Kevin, See my comments below
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Feeney Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:21 PM To: Flex Edge Subject: [FlexEdge] No transmit audio with 2.0.19 RC1 Been happily running 2.0.16 since it came out. Flex 5000A, with 2nd receiver installed. Windows XP SP3 and hotfix, cpu load about 20%. Microphone audio is fed through an external mixer itno the balanced input. I waited a day, saw all the good reviews and installed 2.0.19. Receiving, it seemed to work pretty well, but when I went to transmit, I noticed I wasn't getting any output. Checked my audio system and the various settings and didn't find any issues, but I can't get any RF out in SSB, see any modulation on the panadaptor or see any audio modulation on the panadaptor in AM mode. Soooo, I clicked on the 2.0.16 icon and fired up that version. Transmit audio works normally, which kind of rules out the cat bumping settings on the audio mixer. Back to .19, no audio again. Hmmmm. Reset the database and restarted. No TX audio. Removed 2.0.19 and the driver and reinstalled. No TX audio. 2.0.16 still operates normally when called up. Kind of stumped. Observations: The first couple of times I started up .19, a little box appeared saying something about reading calibration values from EEPROM and took about 30 seconds to clear as green bar marched to the right. I don't recall seeing that in .16. After the reinstall of .19, I don't think it did that. [Tim] PowerSDR always does that with a new database - it is transferring data from the radio's EEPROM (where the calibration data is stored) to the database. The first time I installed .19, it automatically went into a calibration routine. The second time I installed it, it did not. [Tim] PowerSDR can tell when you have updated RX image calibration data in the EEPROM. It only needs to do it once. It also seemed to remember some of the settings from the previous install such as the frequencies in the band stack. This makes me wonder whether the removal really cleared all the information it needed to. [Tim] As noted before, radio calibration data is stored permanently in the radio's EEPROM, not on the PC. Also removing the software does not remove your database, as it was created after the installer placed files on your computer. Both times I installed .19, I specified only F3K/F5K radios, not the legacy SDR1000 I had also installed on 2.0.16. However both times when the install was completed and PowerSDR starts up, it presents me with the radio chooser with the F5K and the SDR1000. It seems to have 'remembered' that from the 2.0.16 install. I thought each version of PowerSDR ended up in it's own directory with it's own files. [Tim] This is the default behavior when there is no master.xml file (that controls what radios have been used with the PC) I'm presuming I've got a cockpit error here someplace, but not sure what it is. [Tim] Probably not. Have you tried a hardware reset? Sounds like the firmware didn't properly initialize after loading http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50350.aspx I've migrated from 1.18.6 to on an SDR1000 to the F5K, then upgraded to 2.0.8, and then 2.0.16 with no issues. Now with 2.0.19 things are a bit weird. I read the release notes and I thought I followed the steps outlined correctly. Besides using the add/remove tool in control panel, is there more I need to do to really clean out PowerSDR? Should I remove the previous versions that are on the machine as well? [Tim] No, do not remove previous versions. That could cause problem with the Firewire driver. Next steps? [Tim] Contact Dudley with FlexRadio Support TIA Kevin, WB2EMS _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
