Re: [Flexradio] Test

2015-02-08 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Yup... the community web site is now the focus of almost everyone's attention. Mark me down as not a big fan of the new site. I use it because there's really no alternative. The discussions HERE on this list over the years were variously engaging, stimulating, frustrating, informative,

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 6000's are shipping?

2013-07-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I'm also very surprised we haven't heard more about the radio's release. C'mon guys... we're dying to hear the details!! quote With us being charged to find and report the bugs. Most have been running them through the mill. /quote ??Are they shipping to general users, or is this more of an

Re: [Flexradio] Acronis Backup

2013-03-14 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Acronis is a VERY good package. But like all backup packages, it depends on you to set it up wisely: 1) Don't allow incremental or differential chains to go on forever. Personally, I do full backups after every 5 incrementals. Your needs may vary. 2) RUN THE VERIFICATION STEP. Backup

Re: [Flexradio] Help with latency

2013-03-04 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
It's not Outlook, per se, that's the root cause of the DPC latencies. User-mode programs can't affect DPCs. So, it's something Outlook is DOING. I'd guess it's generating a great deal of activity on your network, and your network card is causing the DPC latencies you describe. I suspect

Re: [Flexradio] 6000 Series SOFTWARE Questions

2012-05-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote Nice and functional are two different things. /quote Indeed. I'm not at all convinced that doing the kind of screen-drawing you'd want from the GUI console would be nicely done in Java. The advantage to using WPF and C# is that you automatically get hardware acceleration via DirectX

Re: [Flexradio] 6000 Series SOFTWARE Questions

2012-05-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Having a different client for different platforms is not a problem if the interfaces are published Having the interfaces published would be most excellent, I agree. Peter K1PGV ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] 6000 Series SOFTWARE Questions

2012-05-19 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
If the 6000 and SmartSDR live up to their promise, the 6000-series definitely will be the radio I've been waiting for. BRAVO Team Flex, for some truly ground breaking work. Kudos for doing something bold and different. The details on the software seem a bit sketchy so far. 1. On what

Re: [Flexradio] 6000 Series SOFTWARE Questions

2012-05-19 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Support FlexRadio Systems^(TM) 4616 W Howard Ln, Suite 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 223 Email: t...@flexradio.com mailto:t...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com http://www.flexradio.com logo On 5/19/2012 3:38 PM, Peter G. Viscarola wrote: If the 6000 and SmartSDR live up

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexRadio] Flex 6000 series

2012-05-18 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
No, they can't. PowerSDR is partially open source. Therefore they cannot charge for it. Well, strictly speaking, that's correct. They can't charge for the open source software itself. However... Nothing prevents Flex from charging for SUPPORT. This is the same model that several

Re: [Flexradio] Here it goes

2012-05-17 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote My dpc latency is about 150 microseconds. Only on occasion will I get that great spike. /quote This is the way of Windows, I'm afraid. What you're describing is textbook for either (a) a bad-behaving driver or (b) several devices all becoming active at the same time with each queuing a

Re: [Flexradio] Game Changer Ahead!

2012-05-14 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
My hope? A module for the Flex-5000 that adds an Ethernet port for control instead of FireWire. (I'm aware of the latency/jitter issues, however I believe them to be solvable, and a guy can dream, right?) +1 Or, better, a brand new Direct Sampling radio that connects to the PC via

Re: [Flexradio] \Deep Impact\ By Another Name?

2012-05-14 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I am really loving all of the build up. As are we all, I'm sure! Flex are being pretty scrupulous about managing the info to keep us guessing. Even the keywords on their web home page don't let the cat out of the bag... there's just a place-holder for new architecture. There IS an

Re: [Flexradio] FW: Flex 3000 Question from a Newbie

2012-04-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote Or, just turn down the drive as you are supposed to. /quote SUPPOSED to is the key phrase here. Isn't the point of ALC to be a safeguard? Obviously you don't set all knobs right (I *love* that phrase) and rely on ALC to take care of the level-setting for you. Won't ALC save you from

Re: [Flexradio] Dedicating cores?

2012-03-22 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote Is there any advantage to be gained in dedicating two cores to PowerSDR on a 6 core machine? /quote Not usually. Windows does a pretty impressive job of understanding both the physical and logical configuration of multi-core/multi-thread machines and trying to keep a given process on

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 New User

2012-01-13 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Hi Don, I'll try to answer a few of your questions as I'm a Flex-1500 user myself: quote 1) For some reason when starting PSDR (v2.2.3), on a number of occasions, I lose all data written into MEMORY. Reprogramming is becoming a pain. Any ideas? /quote If by memory you mean information stored

Re: [Flexradio] {SPAM?} Re: Flex 1500 using External Transmitter for AM

2012-01-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Why would anyone use ham radio when it would be so much easier just to use a telephone? There's so much talk about radio in my house, my wife often absent mindedly refers to her cell phone as her radio. As in I forgot to charge my radio... I try to correct her, but... well... it IS a

Re: [Flexradio] operating

2011-12-29 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
An often overlooked function in the Flex radios that helps enormously in MY digimode operating -- and that I hear almost nobody ever mention -- is the ability to set the receive bandwidth filter to an arbitrarily large size say, 6K or more ... in DIGU mode. In some of the radios (not the

Re: [Flexradio] AMD chip

2011-12-19 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Neal's advice and Jim's advice is solid, and matches my experience. Just to expand on and emphasize something Jim mentioned in passing: One thing to keep in mind as you shop is that latest and greatest is not always best: You should avoid the AMD FX-series (bulldozer) chips at this point.

Re: [Flexradio] AMD chip

2011-12-19 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
) and it tries to offload all floating point math off to the processor on the graphics card, especially if it sees a ATI HD6000 series video controller. My testing, by the way, did use this video card. 73 On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Peter G. Viscarola pete...@osr.commailto:pete...@osr.com

Re: [Flexradio] Optimized XP or Win7 Configuration

2011-11-26 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote Just remember that OEM copies do not allow any support from Microsoft (thats why its cheaper). You are supposed to call your OEM (the company that supplied your system) for any support queries including Microsoft. Just remember and realize you will not get very far with their Customer

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 and USB 3.0?

2011-11-22 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote I've certainly learned more than I expected by way of this interesting thread. However, I was hoping to hear from the designers at Flex as to possible USB 3.0 support. /quote Newer versions of USB are 100% compatible with older versions of USB. So, if you have a computer that has USB 3

Re: [Flexradio] Flex-1500 and USB 3.0?

2011-11-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote Right now we can upgrade the Flex radios at any time with a more powerful procecessor to meet future needs. Although PowerSDR is limited to a single processor today, hopefully there will be a future version that will allow for the possibility to use networked processor to do even more.

Re: [Flexradio] Setting power output on PSK-31 with Power SDR and Fldigi?

2011-11-05 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Hi Michael, In my experience with the 1500, I've found that I get a much better looking signal by keeping the drive low... like you are currently doing, around 40 or so. At that level, my IMD meter gives me very positive readings. If you want less power than you get from that drive level, I

[Flexradio] 1500 Checksum Errors?

2011-07-15 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Hi folks, Everytime I power-up my 1500, I get a new entry in checksum_error.log, similar to the following: 7/15/2011 6:40 PM RX Image Gain Checksum Error DB: 0 EEPROM: FF Calculated: 0 RX1 Image Phase Checksum Error DB: 0 EEPROM: FF Calculated: 0 PA Power Checksum Error DB: 64 EEPROM: EC

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

2011-06-26 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
The DPC is labeled as Wdf 01000.sys Unfortunately, WDF01000.sys is the name of one of the wrappers (i.e. frameworks) that driver developers can use to write device drivers for Windows. It is not, itself, a driver for a specific device. Instead, it's used to support many different drivers in

Re: [Flexradio] [Flexradio} Band data from a Flex-5000 to the Elecraft KPA500 amp?

2011-06-22 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
A very nice little amp but Elecraft is going to have to get over being impressed by Elecraft and reduce the price before it is going to take the market by storm. Except for the K3 fanbois, of course. It strikes me as odd that it wants 30W-40W of drive power for 500W out. And *never* more

Re: [Flexradio] Parallel Port for F3K

2011-06-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Further, check where the headers go. I have a couple of boards that the header goes to chips that were not installed!! Absolutely. VERY common. You have to wonder why they went to all the trouble to engineer these ports and then make them unusable. There are lots of things that are

Re: [Flexradio] The 30m Band Utilization Chart -- 2 June 2011

2011-06-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
SRI... this discussion probably isn't that relevant on this list, but... Your chart is quite good. Thank you. Regardless, I would suggest losing the dial frequencies altogether. As a very almost exclusively digi-mode operator, and only being a ham for 5 years or so, I have never

[Flexradio] Rx Audio and Mic In on Flex-1500

2011-05-29 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I've been playing with my new Flex-1500 for a couple of days now. BTW, plugged it into my laptop, installed PowerSDR (and VspMgr, and VAC, and MixW)... DONE! Worked first time. I took all the defaults. No pops, no clicks, no problems at all. With all of 3 watts I had PSK QSO with someone

Re: [Flexradio] Rx Audio and Mic In on Flex-1500

2011-05-29 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Steve WA7DUH said: quote Can you use your computer audio? SURE! You must use the Virtual Audio Cable (VAC) connection in PowerSDR. You also need Virtual Audio Cable software that creates a virtual audio cable connection between the VAC interface in PowerSDR and your computer mic and speaker

Re: [Flexradio] Choppy Audio with digital modes

2011-05-28 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
quote I've noticed that the outgoing audio on my Flex 5000A becomes choppy now and then when running digital modes. ... Any ideas? /quote What else do you have running when you see those drop-outs? In MY case, I run the excellent DX Labs suite of programs, and often find that I have to turn

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Screaming video

2011-05-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Darn good... makes me feel like I'm there. I sure hope you have a sign on the webcam warning people they're on candid camera! Thanks for setting this up Dudley, P -Original Message- From: flexedge-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexedge-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Brian

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Firewire vs. USB vs. Ethernet

2011-05-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I've been meaning to switch the systems in my shack to fiber for years. Never have gotten around to it... quote The question is what is the price point for doing so? I could find a 1gb fiber PCIE card when doing a quick look, but no prices. /quote Fiber PCIe cards are readily available for

Re: [Flexradio] SSDs and Windows 7 32/64 bit

2011-05-03 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE Just remember to take it out of Billy-knows-best mode by disabling its insistence on driver signing. /QUOTE I would respectfully suggest that disabling driver signing is not a good idea for the average person. In fact, I would suggest it's not a good idea for ANYone. There is

Re: [Flexradio] My 1500 amazes me!

2011-04-17 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I can't imagine ever operating a radio again without a panadapter! and once you go Flex its hard to go back to the old knob +1. True story: I sat down in front of a Yaesu FT DX 5000MP at my local HRO just a few days ago. There was an Italian station calling CQ NA slightly off frequency.

Re: [Flexradio] Notch Filter and PB tuning?

2011-04-08 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I'd just like to second, or is it third, what someone said several posts back: A manual notch filter would be very useful VERY useful. Lack of a manual notch filter as always seemed to me (a digital mode addict) to be a significant omission. I often want to notch out an annoying signal

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 1500 magazine reviews, IP specs.

2011-04-04 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE Just wondering if QST, CQ RadCom etc having been waiting for PSDR v 2.0.22 release version before proceeding with reviews of the Flex 1500? /QUOTE RadCom just reviewed the 1500 this month... I just read the review yesterday. Peter K1PGV ___

Re: [Flexradio] [Commercial] New member in the Abroham Neal family!

2011-01-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Nice work, Neal. Bravo! 2. it is using the new OCZ Revo 120GB PCIe solid state drive which bypasses SATA interfaces and talks directly over the PCIe bus; H... if it's not using a SATA interface, what KIND of interface does it provide? Do you have to load special drivers for it? If not,

Re: [Flexradio] Maximized Window CPU Use

2010-12-01 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I agree with all of this, it's very well thought-out and said. Very well indeed. The only thing on which I beg to differ is the claim that multiple cores add to context switching overhead. Actually, they don't... Windows is VERY smart about context switching now, and takes into account some

Re: [Flexradio] Maximized Window CPU Use

2010-12-01 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE On the other hand, if I start just one program with a high DPC driver, PSDR freaks out, gives me quivering panadapter trace, and won't transmit until I restart. /QUOTE Yup… If your device has a request that’s waiting behind that of another, misbehaving, driver, there’s nothing you can do

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective

2010-11-10 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I don't write code, myself, but I just chatted a buddy who works for Google who pointed out a couple of things. First, at least at Google, two lines per programmer per day would be considered about right. Re: Google. REALLY? I find that *exceptionally* surprising. But I digress... I

Re: [Flexradio] DPC's ?? Why a problem?

2010-10-27 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I have an audio studio with 3 different MOTU interfaces, a couple of Iomega interfaces, a Digidesign interface, and a couple of SymbolSound DSP processing units, plus several digital hard disk recorders, and numerous digital effects boxes from various manufacturers. The computers are Mac

Re: [Flexradio] Legacy vs. Current (?) Firewire Drivers?

2010-10-24 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
IF you're NOT using a Windows-supplied 1394 host controller driver, AND the vendor-supplied driver is working for you, THEN there's no reason to change it. IF you ARE using the new Windows 7 1394 driver, I would recommend that you switch to the legacy driver. I've seen enough problems with

Re: [Flexradio] DICE(y) problem?

2010-10-18 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Is it supposed to work like that? If I called MS would they tell me complacently that it was a feature, not a bug? In a word Yes... that's exactly the way it's designed to work, unless you completely disable UAC. It's not nearly as ridiculous as it first might seem. Think of it this way:

Re: [Flexradio] DICE(y)uac off ?how

2010-10-18 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Google is your friend – One description which looks pretty accurate to me: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/30/how-to-disable-and-turn-off-uac-in-windows-7/ Peter K1PGV From: paim [mailto:paimg0...@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:05 PM To: Peter G. Viscarola; Neal Campbell

Re: [Flexradio] OT: Upgrading to Win7?

2010-09-16 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Is Microsoft pushing 64 bit? If so, why? Absolutely they are. And they should be! A hard limit of 4GB of physical memory, and 2GB of user-mode virtual address space, is really not enough for a lot of memory intensive applications today. As the emphasis shifts from devs writing tight,

Re: [Flexradio] USB3 USB3 USB3

2010-09-14 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I have also read that even USB2 device will transfer data faster when connected to a USB3 port. It depends. USB High Speed (which is what you're referring to when you say USB2) devices will transfer data at the same data rate on a USB V3.0 Super Speed (XHCI) controller as they would on a

Re: [Flexradio] USB vs Firewire

2010-09-11 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Neil, sure is funny how many times that dead horse gets resurrected. ;) Sigh... Even *I'VE* heard this debate enough times that I'm sick of it. When you design a product, you make decisions. The reason the 3000 and 5000 use 1394 is that Flex made that decision back when they were

Re: [Flexradio] More computer questions--mouse, trackball, etc ??

2010-08-19 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
One beware on the trackballs. They are usually USB devices, and to speed up the response time, some manufacturers are calling the device extremely frequently, which can chew up the USB bandwidth, and generate a lot of commotion. Quite right. And it can really wreak havoc on a USB bus.

Re: [Flexradio] sleepy computer and PSDR

2010-07-28 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Thanks to everyone for the replies and the nifty files but the quest continues to find a fully automated way of doing this. I'm confused: Windows can be set to sleep automatically when the system is idle. Isn't that what you want to do? Peter K1PGV

Re: [Flexradio] sleepy computer and PSDR

2010-07-28 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Sounds like he only wants it to sleep when PowerSDR is not running, which would require PowerSDR to inhibit suspending to ram, or a third-party program to inhibit suspend when it sees PowerSDR active. Ah, yes. Quite correct. I see the problem now: If PowerSDR doesn’t indicate a user is

Re: [Flexradio] FLEX-1500 Question

2010-05-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
You will not be able to use win2k as your os as dot net isn't compatible with it, if I remember correctly. .Net V2.0 and earlier supports Win2K... .Net 3.0 and later will NOT work on Win2K. HTH, P ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

Re: [Flexradio] IRQ Sharing with Expresscard 1394 Adapter

2010-05-01 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
The 27CC USB host controller has the USB drive on it. The 27CA (shared with the 1394a) has nothing connected to the ports. I assume that this will help a bit? Thanks, Neal. Neal and Tim are right: There's no way to know if this is going to be a problem without experimenting. The USB

Re: [Flexradio] Common Mode Chokes - Purchasing Ferrite

2010-04-19 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I've exchanged several e-mails with him on Common Mode Chokes, Matching Transformers, Line Isolators and antennas. He's a super serious DX'er and Contester who is also... Thanks Bill, and G0UUT. Wow... that's about the most interesting article on chokes that I've ever read. (In case you

Re: [Flexradio] Updated - My 64 Bit Windows 7 Adventure (DPCs explained... again)

2010-04-16 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
The amount of DPC activity generated by any user-mode program is directly proportional to the amount of device I/O it generates. Network access, disk access, video access. If it's not causing device I/O, an application cannot be generating or affecting DPCs in the system. QUOTE I do not

Re: [Flexradio] Updated - My 64 Bit Windows 7 Adventure (DPCs explained... again)

2010-04-16 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
. Unfortunately, that'll take a couple of weeks. Peter K1PGV From: Joe Camilli [mailto:joen7...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 12:44 PM To: Peter G. Viscarola Cc: Tim Ellison; Mark Ericksen; Flexradio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Updated - My 64 Bit Windows 7 Adventure (DPCs explained... again

Re: [Flexradio] No power out

2010-03-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE Could latent devices installed from other motherboards really do this if not active? It truly could be any number of problems that the fresh install solved besides driver hell but just wondered if anyone else had this experience. /QUOTE The key phrase is if not active. If the driver is

Re: [Flexradio] No power out

2010-03-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE As I was writing to someone else this weekend, while the strategy that Apple adopted of making their own hardware to go with their software means you pay more for the package (due to lack of competition), you do not get any of these wonderful problems as they control every piece of your

Re: [Flexradio] No power out

2010-03-01 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Intel PCI management driver Is that an Intel mainboard? The Intel Motherboards have some hellacious BIOS-based stuff that can lead to incredibly strange behavior. Unless you're using it in a big corporate environment where you might want this stuff, I usually recommend against Intel

Re: [Flexradio] Which OS?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE What you probably don't know is that when you run a regular (i.e., 32 bit) program on a 64 bit system, it runs in an emulator called WoW64 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384249%28VS.85%29.aspx ) so you are adding one more layer of overhead, kinda like running in a virtual

Re: [Flexradio] Which OS?

2010-02-27 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
QUOTE The first sentence in the Microsoft link I copied is WOW64 is the x86 emulator that allows 32-bit Windows-based applications to run seamlessly on 64-bit Windows. What am I missing? /QUOTE The technical details about 64-bit Windows on the x64, maybe? Remember, those articles are

Re: [Flexradio] iPad and Flex

2010-01-27 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
...plus the majority of it is in C# so that isn't an easy task. Believe it or not, you can port C# .Net applications to the iPhone using Mono (Google C# iPhone for more info). So SOME of PowerSDR would probably port. Even so, in the end you'd probably wind-up re-writing a great deal of the

Re: [Flexradio] Virtual Serial Ports question

2010-01-26 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I downloaded version 2.2.2.0. When I try to install it, I get the message The 32-bit driver cannot run under 64-bit system. Continue?. I stopped at that point. Did you get this message? How did you get past it? The 32-bit and 64-bit executable images (the .SYS files) are different.

Re: [Flexradio] Manual Notch

2010-01-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Well, a manual notch with user selectable or draggable width would be most useful. A manual notch filter would be exceptionally useful for digital modes, as well. It's something I have often wished for. Peter K1PGV ___ FlexRadio Systems

Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic?

2010-01-11 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
It's interesting to note that only 5 Xtreme category logs have been submitted out of 5500 total log submissions so far and 0.1% participation seems to indicate little interest in this category. Being at the top of 5 total entries doesn't thrill me but it would be easy to win a plaque since

Re: [Flexradio] arcane video cable question...

2009-12-14 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
un-used at present.. this is a 'digital' video cable? (how many fingers am I holding up? Sorry...) The most arcane video cable *I* know of, at last as of today, is DisplayPort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort Peter K1PGV ___

[Flexradio] In Praise of VSP Manager (was RE: SDR-1000 cat control to MixW)

2009-12-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I recently switched to VSP manager (for use with my SDR-1000) from vComm. VSP Manager works perfectly and is a great asset to the amateur radio community. We owe a debt of gratitude to K5FR for writing this program and procuring the OEM license from Eltima. Really good stuff. Peter K1PGV

Re: [Flexradio] Digital Trunking SDR

2009-11-25 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
The first challenge would be a receiver capable of reception of frequencies from 100 MHz to over 900 MHz. Your next challenge would be decoding the Trunked Radio System control channel. P25 CAI is pretty well documented, and there's some well-known open source software (albeit very old)

Re: [Flexradio] WSPR ver. 2.0 released, improved set-up with PowerSDR now

2009-11-23 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
WSPR is now much easier set up for use with PowerSDR, as it now includes direct PTT via CAT with PowerSDR, and also the audio set up now recognizes the VAC cables assignments. I realize this is the WSPR support list, but... Your post intrigued me enough to get me to download and try it

Re: [Flexradio] Flex settings for great AM ?

2009-11-20 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
time for me was about 1960 , so any advice would be welcome on setting , how well it works etc . The SDR/FlexRadio seems to be pretty well known in AM circles as being very good -- I spent some time for the first time in my life on AM last weekend using my SDR-1000, and on my very first try

Re: [Flexradio] USB to Serial Converter Question

2009-11-04 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Lack of 32-bit driver support is THE major problem with running a 64-bit Windows system, and it's the reason I don't run my personal systems at home in 64-bit mode. The situation is much better than it was -- thanks to Microsoft's requirement that any driver that's Logo'ed for Vista or Win7

Re: [Flexradio] 5000A Freeze

2009-10-23 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I have 3 rules about MS Update which have served me well over the years: ... 3. Never accept hardware driver updates, ever ever ever from Microsoft. They are usually old because they are only the ones that the vendor has gone thru the MS certification process. Get hardware updates from

Re: [Flexradio] Problem with 1.18.3 and VAC

2009-10-22 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
or maybe some odd issue with VAC The ONLY thing I can think of, that's actually caused ME problems in the past, is (depending on how it's configured) VAC can be sensitive to the order in which programs using it are started. If a cable supports a range of throughputs, the first program that

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio SDR-1000, 1500 and 3000.

2009-10-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
So generally is there really a 4-500 dollar difference between the two? Tim and Lee have given you one perspective. Let me TRY to provide another. I'd say it depends on what you want to achieve, what you consider $500 worth of difference, your experience with computers, and your approach

Re: [Flexradio] VAC409 installation

2009-09-26 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
VAC does not have signed 64-bit drivers and probably never will. I have discussed this with the developers on more than one occasion. Why won't he just get a Class 3 Code Signing certificate from GlobalSign and SIGN the darn thing?? That would sure save a lot of people a lot of trouble,

Re: [Flexradio] Some initial comments - part 3 or so....

2009-09-14 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I think there have been some very good points raised in this discussion. I hear VA3MVW saying If Flex wants this radio to be successful with the mainstream community, there's plenty of work to be done to make it more plug and play. I hear W9OY saying It isn't that bad... there are plenty of

Re: [Flexradio] How accurate is the SWR meter in PSDR?

2009-08-28 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
So the question is which do I believe? I don't know anything at all about how PSDR computes SWR. And I suppose it IS possible that it and the LP-100 are measuring different things or at different places or something. But I *do* know about the LP-100, and it's a seriously fine piece of

Re: [Flexradio] Special computer

2009-08-10 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
After much head-scratching, somebody dares to open up the case and finds that some component is different from the one in mine (the manufacturer found a similar chip that was 5 cents cheaper, and most people will never know the difference). Absolutely correct. Or, maybe the OEM just

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Re: Looking for PowerSDR Friendly Anti-virussoftware

2009-08-07 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I can honestly say that NOD32 doesn't seem to affect my shack computer so its worth a try. Here's another vote for Eset's NOD32: We do a lot of file system and file system filter interoperability testing, and NOD32 doesn't seem to cause the trouble that many of the most popular packages do.

Re: [Flexradio] Windows 7...worth the trouble?

2009-08-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Anyone running a 64 bit version of any Windows care to comment on any benefits of running 64 bit OS ver 32 bit, besides being able to break the 3 GB memory limit of 32 bit Windows. Benefit: The 64-bit versions of Windows are slightly faster than the 32-bit versions, even running 32-bit

Re: [Flexradio] Roofing filters, preselectors, oh my!

2009-08-01 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Much of the hardware in the flex operates under the I2C protocol. Critical stuff under the control of an I2C bus? That surprises me. I've always found the I2C bus (well, actually, almost always it's an SMBBus) inside computers to VERY noisy and prone to mangled packets. I've often seen

Re: [Flexradio] Book?

2009-08-01 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Huh. This is part of what I teach my students when studying wireless technology. You really think there is a market? More importantly, do you think anyone will bother to sit down and read it? At least with my students I can threaten tattle to their parents to get them to do the reading. ;-)

Re: [Flexradio] I wish PowerSDR tuning/display worked like this...

2009-07-26 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
EXCELLENT video description of the issue, ke5akl! As a (mostly) digital mode op, I have the exact same issue... On 20, I'd like to watch the area from about 14069 and up on the panadapter. For ME, having a more fully featured implementation of the sub-receiver on VFO-B would be a sufficient

Re: [Flexradio] WTB: Mint Flex 5000A

2009-07-22 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
This is reaching the point of spam. Should we ask to have this guy ... Juan, K4LCd is a very nice retired gentleman in his 70s and a serious ... I know a $3856 package was offered for 25% offand was turned ... This reflector is primarily for people that own a Flex Radio, or of

Re: [Flexradio] Venting about VAC 4 with SDR 1.18.1 (but I know Iam somehow the problem)

2009-07-12 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I realized that he was just railing against cheap laptops. Folks should probably keep in mind that sweeping generalizations can be good guides, but are generally inaccurate in some detail. We've had BO, and now here's PO (Peter's Opinion), based on what I've learned from 15 years of working

Re: [Flexradio] HRD V 5

2009-07-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
There is still the few seconds delay when PTT goes via CAT control. No delay when PTT control goes via second virtual Com port. So, for HRD, I continue using CAT except for PTT. There is no such I know Simon said he'd look into this, but just to add an additional confirmation: I've seen

[Flexradio] Happy Surprises DO Happen -- V1.18.1 is GREAT

2009-07-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I'm an almost 100% digital mode operator. I started using my SDR-1000 back when PowerSDR 1.8.0 had just been released. Subsequent releases of PowerSDR always turned-up a different set of clicks, pops and artifacts... and sent me back to basically Square One setting VAC parameters, buffer

[Flexradio] Fine Tuning the DDS Offset

2009-07-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
In older versions of PowerSDR I would correct the clock offset (of my SDR-1000) using the Phase display as described in the KB article... Tune in WWV and adjust the clock offset carefully until the dot on the phase display moved very slowly in a circle or stopped entirely. In this latest

Re: [Flexradio] Fine Tuning the DDS Offset

2009-07-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Change to DSB mode rather than SAM or AM http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50175.aspx Check your mode setting, you are probably in SAM. Both spot on... Duh! Thanks... Peter K1PGV ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

[Flexradio] PowerSDR and Digital Modes Overview (was Fldigi)

2009-06-25 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
First, PowerSDR is the radio itself. Your Flex 5000 or Flex 3000 plus your computer running PowerSDR *IS* the radio. That was a darn good introductory overview that Brian posted... Perhaps it can be archived as a KB article for those with similar questions in future? Peter K1PGV

Re: [Flexradio] All using SVN 3166 or higher

2009-06-18 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Reflexively, I disliked the idea of quashing the SVN talk on this list. But as I started to think about it more, it began to make sense: How many people REALLY want to watch the sausage being made? Even open source loving Linux users don't all want to belong to the linux-kernel list. Some people

Re: [Flexradio] Windows XP Pro

2009-06-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Use the latest service pack. Lots of fixes, no disadvantages of which I am aware. Peter K1PGV -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex- radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bruce Mills - KL7JDR Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:31 PM To:

Re: [Flexradio] 5000A es XP Home

2009-06-09 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
There's no advantage to XP Home over XP Pro... but there are some very disadvantages that I've found very annoying, mostly in the networking area (as Neal alluded to). Most notable are: a) Directory and file security is hidden from user control -- The Permissions tab is only present in Safe

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

2009-06-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
I think we hold our nose and realize we are going to be interoperable with P25 services of first responders Unfortunately, D-Star is not compatible or interoperable with P25. The AMBE codec that is used for D-Star (almost always the AMBE-2020) will not decode P25 IMBE encoded transmissions.

Re: [Flexradio] Is it worth the trouble??

2009-06-02 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Is it worth the trouble? W... I'm still running an SDR-1000. For ME, the Flex SDR has changed my whole outlook on operating a radio -- whether it's casual contesting, casual DXing, or just tuning around the band to see what's happening, to the point where I can barely stand to operate

Re: [Flexradio] Audio Drop-out Latency

2009-05-29 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
To all: I just checked the device manager and found 16 USB controllers. Eight of these were USB root hubs. I disabled 4 of these and DLC value went from 950 microseconds to 30 microseconds. For those with drop out problems, I would start at the USB folder in your device manager and see

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Frequency change by slidingacrosspanadapter

2009-05-23 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
side. That is a LOT of data traversing the wire between the radio hardware and your computer arriving in the correct sequence in near real-time. When the FLEX-5000 was in the engineering/development stage, a wide variety of data bus technologies where evaluated and only Firewire was able to

Re: [Flexradio] Found the FLEX-3000 latency problem

2009-05-22 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
The videocard (NVIDIA serie 9000) and firewire share the same IRQ !!! That's truly hideous. Is this an on-board FireWire controller? If so, disable it and get a plug-in card. If the firewire controller is on a plug-in card, move the FireWire controller to another slot (typically, just one

Re: [Flexradio] Feedback wanted on new PC idea

2009-05-17 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Didn't see an operating system in the list, are you thinking of the Windows 7 release candidate until March? Careful: If you run the Win7 Release Candidate build, you will almost certainly have to do a complete re-install when the released product comes out. That is, it would be unusual

Re: [Flexradio] New architecture SVN Alpha code?

2009-05-10 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
Geez, guys... Why is it that any time anybody raises just a little negative criticism they get jumped on? Give Barry a break. Barry, and all of us, bought a radio an integral part of which is the software that runs on a host PC. That software is pretty good, but it's far from perfect. I think

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