Hi David, Yes, I am using the SoftRock v9.0 and the switched bandpass filter module.
There are a three options on which way you can go, depends on what firmware you have in the AVR controller on the v9.0 board, but all work to fully control the bpf module. The original v1.4 firmware supplied by Tony will work with Winrad if you use Fred, PE0FKO's dll file: http://home.ict.nl/~fredkrom/pe0fko/ExtIO_Si570/ Put that in the same folder as Winrad, when you start the program, go to 'show Options', and 'Select Input', from the pull-down select 'SoftRock v9.0 Si570' and that will give you control of both the bpf switching and Si570 frequency control over the USB port. The v2.0 firmware from the SDR-kits group Tony has just started supplying will also work in the same way as the v1.4 firmware. By far the best option available is to use Fred PE0FKO's own v15.9 firmware and his dll file. This not only provides an additional Auto Band Pass Filter mode where the filter selection is done in the firmware, but also 'smooth tuning' implemented with the firmware. The added bonus of this firmware is that using the ABPF option it will work with all versions of PowerSDR and Rocky as well, something neither of the other two will. http://home.ict.nl/~fredkrom/pe0fko/SR-V9-Si570/ There are some issues with the v1.4.2 release of Winrad, but basically it does work with some nice new features like being able to drag the frequency scale or step the LO up or down by one 'screen width'. The previous v1.32 works very well with Fred's firmware. I wondered why there were no responses to my posting, now found out there is a 'new' Winrad Yahoo group replacing this one. No mention of it anywhere, and it does not appear if you do a search within Yahoo groups. Fred pointed me in the right direction, need to send Jeffrey an email via the Winrad.org website. I am currently waiting to join that group. Guess this one is really dead now? 73, Bob G8VOI --- In [email protected], "drmail377" <drmail...@...> wrote: > > Hi Bob, Are you using the SRL+XV9.0 kit with the switched band pass > filters? If so, does Winrad switch the filters? > > 73's David WB4ONA > > --- In [email protected], "g8voip" <g8voi.reeves59@> wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Just downloaded the latest version released yesterday from Winrad.org > > website. > > > > Tested it with a SoftRock v9.0 receiver using Fred PE0FKO v15.9 > > firmware (also SDR-kits v2.0 firmware). > > > > Some nice new interesting features, plus a possible problem? > > > > Not sure the change to the mouse scroll wheel tuning is an > > improvement, seems only to work when the mouse cursor is within the > > blue filter bandwidth (cursor changed to arrow plus white box). > > Fortunately using using it with a PowerMate controller, tuning works > > across the whole screen as long as the cursor is not moved from its > > original position. > > > > I really like the ability to drag the waterfall frequency scale now to > > move the local anywhere, no need to reset the LO while tuning across > > all of the band, great! (this feature is not mentioned anywhere as far > > as I can see). > > > > There appears to be a problem with the 'C' function which should > > centre the received frequency on the screen. With both PE0FKO v15.9 > > and SDR-kits v2.0 firmware, the LO is reset to 1.5MHz on pressing 'C'. > > Looks like a problem with the frequency sent to the Si570 via the USB > > / I2C interface. > > > > Other than that, nice to see the program continuing to be developed, > > > > Thanks very much, some really nice new features, > > > > 73, Bob G8VOI > > >
