Re: [Flexradio] is there a fuse on the firewire 13.5 pin

2007-12-18 Thread Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems)
Pin 8 has a 1A fuse (F1) in line with the 13.8V line. Gerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of FireBrick Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 7:46 PM To: FlexRadio List Subject: [Flexradio] is there a fuse on the firewire 13.5 pin I'm trying to

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000A schematics?

2007-12-18 Thread Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems)
We plan to release schematics with the service manual, which we plan to complete before the end of Q1. This has been delayed due to our complete focus on the manufacturing backlog. When it is ready, we will announce availability here. Gerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flexradio] Strange signal report

2007-12-18 Thread Jim Lux
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Mon 17 Dec 2007 09:57:17 PM PST: Hi Jim, Dave said: 1. My main signal sounded absolutely perfect 2. There was a second ghost signal about 1Khz lower. My error.. (I thought 100kHz.. I obviously can't count digits). 1 kHz, then 3. On the ghost signal

[Flexradio] OT: The Splendid Diversity of Users

2007-12-18 Thread Frank Brickle
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[Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Ken N9VV
Dear friends on the Flex list, this is a nagging reminder to lease backup your PC on a regular basis. -- Clean your disk of junk (C:\Windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe) Clean off your old Internet cache (history) in IE or your favorite browser Defrag your

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Mike Schlamp
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Re: [Flexradio] OT: The Splendid Diversity of Users

2007-12-18 Thread PaulTG2
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[Flexradio] Flex 5000A Keyer Problem

2007-12-18 Thread Dale Sewell
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[Flexradio] my flex5k got me through quick

2007-12-18 Thread FireBrick
The panadaptor's ability to find a 'hole' in the pileup got me a quick qso with FJ/OH2AM. Thanks Marti, thanks Flex. ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive

[Flexradio] while on the subject of backups

2007-12-18 Thread Jim Lux
This brings up an interesting thing.. Say you have a 5000C, with the built in computer. What sort of backup strategy (if any) is appropriate. Or, do you just reformat and reinstall from the original CD supplied with the machine. ___ FlexRadio

Re: [Flexradio] RIT/XIT

2007-12-18 Thread Eric Wachsmann
As best as I can tell, we are overriding the mouse wheel events to the best of our ability. The RIT/XIT (and various other NumericUpDown controls) will go one 'tick' before reverting to tuning the radio which is the default mouse wheel operation when the main console has the focus. Eric

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 ATU

2007-12-18 Thread Eric Wachsmann
There are provisions in the ATU to do this, but we have not exposed this functionality. You can overwrite the settings on a particular frequency by simply doing a full tune. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadi1o Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flexradio] while on the subject of backups

2007-12-18 Thread Eric Wachsmann
This is covered in the FLEX-5000C QSG. You'll recognize the name Acronis. ;) Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Jim Lux Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:01 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Strange signal report

2007-12-18 Thread ab7cf
Ok Jim, Here's the scoop. Dick, AD7AF and set up a Q to test the strange signal report, The poltergeist is definitely resident in my SDR1K. Dick and I are about 20 miles apart. He was on his Elecraft K2 with a 2.7Khz filter. I was on my SDR1K running PowerSDR Beta v1.10.4 SVN: 1829. We

Re: [Flexradio] Strange signal report

2007-12-18 Thread Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems)
This sounds like you need to go through the transmitter image rejection calibration as defined in the SDR1k manual. The I/Q imbalance on the SDR1k will cause an image at 2X the CW pitch frequency away from the main CW tone. Gerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems)
I can personally vouch for the need to back up! Yesterday, I heard my laptop disk suddenly start going, kirchunk, kirchunk, kirchunk, The disk activity light stayed on continuously and when I did the CTRL/ALT/DEL it went blue screen. My heart sank. I did a hard shutdown and tried to

Re: [Flexradio] while on the subject of backups

2007-12-18 Thread Gerald Youngblood (FlexRadio Systems)
The 5000C's that start shipping this week will have Acronis installed with a backup/restore partician. In other words, if you screw it up, you can start over from the restore partician. You would need to upgrade to the latest version after the recover. Gerald -Original Message- From:

Re: [Flexradio] Strange signal report

2007-12-18 Thread ab7cf
Hi Gerald, That's my first choice, but I didn't want to be presumptuous. I kinda figured that with SVN# 1819, us CW bigots who never key a mike or transmit a digit might be forced to calibrate our transmit mode. Perhaps there ought to be a QST to SDR1K CW ops suggesting an transmit IQ Cal

[Flexradio] TX Monitor - Newbie Question

2007-12-18 Thread Rick Markey, KN3C
Am in the process of setting up and learning my way around my new 5000A. This is my first Flex. Very cool but lots to learn I am primarily a phone operator. With my previous radios I have become accustomed to operating with headphones, and with the TX monitor turned on. I tried that with the

[Flexradio] MAKE BACKING UP A HABIT

2007-12-18 Thread K3PZ
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Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Richard Stasiak
Gerald Next time a hard drive fails (and there will be a next time) you may want to give Spinrite a try. Steve Gibson has made his living for over 20 years from this program. It is not cheap but has an awesome track record for hard drive recoveries. Look at

Re: [Flexradio] TX Monitor - Newbie Question

2007-12-18 Thread Tim Ellison
Rick, Welcome to the club! What are your audio, hardware and DSP buffer settings and what sampling rate are you using? All of these effect latency. I run @ 96 KHZ sampling rate, RXdsp=4098, TX dsp=2048, Audio buffer=1024 and hardware (Firewire) buffer = 1024 (the last two should be the same

[Flexradio] BACK-UP

2007-12-18 Thread sherman
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[Flexradio] I'm glad to report success with

2007-12-18 Thread FireBrick
got your attention! Yes, I got all the right parameters in Steve Nance's great DDUtilty program that allows the PWSDR to not only connect with the DXLABS suite, but also control my Quadra amplifier. (Big thanks to Steve for working me through the details) This evening I was able to make

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Mike Naruta
Yep, been there. Both with big drives at work and home. Outlook is not friendly for backups. That helped me switch to Mozilla Thunderbird. Now it's a plain folder that I can put on CD. Rather than trying to do the whole drive for each backup, I periodically make CDs and DVDs with my critical

Re: [Flexradio] I'm glad to report success with

2007-12-18 Thread Robert McGwier
FireBrick wrote: got your attention! Yes, I got all the right parameters in Steve Nance's great DDUtilty program that allows the PWSDR to not only connect with the DXLABS suite, but also control my Quadra amplifier. (Big thanks to Steve for working me through the details) This

Re: [Flexradio] BACK-UP

2007-12-18 Thread Neal Campbell
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Re: [Flexradio] BACK-UP

2007-12-18 Thread Neal Campbell
, normally is less than $100 bucks. From a computer company owner for over 25 years, now retired. Sherman W2FLA -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071218/973280ae

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Dudley Hurry
Mike, Keeping a backup of important files is great, but a good full backup is great for restoring in the minium amount of time.. XP Restore is one way, I use IBM/Lenovo's Rescue and Recovery, comes free with their systems. It's much like Acronis, will boot when the OS won't and you

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Bill English
Sorry to hear that Gerald, With all the options these days for backing up, there is no reason not to, but in my experience the majority of people don't backup. A simple 2GB usb drive can be had for way less than 50 bucks at Wal Mart, no need to worry about backing up the entire drive, just back

Re: [Flexradio] [OT] please backup your PC

2007-12-18 Thread Jim Lux
Quoting Bill English [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Tue 18 Dec 2007 07:48:25 PM PST: Sorry to hear that Gerald, With all the options these days for backing up, there is no reason not to, but in my experience the majority of people don't backup. A simple 2GB usb drive can be had for way less than 50