Note that there have been some power supply issues when the 8000 is under transmit load, particularly with certain modulation types. See this forum thread ( https://apache-labs.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2377#p2546 ) for details. Let's keep power supply discussions in this sub-forum, pl...

Yeah, that's very strange, Chris. If you are at 1500W, with a 44dB coupling factor and a 9dB attenuator, I would expect to see an S-ATT of 26dB, not 9. A difference of 17dB doesn't seem to correlate with any obvious scaling problems, unless it's a factor of three! I'm running 3.3.15 with Angelia 5.8...

From Joe: All. New firmware for Angelia/ANAN-100D Protocol 2 is available for download from http://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware Be sure to use the DOWNLOAD button on the web page to obtain the download; do NOT double-click on the file name nor right-click “Save As” to download the file as doin...

Richard,

If you are using 100% of your CPU, you are going to be disappointed in many aspects of PowerSDR operation. Time to upgrade!

73,

Scott

UPDATED 25 MAY 2018 There are three things to consider when configuring an external coupler and/or external attenuators to obtain a proper feedback level at the rear panel connector of the radio: 1. When using Puresignal, the Auto-Attenuate function drives the step attenuator to the setting necessa...

Whatever happened to these guys: http://www.linamp.co.uk/gemini_HF.html?

Are they ever going to ship?

Erwin, The only way to determine your board version is to either open the radio and look (although I'm not certain the boards are revision marked) or to determine it based on it's behavior. If you use Bypass for external PureSignal feedback it is a Rev. 24 board. If you use Ext 1 for external PureSi...

The "new protocol", aka Protocol 2, is a complete re-spin of the original firmware, with a new and substantially improved interface specification. You can find the specification well documented. It implements Gigabit Ethernet (only--no support for 100BASE-T at all at the radio Ethernet con...

Stu, It's right on Elecraft's main page, http://www.elecraft.com/ Be sure to follow the link there, and take a look at the both the brochure and FAQ downloads. To rich for my blood! But it looks like an awesome amp, and competitively priced compared to other top of the line choices like an Acom 2000...

Thank you very much for the quick turn on that, Phil!

Glad to see you are fully recovered from the lightning strike, too

73!

Scott

Scott, You could neither find it on the TAPR nor on Joe's download sites! I suppose the Apache people themselves did the little change in the Hermes firmware and uploaded it on their own webpage! https://apache-labs.com/instant-downloads.html : Hermes Firmware v3.1b Right you are, Bernhard! After e...

Dominic, The "new protocol", akak Protocol 2, is a complete respin of the original firmware, with a new and substantially improved interface specification. You can find the specification well documented here: https://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware/tree/master/Protocol%202/Documentation...

I'm afraid you gent's have me at a bit of a loss. When I look at the repository for all of the Hermes firmware I do not see any "b" versions: https://github.com/TAPR/OpenHPSDR-Firmware/tree/master/Protocol%201/Hermes/previous%20Hermes%20versions I will endeavor to find them, if they are so...

Justin wrote:I was so happy to get my radio working again I was on it rather than here.

Justin PM'd me that the above suggestion fixed his problem.

73,

Scott

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