Re: [Flexradio] Off Flex Topic- Voice Recognition forLogging and/orControl

2012-04-19 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Not everyone always sits still within reach of the pedal all the time. Some like a certain freedom as with a speakerphone or wireless telephone. Others (with my typing skills) may be graduates of the Christopher Columbus school of touch typing where we look for, discover, and land on the keys

[Flexradio] IQ data files

2012-04-24 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I am looking for a source of downloadable IQ data files to play back with PSDR pending my back order being filled for the F5K unit. I would have sworn I saw a source but cannot locate it now. I would like to exercise and test my PSDR install in advance. Getting a little experience with

Re: [Flexradio] Are these Microsoft Net framework updates ok to do?

2012-04-26 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Microsoft does strange things. Just because an update doesn't cause a blue screen of death doesn't mean it didn't do something somewhere that could cause you grief. For example, Windows XP when upgraded to SP3 changed the IEEE1394 port speed which made no difference for many users but... It

Re: [Flexradio] Game Changer Ahead!

2012-05-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Game changer? Makes me a bit apprehensive seeing as how I just got my 5000 and haven't powered it up yet. I would not be a happy camper to have bought one of the very last of the OLD ones instead of one of the first of the new ones. Patrick AF5CK -Original Message- From: Burt

[Flexradio] Game Changer

2012-05-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Thanks so much for the comments. I have no doubt regarding the fun I will have with my NIB Flex 5000A. I’m building a S—t hot PC for it in anticipation of a very excellent operating environment. I have a Heil Pro40 on back order for it. I have a Hy-Gain Hy-Tower on back order for a month for

Re: [Flexradio] VU5K End of Production Notice

2012-06-02 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Burt, et al, Flex 5000 can be used forever pending radical changes in operating modes (Say for instance spread spectrum via super wide band FM or frequency hopping or as yet unimagined modes.) The computer side of the radio may become obsolete compared to the then state of the practice. USB,

Re: [Flexradio] panadapter centering

2012-06-05 Thread Patrick Greenlee
My new Flex-Control has arrived and I tried to install it on my new Flex 5000 under Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. I tried to follow the included instructions with blind obedience so as to not wander off the straight and narrow but no joy, I got the message predicted by the instruction sheet,

[Flexradio] FlexControl install issues

2012-06-05 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Sorry, my previous message went out with erroneous title, (I'm up way past my bedtime.) Please disregard previous message in favor of this one as here are minor edits downpage. If you look in C:\Program Files (X86)\FlexRadio\PowerSDRv2.1.x\FlexControlyy you will find more of the path name

Re: [Flexradio] FlexControl install issues

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
, Patrick Greenlee wrote: Sorry, my previous message went out with erroneous title, (I'm up way past my bedtime.) Please disregard previous message in favor of this one as here are minor edits downpage. If you look in C:\Program Files (X86)\FlexRadio\PowerSDRv2.1.x\FlexControlyy you will find

Re: [Flexradio] FlexControl install issues

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
. --Mike WQ5C On 6/5/2012 11:37 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: Sorry, my previous message went out with erroneous title, (I'm up way past my bedtime.) Please disregard previous message in favor of this one as here are minor edits downpage. If you look in C:\Program Files (X86

Re: [Flexradio] EMF/ RFI from Electric Radiant Undertile heaters

2012-06-07 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I am in South Central Oklahoma and have radiant heat which for most of that heating it is in the floor although I have opted for some radiant ceilings and in the case of the master bath shower I have heated floor and walls. I have used some radiant electric heat previously. The only problems

Re: [Flexradio] EMF/ RFI from Electric Radiant Undertile heaters

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Greenlee
A-B comparisons of before and after while taming the RFI. My new Flex 5000 Patrick From: paul glassman Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 1:08 PM To: Patrick Greenlee ; Paul Mandel ; 'Jim Jannuzzo' ; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] EMF/ RFI from Electric Radiant Undertile

Re: [Flexradio] =Touch-Screen_All-in-One_computer_for_Flex-3

2012-06-09 Thread Patrick Greenlee
. Maybe this assumes too much in certain instances. Patrick -- From: Neal Campbell nealk...@me.com Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 1:35 PM To: Robert Costa, KB6QXM kb6...@yahoo.com Cc: Patrick Greenlee patric...@windstream.net; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] =Touch-Screen_All-in-One_computer_for_Flex-3

2012-06-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
: Patrick Greenlee ; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz ; manual...@juno.com Subject: Re: [Flexradio] =Touch-Screen_All-in-One_computer_for_Flex-3 Neil, As you are the recognized SDR computer expert, I believe that if you tested or sold touch screen SDR computers, Flex radio in the future might make a few

Re: [Flexradio] =Touch-Screen_All-in-One_computer_for_Flex-3

2012-06-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
solutions looking for problems to solve and not improving the HMI. I still want an eye tracker and brainwave reader (even though you may think I'd be too far down in the noise.) Patrick From: Robert Costa, KB6QXM Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 9:59 AM To: Patrick Greenlee ; Neal Campbell Cc

[Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR

2012-06-17 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I'm in information overload (and loving it, mostly.) Could some of you hitech gurus point me toward where the most understandable explanation of how to use PSDR to remotely switch equipment would be found? The good news is I have a new Flex Radio (5K) and the not so good news is my shack under

Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR

2012-06-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Jim (et al), Am I satisfied with artificial grounds? I don’t know as I haven’t done them yet but from what I have read and info from an EE/ham friend with 35 years antenna design experience, I don’t have too many good choices. I will be putting a DXE-BAL-050-Series at the base of the Hy-Tower

Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR

2012-06-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Patrick AF5CK -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 6:31 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Switching ancillary gear with PSDR Can't answer the question completely because you only described on half of the RF circuit; what is your antenna? If your

[Flexradio] Thanks again to all who replied, both on and off list.

2012-07-02 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Thanks again to all who replied, both on and off list. The down side is there are, I'm sure, plenty of folks like me who are lurking in the background hanging on every word published here that may be of use now or in the future but unless the hints, suggestions, and recipes for success go

[Flexradio] Must turn on PSDR twice

2012-07-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I think my installation of PSDR is acting more or less “normal” except when I first click the “Start” button after a boot or reboot and invoking PSDR I don’t get audio. I click it off and then on again and I get audio. This is a “for sure” not a maybe.Subsequent recycling, i.e. turning off and

Re: [Flexradio] Must turn on PSDR twice

2012-07-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
and other “internals” of PSDR I can figure it out or even fix it. Meanwhile, if anyone else knows or suspects what causes it or better yet how to fix it, maybe they will share the info with us. 73 Patrick AF5CK From: geo...@gloria.us Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 6:46 AM To: Patrick Greenlee Subject

Re: [Flexradio] Must turn on PSDR twice

2012-07-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Can't reproduce now where have I heard that before? The car, A/C, blender, microwave, or whatever only makes the funny noise for the XYL never for me) Apparently there are several of us experiencing the same or similar anomalous behavior so it is neither an operator hallucination nor a

Re: [Flexradio] Play Button

2012-07-11 Thread Patrick Greenlee
If you put PSDR in demo mode can't you then use any of your pre-recorded files as input in place of off the air signals? Or alternatively, I haven't got a clue, don't realize it, and should be quiet when the big kids are discussin' stuff. 73 Patrick AF5CK -Original Message- From:

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000 VU module

2012-08-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Wouldn't you want to be careful regarding how lossy the coax is? Too lossy and you have to shed all the watts of energy in a short length of coax so heating might be a problem where a less lossy but longer coax/attenuator would distribute the heat over a larger surface area and not get so hot.

Re: [Flexradio] studio 1 from woodbox wow

2012-08-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Not according to their list of RECEIVERS with which it works. (See the web page) -- From: paim paimg0...@btinternet.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:54 AM To: Reflector flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] studio 1 from woodbox wow

[Flexradio] Lots of lightly used Flex Radios for sale.

2012-08-22 Thread Patrick Greenlee
This has been explained but may bear repeating/amplification. Flex customer demographics include a high percentage of tech weenies and a fair number of whatever is the latest greatest new shiny ball folks. Some folks have to have the latest tech gadgets whether or not they understand the

[Flexradio] Lots of lightly used Flex Radios for sale.

2012-08-23 Thread Patrick Greenlee
-- Won't the RohS solder fail in Flex before 50 years? Availability of Win7... Firewire... etc. Obsolescence, scarcity, worry worry etc. I bought a Samsung clone of a PC XT with switchable clock speeds of 4 and 8 MHz with an 80386 CPU

Re: [Flexradio] Lots of lightly used Flex Radios for sale.

2012-08-23 Thread Patrick Greenlee
better performance, and fit in a shirt pocket? George On 23-Aug-12 11:17, Patrick Greenlee wrote: -- Won't the RohS solder fail in Flex before 50 years? Availability of Win7... Firewire... etc. Obsolescence, scarcity, worry worry etc. I bought

Re: [Flexradio] Lots of lightly used Flex Radios for sale.

2012-08-23 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Many of us were more influenced by his companions but in the interest of inclusiveness I will not demand that you don't ask and don't tell. -Original Message- From: Ross Stenberg Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:57 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Lots of

Re: [Flexradio] Lots of lightly used Flex Radios for sale.

2012-08-24 Thread Patrick Greenlee
radios that have breathtakingly better performance, and fit in a shirt pocket? George On 23-Aug-12 11:17, Patrick Greenlee wrote: -- Won't the RohS solder fail in Flex before 50 years? Availability of Win7... Firewire... etc. Obsolescence

Re: [Flexradio] Sweeping noise/signal across band

2012-12-02 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I also see things running back and forth across the panadapter, relatively localized humps a few dB above background. I don't hear them when they transit my operating freq. I typically operate in Panafall Mode and every once in a while I see a horizontal trace as some source sweeps through in

Re: [Flexradio] PSDR generated broad noise on 21.076

2012-12-02 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Perhaps the wiring of the radio picks up extraneous signals which are too weak to retain amplitude when the dummy load is plugged in. The dummy I assume is about 50 ohms. That would load weak sources pretty heavily and drag them down into the noise or lower especially if they were of high

Re: [Flexradio] Sweeping noise/signal across band

2012-12-02 Thread Patrick Greenlee
to believe you or take action but are required by law to take care of the problem. A note to the FCC will eventually git 'er done if they are not interested in getting someone out to fix the problem. 73 Patrick AF4CK From: Bob Kay Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 8:35 AM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc

Re: [Flexradio] Latency Lessons Learned-Computer Tune Ups

2012-12-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I have been using System Mechanic Pro for several years. It has improved over time from pretty good with a few glitches to really really good and virtually never ever even a slight hickup and never a loss of data. Currently I have it on 5 PC's, 3 running Win7 and two running XP. Works fine no

Re: [Flexradio] Need AVC

2012-12-20 Thread Patrick Greenlee
If you don't mind a little complication you can get what you want from a voltage controlled amplifier, typically an audio amplifier IC whose volume is controlled by a DC voltage. You rectify a sample of your audio, scale it with a pot and apply it to control the gain. Depending on the

[Flexradio] Equipment grounding, s tatic discharge and such...

2012-12-23 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Would anyone recommend any changes? I have a Flex 5000A with twin RCV and ATU sitting adjacent to my tower computer with Astron switching supply sitting on top of the tower. The coax runs from the operating position through my wood shop to an outside wall where it goes outside into a plastic

[Flexradio] Normal noise?

2013-02-09 Thread Patrick Greenlee
With my F500A using just the primary RCVR and irrespective of the antenna in use (haven’t tried a dummy load) when I change bands starting at 6M and clicking on 10, 12 etc to 40 or 80, 15M is always significantly quieter than all the others mentioned. This is true on my modified Hy-Gain

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

2013-02-09 Thread Patrick Greenlee
F5000A with 2nd RCVR and ATU I ordinarily operate with the panafall display. There are several artifacts displayed. I don’t know if they just come with the territory or my radio is different. Can they be removed or reduced, or should they be ignored? They don’t appear to cause operational

Re: [Flexradio] Normal noise?

2013-02-09 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Rob, W E L L D U - U H !!! That was easy. Thanks, I hadn’t noticed. How about an EASY fix for the gremlins mentioned in my next email? From: Rob Keijzer Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 10:02 AM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Normal noise

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

2013-02-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
, February 09, 2013 12:09 PM To: 'Patrick Greenlee' ; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Panafall artifacts and things that make me go, H... Patrick For the Mirrored images you may want to run image calibration on both RX1 2 http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50140

[Flexradio] DIY 10 MHz sources for putting Flex 5000A DEAD ON or really close

2013-02-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
http://www.diyphysics.com/2012/02/14/d-i-y-10-mhz-atomic-clock-frequency-standard-using-surplus-rubidium-oscillator/ or http://www.diyphysics.com/2012/02/19/d-i-y-gps-disciplined-10-mhz-frequency-standard-gps-based-universal-time-clock/ 73, Patrick AF5CK

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

2013-02-19 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Not dried up. $75 or so on evilBay now. -Original Message- From: Richard Solomon Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:59 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] DIY 10 MHz sources for putting Flex 5000A DEAD ON orreally close A while back, over on the evil empire,

Re: [Flexradio] Eham review - K1EL VLF Converter and its Use with FlexRadios

2013-03-11 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Once upon a time a long time ago in a town far far away (San Diego) I was the branch head in charge of SSIXS (Satellite Submarine Information Systems) for FCDSSA (Fleet Combat Direction Systems Support Activity) SSIXS is a message store and forward system that provides broadcast content to be

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 95, Issue 20

2013-03-25 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I have both a Samsung and an Acer side by side on the 'puter running the Flex5000. Even when I have had RF in the shack problems when running a KW (since fixed) these monitors were not bothered nor did they contribute to the problem so far as I can tell. 73 and good luck Patrick AF5CK

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-05 Thread Patrick Greenlee
In the manner of our late great prez RMN, Let me make one thing perfectly clear! This post is NOT a vote of no confidence for Dudley who is a Flex Wizard. I'm just querying the brain trust just in case someone may have useful input. This august group has a lot of grey matter in fine working

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-05 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Please disregard my stupid error ... my overly sensitive touch pad sent the mail before I changed the title and deleted the temperature stuff. Gore was right... A mind is a terrible thing to lose. Sorry -Original Message- From: Patrick Greenlee Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 1:16 PM

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
AF5CK -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 7:03 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut? Is your PC an i7? Tim Ellison On 5/5/2013 2:16 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: In the manner of our late great prez RMN, Let me make one

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
t.m.ellison...@gmail.com Date: 05/06/2013 5:03 AM (GMT-08:00) To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut? Is your PC an i7? Tim Ellison On 5/5/2013 2:16 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: In the manner of our late great prez RMN, Let me make one thing perfectly clear

Re: [Flexradio] DPC 2.6.4 VS 2.3.5 V ?

2013-05-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I just replaced the original provided firewire cable with a new one from Flex (transferring the ferrites) and it restored operation to my radio which got very unstable after loading in the latest S/W release. Dudley guided me through installing the legacy firewire driver. It was explained to

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
by a dog. I care more about making him stop biting than understanding why he he bites. Once the biting is stopped THEN I might be interested in why he was biting. Patrick AF5CK From: Tim Ellison Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:09 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re

Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] FlexRadio 6700 at Visalia IDXC 2013

2013-05-07 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I have more or less sufficient credentials to understand and appreciate the software development for the Flex 5000 and have no reason to think the 6000 series won't be of similar quality. I have a BS in computer science and a MS in software engineering and taught S/W engineering to computer

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-07 Thread Patrick Greenlee
have received. A terrific radio brought to us by some great folks. Patrick AF5CK From: Tim Ellison Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 3:26 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut? Understood.B GL with the new cable. Tim Ellison On 5/6

Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Greenlee
06, 2013 3:26 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut? Understood.B GL with the new cable. Tim Ellison On 5/6/2013 4:20 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: OOPS... Sorry Tim, et al... I forgot to mention that Dudley covered that with me

[Flexradio] Support for automatic band switching of linear

2013-05-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Please excuse me for not finding the answer to this question before posting here but I did try for a while (wiki is silent on this) Googled too but no joy. I have a Tokyo High Power Solid State Linear Amplifier Model HL-1.5KFX that can easily be interfaced to any of the big three rice

Re: [Flexradio] Support for automatic band switching of linear

2013-05-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
for automatic band switching of linear When I had that combo running, I used DDUtil to connect to the amp for auto band switching. Set the THP for Kenwood - should work fine, it did for me. 73 Wayne K4ELO On Fri, May 10, 2013, at 01:40 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: Please excuse me for not finding

Re: [Flexradio] The Dirty Little Secret of Firmware

2013-05-20 Thread Patrick Greenlee
OK, no new cases. What if Flex stopped releasing newer better versions of Power SDR? Many of us would not be particularly bothered. Power SDR with all its current shortcomings (whatever you perceive them to be) is currently pretty darned good. What makes you think the 5000 couldn't be

Re: [Flexradio] Owners Manual

2013-05-27 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Everyone has a personal opinion regarding manuals. That is fine except where you think your personal preference trumps my needs. I too would like a complete and up to date manual and PDF or similar is fine as I have a printer. I would accept a hypertext version even though it precludes

Re: [Flexradio] Owners Manual

2013-05-27 Thread Patrick Greenlee
. Or if you want wait till the 8K comes out and the 7K prices fall. Patrick AF5CK From: Edwin Marzan Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 1:29 PM To: Patrick Greenlee ; flexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Owners Manual I plan to pick up one of the many Flex 5000A's that will become available

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Manual

2013-05-29 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Fools rush in... OK, someone tell me what a volunteer needs to do. If I can do it I will. It would not be my first rodeo. Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. And my favorite from Mao's Little Red Book, A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

[Flexradio] E C H O ECHO echo

2013-06-15 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I have the F5KA model with twin RX, and ATU. One evening it was working like a champ and the next morning it sounded like a Mexican broadcast station with the reverb turned way way up. Here is the situation: I made no intentional change to the setup and if something changed I don't know what

Re: [Flexradio] E C H O ECHO echo

2013-06-16 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Wayne, I immediately suspected RFI as well but... How can I have RFI with the drive set to zero and a dummy load on the output? That should seriously reduce the RF available to make I. Either of these actions should eliminate any near field problems but with belt and suspenders, dummy load

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000A and RFI

2013-06-20 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Freon compressors in HVAC systems take something on the order of 30 min or longer to achieve their design efficiency. Over sized units or units running in marginally needed circumstances cool the space, satisfying the thermostat but not circulating much air over the evaporator coils so they

Re: [Flexradio] E C H O ECHO echo

2013-06-28 Thread Patrick Greenlee
, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Patrick Greenlee patric...@windstream.net wrote: Wayne, I immediately suspected RFI as well but... How can I have RFI with the drive set to zero and a dummy load on the output? That should seriously reduce the RF available to make I. Either of these actions should eliminate

Re: [Flexradio] $10 Foot switch and $10 Headset/Boom Microphone for FlexRadio

2013-10-11 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Ditto I have been using a Harbor Freight N.O. momentary contact foot switch for a couple years. They have lock-on/lock/off foot switches too if that fits your needs but I prefer the momentary contact type. I had a few comments directed my way about needing shielding/grounding but ignored the

Re: [Flexradio] Pr40 and the 5000a

2013-10-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I have my PR40 plugged directly into the front panel Microphone connection and it works fine. I have the transmit profile set for 30 for Mic. Some of my other profiles have the Mic set at 35. Do not close talk the PR40 and keep an eye out for the ALC and NEVER go positive. Patrick AF5CK

Re: [Flexradio] Any recommendations on a good foot switch?

2013-10-20 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Lee, when I search on foot switch on the HF web site I am offered only two switches, momentary and lock-on/lock-off (plus well pumps and winches for some reason.) I have some of both of these switches in my workshop to control q router table, scroll saw, etc. I did have an infantile failure

Re: [Flexradio] Microphone Recommendation?

2013-10-31 Thread Patrick Greenlee
10 guys will offer up at least 12-15 opinions. I use a Heil PR 40. I get good audio reports. Fellow Flexers have recorded and rebroadcast me so I could hear myself and it sounded (for better or worse) just like what I have come to know is my voice. I have heard other Flexers using Heil PR 40

Re: [Flexradio] Microphone Recommendation?

2013-10-31 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Don't you think a good Hi-Fi mike that accurately reproduces the sound field driving it is all the mike you need? Once you have an accurate electronic representation of the actual audio you can process/distort it in any way needed/wanted. It isn't required to have a mike distorted in some

Re: [Flexradio] Microphone Recommendation?

2013-11-01 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Mike, I played the sounds on the Heil site url you supplied. I sort of agree with your Swiss Army knife comment but not in the way I think you intended it. I agree that different colorations (eq's) are needed for different purposes. This can be approached by selecting from a huge array of

[Flexradio] Another way to rempote an F5K

2013-11-27 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I don't know if anyone else in the community is interested in separating a Flex5000A farther from its companion computer than the limitation of the firewire cable but I am preparing to test a candidate solution. Depending on the results of the test I may be able to remote my F5K well over 100

Re: [Flexradio] Another way to rempote an F5K

2013-11-28 Thread Patrick Greenlee
AF5CK -Original Message- From: Tim Ellison Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 2:33 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc: t...@flexradio.com ; Burt ; Flex Radio Subject: Re: Another way to rempote an F5K Good luck. Let me know how it works out. Happy Thanksgiving -Tim --- Tim Ellison, W4TME

[Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
A while back I mentioned that I was going to try an experiment to remote the Flex 5000 A. I have been delayed due to weather as in UPS wouldn’t deliver needed cables. I have the cables now and the experiment is underway. Problem: I would like to remote a F5K a couple hundred feet from the

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
-Original Message- From: Patrick Greenlee Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:42 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults A while back I mentioned that I was going to try an experiment to remote the Flex 5000 A. I have been delayed due to weather

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Here is my COTS hardware source: http://www.usbfirewire.com/Parts/rr-firenex-s800.html In my experience these are good reliable folks to deal with. -Original Message- From: Patrick Greenlee Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:50 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-10 Thread Patrick Greenlee
AM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: Update: if you coil up the 50 ft Cat5e cable into a small tight coil and squeeze it into close proximity thus maximizing the inductance it crashes PSDR. This is the only thing I have tried so far that causes a problem. In actual use I suspect

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-11 Thread Patrick Greenlee
more than some ferrite beads if RFI rears its ugly head. Stereo receive audio should make the trip on twisted pair maybe with some ferrite and or shielded cable. Thoughts? Patrick NJ5G -Original Message- From: Dale Hankins Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:42 PM To: Patrick Greenlee

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-11 Thread Patrick Greenlee
. I am more familiar with the analog approach but will take a good luck at VAC and any other suggestions that look to have potential merit before it is a done deal. Patrick NJ5G From: Chuck Oapos;Neal Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:58 PM Cc: Patrick Greenlee ; FlexRadio Subject: Re

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-12 Thread Patrick Greenlee
the menehunes (Hawaiian leprechauns) do it? Patrick NJ5G From: Ken Akin Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:59 PM To: Patrick Greenlee Cc: FlexRadio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults Patrick - The answer to why not use VAC to get audio into the radio. I suspect (I have

Re: [Flexradio] Tuner Question for Flex-5000

2013-12-15 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I do have the internal tuner in my 5K and an LDG. I bypass the internal in favor of the external's wider range in my operating situation. Depending on your situation the internal may work just fine. IF you ever get a linear the odds increase that you will need an external tuner. OF course

Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults

2013-12-16 Thread Patrick Greenlee
and a happy new year. (similar for Hanukah, Kwanza, etc.) Patrick NJ5G (Death to Vogon poets!) -Original Message- From: Patrick Greenlee Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:34 AM To: kena...@gmail.com Cc: FlexRadio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Remoting the F5K Prelim reslults Ken, I

Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer No Longer Available

2013-12-17 Thread Patrick Greenlee
So (he enquired meekly) is it safe for us mere humans to upgrade to the new PSDR release yet or should we wait for the wailing siren signal to proclaim the ALL CLEAR pattern? Anything besides blind obedience to the instructions required? Thanks for any assistance as I am NOT a PC guru.

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR-DataTransfer Problem

2013-12-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
One of the Laws of Software Entomology states that the removal of 2-3 bugs generates at least one new bug. Another statement issued frequently by software entomologists is that there is ALWAYS AT LEAST ONE MORE BUG. Frequently heard lament among software maintainers, ...but I only changed

Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer No Longer Available

2013-12-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
, December 17, 2013 9:13 AM To: [FlexRadio] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer No Longer Available Patrick, NJ5G I would say go for it. Not everyone is having the problems that has been listed here. Good Luck and enjoy. 73 Don, kd6hq -Original Message- From: Patrick Greenlee Sent

Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer No Longer Available

2013-12-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
, kd6hq -Original Message- From: Patrick Greenlee Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:38 AM To: t...@flexradio.com ; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] SDRDataTransfer No Longer Available So (he enquired meekly) is it safe for us mere humans to upgrade to the new PSDR release yet

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR-DataTransfer Problem

2013-12-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I just successfully updated to PSDR 2.7.2 I fussed with the data base upgrader software for a while. ... and then... I installed 2.7.2 OK and retried the database upgrader which then worked. From what I saw you have to install 2.7.2 first in order to have a destination to which to send the

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR-DataTransfer Problem

2013-12-18 Thread Patrick Greenlee
On 12/18/2013 6:09 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote: Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a user accessible control to set the sensitivity/gain for the waterfall. Maybe there is and I don't know how to do it. ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex

Re: [Flexradio] 2.7.2 consensus sought

2013-12-19 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I used to try to avoid consensus as consensus requires compromise where no one gets what they want so no one is satisfied. If lit were done MY WAY at least one of us would be satisfied. But seriously... I am not an early adopter per se. I prefer to wait till the smoke settles a bit before

Re: [Flexradio] Important Flex SDR Performance Factors

2013-12-28 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I am a retired computer scientist first lisc in 1962 who came back to HF after a 13 year hiatus. Studying for the Extra Class I found out about the existence of SDR and thought, Gee, shouldn't I have one of those? I read and researched and ordered a Flex 5000A with two receivers and ATU (no

Re: [Flexradio] Important Flex SDR Performance Factors

2014-01-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Knobs? Get over it. Knobs or no knobs is not the issue. Performance, ergonomics (other than knobs) cost/performance, support after sales, active, knowledgeable, and helpful user group(s), and so forth, these are criteria by which a reasoned decision is made. Besides if you want a super

Re: [Flexradio] S Meter minimum

2014-01-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I don't see small stuff like I did when I was younger. Is the screw head straight slot, Phillips, torx, star, or what? Patrick NJ5G -Original Message- From: Ross Stenberg Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 12:09 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] S Meter minimum

Re: [Flexradio] S Meter minimum

2014-01-06 Thread Patrick Greenlee
According to old man Rhee, You know him right? The old guy with just one tooth. Anyway old one tooth rhee says it is a Whitworth style head. Patrick NJ5G -Original Message- From: Jerry Falletta Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 2:07 PM Cc: FlexRadio Reflector Subject: Re: [Flexradio]

Re: [Flexradio] S Meter minimum

2014-01-07 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Left vs right hand hydrospanner . If I recall the class I took at Chanute Field in the winter of 1963-64 correctly the determining factor is which hemisphere you are in, north or south as it is related to coriolis effect. Patrick NJ5G -Original Message- From: Paul Playford Sent:

Re: [Flexradio] Mic recommendations

2014-01-09 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Here is a vote for the Heil PR40. Plenty of other mikes out there and you can discuss mikes to death but I have never heard a good argument against the PR40 other than it cost more than using a crystal ear bud and gluing a plastic funnel to it and shouting into the funnel. Why drive a screw

Re: [Flexradio] Laptop to use with Flex-1500 portable? Solar charging?

2014-05-05 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Tough challenge. You will need plenty of PV surface area to get significant amps. I have a good portion of the roof of my pickup camper covered with solar electric panels and in really bright sun near noon I get 14-15 amps. Remember if you charge batteries with this current you will loose

Re: [Flexradio] Smart SDR s/w?

2014-05-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I have been on a random walk through cyberspace trying to find an official definitive description of the annual software upgrade costs and conditions for the Flex 6xxx SDR's but no joy. I have waded through a morass of marketing hyperbole and received our old friend ERROR 404 but can't find

Re: [Flexradio] Smart SDR s/w?

2014-05-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
*From:* Patrick Greenlee patric...@windstream.net *To:* flexradio@flex-radio.biz *Sent:* Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:30 AM *Subject:* Re: [Flexradio] Smart SDR s/w? I have been on a random walk through cyberspace trying to find an official definitive

Re: [Flexradio] Smart SDR s/w?

2014-05-13 Thread Patrick Greenlee
Thanks to everyone who helped the little old man across the street. 73, Patrick NJ5G ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] to order a 6300 or not.

2014-05-14 Thread Patrick Greenlee
It is what it is, the new shinny ball. It does things the 5000A doesn't do as per the tech weenies. Everyone's decision process has their own embedded personal bias, background experience and emotion as well as their own desired engineering specifications (sometimes.) It is hard to judge

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000A w/earbuds

2014-11-23 Thread Patrick Greenlee
A capacitor in-line of sufficient rating to handle the voltages to be encountered and with sufficient capacity to pass the lowest freqs of interest will turn off your ear heaters. Maybe you want to wire in a Summer-Winter switch to be able to select cool or warm operation as the seasons

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000A w/earbuds

2014-11-23 Thread Patrick Greenlee
I once had a tube type lab grade audio power amp with a switch on both channels to roll off freqs below 8 Hz for uses such as music so power would not be wasted in reproducing infra-sonic signals from such as footsteps vibrating a phono cartridge. Not sure what benefit audio down in the

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