For those of you who are German speakers
http://dj9cs.raisdorf.net/downloads/Software_Defined_Radio_DJ9CS.pdf
by Bodo DJ9CS
innovation using the SR40
as a jumping off point.
For example, did you see the new SoftRock
Console control software from Phil N8VB?
it features the use of some very sophisticated
new cross platform code (Mono and SDL for example)
(http://www.philcovington.com/SDR.html)
de Ken N9VV
Re: D104 Preamp - perhaps this is useful info
http://www.qsl.net/w2aew/myd104amp.html
de Ken
Larry W8ER wrote:
Tim,
At the other end of the scale, I have a healthy respect for the Astatic
D104 microphone. When they are used properly, they sound very good. I
have a circuit for a small preamp
How about this one from Jackson Harbor Press?
http://jacksonharbor.home.att.net/keyall.htm
de Ken
ab7r wrote:
I have been working on this too with my Microham CW keyer. I called
Dale at hamgadgets.com and they no longer have this keying interface.
Greg
AB7R
/money/2005/oct/04inter.htm
found on the opensdr Yahoo Group
de Ken N9VV
F.Y.I. this announcement today from VIA
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20051003PR200.html
Ken N9VV
Tony KB9YIG had a similar dropout last year and prepared
this webpage to show how he soldered jumpers around what
might have been a poorly soldered plug/socket problem:
http://www.n9vv.com/SDR-1000-KB9YIG-GND.html
perhaps Wayne's solution is this simple?
de Ken
Ahti Aintila wrote:
I can
To amplify Lee's point;
for a very dramatic spectrum display of the HF noise, take a look at
the demonstration that Alan K2WS did with his Audigy-2zs card!
http://www.n9vv.com/K2WS.html (scroll down)
Ken
Pedlow, Lee wrote:
The use of A weighting in A/D D/A measurements is a bit of
Have you tried K2NET from G4ILO? I believe it does both
audio (mp3) and control codes using a Kenwood style
control alphabet http://www.tech-pro.net/g4ilo/index.html
://www.n9vv.com/Images/SDR1000/W4MQ-Remote-SDR-1000.pdf
and
http://www.flex-radio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1211
and
http://www.n9vv.com/Images/SDR1000/WO0Z-Flex-Client-Server-2.pdf
de Ken N9VV
Tom Thompson wrote:
I have some good news to report on controlling the SDR-1000 remotely. I
installed a VNC
Art, did you see this very fine instruction manual from Bob Tracy
K5KDN?
http://btracy.com/downloads/Third-Party%20Installation.pdf
de Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
How do I make HRD and the SDR1000 work together ? I have installed VCOM
bld 226.
Thanks in advance.
73, Art
There have been some very interesting discussions on the
QRP-L and Elecraft email reflectors about new washers and
dryers that create *terrible* RFI in the home. Here is
some solid info about putting toroids on various Ethernet
equipment in the shack. Very cool info repeated here
without
CONGRATS Gerald, EricW, BobM, and FrankB
[members only]
http://www2.arrl.org/members-only/prodrev/pdf/pr0510.pdf
de Ken
F.Y.I.
=
[QRP-L] Our new kit ... the SoftRock-40
George Heron N2APB n2apb-2 at clearviewcatv.net
Tue Aug 23 23:07:22 EDT 2005
Well, ever since starting to coordinate with the kitting team on
the NJQRP reflector, I've been bombarded with emails
into the open source development
of the Console?
o Pass net control around to more guys who will have
different styles and liven up the mix?
BK de Ken N9VV
Oops... my apologies to Bob Cowdery for mis-spelling his
name as Chowdry in the original msg.
de Ken
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Oue Radio Shack now sells DeOxit in two different tubes. I
believe the DeOxit is less expensive (and much more
useful) than Gold cables :-)
de Ken N9VV
Dear Flex persons,
With the Delta-44 my RX Rejection values are 3 and -14,
what are typical Transmit Rejection settings? are they
similar?
TU de Ken
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Dear Flexers,
Art Bell and George Noory beware, there may be IBOC
signals coursing through your body right now! Sounds like
time to put on our aluminum foil undies and hats for sure!
I was totally unaware of the new Broadcast digital
standard that is developing and being tested in the U.S. I
Thanks Phil for this very interesting and thought provoking
article. I hope to read some great replies from both the
Engineering and Programming communities.
I remember in 2004 that Ten-Tec put out a document about how to
tune the ORION AGC. I think this underscores the importance of AGC
for all
Here is an interesting article about Orion AGC
USING ORION's RECEIVER
by Sinisa Hristov YT1NT, VA3TTN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version 0, Feb 28, 2004
http://www.k3bu.us/settings.htm
de Ken
For those of you who would prefer to
ftp the document, I have just loaded
it into upload/VK6APH. You will need
the Flex-Radio-Friends ftp ID and PWD
to get in.
This link is working without any problem
from Chicago.
http://www.n9vv.com/VK6APH-AGC-discussion-SDR1000.pdf
sorry for any problems,
This is just F.Y.I. not a commercial endorsement.
If you need a USB extension cable for your SoftRock
projects, here is a real bargain $.99 at MPJA.
http://www.mpja.com/allpictspl.asp?d=1r=M232205p=15613+cb
de Ken
Cool!
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/Jul/1165988.htm
de Ken
Has anyone tried a bluetooth headset and USB adapter for
Skype, Teamspeak, or perhaps SDR-1000 wireless connectivity?
TU de Ken
Anyone attending the Austin Summerfest, pse send
a note here about any news from Gerald and Company.
TU de Ken
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F.Y.I. Apple has re-invented the mouse :-)
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
de Ken
F.Y.I. here are three interesting websites
that list various Ham digital mode programs
http://www.muenster.de/~welp/sb.htm
http://www.g3vfp.org/download.html
http://www.qsl.net/rv3apm/
there are *many* others (in the US and elsewhere)
Lets build up a useful list.
de Ken
Dear SoftRock-40 builders,
do you twist the secondary wires together
before winding the bi-filar secondary on T1?
TU de Ken
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Dear SoftRock-40 builders:
Does the long lead on the LED go into
the square pad next to C11?
TU de Ken
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I copied the N8VB driver 226 to my website.
Give this a try after 1pm CST
http://www.n9vv.com/N8VB_VCOMDriverBuild226.zip
de Ken
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THE MIC. I believe it also offsets the IF SHIFT for
European or US tones (low or high tones) on RTTY. That
capability would be welcome in the console for sure.
de Ken N9VV (recovering Ten-Tec cult member)
Bob Tracy wrote:
I've been considering doing just that for PSK. It's fairly east to enable
Dear SMT fellows,
is there someone out there who could build my SoftRock-40 for me?
I am unable to deal with the SMT components right now and I hate
to wait too long to test it out. Please respond to me off the
reflector.
thanks,
Ken N9VV n9vv at sbcglobal dot net
Tony, did you try QRZ.COM?
---
http://www.qrz.com/k3kq
K3KQ USA Lookups: 207
STEPHEN E MARTIN
4138 WAYNESBORO CT
WOODBRIDGE VA 22193
USA
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http://www.qrz.com/n3ud
N3UD USA Lookups: 377
Paul G
Skype is now offering a video conferencing module that allows up
to 200 people to see a video presentation(?). Might be very useful
for basic SDR-1000 training, club presentations, hamfests? many
possibilities. F.Y.I. http://www.vskype.com/
de Ken
http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/
SuSe
Fefora
Mandrake
Debian
de Ken
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Hi Dale, would you like to pick up any of the material I have on
my website? I will gladly abandon the portions that you might like
to re-craft, sort, and post on your superb pages.
de Ken N9VV
harvested what you want.
Ken
Ken - N9VV wrote:
Hi Dale, would you like to pick up any of the material I have on my
website? I will gladly abandon the portions that you might like to
re-craft, sort, and post on your superb pages.
de Ken N9VV
John, could you possibly do a screen capture that
shows the three conditions (good, poor, and distorted)?
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actual, according to my external monitor scope, I get a perfect pattern
with modulation peaks of 70-80%. A 100% may be too high and 120% results
in undesirable
Does anyone know of a utility that will
show me what APIC I have in my PC?
TU de Ken
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of our PCs. It is rare that you
ever get to see performance related timing
numbers.
de Ken N9VV
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Thanks Phil,
I tried to capture all these websites on my Beginner webpage
http://www.n9vv.com/SDR-1000-beginner.html
de Ken
Philip Covington wrote:
Just thought I should post this for those wanting to learn VS 2003 and C#.
Check out the website http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/
For either
Yes, I had the white noise several times using 1.3.13 over the
weekend. I had so many other problems trying to TX that I
overlooked it as something I did wrong. I was unable to pin it
down to a single buffer setting or mode.
de Ken N9VV
Craig Monsen wrote:
While listening to an AM station
No, there is something you need to turn OFF :-)
John UNclick (deselect) the NEW KEYER in the DSP
TAB and that will enable the old keyer.
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't get on CW with 1.3.13. It's not highlighted. Is there something
I need to turn on?
JOHN w5gi
Dale, go to your TRANSMIT setting TAB and check
the values you have for the HIGH and LOW cutoff
of your TRANSMIT AUDIO FILTER.
de Ken
Dale Richardson wrote:
My observations concerning psk operation with version 1.3.13. I have a
SDR1K set up to work psk with AC97 onboard soundcard. Power
I concur. CWL on 40M is O.K. as soon as I select CWU I
get the high speed distortion (motorboating?) and the
only way to clear it is to quit the console and restart
it.
de Ken N9VV
Dale Richardson wrote:
Kudos to all who worked on this version. Much better performance than
1.3.12. I note
I was listening on 7.076 and trying to get CAT to work
with MixW (it was working yesterday with 1.3.12) but no
joy. When I UNCLICKED CAT I got an immediate exception.
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
**
Digi mode ops: beware of MIC GAIN setting. It is
defaulted to 50 which severely overdrives using
my previous LINE OUT settings for MixW and 1.3.12.
I found that a setting of 30 gives IMD 28,
but MIC GAIN settings 30 quickly drop IMD to -17db
(using external KK7UQ IMD monitor).
de Ken N9VV
For some reason I still see ALC in the TX Meter menu.
When I select it I see a value -1.0 using MixW PSK31.
I thought ALC was gone all together?
de Ken N9VV
The TRANSMIT HIGH FILTER setting will not go below
2000. For PSK work I have used 1500 on my other rigs to
be sure I had no bad audio harmonics getting out :-)
I wonder if it would be possible to lower the HIGH
setting to 1500.
thanks,
de Ken N9VV
Only using MOBO AC97 card for MIC preamp and digi modes.
de Ken N9VV
n4hy wrote:
Is there anyone actually using 2nd sound card at this point? I would
really like to dump it
completely. It is a hazard to our health because we are forced to use
MME to support
it rather than ASIO (since ASIO
Please excuse this off-topic post, but I had to share
the website for this very interesting new keyboard
that you configure to your own requirements. I wonder
how this might inform our decisions about consoles and
HID?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/77ba/
TU de Ken N9VV
Dear FlexRadio,
please expand the DSP setting window instead of
invoking a vertical scroll bar. The scroll bar in
1.3.12 is a frustration. The setting window is used
infrequently so if it were a bit bigger it wouldn't
bother me at all :-)
thanks for reading,
de Ken N9VV
you avoid
some confusion.
de Ken N9VV
It is my great privilege to host 1.3.12
as an interim location for tonight.
http://www.n9vv.com/PowerSDR%20Beta%201.3.12%20Setup.zip
on behalf of the wonderful people
at FlexRadio Systems,
de Ken N9VV
I wouldn't have a Creative card in my system after
seeing the broadband noise display on Alan K2WS's
webpage http://www.n9vv.com/K2WS.html
de Ken
Anyone heard a peep out of our illustrious S-Meter builder John
KC5NRA? Maybe he discovered girls and the SDR stuff just can't
compete?
de Ken
Celeron 2.4GHz 1GB RAM, Delta-44, USB interface,
four board stack + PA.
de Ken N9VV
John has a very nice website, but
he for got to put in a link
http://www.w5gi.com/sdr.htm
I created the data bases for different operating conditions, i.e.
conventional audio, DX, enhanced single sideband, and hi-fi [wide]
single sideband.
The purpose of providing these databases is to
BUFFER setting? I
can not make it happen with 512 for each, but with the
M-Audio at 2048 it seems to happen pretty consistently
on CW.
de Ken N9VV
Joe - AB1DO wrote:
I've had it happen on the few occasions when using my foot pedal and
pressing it a little too slowly/hesitantly, making
Here are two websites F.Y.I.
that have really great lists of
Ham digi and CAT software
(scroll down to find your favorite)
http://www.qsl.net/rv3apm/
and
http://www.g3vfp.org/download.html
de Ken
Someone suggested a permanent mod to the Delta-44 distribution
box(?) to eliminate at least one source of ground loops with the PC.
Does anyone have more information or success with that mod?
TU de Ken
Frank Brickle wrote:
It's often helpful to lift the ground at one end of each of the cables
bandpass filters
in the PowerSDR Console. If you are using Bill's
filters, put them at 250hz and move across the
band with the IF button. Very slick demo.
If you are an SDR listener or just want to
enjoy some I/Q listening, I bet you will enjoy
these three examples.
de Ken N9VV
and the QRP
community such as this from Jackson Harbor Press
http://jacksonharbor.home.att.net/zerobeat.htm
Or how about the magic method that Kenwood offers
in the TS-570D and the TS-2000 where it does some
sort of AUTOMATIC ZERO BEAT? does anyone have
experience with that technology?
TU de Ken
Joe I experienced something similar when I had USB speakers and a
USB WiFi link at home. Unplugging both devices eliminated the
clicking. I took it to be some sort of polling on the USB ports
somewhere within my poorly shielded PC.
de Ken N9VV
Joe - AB1DO wrote:
Hi All,
On SSB *receive
Here is a link to an interesting audio spectrum display program.
Just F.Y.I. it is not directly applicable to the SDR-1000.
http://www.moetronix.com/spectravue.htm
de Ken N9VV
and Bill's post during the Dayton weekend.
Sort by author or thread.
http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2005-May/000269.html
Duane - N9DG wrote:
For those who may not be watch the forums area as closely
these days there is a posting by Bill, KD5TFD with a modified
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