SSDR 1.2 - WOW!

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Norm

If you have not used the 5k, 3k, or 1.5k then you really cannot appreciate the usefulness of the waterfall.

George KF2T

Hi Norm,
Others may have different perspectives, but I enjoy the waterfall as a way to get a snapshot of band activity over time. Fading, noise, and activity become easier to interpret with the addition of the time element. Plus, the intensity is easier to view (IMHO) as a function of color and intensity. 

Absolutely love the idea of a "scroll back" waterfall. Great idea when trying to pick out signals on previous transmissions and pounce on the next opportunity!

Not a big fan of the waterfall for SSB, but where I live on CW and digital, it's a big help. It does help more than the live pan adapter for adjusting the filters really tight.

Ken - NM9P

It is also very helpful on weak signal bands, dying and fading bands, and noisy bands to help visually discriminate signals from noise over time and see when there may only be a few signals active.

Greg

Even cooler would be if when you use the scroll back that you can also listen to the scrolled audio wherever the slice is. Greg

Takeshi Yamada

Yes, indeed.  It records the range of band for 10 min auto-magically!!  And may make me feel so sad by telling me missing some rare stations.....

Carl/K5HK

Yes saw it an played with it a little at IDX this weekend with Greg and Tim.   Looks like that the AFP much better with 3db or more gain on peak and other improvements in algorithm in setting under DSP.  Lots of other nice improvements including the log awaited waterfall.  This was pre-release so expect lots of bugs found and fixed plus improvements before release version comes out around the end of April.

Thanks and 73,
Carl / K5HK

Ned K1NJ

Helps a lot to -identify- the digital mode and tune properly.

Michael - N5TGL

Greg, being able to scroll back the audio along with the waterfall....holy moly what a great idea!  You need to post that up as a suggestion for future implementation.  That would be so awesome for stations that you can't understand their accent the 1st (or 2nd or 3rd!) time around.

Robert -- N5IKD

"Quick rec/play" is already on the roadmap for July. It would be cool if this recording included the displayed spectrum and not just the audio.

K1UO Larry

Then ,of course, there is the obvious benefit of more easily finding an opening on a busy Band when using Panafall and with proper delay and bandwidth adjustments the ability to recognize the presence of very very weak, and many times inaudible, signals.  However, its obvious also, that ymmv.

 

Greg

I believe quick record will just be for the audio for a specific slice. I am referring to the entire displayed spectrum on the panadapter.

Norm S

Wow, it would be great to be able to SAVE the last 10 minute snapshot.  There have been many times I wish I had a snapshot of what just happened or what I just heard.

Any idea if the last 10 minutes can be saved in a file and recalled later on?

Norm - KL7RS

Norm S

FB on helping to tune the digital modes.  Scrolling back in time and replaying could be useful.

Norm - KL7RS

Norm S

My 6700 is the first SDR rig I've owned so I have not had much of an opportunity to use PowerSDR with the older rigs to see the waterfall.  I'm learning on this one as I go.  Thanks for the responses.  I guess I'll just have to play with it a bit to see how much I'll use it.  I love the waterfall in DM780 and some of the other digital processing software.  I'm sure after I get 1.2 loaded and have been playing with it a while I'll get hooked and find I won't be able to live without it! hihi..

Jim Gilliam

PowerSDR  has the capability of making IQ recording at 192 KHz for the 5000. Playing back the recording is unlike listening in real time in that you get the audio, panorama and waterfall. It is wonderful!

Robert -- N5IKD

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Norm S

Okay, now I understand.  This is going to be pretty cool....  Now all I have to do is figure out how to wait until the end of the month!

Norm - KL7RS

Norm S

Does anyone know any of the bug fixes or other enhancements that will be addressed in v1.2?

Norm - KL7RS 

Ken - NM9P

I don't know specifics about other bug fixes, but you are going to like the changes and improvements they made to the APF (Audio Peaking Filter) and the "Add Slice" function, especially if you do a lot of split frequency operation and CW DXing. 

Carl/K5HK

They were running cw skimmer on two other slices on another monitor from the 6700 at IDX....  Glad I have 3 monitors running here should I decide to use them all for radio!

Greg

If flex provided a way to minimize a panadapter it would ease resources on the video card and take up less room. When running skimmer server and having it send decoded spots to a telnet port there would be no reason to keep the associated panadapters visible. 73 Greg

rfoust

It's getting near the end of the month, so I'm starting to click "refresh" on the forum more often, hoping I'll see the new release posted. :-)  I assume it will probably be posted on the last day of the month though.

Steve-N5AC

Robbie, we figured it was worth working to the end of the month and packing in as many features and fixes as we could.  So this is what we did -- we are feature complete at this point and are just fixing issues.  I expect we'll release right around the last day of the month at this point.

Jim Gilliam

When one buys a 6000 series Flex Radio, Christmas comes twice maybe three times a year!

rfoust

Thanks Steve, that's kinda what I figured.  Ok I'll stop clicking refresh every hour and get back to work at my day job. ;-)

Richard G7EIX

A little birdie told me this weekend gone that we may get a few Easter goodies in the release at the end of the month.    Seeing as the Waterfall work is done - a couple of little extras from the roadmap down the road may be included.   Like I said, a little birdie who shall remain nameless.  But he could have been pulling my leg! :-)  

Richard G7EIX

I always found it of use early on a morning when the bands were just coming alive - you could see the distant stations before you could hear them.  So I would sit and stalk and always had a good chance of catching something rare before the crowd with the dials alone got them.

As the 5000 is now living a second life with a new owner - I have been waiting for this with great anticipation.   Time to get my stalking hat ready!

Dave - WB5NHL

I hear the beta is in good shape and the deadline is to have everything polished for Dayton..... can't really blame Flex for wanting to show the latest and greatest for Dayton. Increased sales benefits all of us!

Steve-N5AC

We planned at the outset for SmartSDR to do roughly quarterly releases so January-end was our last and April-end is the end of a quarter's worth of work.  So we'll have v1.2 out a month before Dayton which starts on 5/16 this year.

Richard G7EIX

Which makes up for those of us who cannot make Dayton this year - work stops play once again.    Can't wait!   Loved the demo that Tim gave me at RARS this past weekend.   He refused to put a copy on my USB key!