Re: [Flexradio] First look at the FLEX-3000 production units

2009-02-20 Thread Sami Aintila
Tell me then... Where are the 4 channel 192kHz audio USB devices?? Hmm... someone asked me the same exact question three years ago. This was my reply: http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-101/index.html - 10-In/10-Out 24 bit/96 kHz - Up to 6-In/6-Out 24 bit/192 kHz And I'm sure there are

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

2009-02-05 Thread Sami Aintila
OK, the USB adapter works (and has always worked) on Vista 32! I have urged many people to try this, but it seems they have not tried hard enough. Or maybe the ones who succeeded have kept that information to themselves. Great work Paul. Thanks also to Bill Tracey for helping out. It's obvious

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

2009-02-04 Thread Sami Aintila
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Bill Tracey b...@ewjt.com wrote: Why is this an ez-usb driver? I thought the Flex Radio USB adapter was now using libusb - same as HPSDR. I can't comment specifically on the Flex Radio adapter, but we've got the HPSDR linusb stiff working on Vista 32 ...

Re: [Flexradio] You do NOT need focus to control PWSDR Vfo

2009-01-30 Thread Sami Aintila
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:03 PM, FireBrick w...@billnjudy.com wrote: A small free applet, called HotWheels, which I got from the Flex files (I think) will make your mouse wheel, or ShuttlePro Wheel control VFOA. You load the applet, and can enable or disable it by the Scroll Lock button on

Re: [Flexradio] USBIO in Vista?

2008-05-04 Thread Sami Aintila
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the best of my knowledge, the code for the USB-to-Parallel adapter is not maintained by FlexRadio. Sami (OH2BFO) and Ahti (OH2RZ) are the developers of it and if any changes are going to be made, they would probably have

[Flexradio] HotWheel

2007-08-21 Thread Sami Aintila
For the past few weeks I've seen some people refer to the HotWheel tool I wrote already back in 2005: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2005-December/004153.html First, many thanks to everyone for their kind words about HotWheel, but I also need to say I'm sorry for

Re: [Flexradio] Sound card input Voltage

2007-04-15 Thread Sami Aintila
Usually for audio applications dBm should be referenced to one milliwatt into a 600-ohm load. (Your dBm figure is using 50 ohms). In order to avoid confusion when we're measuring voltages, it's better to not use dBm at all. For voltages, it's probably easiest to use dBV referenced to one volt RMS.

Re: [Flexradio] Help!

2007-03-26 Thread Sami Aintila
All memory is virtual from the viewpoint of PowerSDR (or any other process). A high page fault count simply indicates a lot of VMM (virtual memory manager) activity. It does not necessarily mean that the hard disk paging file is being accessed. In fact, you can completely disable the paging file

Re: [Flexradio] Multiple instances of PowerSDR, SO2R, UCB, etc.

2007-01-22 Thread Sami Aintila
I would assume that with 2 USB ports and 2 Delta44 soundcards this would be possible. Is this correct? [Eric] Close. We have done SO2R with 1 USB, 1 Parallel, 1 Delta 44, and 1 FireBox/FA-66. These are the only configurations that will work given today's software and drivers. The USB

Re: [Flexradio] Multiple instances of PowerSDR, SO2R, UCB, etc.

2007-01-22 Thread Sami Aintila
[john basilotto] I ran SO2R at home on a single computer using a Presonus or Fa66 and a D44. Two D44 wouldn't work. I used a home brew switching unit and two antennas. I have only one D44 myself, but I have seen a multitrack recording setup with two D44's working nicely together. This must

Re: [Flexradio] Microsoft Power Toys for XP - Applicationactivation on mouse position

2007-01-16 Thread Sami Aintila
On 1/16/07, Guy Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way to change the focus for the mouse (and selected keyboard input) is to use Sami Aintila's program HotWheel. He posted this information to the FlexRadio reflector over a year ago: [snip]

Re: [Flexradio] HotWheel

2007-01-16 Thread Sami Aintila
On 1/16/07, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Sami The second best thing I like about HotWheel it that is has disabled the Mouse WheelClick function... Hey, it's not supposed to do that! I guess this is one of those rare occasions when a bug truly becomes a feature... Something must

Re: [Flexradio] Price Increase and 1 watt SDR discontinued

2007-01-04 Thread Sami Aintila
Heh, from the looks of it, they've cloned every (nasty) detail of the SDR-1000. Including the pretty awkward bit banging to control the retrofitted RFE board! OK, it may be fully compatible with SDR-1000, but I would feel really stupid using something like this. (Not to mention the moral and

Re: [Flexradio] USB Adaptor error???

2006-12-04 Thread Sami Aintila
On 12/4/06, WARD,AL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg I have had similar problems. I have had to reload the driver for my USB cable about 4 times. It seems to periodically forget that it was once installed and running properly. Reinstalling the USB driver is almost never required. Should the USB

Re: [Flexradio] Problems with XP

2006-11-17 Thread Sami Aintila
Error Signature BCCode:1050 BCP1:A163E4EC BCP2:0001 BCP3:BF8298B8 BPC4: OSVer:5_1_2600 SP2.0 Product 256_1 This is Bug Check 0x50: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms793437.aspx Very often caused by bad RAM. That would also explain other

Re: [Flexradio] Problems with XP

2006-11-17 Thread Sami Aintila
cases such as yours, detecting the faulty RAM chip may require running the test for an hour or two! On 11/17/06, David Ackrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code reported was definately 1050 and not 0050, but I can't see where that is stored on the link shown. Dave (G0DJA) Sami Aintila

Re: [Flexradio] USB Audio Interface UA-1EX

2006-10-01 Thread Sami Aintila
On 10/1/06, Willi Reppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your report on the USB Edirol I bought. On the package on the device Edirol announced Zero latency, direct monitoring and I wonder what your findings about this statement are. If you check out the Delta 44 specs for example, you'll

Re: [Flexradio] OT : USB - Parallel

2006-08-21 Thread Sami Aintila
On 8/15/06, Alberto I2PHD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone has suggestions, please don't be shy... :-) Alberto, Commercial off-the-shelf devices are almost always only USB-to-printer and not really USB-to-parallel adapters. Using them for anything else than printing is very difficult and

Re: [Flexradio] TSVN cache service?

2006-07-17 Thread Sami Aintila
On 7/18/06, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you Tortoiseing.. how do you prevent tsvncache from running? You probably need to disable the entire Tortoise shell extension. You can use ShellExView to do this without having to uninstall Tortoise. Download from here:

Re: [Flexradio] Delta44 audio record

2006-06-08 Thread Sami Aintila
Bill, Have you tried using the Delta 44 monitor mixer? Open Monitor Mixer in the Delta 44 control panel. Unmute the channels you want to record and set the mixer input and master volume levels. In the recording application select M-Audio Delta 44 Mon. Mixer as the recording device. 73, Sami

Re: [Flexradio] USB Port

2006-06-02 Thread Sami Aintila
Apparently the Cypress USB driver does not fully support power management functions. When the computer comes out of standby we have to reset the driver, and consequently the application software (PowerSDR) needs to reacquire the driver handle before it can continue using the USB interface. It

Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF: 1/f noise

2006-05-24 Thread Sami Aintila
On 5/24/06, Peter Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am really not convinced that 1/f noise is 'physics' in the same sense as, for example, thermal noise is physics which we can't fight. Who says you can't fight thermal noise? Just use liquid nitrogen or helium to cool your circuits! On a

Re: [Flexradio] Zero IF SDR

2006-05-23 Thread Sami Aintila
On 5/23/06, Peter Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sami: Please could you try an experiment with this crud I have performed all kinds of tests with SDR-1000, but unfortunately haven't really documented the results. Now, in response to your request, I looked at my old files and quickly put up

Re: [Flexradio] 16 versus 24 bit audio

2006-05-20 Thread Sami Aintila
Hi Peter, Let me assure you: 24 bits is better than 16. Exactly how much better obviously depends on lots of things. And 16 bits would indeed be plenty if there were 16-bit sound cards that could actually deliver that resolution. If your low 8 bits are truly random with no input, that's a good

Re: [Flexradio] 16 versus 24 bit audio

2006-05-20 Thread Sami Aintila
On 5/20/06, Sami Aintila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: software uses a 11.25 kHz IF. Ehm... correction: that's 11.025 kHz. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link

Re: [Flexradio] High-Resolution Clock on AMD64 / nVidia nForce

2006-03-23 Thread Sami Aintila
On 3/23/06, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and Sami Aintila telle me I will get 3,579,545 Hz even if I have ACPI 2.0 running. That's not exactly what I said. I said that performance counter frequency does not NECESSARILY relate to ACPI version. So you can get the ~3.5 MHz reading

Re: [Flexradio] High-Resolution Clock on AMD64 / nVidia nForce

2006-03-22 Thread Sami Aintila
On 3/22/06, Robert McGwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me say that I am now of the opinion that all of this high resolution clock business was something of a diversion from the real problems. That was my opinion all along, but I didn't want to touch the subject, since I have never used the

Re: [Flexradio] How to wire this up?

2006-03-19 Thread Sami Aintila
On 3/19/06, Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:34 AM 3/19/2006, Neal Campbell wrote: I just bought a Bliley NV26R891 voltage controlled ovenized 100 Mhz crystal oscillator. Should it be possible to use it for external frequency standard for the SDR-1000? Any ideas on how to wire it up?

Re: [Flexradio] Power SDR under Windows-XP 64bit

2006-03-07 Thread Sami Aintila
On 3/6/06, Martin Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a 64bit driver for the USB-cable available ? Sorry, no. We are using the generic Cypress EZ-USB driver from their development kit and it's 32-bit only. Development kits for the more recent Cypress devices contain no 64-bit drivers

Re: [Flexradio] Repost - Multiple SDRS one CPU

2006-02-06 Thread Sami Aintila
Whatever scheme the USB approach uses, it should accomodate the pervasive use of USB hubs (I think you'd need this anyway, because most PCs actually have a hub inside the box anyway). Windows assigns a Device Instance ID for every USB device you plug in. Even for the same device the ID is

Re: [Flexradio] Repost - Multiple SDRS one CPU

2006-02-06 Thread Sami Aintila
Eric Blossom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You *really* want to use something other than the default Cypress EZ-USB VendorID/ProductID/DeviceID. I agree using the default Cypress ID's is not very elegant, because it may conflict with other experimental devices some people may be playing with. No

Re: [Flexradio] Repost - Multiple SDRS one CPU

2006-02-04 Thread Sami Aintila
Could you not just set the port addresses in each instance of PowerSDR...no USB confusion. [Eric] Absolutely. This should work fine. This solution could work with USB as well without (much) confusion. Multiple SDR-1000 USB devices can be used simultaneously on a single computer. I may be

Re: [Flexradio] A bit of light entertainment

2005-12-29 Thread Sami Aintila
Smalltalk? Now, what we need is an SDR project in Lisp. Or maybe I should start my own SDR experiment in Haskell? (No, I'm not going to do it!) Gerald started all this in Visual Basic. Then it became C# with some plain old C for the DSP. There was a Python project going, but apparently Bob gave

Re: [Flexradio] Mouse wheel/keyboard control for background windows

2005-12-10 Thread Sami Aintila
On 12/10/05, Lee A Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the freq of VFO A could be readout and updated as freq changed in powersdr button contained in the tool bar, possibly with a different color for the digit corresponding to the chosen step size, you could run a good deal of the radio using

[Flexradio] Mouse wheel/keyboard control for background windows

2005-12-09 Thread Sami Aintila
I have written this small program that is becoming almost useful. HotWheel enables you to capture mouse wheel and selected keyboard events and send them to any application even when its window doesn't have focus (it's in the background or minimized). As an example I have created a simple HotWheel

Re: [Flexradio] Connection of 2KL amp and sdr

2005-12-07 Thread Sami Aintila
There are archives: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2005-November/003699.html And to help you find stuff in archives (or anywhere), there's Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=Flexradio+2KL 73, Sami OH2BFO On 12/7/05, Robert Rennick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To

Re: [Flexradio] FlexSDR software and Multiple CPU's

2005-11-25 Thread Sami Aintila
What does it take for an application to be called multi-processor aware? A typical instance of PowerSDR Console has about 30 threads running. Of course, most of them don't do very much. They are more or less system overhead (.NET and various other subsystems running a lot of threads). However,

Re: [Flexradio] Welcome WDM-KS, goodbye ASIO!

2005-11-15 Thread Sami Aintila
Well, maybe goodbye to ASIO4ALL, but no reason to bid farewell to ASIO just yet. It was just the combination of Waveterminal's ASIO drivers, PortAudio and PowerSDR that was very problematic. Waveterminal works nicely with many other applications, but for whatever reason, has been a real pain with

[Flexradio] USB-to-parallel adapter power management update

2005-09-30 Thread Sami Aintila
If you're using the USB adapter, please download and install the updated Sdr1kUsb-Installer.exe from the FlexRadio web site. The installer will prompt you to replace three files on your computer. Only the Sdr1kUsb.dll file has changed since the original release. It doesn't make any difference

Re: [Flexradio] Crosstalk/Tayloe operation

2005-09-28 Thread Sami Aintila
Jon, I'm not going to get into details on how to receive QPSK. I think we need to start by making sure that you're actually transmitting QPSK correctly. I've been following this thread on the forum, and I get a feeling that you're thinking of I and Q as completely independent signals without any

Re: [Flexradio] A plea to SDR software developers

2005-08-31 Thread Sami Aintila
There has been a lot of typing going on while I was asleep. Of course, I should have known better, but it wasn't my intention to start (or incite) this GPL discussion. Please let me repeat myself: OK, I'm not a big fan of GPL, but that's not the point. It really isn't. The GPL problem doesn't

Re: [Flexradio] A plea to SDR software developers

2005-08-30 Thread Sami Aintila
Some comments: [Jim Lux] Warning... strong off-the-cuff opinions follow that I'll probably regret. Nothing to regret, Jim. These things needed to be said. [Frank Brickle] Further discussion /dev/null. Well, this is certainly a helpful attitude. [Eric] We are committed to using the GPL as

Re: [Flexradio] Still have CW transmit problems

2005-07-01 Thread Sami Aintila
on this first. 73, Sami OH2BFO Sami Aintila wrote: Jim, I don't have the PA, but here's a hardware explanation (or a theory, at least). Have you tried providing input to dash/dot lines (i.e. squeezing the paddles) while you transmit on SSB? If you experience the same kind of power fall-off like