Hi Mike,
What I see is the MIDI Drivers are not loading. This can be checked under
Devices and Printers with the Flex-Radio plugged in an turned on. You should
have two Flex MIDI Drivers and one other Flex Driver. The other driver
software can load and show the Flex connected, but not run the radi
From: Tim Ellison
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 Time: 17:45:05
One thing to look for when stuff just stops working is for recently
installed Microsoft updates.
-Tim
and/or new or changed wifi activity. I've had two cases here
recently where performance was crucified when wifi was switched
I recently purchased a Flex 3000 radio and came over to the "dark side"
(depending on your perspective) of amateur radio after years of contest and
DX operation on Yaesu 1000-MP and FT-2000 "box" radios. Not to prolong this
discourse, but the reason for the change had a lot to do with my move of QT
When you compress the Panadapter display using PanaFall or PanaScope, the
panadapter display has a minimum resolution for the gridlines. If you set the
number below the minimum resolution, you will get the minimum it can display,
not what you set.
-Tim
From:
Maybe this is too easy, which is why I am having trouble.
In Panafall display, I select the DISPLAY tab and choose Spectrum Grid Step
= 5. Yet on the Panafall, in the upper panadapter area, it shows gridlines
that are 10 dBm apart rather than the expected 5.
If I switch to Panadapter dis
Weird behavior.
Antenna shows 3:1 SWR with tuner off.
I click on tuner, it hunts around for about 5 seconds then turns GREEN
indicating that it has a match. The SWR at this point shows 2.3:1 when it
stops tuning ( thought it would keep going to under 2:1?).
Then I start transmitting an
isconnected. It seems to be this
> way on all bands. I have done numberous database resets and a hardware
> reset.
>
> I am running XP Pro and version 1.18.1
> Firmware 1.2.5.5
>
> 73,
> Jim / K4ECP
>
>
> __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antiv
AMEN. Do not fall into the trap of letting Microsoft install updates
before you screen them, especially if you are trying to run/sustain a
real-time application like PWR SDR. Most of the updates are trash
anyway.
Bob, KF6BC
On Sep 12, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Tim Ellison wrote:
Mike,
There has
"I have streamed hours of video into this Firewire card (normally from
stormchasing) without a problem."
But are you streaming 8 channels (FLEX-3000) or 10 channels of 96K or 192K
data? Probably not unless you are doing multi-channel audio recording at high
sampling rates.
As for Firewire car
Hi Tim
Of course, the updates can be an issue. Does flex test against those
updates?
I did try the beta drivers about a week ago. At the moment, I think they
installed ok and even showed up as signed (where the previous ones did not).
But, when I started PowerSDR, it communicated very slow an
I have also found that when the driver sees the radio, its just an indicator
that enough traffic is able to pass thru the firewire cable to talk with the
driver configurator. Having it work in a full data stream mode (and PowerSDR
is very sensitive to any real data gaps) is another thing. You might
I have streamed hours of video into this firewire card (normally from
stormchasing) without a problem.
If there is a recommend PCI express card that I should be using, then I will
order it.
Mike
http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html
-Original Message-
Mike,
There has been a new Firewire driver recently released. Please try the
v3.4.2.6300 driver and see if you have any better results.
http://support.flex-radio.com/Downloads.aspx?id=292
Upgrade Instructions.
http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50137.aspx
One thing to look for when
Hence my comment, "your mileage may vary" since Windows is in charge :-)
-Tim
From: w4j...@gmail.com [mailto:w4j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:51 PM
To: Tim Ellison
Subject: Re: RE: [Flexradio] QUAD CORE ISSUE
I knew it was multi-threaded
Jerry
I clearly understand what you are saying. I use computers every day and
have many dedicated for specific purposes. I also work with a team that
provide real time sport results to television. Lots of our tools use
Firewire and lots use IP communication (especially in World Cup Ski Racing).
Yes, but you can't do that on a power laptop that has only 1 express-pci
slot.
The issue is within the Vista OS and I don't feel like spending more days
trying to debug it. I could also downgrade the vista laptop to xp, but it
is a 4G laptop and finding the Gateway drivers is actually harder th
Multi-threaded in this context does not mean that the threads are dispersed
across the cores. In the current windows environment, a program
traditionally is assigned to a core unless it utilizes some of Intel's new
compiler trickery.
One of the supposed benefits of Win7 is that the OS is smarter a
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IIRC, the standard "checker" programs can do all except evaluate
firewire performance. Perhaps one of our software guys could write a
quickie firewire performance checkout program.
Surely if the radio can give us a pass-fail test in actual use (by
either working or not for 24 hours straight),
I'm a little slow.I just found out that you can change the VX Revolution
mouse behavior on a per-executable basis.
So, different button assignments and scroll characteristics for PowerSDR and
for Firefox and for Outlook, etc.
Cool!
Best Regards,
Michael Jones1
www.scsitoolbox.com
303-97
Although PowerSDR is a multi-threaded application, it is up to Windows where
those threads are run, so your mileage may vary.
-Tim
-Original Message-
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Jordan
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009
Try your Load Calibration settings in your cpus BIOS, but don't expect all 4
cores to see the same level of activity unless your running multi-core
specific applications73...Jordan
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Menefee"
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:35 AM
Subje
RE: Q6600 Issue on current release and SVN
I have been trying to resolve an issue with the SDR software only running on
the 4th processor at 100%. The other 3 processors not seeing much if any
SDR activity and stay low in usage.. When I shut down the SDR, processor 4
then reverts back and runs as
I have the Logitech wireless headset working fine on manual x-mitt VIA the
VAC. The issue is the VOX. If I place the VOX control on "0" I can see the
audio on the VOX controller going full scale and it will key the radio,
however far to much sensitivity. If I move the VOX control off "0" upwa
It really would be nice if there was such a critter, but there really isn't.
Windows was never intended to be a real-time audio processing operating system
and most "checker" programs just test things to get metrics and make some
arbitrary statement about performance. The DPC checker is the be
Yes, use the 1394a cards (Firewire/400)
-Tim
-Original Message-
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Dave Gomberg
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:39 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Portable F3K
At
The slots are: # Type II PC Card slot (one)
# Two ExpressCard/54 slot
Overview and links to detailed specs here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62487
The model I am using is T2500 2gHz cpu with 2gb ram. But there are
models of T60 with lots o
Sure would be nice if we had a test suite of programs to completely
check out a problem computer, and permissible ratings for the various
functions tested. Something like "performance test" (
http://www.passmark.com/ ), but with the additional tools to check
the other parts of the computer as
At 07:30 AM 9/12/2009, k4...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Dave, I use a Lenovo/IBM T60 Thinkpad with SIIG firewire card.
Thanks, what kind of slots does the T60 have? And you gotta use
400, not 800, right?
--
Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com
All addresses, phones, e
Dave, I use a Lenovo/IBM T60 Thinkpad with SIIG firewire card.
CPU utilization runs about 30% and dpc averages about 45 with no peaks
over 700 or so.
Works just fine with either my 5000 or 3000.
This is also the laptop that Dudley uses.
You can get a refurbished one for $595 or $695 at
http://ww
Michael,
FlexRadio fully supports Vista-64 signed drivers on our products. It is
*not* necessary to turn off UAC. We have a huge number of customers running
Vista-64 without problems.
However, your PC is a system. Interrupt conflicts between the FireWire
controller and other cards can cause pr
The human interface to SDR is a legitimate discussion and it gives those of
us who don't know about DFTs, QSDs, ADCs something to talk about. So, please
endure our comments.
In fact, for you Mouse Only Purists (MOPs) how many of you are using a mouse
with no buttons? If you are using a Mac you ha
Mike, it seems to me that you are complaining about the radio because
the computer has faults. if you see the advantages of your 3000, you
might want to consider dedicating a computer specifically to it and
not use that computer for other purposes, just as you might have
purchased a speaker for
Thanks for the info and support guys.
Jerry
- Original Message -
From: "Allen Shuff"
To: "jerrywz"
Cc: "Michael Walker (VA3MW)" ;
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Some initial comments
Jerry,
I had similar problems with lock-ups with my FLEX 5000A and a new PC;
however, after installing a stand-alone firewire card, the FLEX 5000A works
like a champ with VISTA 64.
Allen
- Original Message -
From: "jerrywz"
To: "Michael Walker (VA3MW)" ;
Sent: Saturday, Septembe
I have to agree a little, but I mostly strongly disagree.
I bought a Quad Core Vista machine over a year ago with dual monitors
specifically for my Flex 5000A after I sold my FTDX-9000. I struggled to get
the Flex to run with Vista ... even when it did I still had lockups. After
I finally threw o
I have the same problem with my Flex 5000A and Vista 64. It locks up all the
time. I have tried everything. Reinstall all SDR software. Reinstall all the
drivers, disable UAC disable internet connection even disable Norton It's a
new computer with plenty of power. I give up. Putting it back in t
I thought a would share a few comments, strengths and weaknesses. I have
spent the last week here in Portillo Chile with my 3K. With limited
internet, I have had time to really focus on trying to get this to work and
work well.
When I could get the device working, I thought it was great and I
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