[Flexradio] Noise Blanker and large S9+ signals outside of passband

2007-12-19 Thread Kurt Vangsness
I've noticed that when NB or NB2 are engaged, large (S9+) signals that are outside of the filter end up interacting with the noise blanker causing the noise floor to vary in proportion to the amplitude of the large signal. For example, if clicking the NB results in a 6 dBm decrease in the

[Flexradio] USB Interface Problems

2007-03-04 Thread Kurt Vangsness
I recently acquired a USB Interface cable from another Flexer and am having some problems with my SDR-1000 when using it and want to make sure it isn't some cockpit error or something (I don't think there is any problem with the USB Interface cable). My SDR-1000 (early 1W 3 board stack with

[Flexradio] Install of K5OOR PA-100 5W Amp in 1W SDR-1000

2006-06-05 Thread Kurt Vangsness
I've heard of a number of others that are using (or are interested in) K5OOR's PA-100 kit with the original QRP 1W SDR-1000 so I thought I'd post a note about how I installed one in my SDR-1000. The PA-100 is a broadband amp that will produce 5W output with 100mW input (it can probably be

Re: [Flexradio] [hfprojects] Re: PA-100 (5W AMP) Update

2006-04-21 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Ken and others, I'm starting some experiments with my 1 watt sdr-1000 and a prototype PA-100 that Virgil sent me. I currently have the HF packer amp and have been very happy with it (I built it with a input Pi attenuator that had minimal attenuation but still 50 ohms) and find that the 1 watt

[Flexradio] Questions on SSB mic settings and operating manual

2006-04-15 Thread Kurt Vangsness
I'm going through the Voice Transmission Operation section of the 1.6.0 Operating Manual to get familiar with the latest changes and have a couple of questions; Step 5 on page 137 states that with TX Meter set to Mic adjust for peaks at 100%. When I select Mic, the readings are in dB not %.

[Flexradio] Unusual Noise Floor Increase on Some GUI Actions

2006-02-10 Thread Kurt Vangsness
This is going to sound strange but in playing around with the new CWX feature tonight (very nice by the way!) on 20 meters I noticed something that is present in 1.4.4 and the other 1.4.5 previews that I have installed. When I select an input area on the console (for example the RIT area where

Re: [Flexradio] Unusual Noise Floor Increase on Some GUI Actions

2006-02-10 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Ug, Leave it to me to mess up a compliment - replace ALC with AGC below! 73, Kurt KC9FOL Kurt Vangsness wrote: This is going to sound strange but in playing around with the new CWX feature tonight (very nice by the way!) on 20 meters I noticed something that is present

Re: [Flexradio] Frequency

2006-01-29 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Jim, Just sitting there - It always happens and only once, after that everything is stable. My DDS has the heat sink (ECO-ed) so I still suspect it is just an unusual behavior of my oscillator. Kurt KC9FOL Jim Lux wrote: At 10:00 AM 1/29/2006, Kurt Vangsness wrote: John, I see

Re: [Flexradio] Beta 8, DirectX, new AGC, use of FFTW3

2005-12-18 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Bob/Eric, I did a bit of comparison between different versions I had installed and found that on my hardware, preview 8 runs with about the same CPU consumption as preview 1. Preview 7 was a significant cpu hog on my config for some reason. fft_wisdom was run on all versions and I imported

Re: [Flexradio] Website

2005-12-02 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Some of the forum posts are still available in Googles cache. If you enter the following search in google: site:www.flex-radio.com forum you can then click on the cached link and view the page. Probably not a complete cache of the forum but something if anyone wants to find some of the more

[Flexradio] 1.4.5 Preview 6 DIGU transmits LSB or USB

2005-11-16 Thread Kurt Vangsness
[ I'm resending this - looks like the first one got lost ] I noticed that although DIGU sets the filter up in the upper sideband, when transmitting it can transmit on the lower sideband (or at least the panadaptor display appears to show this). If you select LSB and then select DIGU and then

Re: [Flexradio] D-44 Kit Preliminary assembly documentation and support files

2005-10-02 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Eric, I just finished putting the interface kit together - it was a breeze to assemble and it works great. With the standard D-44 box, anytime I touched my desk lamp near my radio I got a 60 cycle hum in the radio audio. With the interface kit the problem is gone. My only small suggestion on

Re: [Flexradio] Version 1.4.5 beta

2005-09-21 Thread Kurt Vangsness
I see the same thing but only when I select the 80 button. The other band buttons appear to be working for me, but when I click on 80 I get the Error reading BandInfo table. popup. Clicking the OK button results in a display of Error below the VFO A frequency. I also found that for some reason

Re: [Flexradio] Strange toggle to BIN mode after TX

2005-09-16 Thread Kurt Vangsness
is set to High and CPU usage was low through this. 73, Kurt KC9FOL Kurt Vangsness wrote: I was trying to work some of the Route 66 stations this evening and after switching back to receive from a transmit my headphone audio sounded exactly like BIN mode. The BIN button was not engaged

[Flexradio] Strange toggle to BIN mode after TX

2005-09-12 Thread Kurt Vangsness
I was trying to work some of the Route 66 stations this evening and after switching back to receive from a transmit my headphone audio sounded exactly like BIN mode. The BIN button was not engaged and manually enabling it and disabling the BIN button had no effect. I was about to get back to

Re: [Flexradio] Parallel Port Address

2005-07-23 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Mike, One thing to watch out for is that in the past, the console would never maintain my non standard parallel port setting when upgrading to a new version and loading in a previous database - it would instead use the default parallel port address. Eric had added my non standard address

[Flexradio] 1.3.14 X2 Delay

2005-07-08 Thread Kurt Vangsness
Hi, I've been using 1.3.14 with no problems but noticed one small thing. If you select Enable X2 TR Sequencing and then deselect it, you will still get the X2 Delay when you transmit. I doubt many will run into this - I only did because I'm playing around with using X2-7 to turn on my