[hpsdr] Call for HELP - New HPSDR-Setup / nothing works

Fri Mar 20 16:17:49 PDT 2009

Hello Alexander,

I followed this discussion and I think it is not clear to a lot of people
that you seem to have a Penelope from Gerd Loch instead of one from TAPR.
Is this really the situation that you have a Penny from Gerd?
This would be good to know and could be a next step in the isolation of the
problem.

I don't have a Penelope (_yet_) so I can't check this here, but isn't it so
that you should be able to see the firmware version of Penny in
"Setup/HPSDR" of PowerSDR? (with the latest version of PowerSDR)
This should be an indication if PowerSDR "sees" Penny, if at all.

Maybe if this doesn't work because of problems with the combination of your
Penny and Mercury, trying this without Mercury, as a test and if at all
possible, could be another clue to isolate the problem.

If you get an indication of the firmware version, what is it?
Compare this with the latest version of the firmware for Penny and if this
is not the latest, upgrade to the latest version and test again.
(I don't know if and how you can do this using Ozy like with upgrading
Mercury though, or if you have to have a physical ByteBlaster or -clone)
Maybe someone else could fill in on this?

Also interesting to know if you run PowerSDR and if you have these problems,
is there an abnormal high CPU load of PowerSDR?
Can you still stop and start PowerSDR in a normal way or do you have to
"kill" it?

Success!

Henry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hpsdr-bounces at lists.hpsdr.org 
> [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.hpsdr.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Geckeler
> Sent: donderdag 19 maart 2009 23:07
> To: hpsdr at hpsdr.org
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Call for HELP - New HPSDR-Setup / nothing works
> 
> 
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> 
> Hello Kirk,
> 
> Ozy and Mercury are working perfectly at 192k until I add Penny!
> I think it hast sometihng to do with Penny...
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 
> Kirk Weedman schrieb:
> > One suggestion (not a fix) - keep your sampling rate at 
> 48KHz until it 
> > starts working so as to eliminate any USB/PowerSDR/OS speed 
> issues.  
> > Also remove Penny until you get Ozy & Mercury running
> >
> > Alexander Geckeler wrote:
> >> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello Graham and all other HPSDR friends!
> >>
> >> Primilary I will thank all of you who gave me feedback and thought 
> >> impulses to experiment with the hardware setup of my HPSDR.
> >> To start: My setup with Ozy, Mercury and Penelope 
> (Production by Gerd 
> >> Lorch) ist still not working.
> >> This evening I had the time to test several setups - 
> overall I made 7 
> >> different which I will list below to give you an overview.
> >> It would be great to get your thougths and help to find a 
> way to run 
> >> my setup...
> >>
> >> General setup:
> >> - PC: MacBookPro, 2.4. Ghz, 2 GB RAM
> >> - OS: Win XP Home, SPII
> >> - PowerSDR: Version January 10 2009, V 1.10.4+BaseSVN2025
> >> - Mercury: TAPR production (Ordered December 2008) - 
> factory firmware
> >> - Ozy: TAPR production
> >> - Penny: Gerd Loch production (Feb 2009) - factory firmware
> >>
> >> Setup 1:
> >> - Order of boards: Ozy J2, Penny J3, Mercury J5
> >> - Sampling rate: 192k = Panorama showed few amplitudes, sometimes 
> >> indication of ADC overload
> >> - Sampling rate changed to 96k = "normal" frequency 
> spectrum visible
> >> - In both cases no audio, just clicking noises
> >> - After closing PowerSDR I heard still clicking noises
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup 2:
> >> - Removing Penny
> >> - Order of boards: Ozy J2, Mercury J5
> >> - Sampling Rate 192k
> >> - Result: Perfect audio, no ADC overload
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup 3:
> >> - Order of boards: Penny J1, Ozy J2, Mercury J5
> >> - Sampling rate: 192k
> >> - Result: Increased clicking noises, ADC overload indication, 
> >> panorama showed a few amplitues
> >> - Changed sampling rate to 96k = panoram view showed "normal" 
> >> frequency spectrum, no audio
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup 4:
> >> - Order of boards: Penny J1, Ozy J2, Mercury J5
> >> - 10Mhz clock active at Mercury
> >> - Sampling rate 192k = hang-up of PowerSDR
> >> - Lowering sampling rate to 96k = no audio just clicking noises
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup 5:
> >> - Order of boards: Ozy J2, Penny J3, Mercury J5
> >> - 10Mhz clock active at Mercury
> >> - Sampling rate 96k
> >> - Result: After running PowerSDR audio for 3 seconds
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup 6:
> >> - Order of boards: Ozy J2, Penny J4, Mercury J5
> >> - Sampling rate 96k
> >> - Result: After running PowerSDR audio for 5 seconds, even 
> frequency 
> >> change in panorma is possible
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup 7:
> >> - Order of boards: Ozy J2, Penny J4, Mercury J5
> >> - 10Mhz clock active at Mercury
> >> - Sampling rate 96k
> >> - Result: After running PowerSDR audio for 2 seconds
> >> -
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm looking forward to your feedback.
> >>
> >> 73, Alexander
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Graham / KE9H schrieb:
> >>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion 
> List *****
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Alexander:
> >>>
> >>> What is different about this new setup, compared to before?
> >>> Did you just change the order of the boards, or did you change
> >>> something else?
> >>> Or is this the first time that you are running this system?
> >>>
> >>> What versions of software are you running in the boards?
> >>> The original factory loads, or have you updated them?
> >>>
> >>> If you take Penelope off the bus, and just run Mercury and Ozy,
> >>> can you get any sound out of the Mercury card?
> >>>
> >>> --- Graham / KE9H
> >>>
> >>> ==
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Alexander Geckeler wrote:
> >>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion 
> List *****
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello together,
> >>>>
> >>>> maybe my last mail disappeared re. my HPSDR problem.
> >>>> I'm a bit desperate...
> >>>> Today I tried to start my new HPSDR setup (Mercury, 
> Penny, Ozy) - 
> >>>> but unfort. I didn't get any audio out of Mercury!
> >>>>
> >>>> Here a small overview what I did in detail:
> >>>>
> >>>> - I extended my older setup (it worked fine) which consisted of 
> >>>> Mercury and Ozy with Penelope. I placed Mercury in slot 
> 5, Penny in 
> >>>> Slot 3 and Ozy in Slot 2. I removed JP8 on Mercury and 
> swiched the 
> >>>> 10 MHz clock within PowerSDR to Penny.
> >>>>
> >>>> - Then I ran a level calibration with my Elecraft XG-2 
> (the earlier 
> >>>> setup ran without calibration) at -73Dbm / 50uV.
> >>>>
> >>>> - After this I connected the headphones to Mercury
> >>>>
> >>>> - But I heard no sound out of the headphones - only, in large 
> >>>> periodes some scratches/klick sounds.
> >>>> - From time to time PowerSDR (Januar 10th Version - 
> >>>> V1.10.4+BaseSVN2025) also indicated an ADC overload
> >>>>
> >>>> What I'm doing wrong?
> >>>>
> >>>> It would be great to get your feedback.
> >>>>
> >>>> 73, Alexander
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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