dogparkSDR - MAC OS/X client for FlexRadio 6000 series

Jay -- N0FB

Great remote client audio function.   Using Beta 63

Ken - NM9P

Too bad.  if so, it just might be enough to get me to buy my first MAC!  for right now, it is Win10....

But I would LOVE to have something that ran under Linux Mint...

Don Agro

There is a transmit button in the HUD and we are running Mac audio in and out in Beta 63

KY6LA_Howard

Running 66 on MacBook Air from Paris via VPN to radio in La Jolla. V1.4.24 Furmware


First time I started it with Mac Audio enabled everything worked great. Very good alternative to my iPad remote


Second time I started it...No Panadapter Frames Received. Audio still worked ok


Running DDUTIL on home PC to control SteppIR, Amps and Wattmeter


YES. I need the Swiss Army Knife


What is might be the cause of no Panadapter display the second time?

Don Agro

Use the contextual menu to make sure you have at last one slice and have a look at the Debug Log for errors (File Menu Show Debug Log)

KY6LA_Howard

It's 4 am. Here now. Will do that when I wake up today.

Bob Hinkle

Interesting... the Beta is a free download to try, and when I paid for a subscription the update was a 1.**** series software !   Been playing with this all evening and it sets up easily, has a very nice bandscope/waterfall, and interfaces perfectly with MacLoggerDX for DX spotting, maps, and logging. FINALLY there's a completely Apple Mac OSX version of software for our beloved Flex-6000 series radios !  (I have a new Flex-6300 and no relationship to Dogpark software)   Cheers... Bob KK8ZZ

Steve K9ZW

Doesn't Don list the software as Beta 1.0 and then release say 0.80?

73

Steve K9ZW

Here is what I grabbed as a screen shot:

K3SF

Been experimenting with
dpSDR v1.00 b80 and mldx and extra-cluster and cocoamodem  running in osx 10.10.5
and
with DAX and sdrbridge and cwskimmer running in VM v8 win7
all on i7 mini with multiple monitors

extra-cluster is a program Don developed to read post from cwskimmer and place them in mldx. this allow for mldx to get posts from your local cwskimmer and from the wider inernet clusters at the same time

pic below i snapshot from two monitors

also

used mldx keyer feature with macros to key flex6300. My setup includes a winkeyer usb. This is a good substitute for CWX. You get macos and can send live cw and still use the key itself too.

Don is doing some awesome work to bring the flex to the mac community






Paul K3SF

Bob Hinkle

Runs fine on El Capitan here !   Beautiful waterfall, and click and tune is great !
Bob KK8ZZ

George KF2T

Hi Paul, I'm running just about the same thing - nice work! Funny that a whole Windows VM is there for DAX. How are you getting audio to/from CocoaModem? I have co-opted the single audio pair from Parallels and mapped it to DAX1 and the optical audio on my Mac. Not a perfect solution, but it works.

K3SF

i use the following process to route audio about
a combo of soundflower and audacity
rightnow only doing copy..have not tried to transmit yet

see details here

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_mac.html

Jay -- N0FB

Don...I'm having a blast with your beta's.   
One nagging issue....When dragging the panadapter right or left significantly away from the current pass-band +/- 50 KHz or so, the panadapter will snap back to the current selected frequency of the pass-band.   You have to set intermediary frequencies less than 50 KHz to move up or down the band.   This is not intuitive and slows performing a QSY to a frequency up or down significantly in the given band.
Is there a work around or am I doing something wrong?  Thanks in advance!

Don Agro

Fixed in Beta 93, Thanks for catching it

Jay -- N0FB

Thanks Don.  I've loaded Beta 93 and it works as you would expect.  Thanks a bunch for your awesome support!

K6OZY

Hi Don, any plan on making pan scrolling be like SmartSDR or Stu's app where the spectrum and WF move together? We are so used to that now. Your is scrolling like classic PowerSDR and other normal apps. We get quite spoiled by such small, but hugely impactful features.

Jay -- N0FB

New bug....If you have DogParkSDR running and then start MacLoggerDX, everything is fine.  If you quit DogParkSDR and attempt to restart it without first exiting out of MacLoggerDX, SDR will timeout and display the "No Panadapter Frames Received".   You must exit completely out of MacLoggerDX before DogParkSDR will successfully connect back to the radio.   The same problem exists if you were to start MacLoggerDX first, before connecting successfully with DogParkSDR.

Just trying to be a good beta tester for you Don.  

George KF2T

Since I was down to one digital audio channel anyway, thought I'd go for broke and leave Windows entirely. With Don's latest beta, you can select "Mac Audio" audio inputs/outputs. I wired (fibered?) the optical ports together and use them instead of DAX. Works like magic after a little tweaking (put all my ports at the same bitrate and bandwidth - 2ch, 26 bit, 48k). 

Don Agro

Thanks Jay, it's a known bug mentioned on the web page:

• Note: If you use MacLoggerDX and dogparkSDR on the same Mac you will need to run dogparkSDR first.

Don Agro

It's on the list

K6OZY

Thank you. Funny as it may sound, that plays a large part in my purchasing decision. I'm a GUI guy!

Don Agro

Fixed in Beta 94 (still needs some work though)

Andrew VK5CV

Don,

I have put an old MacBook pro into use and works well. Is there no TX equaliser yet?

Andrew

Don Agro

No, but it's on the list

Burch - K4QXX

Don

I am really excited about this software.  I downloaded it a couple of weeks ago and then got beta 93 last night and made a few remote contacts.  Great job!

KD8TVB

Continues to work great on the 2015 MacBook... now just need the VPN stuff

Jay -- N0FB

Don, you are software development machine!   100 builds in a little over 2 weeks.  Phenomenal!  That's the reason I plopped my money down tonight.    Your continued efforts to bring a "best of class" SDR client interface to the Mac OSX platform is so very much appreciated.

Jean_Luc F5JRC

Don,

I don't know is this feature is on your list, but it could be nice to adjust the frequency in the Panadapter with the mouse (scrolling the mouse wheel up or down for fine adjustment). Thanks Jean-Luc / F5JRC

Don Agro

I'll see what I can do, but I highly recommend the FlexControl for Tuning etc.

Jean_Luc F5JRC

Thanks Don. I made my first contacts with dogparkSDR, away about 50 meters from the Flex6500 on the LAN network, and logged in MLDX, magic!
Just a little fear about SWR which cannot be checked… later maybe… 73's Jean-Luc