Re: [Flexradio] ZERO BEAT GREYED OUT

2005-07-05 Thread Philip M. Lanese
Thanks All I remember seeing a reference to it a while back -- chalk it up to a "dummy microsecond". Phil, K3IB - Original Message - From: "FlexRadio - Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Philip M. Lanese'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'FlexRadio'" Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:49 PM Subject: RE

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.14 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Dudley Hurry
Guys, OK, I see the TX Rejection in the DSP setup, but how are we suppose to adjust it? Just curious. Thanks, Dudley WA5QPZ At 07:12 PM 7/5/2005 -0500, Eric wrote: The latest version addresses many CW concerns among other things. Please read the release notes for details. http://www.flex

Re: [Flexradio] ZERO BEAT GREYED OUT

2005-07-05 Thread Bill Tracey
You need to use one of the display modes with averaging turned on to enable zero beat -- it works off the averaging data. If it's a popular feature will look at maintaining the avg data even when not needed for the display. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 09:31 PM 7/5/2005, Philip M. Lanese wrot

RE: [Flexradio] ZERO BEAT GREYED OUT

2005-07-05 Thread FlexRadio - Eric
Display averaging (AVG) must be turned on in order for 0 Beat to be enabled. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip M. Lanese Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:32 PM To: FlexRadio Subject: [Flexradio] ZERO BEAT GREYED OUT Just noticed

[Flexradio] ZERO BEAT GREYED OUT

2005-07-05 Thread Philip M. Lanese
Just noticed that Zero Beat is grayed out in V1.3.13 & V1.3.14. Is the RFE board or some file I have not downloaded required for this function to operate? Phil, K3IB

Re: [Flexradio] CW Zero Beat; fixed at 600 Hz?

2005-07-05 Thread Bill Tracey
Zero beating to CW offset is the right thing to do -- fix has been sent of to Flex HQ for inclusion in the next (post 1.3.14) release. If anyone wants to drop in the fix to play with the changed routine (in console.cs) is: - start code private void btnZeroBeat_Click

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.14 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Philip Covington
Hi Eric, Just a note about the serial port fix in the CAT code: // Issue: Opening a serial port that was already open causes problems. // Fix: While this is not ideal operation, the user is now // protected from opening a serial port that was already // opened. I think that there is a misunders

[Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.14 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Eric
The latest version addresses many CW concerns among other things. Please read the release notes for details. http://www.flex-radio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1753 Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems

RE: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 Illuminated power switch

2005-07-05 Thread ecellison
Guys Let's try to catch Ross on Teamspeak. I keep promising myself I'll stop at Autozone on my way home! Eric2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Naruta Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 6:18 PM To: Richard A. Kronick; flexradio@flex-radio.

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 Illuminated power switch

2005-07-05 Thread Mike Naruta
Hello Dick, I used the AutoZone "Pilot Mini Rocker Switch", PL-SW12G, green. It has a third terminal, which you run to ground. It's a little deeper than the Flex Radio switch, so I wound up nipping off part of the insulation on the terminals to keep them from hitting the SDR board. I'm pretty

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.13 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Jerald Jones
Eric, I realize that the display and the filter results are two seperate items. I checked the filter response out by injecting white noise into the SDR-1000 and used a spectrum analyzer on the audio output. The change from 1024 to 2048 DSP buffer size helped a little but the 25 and 50 her

RE: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.13 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Eric
Jerry, Just so we're clear, there is no difference between the GEN band and the others. The differences in the code are: (1) Mode (2) Filter Low/High Cut Note that if you use a Var filter, you can probably set the low end to -50 and the high cut to +50 and get what you're looking for in terms o

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.13 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Jerald Jones
Eric, See notes below: WK0J Jerry - Original Message - From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jerald Jones'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:31 PM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.13 Released Jerald, Please see my comments below: -Original Mess

[Flexradio] Latest version of the CAT Dictionary posted

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Tracy
All, I just posted the latest revision to the CAT Dictionary on my website at http://btracy.com on the SDR-1000 link. This version is in sync with the Beta SDR-1000 software to be released very soon. 73, Bob K5KDN

[Flexradio] Re: CAT commands

2005-07-05 Thread José Dumoulin
Hi Bob Tks for your prompt reply. 1 - Concerning ZZMD, things are prefectly clear. 2 - NB : using the CAT command tester, NB not engaged. I send the command NB; the response is NB0; I was expecting NB1; Same remark with ZZBI.: reads the Binaural status. Not engaged, ZZBS; returns ZZBS0; 73 -

[Flexradio] RE: CAT commands

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Tracy
Hi Jose, With regard to ZZMD, I'm afraid the documentation got ahead of the code. The next release will have a selection for SDR-1000 (along with several Kenwood types) on the CAT Control tab in Setup. If you select SDR-1000 (which is an internal ID code of 900) ZZMD will respond with 0 to B (hex

RE: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.13 Released

2005-07-05 Thread Eric
Jerald, Please see my comments below: -Original Message- From: Jerald Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:09 AM To: Eric; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta 1.3.13 Released Eric, I am operating without the RFE card and with

RE: [Flexradio] Suggested Section in Manual for Digital Modes

2005-07-05 Thread Eric
Larry, The "one number" approach is a good overall measuring stick for how much power the PA can handle. Clearly the duty cycle of digital modes must be <100%, so I'm sure technically you could send more power safely. The question of how much more would be determined by the duty cycle of that pa

Re: [Flexradio] 1.3.13

2005-07-05 Thread José Dumoulin
Hi Klaus The BIN button has not the expected effect. When engaged, the sound is louder. Klaus Lohmann a écrit : Bob and others, hope you had relaxing holidays. Some observations made with 1.3.13: 1. BIN has no effect 2. TX I/Q-alignement has no effect - sideband suppression ok. I hope ther

[Flexradio] SDR-1000 Illuminated power switch

2005-07-05 Thread Richard A. Kronick
One of the SDR-1000 owners installed an illuminated power switch. Said that it came from AutoZone as a drop in. Would someone happen to have either the AutoZone part number or a mouser part number. Thanks. 73 Dick W4RAK

Re: [Flexradio] Suggested Section in Manual for Digital Modes

2005-07-05 Thread Larry Loen
Eric wrote: Larry, I don't know about specifications by mode, but the specification for the amplifier itself should be some sort of indicator. We should probably add this to the specifications chapter, but the official word is that our 100W PA is capable of handling up to 25W for continuous ca

RE: [Flexradio] Suggested Section in Manual for Digital Modes

2005-07-05 Thread Eric
Larry, I don't know about specifications by mode, but the specification for the amplifier itself should be some sort of indicator. We should probably add this to the specifications chapter, but the official word is that our 100W PA is capable of handling up to 25W for continuous carriers. Eri

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Lux
At 09:23 AM 7/5/2005, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Jim Lux wrote: > At 07:22 AM 7/5/2005, Frank Brickle wrote: > >> Jim Lux wrote: >> > There you go, then... Fire up the spotting tone at some convenient > frequency, run the audio output from the Delta 44 into your counter, > and directly measure t

[Flexradio] 1.3.13

2005-07-05 Thread Klaus Lohmann
Bob and others, hope you had relaxing holidays. Some observations made with 1.3.13: 1. BIN has no effect 2. TX I/Q-alignement has no effect - sideband suppression ok. I hope there is no intention to eliminate TX I/Q-alignement in the long run. 3. Display is not steady during T/R-switching 4. RX/

[Flexradio] CAT commands

2005-07-05 Thread José Dumoulin
Hi Bob (K5KDN) I am somewhat confused by the values returned by some CAT commands : ZZMD returns 1 for LSB while the doc says 0.etc... Status returned by NB, PR, ZZBI seems inverted. 73 - José F5JD

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jim Lux wrote: > At 07:22 AM 7/5/2005, Frank Brickle wrote: > >> Jim Lux wrote: >> >>> Seems that a better way to measure clock accuracy on the sound card >>> is to generate a sine wave in software and run it out to the >>> (external reference locked) counter. >> >> >> The spotting tone function i

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Lux
At 07:22 AM 7/5/2005, Frank Brickle wrote: Jim Lux wrote: Seems that a better way to measure clock accuracy on the sound card is to generate a sine wave in software and run it out to the (external reference locked) counter. The spotting tone function in the DSP will generate a continuous sin

RE: [Flexradio] Very Low Output Power on 10 meters

2005-07-05 Thread Gerald Youngblood
John, Make sure you use the latest beta release, which has an improved calibration routine. This may eliminate the error condition. Gerald K5SDR > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John M. Belstner > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:09 AM >

[Flexradio] Re: Unable to get PowerSDR 1.3.13 to work with vCOM 222

2005-07-05 Thread Philip Covington
Hi Wally, If it is working with v1.3.5 there is no reason to uninstall and then reinstall the vCOM driver. The vCOM driver does not care what version of PowerSDR you are using... Can you give some more specific information? Do you get any errors from PowerSDR? There appears to be an issue with

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: Seems that a better way to measure clock accuracy on the sound card is to generate a sine wave in software and run it out to the (external reference locked) counter. The spotting tone function in the DSP will generate a continuous sine, at an arbitrary frequency, with the CORD

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Lux
At 10:49 PM 7/4/2005, Lyle Johnson wrote: ...If you're looking at the analog output of the sound card, which is essentially the "looped back" analog input to the card, then the sampling rate may not make any difference. Keep in mind that the SDR-1000 is not baseband in, baseband out, but uses

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Lux
At 03:27 AM 7/5/2005, Robert McGwier wrote: Do not forget that you can have two different conditions in your settings that will impact your analysis. spur reduction on, spur reduction off. spur reduction turned off, the last conversion IN THIS DUAL CONVERSION SUPERHETERODYNE RX is done by th

Re: [Flexradio] White Noise and Right Left asynchrony

2005-07-05 Thread Ken - N9VV
Yes, I had the white noise several times using 1.3.13 over the weekend. I had so many other problems trying to TX that I overlooked it as something I did wrong. I was unable to pin it down to a single buffer setting or mode. de Ken N9VV Craig Monsen wrote: While listening to an AM station thi

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Robert McGwier
Do not forget that you can have two different conditions in your settings that will impact your analysis. spur reduction on, spur reduction off. spur reduction turned off, the last conversion IN THIS DUAL CONVERSION SUPERHETERODYNE RX is done by the software oscillator is -11025 Hz. When spu

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Lyle Johnson
...If you're looking at the analog output of the sound card, which is essentially the "looped back" analog input to the card, then the sampling rate may not make any difference. Keep in mind that the SDR-1000 is not baseband in, baseband out, but uses an IF of 11 to 15 kHz depending on the exa

[Flexradio] Very Low Output Power on 10 meters

2005-07-05 Thread John M. Belstner
Greetings, Just getting my new SDR out of the box and setup. Since I only have a 50W slug for my Bird, I set the target Power to 50W. All the bands except 10 meters zero in on 50W nicely. There is only about 5W max regardless of the calibration setting. I then get an "Invalid Setting" message

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency Accuracy

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Lux
At 06:03 PM 7/4/2005, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Jim Lux wrote: > > > Consider two RF carriers, at 10.001 and 10.002 MHz > > > changes) and tuning high or low with SSB (which does not). And this is where I'm confused. I'm not (for this experiment) looking at the linearity of the passband, but

Re: [Flexradio] White Noise and Right Left asynchrony

2005-07-05 Thread Dudley Hurry
Craig, I have heard the same on SSB several times, but usually a quick change of modes (USB to LSB or to AM then back to USB) will cause the burst of white noise to go away and the BIN MODE to reset to normal. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ At 11:55 PM 7/4/2005 -0400, Craig Monsen wrote: While listening to