[Flexradio] I must be doing something wrong

2008-07-21 Thread Lee A Crocker
Your probably not doing anything wrong. The biggest user of cycles is probably your cluster program especially if you are logged into multiple clusters. When I was using a single core machine I would routinely max out when there was a contest going on and the cluster was flying. If I turned

Re: [Flexradio] Voice Keyer v1.2

2008-07-21 Thread Ray, K9DUR
It helps if I type the URL correctly! The correct link is: http://www.qsl.net/k9dur/downloads.htm Sorry. 73, Ray, K9DUR -Original Message- From: Ray, K9DUR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:49 AM To: 'Ray, K9DUR'; 'Flex Radio Reflector' Subject: RE: [Flexradio]

Re: [Flexradio] differences between PSK31 demodulators

2008-07-21 Thread Pete M
Digital...when working is good, it has good and bad pointsI am using analog...which works properly for me. Digital is not a cure-all. VAC is crude and has many bugs ... and the author seems to have an attitude towards everyone (or at least me) who won't send him the money...I even wanted

Re: [Flexradio] 64 bit fireware driver for Flex 5000

2008-07-21 Thread TOM BLACKWELL (nt)
There's a Dell with XP-Pro advertised in the current Micro Center flyer. Probably the closest location to you is at Central Expressway and Midpark in Dallas, across from the Headquarters of TI. This model works for me my 5k. Robert Redmon wrote: Buddy with a new Flex 5k is going nuts trying

[Flexradio] I'm 99.99% sure its rf

2008-07-21 Thread FireBrick
It was a PITA all weekend in the 6 meter contest. even at 40 watts or less the PWSDR would flash the RED HIGH SWR message and cut back the power. Whether I used the ATU or not. Sometimes the Red High SWR message stays on the panadaptor. a tap of the cw key cures it. Usually it takes more than a

Re: [Flexradio] 64 bit fireware driver for Flex 5000

2008-07-21 Thread Phil LaMarche
My computer guy built a dual core with 3 Gb of RAM and housed in a black cabinet about the size of the 5K. It was designed to be a ham/5K dedicated computer. I've never had a problem with it. Cost around 800 with XP. Any one interested, I can pass along his phone and email. Phil Philip

Re: [Flexradio] differences between PSK31 demodulators

2008-07-21 Thread Bob Tracy
What does it make you wonder, Pete? 73, Bob, K5KDN -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete M Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:37 PM To: Jerry Flanders Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] differences between PSK31 demodulators

[Flexradio] Not sure what the issue here is

2008-07-21 Thread FireBrick
Why haven't they put reference, links or buttons to logging programs, voice keyers, digital programs, etc? Makes you wonder I think they have, the knowlegebase on 3rd party addons has a number of howto's! I've owned quite a few different radios over the years. I can't remember one that had

Re: [Flexradio] Dropouts in VAC stream (was: differences betweenPSK31 demodulators)

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 07:50 PM 7/20/2008, Brian Lloyd wrote: On Jul 20, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Neal Campbell wrote: That system is on the bottom end of what I would go with, especially with integrated video and 1GB of memory. The video is stealing system memory 32M so I bet you have some memory swapping

Re: [Flexradio] Dropouts in VAC stream (was: differences betweenPSK31 demodulators)

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 09:19 PM 7/20/2008, Brian Lloyd wrote: On Jul 20, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: Well, that will be tough because I am only using the devices on the MB itself. There are no boards plugged into any of the PCI slots. AH HA! I am sure the mobo Firewire interface is your problem.

Re: [Flexradio] audio quits when moving a window from active Flex 5000 screen to 2nd screen.

2008-07-21 Thread Eric Wachsmann
It sounds like the audio stream is choking. Are you using Safe Mode 1 on the FLEX-5000 Control Panel? If so, try using Safe Mode 2 or 3. Using larger buffers may help stabilize things as well. If you didn't grab the latest drivers from the web when you installed the video card, that might help

Re: [Flexradio] Tortoise

2008-07-21 Thread Eric Wachsmann
http://www.tortoisesvn.net works for me here. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 6:02 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Tortoise Has tortoise changed

[Flexradio] Fw: Not sure what the issue here is

2008-07-21 Thread Ted
Absolutely, this is a new kind of radio system. It's a collaboration of the latest technology from Flexradio and the personal computer world. This radio does things that are impossible with the older radios. The fact is that; Flexradio and the team of programmers have embraced legacy ham

[Flexradio] For Sale

2008-07-21 Thread John
We have a small number of refurbished and demo units for sale at discount prices. These units are packaged like new units and have the full 2-year warranty and money back guarantee. If you are interested in purchasing one or more of these units, call John at the number below. John P.

Re: [Flexradio] For Sale

2008-07-21 Thread Edwin Marzan
You don't mention the model!! Edwin MarzanAB2VW From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:10:56 -0500 Subject: [Flexradio] For Sale We have a small number of refurbished and demo units for sale at discount prices. These units are packaged like new units

[Flexradio] For Sale FLEX-5000A Demo and Refurbished units.

2008-07-21 Thread John
We have a small number of refurbished and demo FLEX-5000A units for sale at discount prices. These units are packaged like new units and have the full 2-year warranty and money back guarantee. If you are interested in purchasing one or more of these units, contact John for additional info

Re: [Flexradio] Editing the database -- a little progress

2008-07-21 Thread Alan NV8A
OK, so far I have discovered that some changes using OO Base do change PowerSDR.mdb as well, but the only change I have so far been able to make that does anything like what I have in mind is to edit the text for 14.070 to read 20M RTTY/Digital instead of just 20M RTTY: that change then

Re: [Flexradio] Editing the database -- a little progress

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Ellison
I believe the OO tool is mucking up the Access database. Obviously it is truncating the precision of the field value which is probably why you are receiving the error. The data is there, but OO is not showing it. Maybe if you can provide a detailed band plan for digital modes on all bands

Re: [Flexradio] Dropouts in VAC stream

2008-07-21 Thread Ray J
Thats what i was thinking... base model computer are coming with 1-2 gb now days, decent ones have 3-4gb and i have seen higher end ones a Best Buy selling lately with 6gb of memory.. Well, frankly, 1GB isn't much memory these days. But you really shouldn't be doing that much I/O to the

Re: [Flexradio] Dropouts in VAC stream

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Ellison
Just one precaution. No swap file means no crash dump files (debugging) are created if you get a BSoD. So if you are experiencing errors, re-enable the swap file for debugging purposes. -Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray J

Re: [Flexradio] Fw: Not sure what the issue here is

2008-07-21 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: This radio should have, NO deserves to have, the fastest computer that a ham can reasonably attach to it Absolutely. Which is why you don't put bias-ply recapped tires on a Lamborghini. :-) I suspect that this is like people who put

[Flexradio] New PS. Switching or not?

2008-07-21 Thread Rob Atkinson
The negative comments about switching supplies are about 10 years out of date. Besides being much more efficient (power conservation), modern switching supplies also have better regulation under load and are capable of delivering a cleaner DC.. Now that the switching supply technology has

Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 39, Issue 19

2008-07-21 Thread Donald Gaines
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Re: [Flexradio] Fw: Not sure what the issue here is

2008-07-21 Thread Ted
If by 'bloat' you mean obsolete coding encapsulated in legacy ham applications then I agree with you. The difficulty in maintaining this position is when you try to do PSK31, RTTY, Olivia and all the fun modes by rolling your own 'modern' code. The amount of programming becomes undeniably

Re: [Flexradio] Editing the database -- a little progress

2008-07-21 Thread Ray, K9DUR
Tim, You must be correct about Open Office causing a problem. Alan's statement that, ...the database is defined to permit only two decimal places... is absolutely not correct. The Low High fields in the BandText table are double-precision floating-point numbers, with at least 14 significant

Re: [Flexradio] New PS. Switching or not?

2008-07-21 Thread Ray, K9DUR
Rob, AMEN! 73, Ray, K9DUR (BSEE) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 6:59 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] New PS. Switching or not? The negative comments about switching supplies

Re: [Flexradio] Fw: Not sure what the issue here is

2008-07-21 Thread Brian Lloyd
On Jul 21, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Ted wrote: If by 'bloat' you mean obsolete coding encapsulated in legacy ham applications then I agree with you. Well, mostly I was thinking about what gets foisted off on us by Microsoft every time there is an upgrade. The difficulty in maintaining this

[Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-21 Thread Maarten
I am using the SDR1000 with my transverters for VHF/UHF. I use the X2 port and the open collector switches to control my transverters via a simple homebrew interface. ( Not a UCB but just a couple of relais) With each band selection button I can switch the specific transverter and its associated

Re: [Flexradio] New PS. Switching or not?

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Lux
Quoting Ray, K9DUR [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Mon 21 Jul 2008 07:32:15 PM PDT: Rob, AMEN! 73, Ray, K9DUR (BSEE) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 6:59 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject:

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Lux
Quoting Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Mon 21 Jul 2008 08:10:41 PM PDT: I am using the SDR1000 with my transverters for VHF/UHF. I use the X2 port and the open collector switches to control my transverters via a simple homebrew interface. ( Not a UCB but just a couple of relais) With each band

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-21 Thread Maarten
Oh. That really stinks. I can pretty much forget to homebrew something. This will make it tough to transfer my transverter hardware to a SDR5000. Programming a PIC or Rabbit sounds far more difficult than wiring a couple of relais and is most likely beyond my expertise. I kind of missed the whole

Re: [Flexradio] Dropouts in VAC stream (was: differences betweenPSK31 demodulators)

2008-07-21 Thread Brian Lloyd
Much thanks to Tim, Neal, Jerry, Dudley, Bob, Frank, Jim, and others. At Tim's (and Frank's) urging off-list, I have installed a new display adaptor, a new IEEE 1394 adaptor, more RAM, and generally stripped Windows down to only that needed to make it run the stuff I am trying to run.

Re: [Flexradio] Flexwire

2008-07-21 Thread Neal Campbell
You only need to worry about homebrewing an I2C interface until Flex comes out with some Flexwire products or defines a protocol so some of us can (like happened with the UCB). I am not sure but do not believe there is anything in Psdr currently that sends data over that port so you would have to