[Flexradio] Atlas board
On Teamspeak today it was mentioned that you can order the Atlas board at hamsdr. I must be visually impaired cos I cant find an option to order one there. Can anyone point this old fool to the spot.? Cheers Keith VK6XH -- Keith Bainbridge Air Receiver Inspection Services Unfired Pressure Vessel Inspections Safety Relief Valve Repairs. Mob: 0419 901 539 Fax: 08 9379 3423 A/Hours 08 9279 4923 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] PowerSDR v1.6.1 Released
They all work fine here. Bring on the steaks, ice cream and beer for the Bad Boys! -Tim --- Tim Ellison ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Integrated Technical Services ( http://www.itsco.com ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KD5NWA Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:38 AM To: FlexRadio - Eric Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR v1.6.1 Released Bad boys, links that don't work, no supper tonight. Installer Download: http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Install/PowerSDR_v1.6. 1.exe Source Code Snapshot Download: http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Source/PowerSDR_v1.6.1 _Source.zip At 11:25 PM 5/5/2006, FlexRadio - Eric wrote: In a continuing effort to improve the already stabile PowerSDR official release, we bring you v1.6.1. See the complete release notes linked below for details. Release Notes: http://flex-radio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2012 Installer Download: http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Install/PowerSDR_v1.6 .1.ex e Source Code Snapshot Download: http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Source/PowerSDR_v1.6. 1_Sou rce.zip Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems ___ 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 Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Windows the worlds most successful software virus ___ 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 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] Atlas board
Thanks Pete Folks You will have to join the HAMSDR website to get the the projects Atlas tab. There are currently about 155 board orders. Yes, orders for the production run of the Atlas board which is the motherboard and power plane for other project boards now in development. The Atlas which has recently been alpha tested forms the basis for the first phase of the project which is a high quality audio converter board which is just going into the Alpha test phase. The Atlas is designed to mount in a PC enclosure and use an ATX power supply. One ATX supply identified and tested fits right into the ATX connector on the Atlas and is powered by 12 VDC which makes it portable. There are many other well thought out features on the Atlas. Be aware that none of these boards are an assembled unit. You will have to manage the assembly on the Atlas. Here is the complete assembly guide for the Atlas produced by Horst DL6KBF http://www.hamsdr.com/dnld.aspx?id=217 Although this is not directly 'on topic' for the SDR-1000 forum the implications to the SDR-1000 owners are obvious, and since it is 'user sponsored' You may wish to order the Atlas for the potential to eliminate the sound card in the PowerSDR/SDR-1000. The cost of the board will be in the $10 - $20 range. This production run might not be repeated so best to get in on the ground floor and be ready for the future boards. Production order will probably go in next week for the Atlas. The audio board called the Janus has been designed and tested by Phil - VK6APH and Bill KD5TFD. About 4 alpha boards will be produced as early as next week. Here is the current information regarding the Janus board. About the Janus Module The Janus module is a very high performance, dual, full duplex, A/D and D/A converter board. While the M-Audio Delta 44 has become the de-facto standard for A/D sound cards for use with a SDR, there are a number of advantages to rolling your own. These include having complete control of any software drivers needed to communicate with the A/D chips as well as optimization of sampling rates and bit depths for individual signals. It's also possible to cost effectively develop a board which approaches the performance of professional high end sound cards. The consumer demand for high quality PC sound cards has resulted in the availability of a number of very high performance, and low cost, A/D and D/A converter chips that are ideal candidates for this project. Current Status The bake-off of the A/D converters is complete and the clear winner is the Cirrus Logic CS5381. The chip yeilded a spectacular -160dBm (11Hz bandwidth) noise floor and 120dBm dynamic range. The CS5381 has been interfaced to a Xylo FPGA development board and interface to PowerSDR over the USB link by Bill KD5TFD. So far the interface has been successfully tested at both 48 and 96ks/s with 192k due to be tested shortly. Bill's modifications to the PowerSDR sofware provides 3 A/D inputs ( I/Q and line/microphone) and 4 outputs (left/right receiver audio and I/Q audio for the exciter). These are both full duplex so VOX etc operation works just fine. He has also added PTT and CW inputs to the FPGA and these appear to provide very low latency inputs to PowerSDR. The PCB for the Janus board is currently being laid out by Lyle, KK7P, and the latest version of the schematic may be found at http://www.kk7p.com/HPSDR/JanusXA8.pdf and the PCB layout is at http://www.kk7p.com/HPSDR/JanusPCB.zip for viewing or download. This is for review and comment by the group. (We'll try to keep this link up to date if revisions are made.) The selection of A/D converter for microphone and line inputs and D/A converters for audio out and I/Q signals for the transmitter was somewhat simpler. It was hard to go past the TI TLV320AIC23B. This remarkable chip contains a microphone amplifier, with bias feed for an electret microphone, stereo line in and out, stereo 16-bit A/D and D/A converters together with 35mW stereo headphone amplifier. The price for this chip is $7 (US) in single quantities. We have a lot to thank MP3 players for! The project leaders for the board are Bill KD5TFD and Phil VK6APH. The Ozymandias board: To complete the 'audio analysis' system in this project you will need one other board being designed by Phil Covington - N8VB. This board is called the Ozymandias or Ozy for short. The function of this board is Traffic Cop between the backplane and PC using an Cyclone II FPGA and a Cypress FX USB2 (480 kbs) chip. Phil has submitted the schematic design of this board for comment. Since the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is the equivalent of a 'hardware etch a sketch' it becomes a 'create almost anything in hardware'. It will serve as the 'hardware keyer' and GPS frequency standard input to the system, as well as buss controller. Contrary to popular opinion, you don't have to be an expert in Mythology to participate. Just helps to identify the boards under
[Flexradio] software
Fellow flexers, I have another probably dumb question. At present my sdr is in Austin for observation. I have no radio connected to the computer. I have four versions of the software on the pc. When I bring up ver. 1.4.4 and 1.4.5 and activate the standby button, all is well and on receive. With version 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, when I activate the MON and MOX come on the the software is in transmit. The only way to get out of MOX is to click back to standby. Any time the software is activated it goes into transmit. What would make these versions act this way while the older versions come on in receive? Probably obvious to everyone but me. hi 73, Mike K5NU -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060506/63710fda/attachment.htm ___ 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] sdr
Fellow Flexers, I went and imported databases from the older versions to 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 and they now behave properly when activated. However, I still don't quite understand what makes the 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 versions come on in Transmit. When downloading them I chose to not import databases. Therefore, they are in MOX when turned on. Again, all this is with no sdr hardware connected. 73, Mike K5NU -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060506/22f776be/attachment.htm ___ 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] software
Mike, You probably have PTT or VOX disabled on the older versions of the software. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of k5nu Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 10:15 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] software Fellow flexers, I have another probably dumb question. At present my sdr is in Austin for observation. I have no radio connected to the computer. I have four versions of the software on the pc. When I bring up ver. 1.4.4 and 1.4.5 and activate the standby button, all is well and on receive. With version 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, when I activate the MON and MOX come on the the software is in transmit. The only way to get out of MOX is to click back to standby. Any time the software is activated it goes into transmit. What would make these versions act this way while the older versions come on in receive? Probably obvious to everyone but me. hi 73, Mike K5NU -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex- radio.biz/attachments/20060506/63710fda/attachment.htm ___ 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 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] software
Hi Mike, I've seen the same thing but never chased down when the software was changed. I think the change would be in the release notes that Eric1 always put out with each version. At least the visual effect affects only your heart and not the equipment. 73, Larry K2LT k5nu wrote: Fellow flexers, I have another probably dumb question. At present my sdr is in Austin for observation. I have no radio connected to the computer. I have four versions of the software on the pc. When I bring up ver. 1.4.4 and 1.4.5 and activate the standby button, all is well and on receive. With version 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, when I activate the MON and MOX come on the the software is in transmit. The only way to get out of MOX is to click back to standby. Any time the software is activated it goes into transmit. What would make these versions act this way while the older versions come on in receive? Probably obvious to everyone but me. hi 73, Mike K5NU -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060506/63710fda/attachment.htm ___ 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 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] sdr
Mike: You have PTT disabled in the older versions for some reason. The default condition is to allow you to key your radio for TX without pushing the MOX button manually! Bob N4HY k5nu wrote: Fellow Flexers, I went and imported databases from the older versions to 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 and they now behave properly when activated. However, I still don't quite understand what makes the 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 versions come on in Transmit. When downloading them I chose to not import databases. Therefore, they are in MOX when turned on. Again, all this is with no sdr hardware connected. 73, Mike K5NU -- 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! ___ 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
