one which, without operator intervention, will reconfigure itself based on its current signal

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...sit around on the beach with your friends in Aruba steaming oysters and drinking cold ones by the fire for 24 hours... Actually this is a pretty good opportunity to illustrate the difference between the limited

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Why a subcarrier? just make it the contest exchange Two reasons: (1) So it can be decoded automatically by a simple demod, rather than (say) an open-speaker-set voice transcription, by a program sucking in all available

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Bob McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank and I differ. The ultimate capabilities are profoundly revolutionary, as revolutionary an impact on radio as say CW Skimmer is having on CW contesting/operating. That said, the opening salvos will be functional, not

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-26 Thread Frank Brickle
Tim is exactly right. And anyway, we're out of the closet in admitting that the highly-esteemed new architecture is really just some old architecture applied to a mildly novel problem. Calling the prototype VR the new radio might be just a sliver less pretentious than continuing to call it by a

Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

2008-07-26 Thread Frank Brickle
that most of my stuff, even that of Asian origin, is highly-esteemed! I was having a bad day but you've turned it around! 73 Lee K9WRU - Original Message - From: Frank Brickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Ellison (W4TME) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flexradio

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-25 Thread Frank Brickle
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Bill Ockert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually they have said they will do just that. Quoting from the Flex-5000 Owners Manual Version 1.10.3, caption under Table 4 on Page 9 Table 4 above shows the FlexWire connector pin-out. Complete specifications and the

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-25 Thread Frank Brickle
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Bill Ockert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is also only ½ of what is stated in the quote from the manual. Complete specifications appears from context to imply that in part some of the I2C interface issues that Jim raised in his post back to me, I2C format,

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-25 Thread Frank Brickle
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Tom Clark, K3IO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I am wrong. Are not these innards tied up with the FCC's edicts that preclude the transmitter from transmitting on illegal frequencies? This wasn't a problem with the 1000 because it was a kit, but the

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-24 Thread Frank Brickle
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...(Nor for that matter, have they committed to holding the API or external interface constant) That's correct. However, one of the big reasons Erlang was a top choice is its support for running simultaneous multiple versions

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-24 Thread Frank Brickle
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that works just fine. Of course you are very likely to find yourself in a vacuum -- which may be the intent and may, in fact, be the most efficient way of proceeding. Actually writing and debugging code is a fairly

Re: [Flexradio] Next Generation treasure map

2008-07-24 Thread Frank Brickle
You will be quite a ways towards a working environment if you put up the prototype on John's blog. His instructions are pretty good. If you have that running, on whatever platform, you'll have the shape of the basic, simple application working. The next stage involves interposing the most

Re: [Flexradio] Next Generation treasure map

2008-07-24 Thread Frank Brickle
BTW John's code runs fine on OS X, but it doesn't do F5K yet. One thing you can do is download the pool of recorded I/Q files from Flex, since these can be played into jack as if they were signal coming from a radio via the DACs. Apart from the hw control, there's no difference in how the RX

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-23 Thread Frank Brickle
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is really do you want to play at the Firewire/Midi message level, or at the PowerSDR API level. The midi message level seems fraught with peril, since it has to play nice with the midi messages between PowerSDR

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-22 Thread Frank Brickle
The CAT system is intended precisely to handle legacy software, so it's the right thing to be using in these situations. That will continue to be the case. Regarding MIDI control, it's very unlikely that the F5K MIDI ports will *ever* be opened up directly to user apps -- MIDI access to the F5K

Re: [Flexradio] differences between PSK31 demodulators

2008-07-20 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, my current hypothesis is that there is some high-priority process that is part of Windows that is causing a problem... The way this problem is addressed under Linux is by using the so-called rt version of the kernel,

Re: [Flexradio] [www] New FLEX-5000 Owner's Manual available for download

2008-07-14 Thread Frank Brickle
Maybe this can be made available as a torrent? 73 Frank AB2KT On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Tim Ellison (W4TME) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The updated FLEX-5000 Owner's Manual is now available for download from the FlexRadio Systems web site. It is aligned with the 1.12.0 version of

[Flexradio] Go see what John G0ORX/N6LYT has been doing

2008-07-12 Thread Frank Brickle
http://javaguifordttsp.blogspot.com Most impressive. Things to notice: (1) The components are *all* independent and remotable -- you can be running the panadapter on one machine, the VFO on another, and the waterfall on yet another. Changes to any one will be tracked on all the others. Ditto for

Re: [Flexradio] Go see what John G0ORX/N6LYT has been doing

2008-07-12 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Jerry Flanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can it run under Windows? If it can't, you only have Microsoft to blame. ;-) 73 Frank AB2KT -- Sapristi nabolis! -- Count Jim Moriarty ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

Re: [Flexradio] Time for an upgrade!

2008-07-10 Thread Frank Brickle
PowerSDR and DttSP are multithreaded, and have been since Day One. 73 Frank AB2KT On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd think that two processor cores running side by side would surely be faster than a single core right? And four cores working simultaneously would

Re: [Flexradio] Linux and PoweSDR

2008-07-09 Thread Frank Brickle
If you have a sufficiently beefy machine, with virtualization and multicores, you might be able to get somewhere using kvm. In that case you're actually going to be running Windows and Linux both. For ever and aye the main obstacle is going to be the sound subsystem and the audio hardware, unless

Re: [Flexradio] TX Audio Quality Help, please!

2008-07-07 Thread Frank Brickle
Jeff -- Is there any chance you have saved the original recordings as WAVEs, including the source files? If so, can you post them as 48kHz flac-compressed? The mp3 encoding and then re-expansion to 44.1kHz rather than 48 introduce an array of spectral distortions all on their own. 73 and thanks

Re: [Flexradio] TX Audio Quality Help, please!

2008-07-07 Thread Frank Brickle
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Jeff Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. I don't run the compandor or compressor. And I keep the mic signal below 0 dB. Regardless, there's about 6dB of compression on the distorted versions, in all three runs. It's impossible to miss if you look at

Re: [Flexradio] TX Audio Quality Help, please!

2008-07-07 Thread Frank Brickle
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Jeff Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, I agree, I'm sure the distortion is not in the ADC/DAC components (nor software, nor input stages) either, because I don't hear it at the 5K PA's *driver stage* output, which is well after the output DAC (ref: 1st

Re: [Flexradio] SO2R out of the box once we had the RX2

2008-07-05 Thread Frank Brickle
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...But since it's Eric, I bet he could figure a way to make the radio respond to mind control Naw, he's taking the low-tech approach: he's developing his own battalion of junior operators. 73 Frank AB2KT -- Sapristi

Re: [Flexradio] digital modes

2008-07-03 Thread Frank Brickle
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you have the signal in the digital domain it makes NO sense to convert back to analog. Except when there's no alternative ;-) Some of the modes will suffer worse than others. One thing to keep in mind is that many of

Re: [Flexradio] alternatives to PowerSDR

2008-06-25 Thread Frank Brickle
As the CID Inspector in Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear says, we may hang more spies than you hear about. This reflector is not the authoritative source of information on development. It's for the benefit of users or potential users of released products only. Development discussions of any

Re: [Flexradio] alternatives to PowerSDR

2008-06-25 Thread Frank Brickle
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to fall back on the read the source code trope, because I genuinely believe that source code is a terrible way to document interfaces, but, as it sits, that's all there really is. The read the source code trope has

Re: [Flexradio] alternatives to PowerSDR

2008-06-25 Thread Frank Brickle
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Peter G. Viscarola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh... here we go again. That's just nonsense. It simply means that SOME people, having no other alternative, WILL read the source and create derived works from it. Which means the task is not insurmountable.

Re: [Flexradio] indian job

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Brickle
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Ray, K9DUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that PowerSDR is open source and therefore completely in the public domain. No theft there. Open Source != Public Domain. This is a fundamental legal distinction that often gets elided, and it's an important one

Re: [Flexradio] Indian SDR Rig

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Brickle
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the Indian radio is a fantastically positive development. Lee -- In general I agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying here. However it's hard for me personally not to feel a *little* put out in this area...

Re: [Flexradio] indian job

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Brickle
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone who was primarily hardware oriented and wanted to leverage PowerSDR would have a very difficult time using, say, a USB interface. ...except that this work has already been done in large part, splicing in the

Re: [Flexradio] Indian SDR Rig

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Brickle
Lee -- Don't get me wrong. There's nothing here that we don't agree on completely. What I'm whining about is a somewhat different issue. To take just a few examples: -- I get email *all the time* from students in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere asking for information and

Re: [Flexradio] Timeline for Change

2008-06-02 Thread Frank Brickle
As many as you can afford :-) 73 Frank AB2KT On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will the new code allow for multiple Flex 5000 radios to operate simultaneously? 73 W9OY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

Re: [Flexradio] Timeline for Change

2008-06-01 Thread Frank Brickle
PowerSDR (new codebase)? As a obsessive cw operator and former owner of a FlexRadio product, I am encouraged by Frank's remarks. Best 73/ Kirb - VE6IV -- Frank Brickle wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net wrote: If I

Re: [Flexradio] ARRL AWARD

2008-05-15 Thread Frank Brickle
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Neal Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next up for them is People Magazine's Sexiest Men of the Year (no I haven't yet nominated them..) I think you have us confused with two guys with hair on their heads. 73 Frank AB2KT -- The only thing we have to fear

Re: [Flexradio] New w2rf QSK mods now available

2008-05-14 Thread Frank Brickle
across all of the platforms, Windows included. It provides latencies as small as 64 samples. This isn't speculation; it already exists. What you're not going to see is the new audio subsystem merged with the old monolithic PowerSDR codebase. 73 Frank Brickle AB2KT -- The only thing we have to fear

Re: [Flexradio] New w2rf QSK mods now available

2008-05-14 Thread Frank Brickle
that a lot of *perceived* perfection of QSK is actually an illusion sustained by other factors in the switching. 73 Frank AB2KT Frank Brickle wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Jerry Flanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand Frank correctly, we will not see what CW ops call

Re: [Flexradio] CW QSK ability

2008-04-26 Thread Frank Brickle
Without getting into a long discussion -- the situation isn't really that complex, nor is it worth spending more than a few further moments on -- the problem is all in the audio subsystem. Between PowerSDR, PortAudio, VAC, and realtime user monitoring requirements, the fact that anything

Re: [Flexradio] CW QSK ability

2008-04-26 Thread Frank Brickle
It's a damn sight better than spark gap, that's for sure. See y'all. I have a couple of months' work to do and three weeks to do it. 73 Frank AB2KT On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Edward J White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gang: I think this is a good question Is OS Ubuntu a better way to

Re: [Flexradio] CW QSK ability

2008-04-25 Thread Frank Brickle
up. -Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Brickle Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:54 AM To: Dave Blaschke Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CW QSK ability Dave -- I wrote the iambic keying code

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

2008-01-07 Thread Frank Brickle
On Jan 7, 2008 8:04 PM, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Eric, Has it really been 4 years? Time flies, etc. Just think of how much you could have improved PowerSDR in that time had you spent it coding rather than bitching and sniping, Jim. Therewith I also am gone from this list. 73

Re: [Flexradio] software development, wikis, forums, etc.

2007-12-30 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 30, 2007 3:37 PM, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Would-be developers who have the desire and ability to contribute, but also have other desires and itches that need to be scratched, and would like to use the flex-radio hardware as a development platform... It's worth pointing

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 26, 2007 7:34 PM, Ed Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will be the development environment under Linux? Whatever you like. Since the system is protocol-based (not API-based) it isn't dependent on a particular environment or language. Likewise, the system isn't biased towards any

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
is developed using NetBeans, a free Java IDE available for download with the Java Development Kit from java.sun.com. Regards John g0orx/n6lyt Frank Brickle wrote: On Dec 26, 2007 7:34 PM, Ed Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will be the development environment under Linux? Whatever you

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
to understand, how the interface works? May be, someone wants to write his own console. guenter DK1RI Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 12:37 schrieb Frank Brickle: On Dec 26, 2007 7:34 PM, Ed Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What will be the development environment under Linux? Whatever

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 1:53 PM, k5nwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, through Erlang messages the GUI sends and receives CAT commands to/from the rest of the system? If that is how it will work then, that is fairly simple to implement in whatever language floats your boat. That's one way. The CAT

Re: [Flexradio] ModularSDR

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 2:15 PM, Ed Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...the radio will consist of three discrete components, which communicate via hardware and/or software interfaces. Roughly three. There may be quite a few more logical pieces, implementing things like multiple receivers, etc. The

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 3:11 PM, Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact that it's FireWire is transparent to the application Is a firewire to MIDI driver necessary? No. FireWire is the transport. I'm guessing a lot of thought is going into making the messaging protocol simple while being robust

Re: [Flexradio] ModularSDR

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 3:45 PM, Ed Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I think you have given an excellent and useful breakdown of what kind of things will be in the Core component. Based on...what? Speaking here as one of the two sole authors of the Core component, I'm wondering: where on earth

Re: [Flexradio] ModularSDR

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 3:45 PM, Ed Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there is another development environment/tools issue: debugging multi-threaded real time processes. This has to be integrated with a language compiler or interpreter. And it better be good :) I suggest you go away and study

Re: [Flexradio] HyperSDR plus Linux equal Questions

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 9:14 PM, Bruce K3CMZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I am pleased that the move to a new version of software is started! and I hope that a free version of software is in the plan. Always. But, a few questions: 1st: What flavor of Linux should I plan for? Generally

Re: [Flexradio] ModularSDR

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $250K/yr radio development engineers? What radio industry do you work in and where do I sign-on? Dan -- Most of these numbers reflect the Martian world of huge govvie contractors, locked-up IP, and executing dollars. They're staggering

Re: [Flexradio] Flex reflector question

2007-12-28 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 28, 2007 11:07 PM, Larry - K2GN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there really a Flex reflector? Well, sure! I thought this was it, but all I see is software development stuff. This is how the S part in SDR gets D'd !-) It's like what they tell you about sausages: you don't really want

Re: [Flexradio] HyperSDR

2007-12-26 Thread Frank Brickle
A few questions about HyperSDR: - Is this the long anticipated 'New Architecture'? Yes. - Will the radio and its functions be accessible via DLL libraries? No. Something simpler. A message-passing protocol that works locally or remotely in a transparent way. Participating processes can be

Re: [Flexradio] So, the new PowerSDR is moving to Linux

2007-12-26 Thread Frank Brickle
No, no, no. Please stop trying to twist what's being said. Once again, in clear, plain, simple words: You will *not* have to install LInux to continue running PowerSDR. PowerSDR will continue to be supported under Windows as long as there's support from Microsoft for Windows. What *will* happen

Re: [Flexradio] I'm not a programmer

2007-12-25 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 25, 2007 9:28 PM, Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems) wrote: Let me clarify that FlexRadio will not force an OS that is not compatible with the bulk of amateur radio software applications... The goal is to march along with the natural

Re: [Flexradio] Vista Installation Oddities

2007-12-24 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 23, 2007 11:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reality is that Research must be free to explore and find new solutions to customer needs... Hi Rob -- The Reality is that Linux is creaming the server market, Microsoft is still dominating the desktop market. There are reasons for each,

Re: [Flexradio] Vista Installation Oddities

2007-12-24 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 24, 2007 12:12 AM, Dale Sewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...the Apple Flex... Based on what we know now, an OSX-based system looks like it would suit a lot of needs very well. Throw Apple as a company into the mix, though, and the picture is not so rosy. They have a documented history

Re: [Flexradio] Vista Installation Oddities

2007-12-24 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 24, 2007 9:09 AM, Peter G. Viscarola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling Linux technically superior to Windows is capricious, inflammatory, and not technically correct. I'm afraid you're simply wrong about this, but this is neither the time nor the place to discuss it. Happy Holidays.

Re: [Flexradio] Vista Installation Oddities

2007-12-23 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 23, 2007 1:36 PM, Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...one of the many reasons why the next version of the software will not have Windows as the primary OS for running the radio... Lest anyone read this and have heart failure, notice he said *primary*. PowerSDR/Windows absolutely

Re: [Flexradio] Vista Installation Oddities

2007-12-23 Thread Frank Brickle
On Dec 23, 2007 5:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will come sooner than later. Yes it's fun to play with Linux and Erlang. Yes L E will provide a lot of understanding for the inevitable programming of PowerSDR in Functional C for Functional Windows. In the mean time please for the

Re: [Flexradio] Buffer and sample rate

2007-12-19 Thread Frank Brickle
WSJT only operates at one rate (11.025 kHz) so there has to be some resampling taking place between PowerSDR and WSJT. That resampling is probably the real culprit. The bigger you can make the PowerSDR buffers, the better off you are, probably, especially since latency isn't an issue with the

[Flexradio] OT: The Splendid Diversity of Users

2007-12-18 Thread Frank Brickle
My sincerest apologies to everyone for this digression. It won't happen again. However, this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bic-Crystal-ballpoint-medium-point/dp/customer-reviews/B000JTOYLS is too good to let go by without notice. 73 Frank AB2KT -- next part -- An HTML

Re: [Flexradio] I Wonder If...

2007-11-12 Thread Frank Brickle
On Nov 12, 2007 5:01 AM, Frank Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously though, if you're wanting to meet up with a few local hams you could do no better ( or worse ;-) ) than to hook up with the guys from the South Dublin Radio Club, if you like I'll put you in touch with them. By all

Re: [Flexradio] Code Bloat vs System Bloat

2007-11-06 Thread Frank Brickle
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 07:47 -0800, Rob Dennison wrote: System bloat occurs when, in the name of minimizing code bloat, users are required to add more and more programs and boxes to the computer to perform functions easily done in code. System bloat is far more pernicious than code bloat.

Re: [Flexradio] Code Bloat vs System Bloat

2007-11-06 Thread Frank Brickle
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:44 -0800, Rob Dennison wrote: However, just breaking up a monolithic program won't in and of itself produce simplicity. In fact, done poorly it will make things much worse. An example would forcing users to try to juggle OS priorities of a number of communicating

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread Frank Brickle
Rob Dennison wrote: Keep up the pressure. I don't think you quite understand. There *is* no leverage here. There are only two things that matter: (1) lines of working source code (2) cash. *Every*thing else is bloviation. 73 Frank AB2KT ___

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread Frank Brickle
Rob Dennison wrote: Grab the cash! And stop bloviating myself? Not for a million bucks. Well, maybe. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Bob Tracy wrote: The code I'm playing with now runs a little differently, it interfaces directly with the radio API (whatever that turns out to be). I have been using an API of my own design for testing in lieu of anything concrete from the Flex guys. It probably will have to change given

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Bob Tracy wrote: The code I'm playing with now runs a little differently, it interfaces directly with the radio API (whatever that turns out to be). I have been using an API of my own design for testing in lieu of anything concrete from the Flex guys. It probably will have to change given

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: And presumably, those messages to the DSP software and RF hardware are defined somewhere? (if only implicitly in the fact that sender node and receiver node have consistent software that has common semantics, i.e. is Frequency in MHz or Hz, etc.) Of course. The significant

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: (Which seems to put a huge burden on the receiving node's error reporting infrastructure) Lifting that burden is one of OTP's main jobs. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: I note that Thompson's thesis makes lots of mention of WBF (Well Behaved Functions) implemented within OTP that raise exceptions when the specification doesn't describe what's supposed to happen in the circumstances that have occurred. (p126, Rule2)... I think you mean

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: Is it the intention to follow these recommendations? The model we're following is the source distribution for ejabberd. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: OK.. but that shows giving an error like badarg (if I feed you a float when you want an int, for instance).. but, where is the information about the semantics of a message (e.g. is it Hz or MHz) maintained? Sorry, the free answer line has run out. Further details available at

Re: [Flexradio] 2OSR Anyone???

2007-10-08 Thread Frank Brickle
Once again, demonstrating the point that contesters are driving so many of the interesting SDR challenges... Duane - N9DG wrote: Has anyone else pondered the feasibility of running one session of PowerSDR on two separate computers with both being connected to a single 5000A HW box?? Most of

Re: [Flexradio] E-MU 1212M sound card and SDR 1000

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Brickle
Craig Monsen wrote: ...It has to to with a delay in the I/Q channels. If the Power SDR software included an !/Q sample correction option, I believe that this sound card could work. It certainly has great specs. This was proposed as a feature request. This feature has been in the DSP for a

Re: [Flexradio] Development environments for the future..Re: anyone attend DCC this weekend?

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: ...One could use Windows's extensive multithreaded and interprocess communications capabilities... ...which is exactly what Windows Erlang and cygwin/cygserver do already. I heartily exhort you to re-invent the wheel unto perpetuity if that's what gives you a good time. 73

Re: [Flexradio] anyone attend DCC this weekend?

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: ...several months from now, which aren't online, and aren't free, either... The Proceedings are available now. They were distributed to attendees. Considering what TAPR (together with AMSAT) have been contributing to amateur radio lately -- if you compute a score based on the

Re: [Flexradio] Re - Pricing

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Brickle
David Painter wrote: Finally, the Far East are not going to sit on their rear ends and let Flex eat away at their market share...you can bet your sox that some bright spark in BY or JA land has something on their drawing board, or even in a box, just waiting for the right moment. Maybe.

Re: [Flexradio] anyone attend DCC this weekend?

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: Are you planning on distributing the paper online? Eventually. As John N8UR suggests, people are welcome to the slides. I'd prefer that somebody stash them someplace for download, rather than having to field individual requests for them myself. The announced target dates for

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