Hi Lief Again many thank's for your instructive recomendations, here the hardware are WSE converters, I'm working on the cables now and I hope this weekend or the next one start some test with our 15.1 meter dish and Xpol feed. Regarding record audio, my plans are helping Joe with the Linrad-MAP65 test and for that I will record 1 complete hour, later would be posiblöe to send the files to you and Joe in a DVD via normal post, for sure this will be a very important amount of data to improve theb Linrad-MAP65 tandem.
I will keep the list inform about our test, weather this week was really bad here and until now we dont finish the 7/8 heliax on the dish, focus is more than 16 meters out and is no so easy like in a 3m TVRO dish in your backyard. Best regards Alex Artieda HB9DRI ----Ursprüngliche Nachricht---- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 04.07.2007 23:42 An: "Linrad mailinglist"<linrad@antennspecialisten.se> Betreff: [linrad] Re: Linrad under Windows Hello Alex, > My question regarding Linrad under Windows still open, as lot of > peple claim works fine, for me dont make sense to invest time in > Linux, TNX, I have enought with windows, so please put away a > religios fight Linux VS Windows; if some body knows how to properly > configure Linrad under Windows I apreciate that information, that's > all. The difference between Linux and Windows is how you have to configure your operating system. Under Windows you have to find the proper drive routines for the soundcard that you are going to use and then install it properly for Windows. Actually this is much easier under Linux in case you assemble a computer from bits and pieces that you can collect from junk boxes. There are many soundcards for which you can not find the Windows drivers on the Internet, you have to have them installed with the Windows installation with which they were bought. On the other hand, in case you already have a working Windows machine with properly installed sound, it will be far easier to use it as it is than to install Linux. Once the OS is properly set up, (under Windows you might have to install DLLs in case you want to control hardwares such as SDR-14 or the WSE converters while such things are automated under Linux) the proper configuration of Linrad is OS-independent. How to set up Linrad depends on what you want to achieve. Like Alice in the Wonderland. I can not tell you what direction to go if I do not know where you want to arrive. The problem with Linrad (and the strength of it) is that the program itself does not make many assumptions about what you actually want to achieve. It means that you can set it up in many different ways and most of them are inefficient and silly for one reason or another. Linrad does not know that you did not do such things on purpose.... You asked for the optimum settings for WSJT. Here I have no experience, but what would be optimum may be very different depending on the circumstances. First of all, do you need the Linrad noise blanker? If you do, will it be enough to use the dumb blanker? Maybe you could reduce the noise floor by a couple of tenths of a dB by using the smart blanker also. Depends on the bandwidth of your hardware and your local QRN situation. Secondly, do you wish maximum visibility for weak WSJT signals over the entire bandwidth or do you want to zoom in around a CQ frequency? It may be possible for the Linrad AFC to lock to a sync tone that drifts with frequency in a way that your JT decoder can not handle. If you want to use Linrad to correct for a non-linear and large frequency drift you should invoke the AFC and learn how to master the bandwidth, averaging and time delay parameters that affect its operation. Generally speaking, and this is for all Linrad users: 1) Set Linrad up as you think should be ok according to what you have found at various Internet locations or else found to be reasonable. 2) When you have a situation of any kind where you have real difficulties to copy, press "S" to save a recording of the difficult signal during at least 30 seconds. Then pack the recorded file plus all the par_ files in your Linrad directory into a zip, tar.bz2 tar.gz file. Then send a mail to me so we can agree in what way you can make the perhaps very large file available to me. I need real life examples to try to find out what might be optimal processing parameters in special situations Such files might also point to problems that could be managed by improved processing algorithms. For the Linux vs Windows discussion: 1) As far as I know there is no difference provided that the computer is fast enough. 2) A computer that is fast enough for Linux may be hopelessly inadequate for Windows, but Pentium IV and above is perfectly adequate for Windows. 3) In case you use USB for the SDR-14 or SDR-IQ, Linux will allow more bandwidth than Windows.(98, 2000 or XP. I know nothing about Vista) 4) Linrad is available as source code for both Windows and Linux. It is extremely easy to install all the free tools needed for either OS and then make changes in for example the user routine that can talk to your transceiver. 73 Leif / SM5BSZ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <linrad@antennspecialisten.se>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <linrad- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <linrad- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED] se> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <linrad@antennspecialisten.se>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>