No one should be slapped for posing a problem,
even if all they do is shovel coal for a living.
The assumption that someone you don't know
anything about is incompetent because they don't
have a title of "Dr" in front of their name is
the height of being arrogant. Several times I
have dealt with two people of the "inner circle"
on this list that feel they are above others, who
question your ability to detect a problem or
question your convictions, as far as I'm
concerned they have ceased to exist. Not that it
will make any difference to them, they are too full of themselves.
I wonder if you can guess who they are?
Hang in there, if it's a software problem, one
day it will be mysteriously fixed, you know, the problem that didn't exist.
At 11:33 AM 4/15/2006, Harold Bissonnet wrote:
I have taken the suggestions given by several regarding my current
dilemma with the FireBox/PreSonus configuration. Perhaps my greatest
concern is that I have learned that if I am having issues, like I am
currently and writing about it, then I suspect that there are many
others struggling as well with far less experience that are intimidated
to post their problems. An additional concern is that since embarking
on this odyssey over a year ago now, either I was extremely lucky, or as
this project has developed with all the added complexities to "improve"
this radio system so has the potential for "user problems".
I built and spent a great deal of money on a computer with far in excess
of what should be currently demanded of this radio system. I say that
but who knows what is best for the Flex-Radio. I have asked and others
that have taken my recommendations to actually purchase one of these
radios have asked and you just cannot get that information to the best
of my knowledge. However, these bright anticipations have certainly
been dashed by the current events. Evidently, the more mundane "canned"
computer systems like the "lame" Dell machines and even the lowly
eMachines are more suited for Flex Radio. I mention these two because I
own machines from both manufacturers. You don't seem to get much luck
calling Flex headquarters with many "practical" questions as they and
apparently many others on this reflector site are more concerned with
software/programming issues.
I have begged and pleaded before here and on the phone that there needs
to be some reliable source for users to turn to. This method of casting
your "bait/problem" into this "see" of knowledge has gotten to be a real
experience.............and not a very pleasant one at times. The last
time I voiced my concerns I got my hands slapped and admonished about my
honest concerns and I am sure this will result in the same. You know
folks many of us that are out of some apparent "inner circle" will get
fed up and then you won't have to deal with us peons. I am far too
educated with three scientific degrees and a doctorate to boot to
continue to tolerate this attitude and performance.
For anyone who cares.......... The only thing that has made a
difference on this current failure status at hand is that if you go into
the PreSonus icon down in the task bar and right click on it and set the
"CPU" to low the "interrupts" get fewer. If you set it higher the freq.
of interrupts increases. I have gone into Admin in the Control Panel
and then into Services and disabled as many items I dare feel safe. I
have tried to go into the event logs and look there as well.
Apparently, if there is any processing that occurs whilst the SDR
Console is up and running is when these events take place. Now, this
computer is not one of my aforementioned "canned" ones. It did not come
with all the that garbage proprietary/attendant vendor junk.
Specifically, I thought that this could only make a difference and a
very positive one at that. Perhaps certain caches or paging allocations
with these pre-manufactured machines are modified from that that comes
directly from Microsoft. I guess my gamble/assumptions were horribly wrong
Just tell me why on three other much less powerful computers would the
SDR-1000 perform better? The Dell is just a lowly Celeron 2.4ghz
machine, the 3 year old eMachine is a 2.4ghz Pent 4 with PC2300 memory
and a 5K-RPM hard drive, and the eMachine laptop uses a 1.8ghz AMD
mobile chip. All these computers have been run with the SDR-1000 with
both 1/2 gig of RAM and now a full gig on all but the laptop. They all
are networked here and all run the exact same protective software.
I am going to try my older SDR-1000 on my new computer and see if there
is any difference. I expect there won't be. Oh, and by the way, there
is NO apparent audio as well on transmit. You can use the "Tune" button
on the console and you get some sort of familiar RF output. However, if
you attempt to use the MOX to transmit a voice transmission the radio
seems to send out some sort of a full output RF signal peaking at
almost 134 watts. Attempting to "turn down" the power is useless as
well on the SDR Console. There is evidently something very wrong here
and I suspect it is most likely going to be simple and obvious. I just
have no where else to look at the moment.
I will not apologize for either the length of my transmittals or their
perceived naiveté by others. I am not shy about things that I am
passionate about like this. I feel like giving the entire picture at
once will facilitate a clearer understanding of the matters at hand.
Given this ONLY AVENUE of support, I hope that for those, like me with
issues/problems, there will be someone that can help.
Harold
KD5RD
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