Re: [Flexradio] Manual Notch

2010-01-20 Thread Bob McGwier
It is pretty easy to implement once we have the IIR design stuff included. It is one of those things that just keeps getting shoved to the back of the pile. The IIR design stuff is non-trivial to incorporate but the actual implementation of the filter GIVEN the design is easy. Aim barbs

Re: [Flexradio] Manual Notch

2010-01-20 Thread Bob McGwier
Patience not required, only civility. I agree with the noisiest critic that this should have been done ages ago. Bob On 1/20/2010 4:42 PM, Edwin Marzan wrote: The poor knob turners can only dream of adding this capability to their radios. With Flex it will become a reality. Be patient, my

[Flexradio] What is a VNA? (was Re: FEATURE REQUEST)

2010-01-05 Thread Bob McGwier
One of HP's better documents: What is a VNA? http://bit.ly/7CpN5s -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be

[Flexradio] AM/SAM receive problems

2010-01-03 Thread Bob McGwier
I am really having trouble getting a copy of an IQ file upon which I can demonstrate any kind of AGC problem. I want to fix this but if I cannot hear, see, etc. it in action, I am unable to perform a diagnosis. I need before and after IQ files. 1) Find an AM station exhibiting the problem.

[Flexradio] Linux Journal covers amateur radio

2009-12-11 Thread Bob McGwier
ARRL Website refers to Linux Journal: http://bit.ly/4Xce6q 73's Bob N4HY ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives:

Re: [Flexradio] A little perplexed...

2009-12-02 Thread Bob McGwier
I will have you know I am DEFINITELY an OF. Bob N4HY Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives:

[Flexradio] Fw: Topband: Jerry Sevick W2FMI (SK)

2009-12-02 Thread Bob McGwier
I paid part of my tuition building high power baluns and ununs Jerry designed. His great work is still available from ARRL. RIP Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: K9AY k...@k9ay.com Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:28:17 To: st...@qrparci.org;

Re: [Flexradio] New Flex QRP Rig

2009-11-26 Thread Bob McGwier
as with all such questions the answer is IT DEPENDS! The flex 1500 will have poorer dynamic range and allow for less panadapter bandwith. flex is obviously using a lower grade codec. It is limiting the 1500 to 48 KHz panadapter bandwidth. The 5000 has world class receiver specs, can be

Re: [Flexradio] Venting about VAC 4 with SDR 1.18.1 (but I know I am somehow the problem)

2009-07-11 Thread Bob McGwier
US is the wrong sobriquet for this problem. Flex and TC are in the process of checkout and certification of a fixed collection of firewire cards, assets. But here is my BO for the day, no matter how much it stinks: Bob's Opinions (BO) NEVER EVER use a laptop for real time embedded

Re: [Flexradio] Speed issue

2009-07-08 Thread Bob McGwier
If that fixes it, don't feel bad Tim M. I designed the original spur reduction strategy. I know it needs to be done because a) we can and b) we should and I STILL get caught with SR off and wondering WTH happened. I bet that fixes it. Bob N4HY Tim Ellison wrote: Make sure Spur Reduction

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-03 Thread Bob McGwier
of the additional components would be $1. So - case closed for me on the BCI. 73's Stu N6TTO -Original Message- From: Bob McGwier [mailto:rwmcgw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:17 PM To: Stu Phillips Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze

Re: [Flexradio] Performance differences, Pretty Betty versus 1.8.1

2009-07-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Mark: We are putting together another reflector for the discussion of the test code and moving off this reflector which will be limited to discussion of the radio hardware and the official releases and use of the radio with same. In the Flex EDGE reflector, experimenters, people with

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000?

2009-07-02 Thread Bob McGwier
N6TTO -Original Message- From: Bob McGwier [mailto:rwmcgw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:45 PM To: Stu Phillips Subject: Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR freeze and AM Broadcast spurii on 40m with Flex-5000? Stu: Open the driver (in the Flex Radio folder) and if it is set to Normal

Re: [Flexradio] Automatic Gain Control Threshold AGC-T versus reality

2009-06-29 Thread Bob McGwier
This one does conform and should function like legacy, out of touch, radios. Since this radio is calibrated to a 50 Ohm load with the internal generator producing a known voltage, AGC-T is calculated to dBm or as close to it as we could get. Bob N4HY Tim Ellison wrote: Read this article.

Re: [Flexradio] Automatic Gain Control Threshold AGC-T versus reality

2009-06-29 Thread Bob McGwier
AGC-T controls the threshold as you indicated you wanted. Below this threshold, the gain will NOT increase. Bob Robert Jefferis wrote: Bob, Continuing, I just looked at the AGC discussion on p. 109 of the F5K manual. The bullet describing the Slope (dB) parameter clearly states that

[Flexradio] OT Re: Apple bashing

2009-06-25 Thread Bob McGwier
So we are going to start an FBE (Flex Bleeding Edge) reflector to save this reflector from technical talk about bleeding edge buggy development code. I am beginning to wonder who is actually getting saved ... (looking better EVERY day). ;-) Bob N4HY Tom Thompson wrote: Hey Brian,

Re: [Flexradio] OT

2009-06-23 Thread Bob McGwier
Terry Fox wrote: I still have a working Imsai 8080 with three 8-inch drives. It still boots CP/M and runs Wordstar, etc. I've got most of the CP/M and SIG/M user group floppies. Even early Pascal and C compilers. How about a nice game of chess? I also have two Altair 8800s, and an Altair

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR 1.18.1 AGC-T lag

2009-06-22 Thread Bob McGwier
What is your AGC setting , SLOW or LONG? Try medium. Bob N4HY Jack Haverty wrote: I've loaded PSDR 1.18.1 and it seems to work fine - Flex-3000, 3GHz single-core PC, sampling 96KHz 512 buffers. NR in particular seems to be much more effective even though I thought 1.18.0 was good. One

Re: [Flexradio] 1.18.1 Audio Limiting

2009-06-21 Thread Bob McGwier
I've made multiple recordings and I had Eric make recordings of a 60 over S9 AM station. I am unable to duplicate what you are seeing. What I need for diagnosis of the issue is an IQ recording so I can see the problem in action. This will be a large file that probably won't fit through

Re: [Flexradio] 1.18.1 Audio Limiting

2009-06-21 Thread Bob McGwier
But this is not a fix, it is a bandaid. I need an IQ recording of the problem happening. I am unhappy that Frank is having to set the AGC threshold to a pretty ridiculous level. What this says to me is that there is something wrong with attack and it needs to be investigated. I am very

Re: [Flexradio] 1.18.1 Audio Limiting

2009-06-21 Thread Bob McGwier
We completely agree. Frank Mayer wrote: It's not really a fix. It requires constant adjustment of the AGC-T and/or Preamp level to avoid the limiting effect on AM depending on the strength of the signal. - Original Message - From: Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com To: Frank Mayer

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR1.18.1 startup error

2009-06-20 Thread Bob McGwier
That is interesting. In the IDE (VS2008) it is set to .NET 3.5 and is somehow marking it as needing .NET 3.5 even though it is not actually using it. Thanks for pointing this out, it will be investigated. In the slightly longer term, this will become a moot point. PrettyBetty IS a CLI

[Flexradio] CQ WW contest has a new category, XTREME

2009-06-19 Thread Bob McGwier
. Here is the official announcement. Please, take this and send it everywhere you can think of where we might gather some interest. Bob McGwier N4HY -- This year at Dayton, the new CQWW Xtreme categories were announced. These new categories (single

Re: [Flexradio] Test Branch SVN 3166 improved QSK?

2009-06-17 Thread Bob McGwier
Yes, but the changes you are referring to actually occurred in 3160. I contend you just didn't svn up until 3166 after I made those changes. There have been two major improvements in CW recently in the test branch. These are being beat up and more done before they are released. Thanks for

Re: [Flexradio] Dilemma

2009-06-17 Thread Bob McGwier
She who must be obeyed ALWAYS comes first. Just ask her. If you need outside information, just ask N2HPE. Bob N4HY Ray Andrews, K9DUR wrote: Okay, buys ( gals). I have a serious dilemma. My wife's FLEX-3000 is scheduled to be delivered today. Do I put the rewrite of the SDRDataTransfer

Re: [Flexradio] Click tuning with a Locked panadapter operatation

2009-06-17 Thread Bob McGwier
David Beumer W0DHB wrote: Gerald Do you know yet if the September release will be VS 2008 and 64 bit OS compatible ? Thanks Dave W0DHB That is the goal of the software developers without the gravitas of a promise from the CEO. We think we can. The month of July is a big month. Bob

Re: [Flexradio] All using SVN 3166 or higher

2009-06-17 Thread Bob McGwier
and then back. I've seen this on the 3K and 5K intermittently. I can't explain why, but the change in sample rate seems to help. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ Brian Lloyd wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bob McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but the changes you are referring

Re: [Flexradio] Searchprotocolho

2009-06-14 Thread Bob McGwier
Uninstall Windows Desltop Search. Reboot. Install Google Desktop. Reboot. Log in. Go away for a day. Come back and have fun after Google Desktop is finished indexing. It will put itself to sleep while you are working so you need to leave your computer alone for the indexing job to get

[Flexradio] Frank and Sandy

2009-06-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Frank Brickle (AB2KT) is married to a well known psychologist, Sandra Leiblum. If you do not follow Frank's facebook, linked in, etc. social networking you may not know some news. They were vacationing recently and Sandy suffered a horrific biking accident. She has had serious surgery but

Re: [Flexradio] vhf/uhf digital modes and repeater operation

2009-06-02 Thread Bob McGwier
I believe that we should follow the route that Ed is suggesting, even as it sticks in my craw. We can buy a dongle for less than $125 depending on who you get it from and with how much support, etc. that will do the AMBE encoding and decoding. We can have open source D-Star but talk to this

Re: [Flexradio] Is it worth the trouble??

2009-06-02 Thread Bob McGwier
I only have FIVE Flex products and I am going to buy that many 1500's when they come out and I am STILL going to give away my programming. ;-). Bob N4HY Lee A Crocker wrote: Heck Dude I'd buy the radio again and 9 more just like it 73 W9OY

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000A in the WPX contest and 30 day report

2009-06-01 Thread Bob McGwier
NZ8J wrote: I've had the Flex for almost 30 days now and have really enjoyed it for the most part. For one thing, as a cw only operator I am not fond of the loud mechanical T/R relay used in the 5K. After a lot of searching I was able to find a set of headphones (thanks to John N3WT) that keeps

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3K rocks!!!

2009-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
Dave Gomberg wrote: Got my first new country on the Flex 3k tonight! Minami-Torishima.Gee, I have only had it for a week, at that rate I will make number one honor roll in two years! Thank you Gerald and all!!! Unfortunately, one point does not make a useful graph. After 20-30

Re: [Flexradio] TX Phone Fixes

2009-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
We all owe John our eternal gratitude for finding serious bugs in the ALC system that I have fixed (ending overshoot and some internal ghosts/IMD forever).He put some serious test equipment on the job (that I did not have at my disposal) and within literally a few hours of studying his

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-1000 vs Flex-3000 is it worth the upgrade?

2009-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
To take full advantage of WBIR, you need a signal source. For those of you with 8640B's or the Elecraft signal generator, you will get good performance with the SDR-1000. For those without these signal generators, you will get BETTER performance on strong signals than you are getting now

Re: [Flexradio] WBIR

2009-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
READ EARLIER WARNING ABOUT EEPROM AND CALIBRATION Eric Wachsmann wrote: Not in the trunk. Just the test branch. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote: It is in the latest test branch and the trunk. -Tim --

Re: [Flexradio] SWR-Meter shows always 0,0:1

2009-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
Bernd Schnell wrote: My SWR-Meter of the F5K (1.18.0) shows always 0,0:1 during transmitting, even when the swr is bad. When I switch to RefPwr, it shows the power coming back to the reiceiver correctly. I am using the installed ATU and I have also an ATU extern (when the installed is

Re: [Flexradio] WBIR

2009-05-31 Thread Bob McGwier
Can you tell me where Penny is? I still have a crush. Bob Cal Latham wrote: Downloaded Virgin copy of 3122. With help from ROBOT (Model B-9, Class M-3) Did Image tests all OK and in ORBIT! All the best, WILL ROBINSON ___

Re: [Flexradio] Observations Using the Diversity Branch

2009-05-18 Thread Bob McGwier
Chuck: You fell into my trap but did not get caught and proved you are getting good results and that you knew the things to expect. The granularity of the controls is too large and the amplitude variations favors the strong antenna on RX1. You have all of this exactly right. I am not

[Flexradio] SIMD from Missouri

2009-05-13 Thread Bob McGwier
I believe in SIMD but I had a rude awakening today. My P4 HT socket 478 processor does not have SSE3, much less SSE(I wish). I would like for people to download (using svn) branches\n4hy\SIMD_ID\Source\SIMD_ID\Release\Identify_SIMD.exe or if you have x64

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Re: RX Image Reject Cal SVN : 3029

2009-05-11 Thread Bob McGwier
effects changes in the feature to make it more usable. -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Eddy Van de Velde Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 12:19 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz; Bob McGwier Subject: [SPAM] Re

Re: [Flexradio] VS2008 and Win 7

2009-05-11 Thread Bob McGwier
Jim KJ7S wrote: Sorry...for those wondering I am referring to the VS2008 not running in the 64 bit win 7... Jim The Sum of Knowledge and Experience, is Wisdom Censor Yourself, Not Others ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List

Re: [Flexradio] New architecture SVN Alpha code?

2009-05-11 Thread Bob McGwier
I thank everyone for their criticism, positive comments, negative comments, etc. on the new architecture thread that were aimed in my direction. I cannot speak for Flex, since I don't work for them or have a financial interest in Flex, but I have a couple of comments. I read all of the

Re: [Flexradio] RX Image Reject Cal SVN : 3029

2009-05-09 Thread Bob McGwier
Eddy Van de Velde wrote: Is it correct that for the SDR-1000, the RX Image Reject Cal has no function in the Test Branch v1.19.0 SVN : 3029 ? Eddy ON5UQ ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] New architecture SVN Alpha code?

2009-05-09 Thread Bob McGwier
There is a private repository for it now, the name wll be revealed at Dayton and it is not yet available to the public. We do not want people testing things that might be so broken that you are either operating illegally or may damage your radio until we test things much more carefully.

Re: [Flexradio] Two branches of interest to increase your confusion

2009-05-09 Thread Bob McGwier
Philip Covington wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Tim Ellison telli...@itsco.com wrote: The new XML data storage structure is MUCH better than Access. XML after 4 long years... wonder why it took so long? ;-) 73 Phil N8VB ___

Re: [Flexradio] I/Q Calibration

2009-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Dave Muskopf wrote: Just a second here--. Do I still need my xg2 for image cal? When I tried it the other day (4/28 svn) nothing happened, nada. Later that day I found a fellow on 40m at two places, one usb one lsb! Checking with version 18.1 this didn't happen and image cal worked fb. As I

[Flexradio] Two branches of interest to increase your confusion

2009-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
The test branch and the VS2008 branch have undergone significant revisions. Both of them have a brand new database system (YEA ERIC, HIP HIP HOORAY). We are using XML. You will notice that as soon as you start up, the start up just got faster. You will notice as soon as you click apply

Re: [Flexradio] Two branches of interest to increase your confusion

2009-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
Ray Andrews wrote: Bob, Is it you guys sole purpose in life to create work for me? Now I am going to have to get busy rewrite SDRDataTransfer.exe to handle both .mdb .xml files! No rest for the wicked! 73, Ray, K9DUR I have been writing programs for other radio amateurs to use

Re: [Flexradio] Two branches of interest to increase your confusion

2009-05-07 Thread Bob McGwier
! NO MORE ACCESS DATABASE. HOOTIE WHOOO! I think I'll organize a wake for it! Long live XML. Thank you * 10^30 -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bob McGwier Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:48 PM

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-06 Thread Bob McGwier
radio...@frontiernet.net wrote: Bob, how would this work with the SDR-1000 and Flex3000 considering they only have one RX? Are you using the Multi-Rx capability in PowerSDR and them applying the ESPRIT algorithms from the paper you referenced in this email?? 73, Dennis Petrich Amateur Radio

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Lee A Crocker wrote: I made a few more clips. The effect can be spectactular or very subtle. In 40-E I found on static the source is sort of from a quadrant and so the notching is very broad. None the less I could get about 3dB of noise reduction. In 40-F the SWBC is dramatic. The

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Wow is right. It is hard to understand just how impressive 40F really is. 40G sounds the most impressive but to the trained ear and tools, 40 F is amazing. The Flex 5000 is utterly coherent through the oscillators. It is two different DDS's that are synchronized by a built in system which

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
Jim: We can do this right now with a software receiver. We need to make the oscillators coherent in the same way we have done (in software). So this will be usable by SDR-1000 and Flex3000 owners. Good idea. I do not agree that the algorithm you suggest is the correct one but it will be

Re: [Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-05 Thread Bob McGwier
effective noise reduction/cancellation. Having done that, I'll retract my nose and let you guys get back to your (excellent) work. Thanks 73, Jim Barber, N7CXI Bob McGwier wrote: Jim: We can do this right now with a software receiver. We need to make the oscillators coherent in the same way we

[Flexradio] Diversity Reception for Flex 5000 owners

2009-05-04 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric and I have begun adding the diversity reception capability to the Flex 5000. It will work for those 5000's which have the RX2 installed. In my diversity branch, one can find the enabled code. It is VERY rough but as you can tell from Lee's blog: http://w9oy-sdr.blogspot.com/ the

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000

2009-05-03 Thread Bob McGwier
Edwin Marzan wrote: Considering that the differences are not so subtle will there ever be a case where the 5000 would be able to hear a weak signal (or somesuch) that the 3000 or 1000 couldn't hear? Edwin Marzan AB2VW There are cases where you can cause intermodulation distortion in the

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 3000

2009-05-02 Thread Bob McGwier
Ross Stenberg wrote: Reading between the lines it appears that the 3000 is every bit (no pun intended) the radio that the 5000 is. I'm sure that this was a delicate line to follow during the development of the 3000. The differences appear to subtle. B The differences are not so subtle.

Re: [Flexradio] My Flex History

2009-04-29 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric Wachsmann wrote: This isn't hard to imagine given CPU benchmarks like Passmark ( http://www.cpubenchmark.net/). The Atom 330 gets 586 marks while a Q6600 (quad core) gets 2859 marks. Even the lowest end E4000 series Core 2 Duos get 1000. The Atom 330 is roughly equivalent to a P4 3.6GHz

Re: [Flexradio] My Flex History

2009-04-29 Thread Bob McGwier
Dave Gomberg wrote: At 10:01 4/29/2009, Bob McGwier wrote: the agc will begin to use approximations for sqrt(SUM (sample_mag)^2) I kinda like writing high performance approximation code, what input range do you need to handle and what error fraction is acceptable? Do you mean sqrt(sum

Re: [Flexradio] My Flex History

2009-04-29 Thread Bob McGwier
, Kirk, K6KAR -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bob McGwier Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:02 PM To: Eric Wachsmann Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] My Flex History Eric Wachsmann wrote

Re: [Flexradio] My Flex History

2009-04-29 Thread Bob McGwier
Dave Gomberg wrote: At 12:50 4/29/2009, Bob McGwier wrote: Dave Gomberg wrote: At 10:01 4/29/2009, Bob McGwier wrote: the agc will begin to use approximations for sqrt(SUM (sample_mag)^2) I kinda like writing high performance approximation code, what input range do you need to handle

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000 Phantom Image on panadaptor dispaly

2009-04-29 Thread Bob McGwier
If you are running the code in demo mode, and it is taking in stuff from a typical sound card, that hump to the left of center is the 1/f noise - DC junk in the sound card. You can see a hint of this in some Flex 3000 and 5000 radios depending on the quality of your grounding, etc. but on

Re: [Flexradio] What happened to the display averaging in 1.18.0

2009-04-20 Thread Bob McGwier
The area below the noise threshold on the panadapter is filled. Tim Ellison wrote: Me thinks it is the Histogram display -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Don Sachnoff Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR S-Meter Power Readings

2009-04-15 Thread Bob McGwier
The meter is calculated on a single filter with a large signal in its path and for the rest of the time, it is assumed that noise is negligible compared to the tones in the calibration. This assumption appears to break down near the noise floor if your measurements are correct. This is

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR S-Meter Power Readings

2009-04-13 Thread Bob McGwier
You are not reading this correctly. The power displayed on the meter is integrated power in the receive filter, just as it should be. The computation is accurate to much more than 0.1 dB irrespective of what the display is doing. But as in all cases of such compromises, it is designed to

[Flexradio] Earth Venus Earth communications at

2009-03-28 Thread Bob McGwier
and Spectrum Lab. Congrats to RFSPACE (http://rfspace.com/Home.html) and Wolfgang DL4YHF (http://freenet-homepage.de/dl4yhf/spectra1.html). I hope everyone joins in congratulating this team on their multiple year effort and outstanding achievement. Bob McGwier N4HY -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000 wins science fair

2009-03-22 Thread Bob McGwier
No kidding. That is awesome! Bob Tim Ellison wrote: Brian, What a wonderful and distingished accomplishments for your students. I know you are very proud of their achievements and the recognition of their hard work. We need more up and coming technologist these days. Please give them a

[Flexradio] Call for talks

2009-03-21 Thread Bob Mcgwier
think this is likely to be the last year as through the efforts of individuals, groups, and companies, we are entering mainstream territory. Let me hear from you if you are interested. I will pursue invited talks separately. Bob McGwier ARS N4hy

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Re: FLEX-3000 OOB blog

2009-03-19 Thread Bob McGwier
This did not get answered. N is 100 for the Atom 330 when I am done where N is limited to software receivers running in parallel. Bob Simon (HB9DRV) wrote: What's N for the various Flex radios? (Gremlins ate the formatting in my previous post.) Simon Brown, HB9DRV

Re: [Flexradio] [SPAM] Re: FLEX-3000 OOB blog

2009-03-19 Thread Bob McGwier
/09 2:37 PM, Bob McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: This did not get answered. N is 100 for the Atom 330 when I am done where N is limited to software receivers running in parallel. Bob -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR

Re: [Flexradio] W2RF branch with 3.4.0.4877?

2009-03-19 Thread Bob McGwier
This should happen soon. I am attempting to bring the new receive IQ adaptive algorithm into the main line while allowing the old TX IQ to work for the time being. The new TX IQ is more difficult and will simply not be possible with full duplex operation and then only with the 3000 and 5000.

Re: [Flexradio] Upgrades and bug fixes to test

2009-03-18 Thread Bob McGwier
The TX is next. Tim Ellison wrote: It would be interesting to see the same analysis done with the Compander in various configuration setting (using the higher compander radios of the DX mode) -Tim -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz

[Flexradio] IQTest mistake

2009-03-18 Thread Bob McGwier
Before now, flexradio and flexradio developers (just like that) were side by side in my Address Book. Now they read FLEX USERS and Flexradio DEVELOPERS and I hope not even I can make this mistake again. My last email note was NOT intended for the former, it was intended for what we

[Flexradio] Upgrades and bug fixes to test

2009-03-16 Thread Bob McGwier
In the test branch, which is being made ready for the roll out of the 3000, I convinced the powers to allow me to make some changes which have been fleshed out in one of my branches. SVN: 2797 in the test branch Major reorganization of the receiver flow graph. ANF and NR redone. BIN

[Flexradio] New Image Suppression Algorithm

2009-03-08 Thread Bob McGwier
Please download and test the new RX (ONLY) new image suppression algorithm that pretty much completely eliminates this as a topic for conversation in the DttSP, Flex, etc. world. The mathematics has been in the DttSP repository at cgran for some time. BUT, an algorithm does not exist in

Re: [Flexradio] Couple questions about OptionWindow Filtering Algorithms

2009-03-06 Thread Bob McGwier
The windows change ONLY for display. In a act of I know better than you do, the filters for the bandpass/demodulation are all blackman-harris. fred harris, a friend and colleague, told me if I switched he would disown on me. ;-) These filters are so long that there is actually very

Re: [Flexradio] A shameless plug

2009-03-03 Thread Bob McGwier
Keep it up. blogspot has mostly made this trivial. Bob Lee A Crocker wrote: Actually I never did plug this blog before. I never really tried this before and I wasn't sure how hard it would be to master. It has turned out to be not very hard. I know enough HTML to keep me out of the

[Flexradio] Vista Tweaks

2009-02-22 Thread Bob McGwier
Boot: http://winhlp.com/node/150 Operation: http://winhlp.com/node/409 YMMV read the warnings, caveats, etc. If you don't know what a multicore is, you have no business fooling with this at all until you do. -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT,

[Flexradio] Intel ATOM WHOOAAAAA Nellie

2009-02-19 Thread Bob McGwier
Many of us have and love the Intel ATOM 330 boards we have. I have 3 of them! I want to ask those who do not see an immediate need for them but are thinking about getting one for SDR purposes, I want to tell you that better things are arriving as always. The Nvidia ION will address almost

Re: [Flexradio] vs2008 branch question

2009-02-06 Thread Bob McGwier
All of those are very good questions and we are busting our humps to answer them. They will not necessarily involve products from the coastal regions of Washington state. I want to demo stuff by Dayton. That is a large commitment, larger than most know and I am not the boss on what gets

Re: [Flexradio] vs2008 branch question

2009-02-05 Thread Bob McGwier
I am almost with Eric. I see no performance hit AT ALL on the Flex 5000 but I think you are using a Delta 44 and another SDR hardware so I cannot comment. I am using for the development a P4 3.4 GHz hyperthread, socket 478. It is pretty ancient. The VS2008 runs with less CPU% than the 2003

Re: [Flexradio] vs2008 README_NOW.txt

2009-02-02 Thread Bob McGwier
If I had any, I never would have started down this road and I certainly would have gotten off before HALF A DECADE had passed! Seriously, use this at your own risk. We are really hanging it out there with this, trying all sorts of stuff with the new IDE. Bob FireBrick wrote: If I had any

Re: [Flexradio] CW Spot button

2009-01-31 Thread Bob McGwier
You know Dave, I agree. We have had the code in DttSP to supporta spotting tone for nearly 4 years and have never turned it on once in PowerSDR. Don't let me forget. Bob W5UN wrote: The PowerSDR sure could use a CW spot button. It would be quite helpful to me. 73, Dave, W5UN

[Flexradio] VS2008 branch

2009-01-30 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric added ADODB to the repository for those having problems with VS2008 version. Apologies. Bob -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.,

[Flexradio] Intel Atom Hype

2009-01-29 Thread Bob McGwier
http://v1.moblin.org/pdfs/TheAtomProcessor.pdf -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion., Anatole France.

Re: [Flexradio] Beta Testers Needed

2009-01-28 Thread Bob McGwier
Eric did not make clear that this is built using Visual Studio 2008. You will need .NET 2.0 installed and it will barf without it. Later I will make a branch, build, and upload to branches/n4hy/VS2008_64 a 64 bit version of the code projects and we will sort out the difficulties in that

[Flexradio] [Fwd: Re: Longwave Reception with Flex 5000]

2009-01-26 Thread Bob McGwier
For correct performance I would suggest enough to cover that band in half octaves. The filters get narrower and more difficult to build as you get lower in order to achieve this if you insist on passive filters (including almost certain higher insertion loss). It is the only way to approach

Re: [Flexradio] [dttsp-linux] ATOM update

2009-01-16 Thread Bob McGwier
I am running all of that on the Atom 330 (D945GCLF2 mobo) with the addition of Windows XP64 and it is flawless. I had an XP64 disk that has not been installed on a system in two years and it needed an hour to do all of the Windows updates which tells you how old it was. Everything works

[Flexradio] Windows install out of order on dual boot machine (Intel ATOM upgrade to XP64)

2009-01-14 Thread Bob McGwier
I had Windows XP on my Atom and I upgraded to Windows XP64. I had Ubuntu in a second partition. I had installed Ubuntu 64 after Windows XP but before Windows XP64 on the ATOM330 computer. How does one do this? Once done, it is utterly trivial. When you install a version of Winblows and it

Re: [Flexradio] [dttsp-linux] Windows install out of order on dual boot machine (Intel ATOM upgrade to XP64)

2009-01-14 Thread Bob McGwier
to reinstall Unbuntu 64 again? --Paul, wa0rse On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Bob McGwier rwmcgw...@gmail.com mailto:rwmcgw...@gmail.com wrote: I had Windows XP on my Atom and I upgraded to Windows XP64. I had Ubuntu in a second partition. I had installed Ubuntu 64 after Windows XP

Re: [Flexradio] VAC

2009-01-10 Thread Bob McGwier
Just install it again. There is no license checking. If there were, he would have it stolen a lot less. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. And yes I said, yes I will Yes, Molly Bloom -Original Message- From:

Re: [Flexradio] separate VAC's

2009-01-03 Thread Bob McGwier
It is not now possible. This and many other things of similar ilk are going to be much easier in the new code. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. And yes I said, yes I will Yes, Molly Bloom -Original Message-

Re: [Flexradio] [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

2008-12-29 Thread Bob McGwier
: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:05 AM To: Marcus D. Leech; Bob McGwier Cc: hp...@lists.hpsdr.org; q...@yahoogroups.com; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz; discuss-gnura...@gnu.org; tim.newman...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE. There are many more ways than just lumping everything

[Flexradio] LMS ANR and NF

2008-12-19 Thread Bob McGwier
I have changed the way the LMS automatic notch filter and noise reduction filter is tamed. The taming of it was MUCH too aggressive (FIFTY TIMES) . This effectively stopped if from reaching a good point. I noticed this as we were working on other new things. I am anxious to get some feedback.

Re: [Flexradio] Gee! Now we are supporting Wonder Radio clones here

2008-12-17 Thread Bob McGwier
It would indeed be just that simple if the Wonder Radio were not an SDR-1000 knock off. You don't hear whining about the Elecraft k3 using PowerSDR to get Panadapter support for example. The offense is not using PowerSDR but other sins. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT,

Re: [Flexradio] Sensitivity

2008-12-11 Thread Bob McGwier
Which is why I do my measurements for that kind of sensitivity in the shield room at my University of Maryland office or at our lab in Bowie, Md. In addition, the phase noise leaving the 8640B, especially if you have the reverse power protection is pretty ugly. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group

[Flexradio] New architecture lands

2008-12-06 Thread Bob McGwier
And WITHOUT a thud: Eric Wachsmann, KE5DTO, has been succesffully moving the C# hardware control out of PowerSDR for the Flex 5000 and has successfully done the first steps of interop and is successfully sending and acting on commands using Erlang to manage the remotable service and a gen_tcp

Re: [Flexradio] improvement request

2008-12-06 Thread Bob McGwier
Is ctrl-Z already defined? This is a good idea. Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. And yes I said, yes I will Yes, Molly Bloom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [Flexradio] old stuff!

2008-12-05 Thread Bob McGwier
And smarter than 99.99% of those 1/5 your age. Of all the people making contributions to getting us going on the next generation of SDR software for flex and others, with AMAZING things, it is Bob. He is the single most amazing septuagenarian I know. I know an octogenarian who is probably

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