[Flexradio] Log Program = DX Lab
I use the DXlab suite. It can be set up to transfer spot data to the SDR and the spot data gets filled into the log screen. It also has as map that shows where the spots are occuring and you can filter the data so only the information you want displayed is displayed. Oh yes and it's free http://www.qsl.net/dxlab/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [Flexradio] FATAL ERROR STARTING PREVIEW 12
Gerald, Eric I tried removing, downloading and installing Preview 12 again yesterday. After shutting down the computer and restarting, I was again presented with the fatal error and messages I e-mailed you when start-up reached Loading Main Form. I then renamed 'command_memory.txt' and 'PowerSDR.mdb' and restarted Preview 12 which brought up the wizard. In wizard, I imported PowerSDR.mdb from the Preview 8 folder and Preview 12 ran OK. Shut down and re-started the computer then started Preview 12 and it came back OK without the fatal error I had been getting when start-up reached Loading Main Form. All of the settings I had in Preview 8 were imported OK and Preview 12 runs with no problem every time I start up. Until this version, all I had to do was copy 'command_memory.txt' and 'PowerSDR.mdb' from the folder containing the previously working version into the folder where the new version was installed, start-up and run the new version. Phil, K3IB
Re: [Flexradio] FATAL ERROR STARTING PREVIEW 12
It has been repeatedly stated here and elsewhere, but apparently not forcefully enough that copying is bad, importation is good. DO NOT COPY THE database. Inside the database there is an indication of the version that built it. command_memory.txt is OVERWRITTEN every time you start up and there is no reason to preserve it. All data entries for commands are preserved in the database. command_memory.txt is used ONLY when you do resize of the dsp from (say) 2048 (default) to some other buffer size. This is a simple and clean approach for doing this. Requiring importation of the mdb is the only way we can manage the conversion process when we have to convert database entries/groupings/types/etc. Bob Philip M. Lanese wrote: Gerald, Eric I tried removing, downloading and installing Preview 12 again yesterday. After shutting down the computer and restarting, I was again presented with the fatal error and messages I e-mailed you when start-up reached Loading Main Form. I then renamed 'command_memory.txt' and 'PowerSDR.mdb' and restarted Preview 12 which brought up the wizard. In wizard, I imported PowerSDR.mdb from the Preview 8 folder and Preview 12 ran OK. Shut down and re-started the computer then started Preview 12 and it came back OK without the fatal error I had been getting when start-up reached Loading Main Form. All of the settings I had in Preview 8 were imported OK and Preview 12 runs with no problem every time I start up. Until this version, all I had to do was copy 'command_memory.txt' and 'PowerSDR.mdb' from the folder containing the previously working version into the folder where the new version was installed, start-up and run the new version. Phil, K3IB ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com -- AMSAT VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP/AMQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR Wrk Grp Chairman Laziness is the number one inspiration for ingenuity. Guilty as charged!
Re: [Flexradio] Apologies (disk crash)
I poked around the web and found some software which said try the demo, it will tell you what can be recovered. if it works, pay for the software and recover the data. sounds like a good business model. anyway, it did extract just about everything, but the directory tree was trashed, so I have 140+ lost folders, files intact but with no name or links, to sort through before everything is back in order. so the software worked, and was worth the $$ to me: Stellar Pheonix NTFS I'm sure there are other solutions out there, but this one worked for me and goes in my tool kit. and I'll be looking into the shadowing recommended here, as well as doing a full backup. 73 paul At 05:10 PM 2/1/2006, Robert McGwier wrote: Well I have returned home to a couple of disasters.I downloaded email, etc. on Monday morning at 1:30 AM when I returned home.My antivirus service updated the engine and asked me to reboot. I did and went to bed. I got up the next day and Read Error Ctrl-Alt-Del and that is all it will do. I had a day long presentation at Rutgers yesterday and this morning I attempted install the drive on another machine. It is hopelessly gone. I have lost about two months stuff plus/minus. I got lazy about the beginning of my trip to Germany and then I had the business trip to Reno, etc. etc. I just did not do the backups I was supposed to do for six weeks and got bit. If you have sent me email in the past two weeks, consider it lost. It is possible that I may eventually get enough stuff off this drive to find some of it useful but I am in reconstruction mode. Bob ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
[Flexradio] Mystery solved (Uncontrollable power output with 1.4.5 Preview 12)
I should have checked this before posting my earlier findings. It appears that the audio gain shown in the Windows volume control is reset to some default values when the SDR Console is started. The default settings are quite hot in my opinion given the result. If I turn the line in, wave and main levels almost off, I get the 30 watts of desired output. PWR and AF settings on the SDR console were 30 watts and 30% respectively (these were unchanged). There was a recent post regarding this or a very similar problem dealing with the Delta 44. The solution was to upgrade to 1.4.5. Preview 12 or later. Does anyone have a copy of that post? Thanks, John W9EN --- John Belstner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:53:06 -0800 (PST) From: John Belstner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Uncontrollable power output with 1.4.5 Preview 12 To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Greetings, In upgrading from 1.4.4 I am seeing a drastic increase in power output with the same audio levels. Eric mentioned to me when I tried an earlier Preview that the drive chain was different in 1.4.5 but what I'm seeing with Preview 12 is the inability to turn the power down using the Windows volume control panel. With what I believe to be no drive (main, wave and line in volumes turned all the way down) the power output indicates over 200 watts PSK31. I immediately powered down of course. The power setting on the console was 30 W and using 1.4.4 that's exactly what I get regardless of what the audio drive is. I hope that brief incident wasn't damaging to the PA. It made the lights flash and the stereo speakers hum a bit though. Any ideas? Cheers, John
Re: [Flexradio] Mystery solved (Uncontrollable power output with 1.4.5Preview 12)
John, What soundcard are you using? It is imperative that you have the right voltage listed on the Setup Form - Audio Tab. For our supported cards, this is done automatically. If you are using another card, you will need to measure the Max VRMS of the soundcard using the test function included in the PowerSDR software. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Belstner Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:47 AM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Mystery solved (Uncontrollable power output with 1.4.5Preview 12) I should have checked this before posting my earlier findings. It appears that the audio gain shown in the Windows volume control is reset to some default values when the SDR Console is started. The default settings are quite hot in my opinion given the result. If I turn the line in, wave and main levels almost off, I get the 30 watts of desired output. PWR and AF settings on the SDR console were 30 watts and 30% respectively (these were unchanged). There was a recent post regarding this or a very similar problem dealing with the Delta 44. The solution was to upgrade to 1.4.5. Preview 12 or later. Does anyone have a copy of that post? Thanks, John W9EN --- John Belstner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:53:06 -0800 (PST) From: John Belstner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Uncontrollable power output with 1.4.5 Preview 12 To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Greetings, In upgrading from 1.4.4 I am seeing a drastic increase in power output with the same audio levels. Eric mentioned to me when I tried an earlier Preview that the drive chain was different in 1.4.5 but what I'm seeing with Preview 12 is the inability to turn the power down using the Windows volume control panel. With what I believe to be no drive (main, wave and line in volumes turned all the way down) the power output indicates over 200 watts PSK31. I immediately powered down of course. The power setting on the console was 30 W and using 1.4.4 that's exactly what I get regardless of what the audio drive is. I hope that brief incident wasn't damaging to the PA. It made the lights flash and the stereo speakers hum a bit though. Any ideas? Cheers, John ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
Re: [Flexradio] FATAL ERROR STARTING PREVIEW 12
At 08:59 AM 2/5/2006, Robert McGwier wrote: It has been repeatedly stated here and elsewhere, but apparently not forcefully enough that copying is bad, importation is good. DO NOT COPY THE database. Inside the database there is an indication of the version that built it. Perhaps then, good defensive programming practice would be to recognize the improper importation and throw a useful error message, rather than dying miserably? Recognizing the difficulty of determining the user version of an mdb file without opening it (although, presumably, there's some obscure API call that can probably do it.. certainly this was the case back in the ancient days of Access 1 and Access 2, where one could validate the database schema identifier before trying to open the database) Copying whole directories around is common practice, and inadvertent version incompatibilities are sure to arise, especially when, for instance, restoring from a backup that's just a teensy bit too old or transferrring everything to a new computer. Much as MS would like folks to always use the software install/uninstall/upgrade APIs, they're not entirely trouble-free, and sometimes come with baggage we'd rather not have to deal with (digital rights management, Palladium, Authenticode, and all that stuff). This sort of thing might also help with smooth and clean multiple instance execution with multiple radios. (which, by the way, is a place where MS install really can get clunky.. when you want to have multiple versions of the same application) Jim
Re: [Flexradio] [amsat-bb] Third and Fourth drives this year
At 01:13 PM 2/4/2006, Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote: Why not automate this via a scheduled job? Overnight my development machine is copied to two other computers, all source code is uploaded to a secure server 100 miles away. Overnight mirrors do solve the hardware failure problem, and, potentially, limit the loss to a days work. However, you need the journaling aspect (or some similar archiving scheme) that allows you to go back 1 day, or 2 days, or a week, to recover from the probably more common: Oops, I wish I hadn't deleted that. There's a very fine writeup somewhere that talks about how the whole File Save function is a holdover from days when storage was slow and expensive, and the whole save/open/delete should just happen transparently. Why should you explicitly have to save, as long as you have the option to go back as far as you want. Jim
[Flexradio] SSB Carrier suppression on Preview 12
SDR Gang, I have received several reports while running Preview 12 of unsuppressed carrier. Sure enough it is strong enough to be heard and seen on a ProII receiver.And looking at the transmitted signal in the PowerSDR console, version 11's carrier appears to be roughly 55 db down from the voice peaks, whereas version 12 is only 30 db down.. Anyone else seen or hear this? Don't forget the SDR Net at 1400 Eastern on or around 14.313 MHz. Thanks, 73, Dudley WA5QPZ
Re: [Flexradio] FATAL ERROR STARTING PREVIEW 12
Thanks for the response Bob, I tried importing becauseI remembered seeing your post onthesame trap (more thana 'D'-microsecond ago)butwith the volume of posts to this reflector a lotthat probably should be saved get deleted (and sometimes forgotten). Phil, K3IB - Original Message - From: "Robert McGwier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Philip M. Lanese" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "FlexRadio" FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FATAL ERROR STARTING PREVIEW 12 It has been repeatedly stated here and elsewhere, but apparently not forcefully enough that copying is bad, importation is good. DO NOT COPY THE database. Inside the database there is an indication of the version that built it. command_memory.txt is OVERWRITTEN every time you start up and there is no reason to preserve it. All data entries for commands are preserved in the database. command_memory.txt is used ONLY when you do "resize" of the dsp from (say) 2048 (default) to some other buffer size. This is a simple and clean approach for doing this. Requiring importation of the mdb is the only way we can manage the conversion process when we have to convert database entries/groupings/types/etc. Bob
Re: [Flexradio] SSB Carrier suppression on Preview 12
Sure do. I just finished testing it on 20m USB with 1.4.5p12. If I have the TX set to 14.170 MHz and key the rig without modulating, I begin to hear an unsuppressed carrier on a separate receiver starting at 14.17000 MHz (barely audible) which increases in intensity and pitch until a peak at 14.16690 MHz (very audible). It does this with versions 1.4.5p7 and 1.4.4. Version 1.4.4 sounds louder than 1.4.5p7. The difference between 1.4.5p7 and 1.4.5p12 is too close to tell by ear. I have no way to test this with a scope, so these observations are at best approximations. -Tim --- Tim Ellison ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Integrated Technical Services ( http://www.itsco.com ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dudley Hurry Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:55 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] SSB Carrier suppression on Preview 12 SDR Gang, I have received several reports while running Preview 12 of unsuppressed carrier. Sure enough it is strong enough to be heard and seen on a ProII receiver.And looking at the transmitted signal in the PowerSDR console, version 11's carrier appears to be roughly 55 db down from the voice peaks, whereas version 12 is only 30 db down.. Anyone else seen or hear this? Don't forget the SDR Net at 1400 Eastern on or around 14.313 MHz. Thanks, 73, Dudley WA5QPZ ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
