Nice Ernst!

A very worthy thread here that deserves a sticky link to introduce this developmental path to those who are not aware of how things work in the open source world. It would be nice to simply point to this when someone is obviously and obliviously unaware.

73, Rob W1AEX

This is where I put my feet up on the operating bench.

Rob W1AEX

Wow, what an improvement! I just made a contact on 29.6 and the station was perfectly clear with a limiter gain setting of 2 notches (4dB). Playing around with the limiter gain it was perfect through quite a range and the minimal setting suggested by Scott was fine. This will be great fun to play ar...

Hi Scott, I was very curious about how the phase rotator in the CFC tools might affect the AM mode in Thetis having seen what guys were doing to gain asymmetry with plate modulated transmitters. My experiments with it did not produce any true positive peak asymmetry on AM. It was very easy to remove...

Hi Ken, Thetis does a remarkable job with the AM mode and is capable of producing a broadcast quality signal using the CFC processing if that is what is desired. My simplest understanding of what's going on is that Thetis produces a double-sideband signal and adds the carrier in at the end. So, unli...

Glad it got sorted out David. That was a horrendous delay but I think you will like the ANAN/Thetis performance very much.

73, Rob W1AEX

The 200D picture used as my avatar is pure Photoshop but it's fun to get PM's here at the forum with questions about it. :lol: I attached a PDF document that was released when Pure Signal 2.0 was introduced. Note that I am unsure who the original author was (Dr. Pratt? Doug? Scott?) but it really he...

Welcome to the forum Joe. The APD implementation in the ANAN/Thetis platform is certainly remarkable and it has evolved steadily to the point where it runs flawlessly with my 200D while using the latest Thetis release and the newest P2 firmware. That has not always been true but the improvements to ...

Bret, I would echo everything Scott has said regarding the voice processing elements inside Thetis (my external audio rack now is used just to provide 48vdc phantom power) and also add that each TX profile you make can have unique audio setups that you can instantly switch to while operating. This g...

The BLF188 LDMOS output device is certainly interesting. Looks to be designed to fill a niche for those who would like a 500 watt station without having to bother with an external amp. Nice clean looking case and display.

Rob W1AEX

Hi Scott, I thought the forum was down this morning. I was able to get in from the main Apache Labs web site. The "Community" link led me right here. Maybe someone at Apache Labs made the change? As you said, this definitely makes it difficult to track reference links to forum posts from w...

What a beautiful photograph Richie. Enjoy the summer months and all the opportunities for fun that come your way!

All the best,

Rob W1AEX

I run a shielded audio patch cord from the headphone output of the ANAN directly into the line-level input of my computer's soundcard. The ANAN's audio then plays directly out of the computer's Bose speaker system and as a bonus, the ANAN's audio is readily available to any sound capture software I ...

Hi Bob, Just curious here but I'm not sure I can see any benefit to having the PA profiles stored in the transmit profiles. I have three PA profiles, one for the ANAN barefoot to assure 100w out per band, one for an LDMOS amp that only requires around 35w to make full output and one for a pair of 3-...

Hey all, Well, a day of sorting out data to image calibration, so I just had to implement a cross needle meter. The images are thanks to Ernst, OE3IDE. 73 The meters are fabulous Richie and beautiful art work by Ernst! Thank you for all the effort going into this! Just my opinion here but as a ham ...

200D with P2 Orion firmware v1.9.15

My host server is back up so feel free to download any of the slider packs you want/need to add the new TUNE slider. The packs are available near the bottom of the "Skins" page at:

http://www.w1aex.com/hpsdr/hpsdr.html

73, Rob W1AEX

@ramdor Now just waiting for Rob to update button and slider packs ;) Tricked you Scott! I updated all the slider packs last week. The bad news is that the web hosting server out in California appears to be down and apparently has been for most of the day so w1aex.com is currently dead. No word on ...

Richie,

The new PA gain form is awesome! The PA profiles are going to make life a lot simpler for those of us who switch between low-drive amps and amps that need lots more. Very clever setup for getting a more linear response for each band from the drive slider.

Great job!

73, Rob W1AEX

It would seem there are certain amp's out there that really don't like the 700/1900 combination, but are just fine with the 70/190 combo. Scott, my new Mercury IIIs amplifier is one of those that does not take kindly to the 700/1900 two-tone test. It seems to be fine with the 70/190 combination of ...

Richie, I definitely like bringing the Tune power limit control out to the GUI with its own slider. At this point I've resorted to the "Use Drive Power" option for Tun and relied on my (faulty) memory to manually drop the Drive level when messing with the antenna tuner or setting up the am...

Richie, Thank you! The installer ran perfectly and handled the database compatibility update without any issues. Thetis then came up fine with all my settings intact when it was re-started. When I ran the Firewall Check it completed successfully and indicated my firewall was configured correctly. 2....

The installer is choking on my Windows 7 installation. Any thoughts on a workaround for this?

Thanks,

Rob W1AEX

Thank you Rick for the clarification regarding the J14 jumper on the Orion board. Good to know it's not functional and also very glad that it's not destructive. Scott's warning was certainly valid in light of the Orion II "deadly jumper fiasco" that Richie and others had to sort out with t...

Yeah, it's a jungle in there!

Oooooh... you're trying to motivate me Scott! I do have Quartus Lite (v19.1.0.670) installed but to be honest I am more likely to just put a jumper on J-14 to see what happens when the Orion is powered up. What could possibly go wrong?

I have had several 200D users mention to me that the little bootloader/run switch soldered to the bottom of the Orion board and accessible through a hole in the bottom plate is very fragile. Apparently, if you slip with whatever tool you insert into the port to slide the mini switch it's very easy t...

Hi Stan,

Yes, as Gary implied, PowerSDR_mRX PS has been sleeping for a very long time. It's all rusty and the screen is broken. Definitely go for Thetis!

73, Rob W1AEX

Warren - NR0V kindly sent along an explanation for the SetPk and GetPk values that we see in the Pure Signal 2.0 advanced form: "I happened to see your posting today about GetPk/SetPk. Perhaps I can de-mystify a bit. The SetPk value reflects the gain of the interpolation and decimation filters ...