Joe, At the risk of stating the obvious, the reason it is working for Phil and not you is because the timing is not being met across the entire population of radio hardware. As the firmware is becoming more and more complex, it would appear that the timing model in the version of Quartus that is bei...

Simon, I have not looked at the code, and don't have an 8000, but from the reports of others it would appear that the LCD microprocessor is responsible for detecting faults associated with overcurrent, overvoltage and VSWR coming from the 50V amplifier board, and that any such fault requires the ope...

From Joe... All, As both Protocol 1 (current protocol) and Protocol 2 firmware and software are being posted to the OpenHPSDR github repository these days I’ll make the announcement that Orion_MkII_Protocol_2_v1.2 firmware is available for download from the OpenHPSDR github repository: https://githu...

Hi Justin,

Just change the name of the rbf file to "metis.rbf". I believe that will solve your problem.

73!

Scott

P.S. thanks for the nice feedback!

Just to clarify:

The 100 is the 100W version of the 10. Both use the Hermes 16-bit card.

The 100B is the 100W version of the 10E. Both use the Hermes 14-bit card.

73,

Scott

DL1OF wrote:Hi,

i wonder will there be an Apache version of the 3.2 Hermes firmware, too? You know, a b version that uses the correct LPF while in ALEX mode!

Bernhard , DL1OF

Is this really a firmware problem, Bernhard, or a PowerSDR problem?

73,

Scott

John, In addition to confirming you've got the right LCD microprocessor code loaded, I'd suggest reverting to protocol 1 and PowerSDR. There's no guarantee that protocol 2 and Thetis will work properly regardless of the LCD firmware revision. Unfortunately I can't guide you on what the 8000 LCD shou...

I am also testing for Simon, on my 100D. It's definitely coming along! Below is SDR Console running edge to edge on my triple displays and showing all of 40M.

73!

Scott

Hi everyone, Something you might try if you'd like to see a list of all of the currently active topics in one, easy to parse, single page view, and that is the "Active Topics" forum view. To access "Active Topics", just access it from the small purple menu icon in the upper left ...

Rob--you could check the board against the schematics:

viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2336

Richard--not sure it makes any functional difference what revision Orion board you have. Do you have some specific concern?

73,

Scott

Barry, Non-coherent diversity basically is any method that causes one to choose between two (or more) signal sources based on some metric of signal quality, usually which one is the strongest. The S-meter, your ears and your brain make the choice. How you get that info to your ears/brain is up to yo...

Hi Simon, Links to all of the firmware, including the LCD microcontroller code, are here: https://apache-labs.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2334 . The directions, which may not be complete, are in the 8000 user guide. Links to all of the users guides are here: https://apache-labs.com/commun...

That's a great looking mic, Simon! Dynamic, so no fuss, no muss with phantom/bias supplies. Did you use anything special to do the balanced to unbalanced connection, or just make up a cable that bonds the audio "-" lead to ground? This is my current favorite microphone, a Behringer B1 larg...

All:

Watch this space for posting of the new version of the new protocol (protocol 2) firmware Simon has:

https://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware/tree/master/Protocol2

Not sure when it'll post, but that's where it should go when it does.

73,

Scott

Great stuff, Simon, thanks for the update!

73!

Scott

That's very interesting, Stu, thanks for posting that! I wonder, because of the way that openHPSDR architecture radios (i.e. every Apache Labs radio) adjusts RF drive, setting the RF power to 100W and then adjusting drive with the audio level might not be a good method. This is because the gain afte...

Thanks, Rob. 3.2 is not new, it had been located under "releases". However thanks for the "heads up" that they have now posted it at the root level. I will update the "sticky" post that points to all of the firmware.

73!

Scott

Chris,

Can you fix the problem by creating a fresh MIDI settings file, just like you did with the database.xml file?

73,

Scott

Buck, No problems per se. However, you'll take a 3dB sensitivity hit using a power divider ("splitter"). You may or may not want to do that. A switch would solve that problem. Also, just be very careful to program it up right in Setup > General > Ant/Filters > Antenna. You don't want to ac...

Jealous of your antenna farm!

Dan, This is not the new protocol firmware, this is current (old) protocol firmware. As such it works with PowerSDR mRX and not Thetis. The major changes are that a) it has been compiled in a new version of Quartus (the Altera development environment), and b) has the other improvements and bug fixes...

From Joe... All, Angelia_v5.8 (protocol1) firmware is available for download from https://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware This current-protocol (protocol1) version upgrades to Quartus Prime Lite v16.1, replaces all megafunctions to QPL v16.1 versions, implements peak detect for FWD_PWR (AIN1) and...

From Joe... All, There is a new version of Orion firmware, Orion_v4.8, for the current protocol (protocol1), available for download at: https://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware This version implements the peak detect feature for FWD_PWR (AIN1) and REV_PWR (AIN2), improving stability of the SWR rea...

Chris, Have you made sure that all of the Windows devices that are instantiated by VAC are set to 48KHz and, if available, stereo? Go into the Windows Sound Control Panel and check the advanced settings of each VAC device. One thing you can try is a total database delete on PowerSDR. Go to C:\Users\...

Good idea, Bill! I will make this thread a "sticky". Here's what I've posted in the past, perhaps it will be of help... Diversity can only be achieved using radios that have two separate ADCs. Currently this would be the 100D, 200D and 8000. In order to achieve any kind of non-coherent div...

Chris, If you are seeing good spectral and waterfall data during receive then it's not a relay problem. If the transmit side of the VAC link is working, then it's probably not a driver problem, something that has been effected by Windows updates in the past. What versions of VAC, PowerSDR, VB Cable,...

From Joe... All, New current-protocol (Protocol1) firmware for the ANAN-8000DLE is available for download from: https://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware This version implements peak detect for FWD_PWR (AIN1) and REV_PWR (AIN2) for the SWR calculations in software. The change settles the SWR readin...

Right on, brother!

Update from my post above: said friend found that his power cables were causing excessive voltage drop. With proper length/gauge cables, the RM-50 seems to be working fine.

73!

Scott

No problem, Phil!

Being a new software and new firmware crash test dummy is fun, isn't it? It better be, because I do it a lot!

73!

Scott