PowerSDR KE9NS v2.8

As far as I am aware, nobody has created a USB3 to FireWire adapter. I do know they have a USB2 to FireWire device, but its only good for transferring photos across FireWire (DV) Sony cameras. Even though Apple created a Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter, they dont make it anymore, so you would need t...

My examples use Voicemeeter Banana. Banana breaks the Virtual cable into 2 separate cables you can view from the SOUND program: Voicemeeter and Voicemeeter AUX The standard Voicemeeter shows up in SOUND as 1 cable called VB-Cable (but its actually 2 cables) When you select VB-Cable in PowerSDR: Wind...

I will take a look

Darrin

I use Win11 with WSJT-X with no issues for a long time. However, I dont use the new Win11 settings panel for sound. I continue to use the original windows Control Panel->SOUND (I keep a direct link to it on my desktop to save time) Now you can easily check to see the list of playback and recording d...

Glad you got it working!! I was hoping that the Debug screen "EEPROM firmware update" was going to automatically populate the serial# and rev#, but obviously not. My next step was to tell you about the EEPROM.exe, so I am glad you found it (for future reference: The EEPROM download is also...

There is the ATU service manual PDF on my website as well. I have never installed one, so I dont have any experience. NOTE: the Flex-5000 PA board has its own SWR and FWD/REV watt meter. So the SWR may not line up with the ATU SWR meter even when the ATU is calibrated. When your tuning, what does yo...

The debug screen needs to be in focus before you hit the keyboard, otherwise your keystrokes are just going to whatever application is in focus If you do it correctly the button will appear on the debug screen (it just appears in the upper left section of the debug screen). This has nothing to do wi...

Mick Happy New Year! If you go to my webpage and look for the: "Manuals, Repair info, Technical info, Folder locations" section towards the top of the page. Open the section up and scroll down to the Flex-5000 area, and you will see a ATU install guide PDF Now there are 2 ATU units. The PD...

Mark, Go and download the incremental .308 I added an adjustable delay value setpoint. you can up the standard delay value and see if it works for you? I would do this before trying the Legacy drivers. I just tested a setup using a Flex-3000 on a modern Win11 laptop where I run a standard Via FireWi...

If its causing Blue screen crash, its related to FireWire and not the install.
I am assuming your running the latest version of PowerSDR?
You can try running the "legacy" FireWire Drivers.
You can check out the procedure under the FireWire section of my website.


Darrin

OK. Just for future reference.... One more thing to try on newer Win11 PCs is to turn off the "Memory Integrity" feature of Windows Defender. I did run into a Win11 mini- desktop PC, and PowerSDR would crash with "Memory Integrity" checking enabled. I disabled it (just google for...

Is your computer a Dell XPS 8960? I do see a M.2 wi-fi card on the motherboard. I have a video on running Firewire via M.2. But also as a test, you may want to disable your WiFi or even unplug the M.2 Wi-Fi card. A long time ago I ran FireWire on a laptop with WiFi. The WiFi did not get along well w...

Latency is only related to the Panadapter Freeze issue. So if the Pan is freezing, its usually a hardware or driver issue But not related to a BSOD Since you say your Flex was working on your last PC, I would say its definitely a Motherboard/FireWire compatibility issue. I would have figured that be...

Always make sure windows Control panel->Power Options-> is set to High performance so all the CPU cores stay on all the time. Also, I also always set PowerSDR Setup->General->Options->Process Priority to "Real Time" (for a modern PC with lots of CPU cores) You can also try launching PowerS...

Are you saying that the Flex-5000 already has a VU5K in it, and you want to swap it?

I think your referring to the RFIO board (with the SO239 connectors)? If you go to Setup->General->Hardware Config, you will see a list of all the boards in the radio and their Serial# and Rev# I would assume swapping the RFIO would be OK, although you may need to do a Setup->Factory default. I have...

I dont believe I have ever even looked at the SPEC mode before? According to the PDF Manual its a "Spectrum" mode. Its like DSB mode but the bandwidth goes out to the current Sample Rate of the radio. I exported my database first (just in case), I just tried SPEC and it works as per the ma...

If you are currently running .194, you can just install the .306 However.... New features added to PowerSDR since .194, may cause your database file to become corrupted after the upgrade to .306 So, I suggest you do a setup->export database before performing any upgrade. So if you find a problem, yo...

glad you got it working. I still wonder if it was the TI chip on the card, or the card itself that was bad, or maybe even the adapter cable? I have also found that China does copy chips and passes them off as authentic, so TI chips may not be real TI chips. But its impossible to prove unless you can...

Yes you can go ahead and post your DOC on the forum.
You can either extract the contents of the DOC file directly to the forum, or post just the doc file.

Darrin