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 ...

My only observation about these two items is that the GetPk value changes slightly as Pure Signal goes about the business of correcting non-linearity in the PA of the ANAN (internal coupler being used) or in an external amplifier (external coupler feeding a sample to the bypass port). When transmitt...

Hi Richie,

Version 21K9(rc5b) is running fine here and I am enjoying the implementation of the new features very much. No sign of error 0x8899000C anywhere in the log.

Thanks for all your work!

73, Rob W1AEX

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Something to brighten my very dreary mood recently, Ernst OE3IDE has sent over a nice new splash, and it looks great with progress bar and eta to completion time. It will be in rc5 at some point before/during the weekend.

Richie.

Love the splash screen Richie! Well done Ernst!

73, Rob W1AEX

The button packs for all the skins at my download page have been updated to support the new infobar buttons in the latest rc4 update. There are seven different button packs located near the bottom of my skins page located at the link below. Pick out the pack(s) that match the skin(s) you have instal...

Hi David, I have always built my own gaming computers and when a new build is finished I retire the old gaming computer to my ham station and use it there. I found quickly that some power supplies were horrendous RFI generators that spewed garbage all over the ham bands. At any rate, I have had exce...

Pre6 is running great here Richie. Pure Signal is working great with the 20ms sampling rate. Previously, a couple of times an hour PS would randomly appear to fall asleep and feedback/correction would stop for a few seconds and then recover. From what I can see with the 20ms sampling rate the feedba...

Thanks for the pre4d update Richie. It came up fine with my Win 7 machine and is running smoothly (so far)!

73, Rob W1AEX

Richie, Thank you for the DirectX Initialization fix for Windows 7. I had the same issue that Walter reported and your last K9 (Pre) update works fine here. For those who have installed any of my skins you will need to install a new button pack to display the ZTB (Zoom to Band) feature. All the butt...

Hi George, A fresh database that is installed from a reset will not have any record of your custom transmit profiles and your custom transmit profiles cannot be imported unless each of them was previously exported before you pressed reset. No problem though, your custom transmit profiles are still s...

Happy New Year Richie and thank you for all the work you did with 2.8.11 -21k8. After watching your video I am amazed at all the "untangling" of code that you dealt with under the hood in Thetis. I have been running it hard for hours and it has been completely flawless here with my 200D ru...

Richie, Thank you for putting together the CFC video to show what's happening. I was able to duplicate your setup and observed perfect sweeps across the CFC visual display and the "Auto-Scale" set up the vertical range perfectly. I was mostly curious if I had missed a setting somewhere whe...

On 160 meters tonight three of us running Thetis 2.8.11 v21k7 compared notes on the CFC Visualizer and we found it was not working correctly for any of us. Two of us were running VAC and we thought that might be the issue but the third user was not running VAC and his description sounded like what I...

PA gain profiles would be awesome Richie. Especially useful for those of us with amps that have very different drive requirements. Jeff, the auto setting for min spectrum grid value to float a specified distance from the bottom of the display window would be an excellent operating enhancement. 73, R...

Thank you Ernst! I'll try that out here.

73, Rob

EDIT: Yes, that prevents the grid from repeating the top of the box. Well done Ernst!

Hi Richie, Version 21k6 is running great here. Thanks for the change to the noise foor line. It's easy to see and fits in with the gain and hang lines perfectly. No anomalies noted except for a cosmetic item that showed up with the addition of the xPA button. If a skin uses the panelOptions.png as a...

Hi Ed, I have been following this thread to see if you have made progress with this. The symptoms you are describing are very similar to what I ran into when the Windows Firewall began creating DENY rules for Thetis and SDR Console. According to Simon Brown, the symptom where SDR Console runs for a ...

Just a quick note Richie that the 21k3 new Auto AGC is a great addition. I'm still playing around with the settings but to be honest, the default settings are working really well for my purposes. The right click on the slider to enable and disable it is a really slick implementation. Great job! 73, ...

Just a quick note that all the button packs at my site are updated with the new xPA button. Download whatever button pack(s) you need and unzip the contents into the Console folder of the skin(s) you wish to update. Note that none of my skin download packs are updated at this time so if you grab any...

Anyone know if the KM3KM amp is rated for use on AM? I'd love to know what its rating is in AM linear service as well. They do list AM in their manuals (see below) but no operational specifics for AM linear service are mentioned. I would guess that it most likely surpasses my ALS-1306 which I run w...

In the winter I use an AL-82 with its pair of 3-500 jugs running at around 250 watts of carrier on AM with my ANAN 200D. It has plenty of headroom and can run AM all day and all night. Plus, it has the added benefit or really warming the room on those cold evenings while running AM on 160 meters. Wh...

Hi Richie, The 21i version is working very well here. The VAC resampler graph settles down after an initial up-down oscillation at first startup and sits right at 0.000180 "OUT" and 0.000183 "IN" from that point on. I guess that's an indication that the resampler is stable with m...

After reading through the thread I scrapped my old settings and went with what is in the screenshot below. If I drop below a value of 10ms in the ring buffer fields the underflows and overflows start to accumulate but it is rock solid at 10ms. Today I have been running Thetis for over 9 hours withou...

Hi Rick, A quick update on v1.9.16 with my edge case Orion board: Thetis could not find the radio and the radio would not return a ping from a command prompt. Looks like my FPGA has trouble with communication through the ethernet port with v1.9.16. Bootloader discovered the MAC address instantly, as...

Rick, Looks like we have the same budget spectrum analyzer. I checked my 200D running Thetis v21g with v1.9.15 P2 firmware loaded and as can be seen in the screenshots below it looks very clean with a carrier and also with the 2 tone test using Pure Signal. During both sweeps below the ANAN was runn...

Hi Phil, Sorry you are having issues now with your 200D and protocol 2. It's very strange that the previously working P2 versions are now giving you issues that were not there before and my thought is that it strongly suggests that something other than the firmware itself is causing the issue since ...