[hpsdr] Operating Penelope without Mercury Board

[Ronald Cox]

Bill,
After reloading the computer with XP pro, getting all the updates in,  
and setting up the test tones correctly, everything is working. I have  
a signal on frequency, can change the output power, and watch the  
waveforms with no errors!
Thank you very much for all your help.

Ron, W9KFB

On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Bill Tracey wrote:

> Ron,
>
> With Penelope in there you should be getting RF output.  As I recall  
> the displayed waveform in PowerSDR is blank so I think that is normal.
>
> What is your power output setting in PowerSDR?  The LEDs on Penelope  
> function as a power output meter, so you should be seeing those go  
> as you increase power from PowerSDR?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
>
> At 12:58 AM 10/22/2008, you wrote:
>> Bill,
>> The boards reported no errors when I used XP Pro. I still have no RF
>> output and no waveforms on the displays on transmit. Is this normal
>> without a receiver?
>>
>> Ron
>> On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Bill Tracey wrote:
>>
>>> Ron,
>>>
>>> Near as I can tell the problem you're hitting has nothing to do with
>>> the PowerSDR configuration.  The code is dying in initozy11.bat  or
>>> more correctly one of the programs it calls.   This batch file is
>>> used to initialize the hardware by programming the FX2
>>> microcontroller and the FPGA On Ozy and then to initialize the
>>> codecs on Janus and Penelope via the I2C bus.
>>>
>>> I see you're running Vista - oh joy.    Is it SP1?   I don't have
>>> Vista so am somewhat hard pressed to help debug this.  It might be
>>> worth asking on the list if anyone has had success yet with Vista?
>>>
>>> Can you run the commands from the batch file by hand in a command
>>> window?  From the traces in your messages it's not clear if
>>> load_firmwareV1.1 is what is failing or upload_FPGAV1.1
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Bill (kd5tfd)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 05:23 AM 10/21/2008, you wrote:
>>>> Additional  info...
>>>> I am getting the same (error shown below) when I specify no  
>>>> Hardware
>>>> on the first wizard screen and no Janus board, but in this case the
>>>> Ozy board does change it's LED configuration  with LEDs D5-D8 on  
>>>> and
>>>> D9 and D10 alternating and D12 on.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and selecting the Ozy/Janus as the sound card, I get a window
>>>> labeled "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe". In the window it says:
>>>> C:\Users\Ron\Desktop\Release>Load_firmwareV1.1 0xfffe 0x0007 ozyfw-
>>>> sdr1k.hex
>>>> finding busses...
>>>> finding devices...
>>>> usb_get_busses...
>>>> bus location: 0
>>>> Checking for VID PID: fffe 7
>>>> Trying to open device ...
>>>> Device handle is: 11283616
>>>> Resetting CPU...Reset ON...
>>>> Result:True
>>>> Taking CPU out of reset...
>>>> Result:True
>>>> Closing device...
>>>> done...
>>>>
>>>> It does a sleep 3000 and repeats the error sequence from before,  
>>>> then
>>>> Vista stops the program with a "has stopped working" alert box.
>>>>
>>>> When I close the alert box, I get:
>>>>
>>>> in a box with a header: write 12cV1.1exe - Common Language Runtime
>>>> Debugging Services
>>>>
>>>> Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.
>>>>
>>>> Process id=0xd54 (3412), Thread id=0xaec (2796)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ron W9KFB
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 21, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Bill Tracey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What version of the code are you using?   The most recent code  
>>>>> I've
>>>>> put out is at: svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_windows/  
>>>>> PowerSDR/ branches/kd5tfd/PennyMerge/bin/Release
>>>>
>>>> Yes
>>>>
>>>>> What are the specifics of the fatal error you get when you set  
>>>>> it to
>>>>> SDR 1000?  If you set the model to SDR 1000 I believe it should  
>>>>> work
>>>>> -- that's how I'm setup.   It may be having some
>>>>
>>>> Yes that is what I tried and got the error above...
>>>>
>>>>> issues if you're telling it to use a Flex Radio USB adapter that
>>>>> does not exist, or a parallel port for control that does not  
>>>>> exist.
>>>>
>>>> I am saying no to these options in setup.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill (kd5tfd)
>>>>>
>>>>> At 02:55 AM 10/20/2008, you wrote:
>>>>>> Bill,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In PowerSDR Setup>Radio Model, if I select anything other than
>>>>>> Demo/ None, I get a fatal error because the hardware is not  
>>>>>> there.
>>>>>> If I
>>>>>> select Demo/None the MOX control is grayed out even though I have
>>>>>> selected all the other HPSDR hardware correctly. I am willing to
>>>>>> wait
>>>>>> for the the Mercury board delivery, but it would be nice to know
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> the hardware I have is working as well as can be expected. I am
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> looking for the best test using the hardware that I have. I would
>>>>>> buy
>>>>>> a SoftRock 40, but they are unavailable now.
>>>>>> Ron W9KFB
>>>
>>
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