Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Larry Loen
Jim Lux wrote (of my dream): Why not have it spit out on Ethernet? I thought about this at length. I think it is better and more flexible for the hypothetical new SDR (even with the added USB/micro in between us and the current rig) to be a USB 2.0 appliance rather than a network

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Robert McGwier
Ah. Thanks for clearing this up. Mine ALL had the linear regulator, and we did in fact have to remove those and replace them with the regulator on the other side of the board to mount to the heat sink. I was wondering which of us had lost their minds. WHile it wasn't that, I am clearly

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Simon Brown
If a decision is made to abandon the serial port protocol I would go for ethernet so that the radio *can* be put on a network. Simon Brown, HB9DRV --- www.sysgem.com, www.hb9drv.ch, www.laax.ch --- - Original Message - From: Larry Loen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought about this at

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Covington
That can be done right now if someone wants to take up integrating the Socket Utilities Library and TCPListener Class that I wrote into the current PowerSDR source code. I added it to a test version of PowerSDR 1.3.12 (see blog entry for Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Covington
Of course I should note that you will still have to have a PC connected to the SDR-1000 but that can be easily done with a mini-itx board. Better, yet it would be cool to strip most or all of the GUI stuff out of PowerSDR except for the setup forms (to make setting changes to the database - this

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Larry Loen
Simon Brown wrote: If a decision is made to abandon the serial port protocol I would go for ethernet so that the radio *can* be put on a network. Simon Brown, HB9DRV --- www.sysgem.com, www.hb9drv.ch, www.laax.ch --- And, under my scheme, nothing whatever would stop you from doing so. It

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread W2AGN
Lee A Crocker wrote: When I read the QST review and I see this kind of report: Although I could not altogether eliminate the delay, I was able to train my brain to work with it. And then I look at the CW waveform and there are 2 key closures before the first dit is transmitted, it make me very

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread lloen
John Sielke: The CW question is what keeps me from throwing in my money. Is there any chance we will see QSK, or even true semi-break-in CW with the FLEX? I fear some may say, why make new technology accomodate an obsolete mode? If that is the case, and CW will remain an orphan in the

Re: [Flexradio] Visual multi-OS Platform for developing SDR software.

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Covington
Hi Cecel, The MS C# Express Beta uses the .NET 2.0 Beta framework. There were not too many problems changing the PowerSDR code to get it to compile on .NET 2.0 last time I tried (around version 1.2.x). After you convert the PowerSDR source code project to .NET 2.0 people will not be able to

Re: [Flexradio] Visual multi-OS Platform for developing SDR software.

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Covington
Cecil, I mean. Sorry about that... :-) (That's what I get for relying on the spell checker too much)... 73 de Phil N8VB On 10/7/05, Philip Covington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cecel, The MS C# Express Beta uses the .NET 2.0 Beta framework. There were not too many problems changing the

Re: [Flexradio] Visual multi-OS Platform for developing SDR software.

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Covington
Hi Cecil,See answers below:On 10/7/05, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Mono has the advantage that its being worked on all three platforms of interest to me. And SharpDevelop looks quite usable. I always get the latest SharpDevelop source code from SVN.It is easy to build and does not take much

Re: [Flexradio] Visual multi-OS Platform for developing SDR software.

2005-10-07 Thread Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio
Cecil, I, too, experience the Open Form in Design Mode - Go take 10 min. break - Return to watch form finish loading process. The IDE really gets bogged down when there are many controls on a single form. Having said that, once I have opened the form, modifying the properties of the

Re: [Flexradio] Visual multi-OS Platform for developing SDR software.

2005-10-07 Thread Philip Covington
Definitely a good choice, also. There is Boa Constructor that uses wxWindows for the GUI. It has a GUI designer built in. Runs on both Windows and Linux. For those who like Borland's Delphi or C++ Builder's IDE, Boa will look really similar. The xml files that Glade generates can be easily used

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio
Lee, Gerald's response should be considered the official response from FlexRadio on the less than perfect eham review. (link below) http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2005-Octob er/002698.html Consider the following my personal response: Note that we have never

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread lloen
Let me address a few more concerns: RFI: Most of us are aware that a radiating feedline could cause RFI in the shack. I definitely have a problem here. Alan Davis, N2WS, helped explain why. Basically, I built a cheapo G5RV without the balun at the feedpoint (based on bad advise, many field

Re: [Flexradio] Eham Review

2005-10-07 Thread Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio
John, The current hardware is not QSK as the time required to switch the TR relays at this point is 50ms minimum. This doesn't mean that someone (including FlexRadio) will not figure out a way to modify the hardware for QSK. It just means that the current hardware will not do better than Semi

[Flexradio] development system speed

2005-10-07 Thread Jim Lux
Just to cast a note of reality here.. The development environments that MS produces are not aimed at a target market of low budget hobby or casual coders, but rather, at people doing software development full time. In that context, requiring a PC for development that costs $5-10K is a

Re: [Flexradio] development system speed

2005-10-07 Thread Brian Moran
I'd like to reiterate the reasonable prices on developer-level hobbyist machines : One can get refurbished HP machines (hpshopping.com) with 3.2 GHz processors and speedy buses, 200Gb storage, etc. that work great for developers (1GB of RAM) for $699.00. Sure, it's running Windows XP Home, but

[Flexradio] 1.4.5 CW Chirp

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Nance
Anybody notice a chirpwhile receivinga loud CW signal?It is noticeable when the AGC voltage is decaying. It takes an S9 or better signal and it makes a difference at what setting you have the AGC set for but, is deffinately there. It seems to be peculiar to 1.4.5 because it doesn't happen

Re: [Flexradio] development system speed

2005-10-07 Thread KD5NWA
Reality check 101 1. This is a hobbyist email list, we don't go spending $100K on a development system nor $10K on a PC 2. Microsoft makes a $130 version of the software, that's the one for professionals that will also have to buy a $3K computer to run the $130 piece of software. 3. We are