profile autosave causes record playback distortion

ai6re

WX7Y

more info please so we can test

ai6re

Bill -VA3WTB

Interesting, I don't know why Dax is in the mix unless you set it that way. Auto save only saves changes you make. Set everything like you want it and simply re save the profile and the settings will stay the same, unless you change something. Just for info, Flex is aware of peoples needs for Auto Save to work differently than it is now.

WX7Y

Tom W3FRG

Bill -VA3WTB

Tom,,you can hear yourself on the air by listening to you TX with the FDX feature. What you hear there is what everyone else hears. Do you know how to set that up?

ai6re

You are correct. There is no distortion locally. Only the transmitted signal from the playback is distorted on my Flex.

ai6re

I totally agree.

ctate243

this is interesting.  have you tried restarting everything?

ai6re

The circumvention to the playback distortion is just turn off DAX transmit and re-save the SSB Profile. The fix for Profile autosave, is to move back to Ver 2.4.0 or earlier where Profiles did not change without your knowledge.  

ctate243

wow you may have found a bug..  If you can recreate this and put some additional context around this I would be happy to submit it for investigation by the programming team.  may be a good catch.

ctate243

its also to understand that profiles are not persistent, and changes to them are.  So if you load a profile its in the state you loaded.. if you make changes to settings post profile load, there will remain persistent. but if you reload the profile, they will be in the state you saved them in.

ai6re

Unless you export your profiles the changes you make in the Xmit area are auto saved and modify your profile. Only profiles exported out of the Flex application are safe and remain as originally externally saved. 

The newest version of SmartSDR does not fix this profile problem error and it appears Flex is no longer making improvements base on the Flex user requests. 

Bill -VA3WTB

ai6re. It seems your not understanding what just happened. This last maintenance release was a critical state release. It was critical that those things were address as soon as possible. This does not in any way suggest Flex is not interested in the user base request. This needed to be taken care of before any other things can be fixed.

dudu

Flex-6400, and Smart SDR 3.3.33 and other previous ones the problem is the same.

When playing back recorded audio it is extremely distorted. The transmission volume is too high.

Reboots of both computer and or radio do not resolve the problem, and if your listening locally it sounds fine, but over the air playback is extremely poor.

On other computers the same happens, even the software installed for the 1st time.

Nothing like when has been recorded. Uninstalling and re installing DAX driver’s dose not resolve issue either.

73 Eduardo


I already opened a ticket

Don AI6RE

I have noticed the same problem with played back audio. Others report it is very distorted. I then shutdown and power off my Flex6600, and restart SmartSDR. This appears to temporarily fix the problem, for a short time, but it does come back and I have no idea what causes this. I have seen this problem across several release levels. I am also running 3.3.33.

John KB4DU

A workaround that may help is to use FRstack memories, which stay the same, unlike the flex profiles. In addition the memories store many more parameters than the profiles. This auto save is a sore point with flex. I talked with Steve Hicks about it at Hamvention. His response was a terse “We got it”.

Dan Trainor

I want the ability to lock my profiles such that they cannot be changed by the application or another user. I also want to turn off this auto-save. I never gave permission for application to automatically save changes that I don't want to make persistent. I hope this bug is fixed in next release.