Dudley,
Thanks for all your help with my failure to connect problem with a Flex
3000 and PSDR 2.6.4. As we could not resolve this by email, I sent the
radio in for repair. Although Flex replaced two ICs I don't think this
was actually the problem, because when I received the radio back it had
Thanks to everyone on this list for their helpful comments. The F3k
still isn't working, but many possible problems have been ruled out.
This radio worked for years before the problem developed.
The legacy driver is installed.
The green Firewire light inside the Flex lights when the firewire ca
My Flex-3000 has disappeared. I'm running Win7 64 bit, VIA chip set
FDDI. I've tried three different FDDI cables and two different PCs (and
FDDIs) with PSDR v2.6.4 installed exactly according to instructions. I
get the same "No devices found" message in each case. What should I do next?
George,
Patrick, you are no doubt right on all points. There are still 50
year-old computers, like the IBM 1620, around in museums and I suppose
they still work. The real issue is, will the early adopters who bought
the Flex 6000 series still be happy with 50 year old technology, or will
they have long
Zack,
I use a separate receive antenna for my Flex 1500 and also for my
Flex-3000, which I modified to accept a separate receive input. I'm
using the DX Engineering active receive antenna with an additional
preamplifier and a 4-way splitter to drive several receivers from the
same receive ante
Very well put, Brian. This is exactly the right and professional way to
do things, and it always works.
I'd add just one more suggestion, which most hams won't be able to use.
Locate your antenna far enough away so that your shack isn't in the near
field, if possible. This prevents currents fr
I noticed something similar running MARS-ALE with my Flex-3000. I didn't
find a solution and eventually gave up.
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
On 05-Jul-11 11:44, kd0...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I originally posted a version of this to N1MM's reflector, but further
troubleshooting points to PowerSDR so I'll c
Thanks, Tim and all. The Flex 3K ATU is just what I wanted, and working
fine. I didn't know it was there.
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
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An even better possibility that Flex might consider is to remember ATU
settings by frequency, not just band. My SGC and LDG tuners do this and
remember the tuning parameters for the last few hundred frequencies
tuned, regardless of band. When I transmit on (or near) one of these,
the tuner auto
Absolutely. The lack of a sticky per-band setting makes the tuner
useless for automatic Winlink RMS and ALE operation, both of which scan
multiple bands. I run both of these 7x24. Otherwise, it's a great tuner now.
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
On 17-Mar-11 22:35, Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 a
Hi Sasi,
A Flex 3000 doesn't require a sound card. It has its own ADC and DAC.
I can't comment on the suitability of your Lifebook but perhaps others
can. There seem to be several Lifebook models with significant
differences in their processing power. Which one do you have?
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
Alan,
There's a wire table in the back of the ARRL Handbook, and also on-line,
where you can find the right gauge wire to get the voltage drop down to
where you want it. You can just cut off the present cable near the
connector, and solder-and-tape splice on the new heavier gauge wire. I
rarel
Tim,
I don't know that motherboard but I have the same AMD processor in a
computer that I used to run a Flex-3000 and simultaneously a Flex-1500
without any problem at all. By the way, is your 3-pack Win 7 for
upgrades only? If so, when it installs it won't find a qualifying OS on
the disk. It
Jim,
I experienced the same disappointment, but discovered Snap Backup. It's
free, open source, and works great backing up Win7 Home over a network.
And, it's faster than Windows Backup, small in size, and the backup
files are .zip files so you can open them without the application if you
ever
In all this discussion about matching, just remember that there are two
issues with antennas.
1. You have to get the power into the antenna by matching
2. The antenna has to radiate the power in a direction that will reach
the intended receiver.
You can learn a lot about your antenna by mode
In my view time-critical digital modes like ALE and Pactor III is
another area where analog still has an advantage. I say this both on
theoretical grounds, and from my own experience running RMS and pilot
stations. Latency is critical for these modes, and digital radios that
use FIR filters hav
Bradley,
If you can run full power into a dummy load but not into an antenna, you
almost certainly have RF pickup problems.
I had problems like this with my Flex-3000. For me, the worst problem
was the Firewire cable since I run mostly digital modes and not voice.
What I did was run a good gr
I use Kaspersky, and it has never found anything wrong with PSDR files
on my machine. If it were me and I was not using the files, I would get
rid of them.
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
On 27-Nov-10 13:45, TOM BLACKWELL wrote:
I have several Flex programs on the hard drive of one of my computers.
I recent
Justin,
It depends on what you want to do, of course. I often use a Butternut
HF-9V vertical with my Flex, with ground radials. I like it because:
It works really well for DX, which is all there is from my Caribbean
island
It covers most of the bands that the Flex-3000 covers (except 160m
a
I was chief engineer on some big code projects. When people talk about 2
lines per day, they frequently get that number by dividing the total
code delivered by the total "man days" expended on the project. It
ignores test code, discarded code, code for tools, etc. and also
includes the time spe
I really like the new 2.0.16 but I have a question. Will PowerSDR
eventually support multiple Flex-1500s running simultaneously on the
same PC? How soon might that happen?
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
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Some years ago I had the privilege to sit in a meeting with a Director
of Research of a government Agency that pays a lot of attention to
computers. The Director explained that he had a plan for an absolutely
secure OS kernel, and had approached Bill Gates to urge him to adopt
this plan. As it hap
I'd like to second Neil's comment. I live on a tiny Caribbean island
where computer expertise is limited, but people still use computers.
People like hotel owners, farmers, mechanics, retired pilots and others
with no computer background. I spend a lot of time helping my friends
recover from malwa
Hi Dave,
I'm running a Flex-3000 with PSDR 1.18.6 on a Windows 7 64 bit system,
with the driver that came on the computer, and I notice that crackly
audio develops after some hours of operation too. I run it 7x24 as a
Winmor RMS station, and if I shut down and restart everything (except
Win 7) eve
I'm running both a Flex-1500 and a Flex-3000 on a Windows 7 64-bit
machine without problems. You have to pay for the virtual port program
for 64 bit but it's not too pricey.
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
On 9/16/2010 09:52, James Austin wrote:
> Advantage of 64-bit is that you will be able to use all 4GB of
On 9/8/2010 16:12, Brian Lloyd wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:11 AM, George Works <mailto:wor...@hughes.net>> wrote:
>
> I also see drifting noise hills, but mine got a lot smaller when
> I put
> several ferrites on the feedline near the antenna and near
I also see drifting noise hills, but mine got a lot smaller when I put
several ferrites on the feedline near the antenna and near the radio,
and also put them on other cables to the radio. I suspect that ground
loops, especially big ground loops between my shack and antennas, pick
up this sort of
I have this problem in my station. I run three simultaneous stations
for RMS Pactor, RMS Winmor and ALE. I don't have a enough land to put
three antennas more than a wavelength apart, at least not at 80m. So I
put one active receiving antenna as far away as possible and use a power
divider to the
Tim, it is 2.0.7.
George
On 8/9/2010 09:43, Tim Ellison wrote:
> What version of PowerSDR are you using? If it is not 2.0.7, then please
> install the 2.0.7 version and re-verify that the problem till exists.
>
>
> -Tim
>
>
> When I set the Flex-1500 to receive on XVRX in Simple Mode, and then
>
When I set the Flex-1500 to receive on XVRX in Simple Mode, and then
re-start PSDR, this setting seems to be lost. Is there a way to keep
this setting through re-starts?
George, PJ5/KJ6VW
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I did this with a Flex-3000 and PTC-IIe some months ago. The signals you
need are on the Flexwire connector. It helps if you start with a cable
from SCS with the DIN connector already attached since these are hard to
solder. I found it quick and easy to do, and it worked exceedingly well.
George, P
I have two old Kachina 505 DSP radios with various problems but fine
power amps. I'm in the process of tracing the circuits of a Kachina
filter board and power amp board to make into a 100W amp for the Flex
1500. I suspect many other old transceivers could similarly be recycled
as Flex 1500 power a
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