[Flexradio] gain control in MixW/SDR-1000

2006-02-17 Thread Charles Greene
GA All, If some of you are running MixW using VAC, how do you control the AF level and thus the output power? Previously on my K2, I would set it to maximum power, about 12 watts, and control the AF level to get an output of about 5 watts peak. As I burned out the finals on one transceiver

[Flexradio] Companding, Compression and Power Level

2006-02-13 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, In Pre 14, I was testing power level and using companding and compression in an attempt to increase the average power level. In pre 14, the average power level is down compared to pre 12, because of the new ALC. I connected an external audio generator and a scope, but this produces a

[Flexradio] (no subject)

2006-02-12 Thread Charles Greene
GM, I was using MixW last night, and I noticed that CAT worked all night and still was on this morning. Good job fixing it. I can't get any audio from the Mike when VAC is checked on. The VAC works if you check Auto VAC, uncheck VAC and the mode is SSB. Note that you can check both VAC

Re: [Flexradio] v1.4.5 Preview 14, ANF

2006-02-11 Thread Charles Greene
Chris, I had a problem with it in Pre 13 because once I needed it. I just tried it in Pre 14 and it knocks a carrier down about 20 dB. Seems it could do better. 73, Chas W1CG. At 03:40 PM 2/11/2006, Christoph - HB9AJP wrote: Hi I find the ANF (Automatic Notch Filter) not working

Re: [Flexradio] v1.4.5 Preview 14, ANF (AND OTHER LMS FILTERS)

2006-02-11 Thread Charles Greene
to share the design of it (in English) so that other authors will not ever waste their time with the real single sample LMS again. Even if you have real signals, the block LMS is accomplished in exactly the same way, but real FFT's are used. Bob N4HY Charles Greene wrote: Chris, I had

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR Beta Preview 13 has been Released.

2006-02-09 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, There's an item that I noticed in preview 12 and also in preview 13. When in Setup under the Transmit tab, you have the ability to define your own profile and save it. But when you restart Power Console, the saved profile is not there any more. 73, Chas W1CG

Re: [Flexradio] Repost

2006-02-03 Thread Charles Greene
Mike, I haven't done it, but you need two things as I see it, based on running two copies of MixW, HRD, or N4PY talking to two different transceivers. You need to designate two separate ways to talk to the hardware, and the only way I know of to do this is to use two sound cards and the

Re: [Flexradio] Beginners - Experts - Terminology and stuff

2006-02-03 Thread Charles Greene
Gerald and All, The whole area of a SDR is one that is going to require a lot of technical hand-holding for the average ham, so you need to address this fact. On the subject of having two reflectors, I was and still am, on a reflector about antennas where there was a lot of technical talk

[Flexradio] Frequency on AM

2006-02-01 Thread Charles Greene
GM, I was trying to do some image reduction on the TX signal, and I set up a distant receiver and set the PowerSDR Console to AM. The transmitted signal was on 3.9 Mhz and the receiver read 3.878 KHz. On SSB and CW, signal frequency is right on. Tried another receiver, the same. Put on a

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency on AM

2006-02-01 Thread Charles Greene
are reversed on audio going into the sdr-1000. 73 - Mike WA8BXN ---Original Message--- From: Charles Greene Date: 02/01/06 08:16:32 To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Frequency on AM GM, I was trying to do some image reduction on the TX signal, and I set up a distant

[Flexradio] Companding, Compression and Equalizer

2006-01-28 Thread Charles Greene
GM, Now that I have everything on my Power Console, pre 12 working with the Firebox except some CAT issues (previously reported), I want to set up the finer points. What are the proper settings for Compand, Compression and the transmit equalizer? How do you know, and how do you test it?

Re: [Flexradio] MOX in All But CW

2006-01-27 Thread Charles Greene
Richard, I had the same problem two days ago. I tried everything but could not get the MOX to stop closing on SSB every time I turned to the Power Console Then I noticed my mouse did not move when I started the computer. I am using the USB to parallel adapter. So I re seated all of my

Re: [Flexradio] 160 Meter Filter?

2006-01-26 Thread Charles Greene
John, Array solutions http://www.arraysolutions.com/prod_category.htm sells two kinds of filters, the ICE and the W3NQN filters. I bought the W3NQN filters a couple of years ago as I thought the specs were a little better and they are good for 200 watts. I am very pleased with the ones I

[Flexradio] 1 KHz tone on SSB

2006-01-23 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I have a 1 KHz tone on my signal when transmitting SSB. The 1KHz signal is about 20 dB over the noise level at that frequency. It does not occur when using VAC, and it does not occur when I key using MOX with no mike is plugged in. I am using a Firebox. When I plug a mike into the

Re: [Flexradio] Preview 12 CAT Problem

2006-01-21 Thread Charles Greene
, but this does seem to work with the Virutal Serial Port) When It does loose connection of I simply uncheck Use Cat in PowerSDR and recheck it and it immediately starts communicating again. I do not have to restart PowerSDR. 73, John KD8K - Original Message - From: Charles Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flexradio] diversity reception

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Greene
Lee, You obviously need two antennas and two sets of analog components. Why don't you try the AmQRP Soft Rock 40 as a second analog device? You may be able to run two copies of Power SDR Console from different directories. You should also be able to run SO2R which may be of interest to

Re: [Flexradio] My First..

2006-01-07 Thread Charles Greene
Congrats Richard. You are on the right track. 73, Chas, W`1CG At 08:20 AM 1/7/2006, Richard Stouffer wrote: I've been a ham for just over a year. I bought my SDR1000 a couple of months ago after struggling with an ICOM 706 with limited success. This morning I made my first international 40

Re: [Flexradio] Pre 10 *WARNING* TX 11 KHz below RX

2006-01-05 Thread Charles Greene
Eric and all, I did the below, and installed the revised Pre 10. Won't run. Get a fatal error. 73, Chas W1CG At 05:51 PM 1/4/2006, Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio wrote: The best way to do this is to go through the Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs and remove Preview 10 there. That should

Re: [Flexradio] Low Audio Output on Firebox with SDR-1000

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Greene
Rich, It was a cockpit problem. I had the AGC set on fixed and the fixed AGC gain set too low. Once I set the AGC to any other setting, I had plenty of audio. It really was not related to the Firebox. 73, Chas, W1CG At 05:34 PM 1/4/2006, Rick Fletcher, KG6IAL wrote: Hi, Charles: A

Re: [Flexradio] Auto Tuner

2005-12-31 Thread Charles Greene
Hello, I am also having problems with the radio transmitter shutting down on high reverse power right after I have tuned it. Running Beta 1.4.5 pre 9. Antenna is Hustler 6BTV, which without the tuner has a SWR on 40 CW of about 1.4:1. Mode CW, power 40 watts. I will try in bypass and see

[Flexradio] Ver 1.4.4

2005-12-29 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, Where can I download ver 1.4.4? I found the source code on the download section of the site, but not the compiled code. 73, Chas, W1CG

[Flexradio] CAT Commands

2005-12-27 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I need the Kenwood TS-2000 and the SDR-1000 CAT commands. I looked on the site and didn't see any. I need them to make up some macros that send CAT commands to the radio under control from MixW via the CAT port; items like selecting filters and other commands not in the usual set of

[Flexradio] Setup for beginner help results

2005-12-26 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I have VAC and VCOM installed and working well. I take it that it is proper to turn VAC off in order to operate SSB from a mike. MixW CW and all digital modes work well, and my external keyer works well in parallel with keying CW with MixW from macros or from the keyboard Now to

[Flexradio] Beginner Needs Help

2005-12-21 Thread Charles Greene
Hello, I am trying to set up MixW with the SDR-1000. I have MixW v2.16b8 and SDR-1000 v 1.4.5BP7. I have problems in both BPSK31 and CW. First BPSK31. I followed the steps in Bob's paper exactly through figure 12. MixW receives ok. On Transmit. the power level fluctuates between 0 and

Re: [Flexradio] Beginner Needs Help

2005-12-21 Thread Charles Greene
://www.itsco.com ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Greene Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:04 AM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Beginner Needs Help Hello, I am trying to set up MixW with the SDR-1000. I have MixW

[Flexradio] Beginner's Question on Vcom

2005-12-20 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I am doing the initial configuration on my SDR-1000/100 and ran into a problem getting the N8VB vCom driver to work per the SDR1000 manual. I am using a Firebox sound card. Computer is 2.16 Mhz Athlon with 448 MB RAM Only 1 hardware COM port is installed and is working. There are

[Flexradio] Firebox mixer settings

2005-12-10 Thread Charles Greene
Hi, I am using a Firebox sound system and I am having trouble getting both a decent audio level for my speakers and drive for the PA by changing the settings on the Firebox mixer. It doesn't perform logically as far as I can tell. Can anyone tell me what the Firebox settings should be?

Re: [Flexradio] Delta 44 Breakout Box and Balanced audio

2005-08-05 Thread Charles Greene
John, I have one of the Radio Shack line isolators you mentioned. I use one of the stereo channels for input and the other for output for psk31 and other data modes. It works well up to 4 KHZ which is what I have tested it to but I haven't tried it on the SDR-1000. RS also sells a single

Re: [Flexradio] Real FSK

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Greene
Frank, I recall from my early RTTY days that switching between two tone generators produces non coherent RTTY while shifting the tone of a single generator gives coherent RTTY. Coherent vs non-coherent has to do with the continuity of the AC waveform of the tone, where coherent is a

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