Hi Jim Glad to see you are an MCSE. I have hired many of those and they are of great value. I am now back home in VE3 land, so I will set it up in my test lab and see if I can get control of it. (You seem to be missing Dstar from your list of supported ham things! :) )
I have to rerun some cables here to my actual local station which is an XP box. The noise level here is pretty high, so I also hope to get my K9AY antenna built here (in Toronto). My long term goal is to set the SDR3000 up at my remote base and replace the TS480 that is up there. Also, can you explain why some drivers are supposed to be digitally signed don't show up as digitally signed. Is there some service or Verisign type of signature that might be missing on my system? Thanks all.. Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -----Original Message----- From: Jim Fuller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 01:30 To: 'Michael Walker (VA3MW)' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Some initial comments Hi Mike, What I see is the MIDI Drivers are not loading. This can be checked under Devices and Printers with the Flex-Radio plugged in an turned on. You should have two Flex MIDI Drivers and one other Flex Driver. The other driver software can load and show the Flex connected, but not run the radio, as the MIDI Drivers are not loaded. Also, there is often a event entry showing the driver could not load. If this is the case, I would first check that the 1394a Driver for VISTA is of the legacy Version. It can be changed via the update function selecting manual install options. I have had two Vista updates that changed the 1394a driver away from the legacy driver. I have not been able to trace the direct reason, but have found that the updates are related to the MS09-047 security patch. I hope this helps. Jim Fuller - Microsoft Partner, MSCE, DBA, CNE N7VR -- http://www.n7vr.org International TCP/IP Gateways Robot Operator -- http://www.ampr-gateways.org MTAPRS NET Server Operator -- http://www.mtaprs.net CWOP-2 -- http://www.wxqa.com IRLP Node 3398 - http://irlp.fuller.net Original ARECC contributor -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Walker (VA3MW) Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Some initial comments Jerry I clearly understand what you are saying. I use computers every day and have many dedicated for specific purposes. I also work with a team that provide real time sport results to television. Lots of our tools use Firewire and lots use IP communication (especially in World Cup Ski Racing). I work with windows/linux, etc. every day with real time applications. My goal on this project was to be able to take my 3K with me and have it function on the laptop I take on the road. My latency numbers/graph are always in the green. It is not a cpu load issue. It is likely due to the hardware interface into OS. However, the problem is that the box worked great for 1 week. Then, for some 'strange' OS reason, the Firewire driver actually sees the radio. Great. But the PowerSDR does not see the radio. Why???? For those of you with a logical mind, the fact that the 3K is seen by the driver software tells me that the hardware is not the issue. So, that leaves PowerSDR as the culprit. So, someone tell me how to debug it. Are there logs that show the communication successes and failures. I don't want guessing. I want facts. I don't want to waste my time guessing on how to fix it. I need the tools to understand the failure. So, please, don't blame the OS or the build of PowerSDR unless you have the facts. Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Flanders [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 09:14 To: Michael Walker (VA3MW); [email protected] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Some initial comments Mike, it seems to me that you are complaining about the radio because the computer has faults. if you see the advantages of your 3000, you might want to consider dedicating a computer specifically to it and not use that computer for other purposes, just as you might have purchased a speaker for a legacy rig and not expected to use it with your HiFi stereo. I shopped for a PC to dedicate specifically to my 5000a. I never considered it as a general-purpose computer for other household needs (I have others for that). It has all the features I need to run current flex software very well and it cost about the same as the optional second rx I added to my radio order. It can sit here and just service the radio for many years - it runs XP Pro and newer op sys features will not be needed for PowerSDR or my other ham programs (also running on it) for a LONG time. I think of it as a 5000a accessory just as if it was an ATU or other radio option, not a household computer. One of the members of this list assembles and sells tweaked inexpensive computers that are apparently stable and work well with PowerSDR. Jerry W4UK At 08:05 AM 9/12/2009, Michael Walker \(VA3MW\) wrote: >I thought a would share a few comments, strengths and weaknesses. I have >spent the last week here in Portillo Chile with my 3K. With limited >internet, I have had time to really focus on trying to get this to work and >work well. > > > >When I could get the device working, I thought it was great and I was just >starting to scratch the surface of the power of this box. The hardware is >amazing. > > > >However, the software has a long way to go before it truly gets to the full >Ham consumer market. Yes, it does run just fine on XP as many have told me. >But, if Flex wants to make it to the next step, they either have to claim >that running on Vista 64 bit is not fully supported. To ask a customer to >disable UAC, run in TEST mode and to run with digitally signed drivers off >is great for those of you who want to be beta testers. > > > >I have worked with PC's from the initial 8088 when I was with IBM as it was >released. I also had to support it for years up to including OS/2. I am >far from a virgin PC user and if I can't get this to run stable on a >supposedly support platform, then 80% of the Flex market will not be able to >as well. > > > >With want I know and do with the internet, I refuse to keep in this mode for >any time. The exposures to machine infiltration if you are connected to the >internet is very large. > > > >I suspect that I will return my 3K and wait until it is fully support and >tested with the current market trends (ie: what you and I can pick up at >Best Buy). > > > >Clearly the weakest link is firewire. Firewire and Windows have always had >a struggle. If this run on a Mac, I might go buy a Macbook in a second if I >know it would work flawlessly. It will be interesting to see how this goes >for the coming months. > > > >Mike VA3MW > > > > > > <http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html> >http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html > > > >-------------- next part -------------- >This email was Anti Virus checked by Astaro Security Gateway. >http://www.astaro.com >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >[email protected] >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >http://www.flex-radio.com/ >Message delivered to [email protected] _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to [email protected] _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to [email protected]
