Re: [Flexradio] A bit of light entertainment

[Bob . Cowdery]

Ok guys. I think a bit of real information is called for here.   Squeak can be downloaded for windows, nix and OS X and a lot of other platforms. I have only used it on windows and linux because I only have those platforms. For those that have downloaded you may have found the squeak map which lets you install a huge range of packages. I have not published my radio yet so it won't be in that list.   So that expectation are set correctly, what I have so far is SDR1000 control through Windows (not a complete implementation yet), although it will be fairly trivial to make that work on Linux as well. The DSP has to be Linux using jsdr because the interface is trivial to use (unix pipes). I will be looking at the windows implementation soon and see if that can be packaged up in a similar way so I can use it easily from Squeak. So - currently I run this as a distributed system with what would conventionally be called the console on windows and the dsp on linux. This interface is not fool-proof yet but works.   There are some pre-requisites for running the radio, the first is the windows parallel port driver. This is IOST and for some reason is not in the map, get it here http://www.smalltalking.net/Goodies/Squeak/ . The second is called Connectors which is in the Squeak map. It takes a while to load in and gives you three grey tabs at the bottom of the screen (FSM, Class Diagram and Connectors). Lastly you will need OperaORB-native which is also in the map to provide distributed computing.   There are seven class categories that make up the radio which I can file-out. I can also provide my workspace which gives you all the commands you need to start things up. If anyone gets this far and wants to give it a try please send me a personal email and I will give you the stuff. Be aware that you may have to play to make it work on your radio hardware as I only have the basic 3 board stack so you may have to change the initialisation to make sure other bits of hardware are turned off etc. I am also not using the Opera name service yet so the IP address needs to be set in the code.   This radio is very minimal at the moment. It's designed to have fun with, not to be a serious operational tool (yet).   73 Bob (G3UKB)          *** Confidentiality Notice *** Proprietary/Confidential Information belonging to CGI Group Inc. and its affiliates may be contained in this message. If you are not a recipient indicated or intended in this message (or responsible for delivery of this message to such person), or you think for any reason that this message may have been addressed to you in error, you may not use or copy or deliver this message to anyone else.  In such case, you should destroy this message and are asked to notify the sender by reply email.