Re: [Flexradio] Simple "Watchdog" circuit for the SDR in case of power line failure

2006-07-18 Thread john_eckert
To be fair. I'm sure when Gerald was setting at his kitchen table designing his little 'homebrew radio' for himself if he had the faintest idea we would all want/own one he would have done some things differently. This is a great opportunity for someone to do a little homebrewing and/or marke

[Flexradio] SDR1000 Damaged. Make sure you turn it OFF when you walk away. Update

2006-07-18 Thread john_eckert
Just a bit on my philosophy about turning things off and on. Ages ago I worked for a company that made computer peripherals. An account I was dealing with had hundreds of Smart CRT terminals. Any time a storm was in the area we would cringe because we knew if the power went out some(a lot) of t

Re: [Flexradio] Simple "Watchdog" circuit for the SDR in case of power line failure

2006-07-18 Thread Bill Tracey
Some level of fail safe functionality is in the works for the Janus+Ozy soundcard and controller gizmo some of the HPSDR.org folks are working on. The board and the PC communicate via USB using a protocol that includes (among other things) a sync sequence every 512 bytes. Current thought is

Re: [Flexradio] Simple "Watchdog" circuit for the SDR in case of power line failure

2006-07-18 Thread lloen
> At 07:50 PM 7/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The "end" solution is to actually put a dedicated supervisory processor in > the peripheral that can manage stuff, and provide a "safe" interface. > However, the parallel port is just so convenient. Maybe the idea would be > to have a ethernet/

Re: [Flexradio] Simple "Watchdog" circuit for the SDR in case of power line failure

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 07:50 PM 7/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sweet and simple. I was thinking of putting it on the 110VAC side and >connecting other things in the shack to it also. > >Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the root problem. If the PC goes >out to lunch for any reason(op crash, component fa

[Flexradio] Simple "Watchdog" circuit for the SDR in case of power line failure

2006-07-18 Thread john_eckert
Sweet and simple. I was thinking of putting it on the 110VAC side and connecting other things in the shack to it also. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the root problem. If the PC goes out to lunch for any reason(op crash, component failer, virus,...) and the SDR is connected to it, the

Re: [Flexradio] FW: Forwarded a second time! D-44 round ? Important forthe Reflector!

2006-07-18 Thread Tim Ellison
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[Flexradio] FW: Forwarded a second time! D-44 round ? Important for the Reflector!

2006-07-18 Thread Eric Ellison
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[Flexradio] Delta 44 mineature Interface Kits again available.

2006-07-18 Thread Eric Ellison
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Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization

2006-07-18 Thread lloen
[snip] > So what do you make of the second QST review, where the author expressed > regrets that they had settled for the Celeron (2.4GHz??) rather than > going for the P4 (2.8GHz to 3.2GHz??)? He found the performance with > "only" a 2.xGHz Celeron disappointing. > > Alan NV8A > MHz isn't everyt

Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization

2006-07-18 Thread Alan NV8A
On 07/18/06 05:19 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Larry, please forgive me, but I strongly disagree with the "throw >> more hardware" at the problem to fix it. There is a three letter >> mega-company who has made 50+ successful years by following that >> schematic :-) and correspondingly cost it's

Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization

2006-07-18 Thread Robert McGwier
I noticed that Larry did not tell you which big blueish three letter company he works for. ;-). Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Larry, please forgive me, but I strongly disagree with the "throw >> more hardware" at the problem to fix it. There is a three letter >> mega-company who has made 50

Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization

2006-07-18 Thread lloen
> Larry, please forgive me, but I strongly disagree with the "throw > more hardware" at the problem to fix it. There is a three letter > mega-company who has made 50+ successful years by following that > schematic :-) and correspondingly cost it's customers mega-bucks!. > I can build, pretty much

Re: [Flexradio] Delta 44 Driver Version ???

2006-07-18 Thread k6kdk
I have finally heard back from M-Audio tech support via email They state that, indeed, the revision number issue is a typo on their end. Additionally I asked about any available workaround to the fact that the M-Audio driver installer overwrites previous configuration files. If you install a new

Re: [Flexradio] SDR1000 Damaged. Make sure you turn it OFF when you walk away. Update

2006-07-18 Thread Radio Station W5AMI
On 7/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:00 AM I jumped out of bed to the crack of a nearby > lightening strike. Yep, you guessed it, the SDR1000 was once > again knock out. Although, it was nice to have it back for a > while. > I have learned by experience to never leave

Re: [Flexradio] TSVN cache service?

2006-07-18 Thread Eric Wachsmann
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Re: [Flexradio] TSVN cache service?

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Lux
At 04:12 PM 7/17/2006, Sami Aintila wrote: >On 7/18/06, Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Those of you Tortoiseing.. how do you prevent tsvncache from running? > >You probably need to disable the entire Tortoise shell extension. You >can use ShellExView to do this without having to uninstall Tor