Looking for basic help with the SDR-1000

Daniel,

Bring an SDR1000 to life will be a challenging due to the number of dirivers no longer available or useable on current OS . You can use the on board soundcards, but was a much better performer with external sound cards, running XP or maybe Win7 .

1. As I remember, the parallel port was a 25 pin straight through.
2. On power up, there is nothing to light up, until you have the parallel port connected to a true printer port. I never worked with a USB to lpt port, so you need a motherboard with a LPT port or a true LPT card.
3. I think all the sound cards were ISA cards, unless you use the Ediral Firewire sound adapter (then you will need a FireWire port, run with old drivers.
4. I presume that there never was a 100W board with that stack, there were a couple of jumpers on the stack if there were a PA..

Without a better sound card, the radio is pretty limited with lots of spurs and limited to 48K at best.

If you have an older PC , with XP and ISA and LPT port, there might be some luck.. They did sound great on AM..

And as I remember you can only run older versions of PowerSDR , version 7.53 pops up in my mind, last version to support the LPT port.

Flex1500 is a better choice , connects via USB, and can run the later versions of PowerSDR by Darrin , KE9NS - https://www.ke9ns.com/flexpage.html

Hope this helps, it can be done, but with an older PC should you still have one ..

73,

Dudley

WA5QPZ

Daniel,

A regular USB to Parallel will not work, there was a special one built by a user that has long since gone SK , was the only adapter that did work, but it long since gone since around 2008. Use a LPT port , (some motherboards have LPT ports, but no header, you can buy the headers on Amazon, but look at your BIOS of the motherboard….

Hi Daniel… sorry we're not able to provide more help but as you have probably surmised, very frew of us are using the 1000 any more. I think most have been relegated to the 'treasure trove' shelf.