From jmaass at k8nd.com  Sat Jan  9 12:49:58 2021
From: jmaass at k8nd.com (Jeffrey Maass)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 12:49:58 -0500
Subject: [Skimmertalk] CW Skimmer Problem - Win 10?
Message-ID: <025c01d6e6af$d99193b0$8cb4bb10$@k8nd.com>

All:

 

I received a new SDR-IQ receiver to add to my collection (my 8th), and was
testing it. I have SpectraVue and CW Skimmer (several instances) previously
installed on the laptop used. They both have worked in the past, but I have
not used them in the past year. 

The new SDR-IQ worked fine with SpectraView, but when I tried it with CW
Skimmer v2.1, parallel green lines filled the Skimmer display rather than
the expected CW signals. It then locks up and will not exit cleanly on
request. I repeated with one of my other known-good SDR-IQs, and it behaved
the same.

I'm wondering: did I miss some Windows-update changes in the past year that
affected CW Skimmer operation?  I looked through the archives, but found no
mention of drivers being overwritten, etc.

 

Thanks & 73,   Jeff  K8ND / PJ2ND

 

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From n6tv at arrl.net  Sat Jan  9 15:51:14 2021
From: n6tv at arrl.net (Bob Wilson, N6TV)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 12:51:14 -0800
Subject: [Skimmertalk] CW Skimmer Problem - Win 10?
In-Reply-To: <025c01d6e6af$d99193b0$8cb4bb10$@k8nd.com>
References: <025c01d6e6af$d99193b0$8cb4bb10$@k8nd.com>
Message-ID: <CAOmNKG+RP=V+BZint_wQY21CTEceo-9XBs5pPbBg4OQYUHZWbQ@mail.gmail.com>

Are you running CW Skimmer 2.1?

In the Settings Menu, Radio tab, is radio type still set to SDR-IQ?  What
sampling rate?

Is the RS232 port of the SDR-IQ connected to your transceiver to get
frequency information?

Is the antenna port connected to an IF output of a transceiver, or to an
antenna?  Or RX ANT out of a transceiver?  Is RX ANT enabled in the
transceiver?

I suggest power cycling the SDR-IQ, *then* start CW Skimmer (do not run
SpectraView first, as it may reset the parameters of the SDR to different
values compared to what CW Skimmer wants).

73,
Bob, N6TV


On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:50 AM Jeffrey Maass <jmaass at k8nd.com> wrote:

> All:
>
>
>
> I received a new SDR-IQ receiver to add to my collection (my 8th), and
> was testing it. I have SpectraVue and CW Skimmer (several instances)
> previously installed on the laptop used. They both have worked in the past,
> but I have not used them in the past year.
>
> The new SDR-IQ worked fine with SpectraView, but when I tried it with CW
> Skimmer v2.1, parallel green lines filled the Skimmer display rather than
> the expected CW signals. It then locks up and will not exit cleanly on
> request. I repeated with one of my other known-good SDR-IQs, and it behaved
> the same.
>
> I?m wondering: did I miss some Windows-update changes in the past year
> that affected CW Skimmer operation?  I looked through the archives, but
> found no mention of drivers being overwritten, etc.
>
>
>
> Thanks & 73,   Jeff  K8ND / PJ2ND
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Skimmertalk mailing list
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From jmaass at k8nd.com  Sat Jan  9 17:22:07 2021
From: jmaass at k8nd.com (Jeffrey Maass)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:22:07 -0500
Subject: [Skimmertalk] CW Skimmer Problem - Win 10?
In-Reply-To: <CAOmNKG+RP=V+BZint_wQY21CTEceo-9XBs5pPbBg4OQYUHZWbQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <025c01d6e6af$d99193b0$8cb4bb10$@k8nd.com>
	<CAOmNKG+RP=V+BZint_wQY21CTEceo-9XBs5pPbBg4OQYUHZWbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <032b01d6e6d5$def0bdb0$9cd23910$@k8nd.com>

G?day Bob,

JOY!

 

Yes, CW Skimmer 2.1.  Set to SDR-IQ.  Tried 192, 96 and 48 kHz. Nothing connected to RS-232 port, no transceiver.  Antenna connected directly to the BNC connector.

 

It appears that starting SpectraVue first *was* the issue. Rebooted laptop, powered down SDR-IQ, and brought it all back up. Started CW Skimmer, and it works as expected!   I then tried each of the five configured instances of CW Skimmer on this laptop, and all are working.

 

I cannot imagine that I had not ever started SpectraVue before CW Skimmer at any time in the past 12 years I?ve been using this software/hardware, but perhaps something has change in the way SpectraVue ?tweaks? the receiver or the driver. We have been using this  CW Skimmer version (2.1) for over two years on this laptop without problem.

 

Thanks for the guidance, Bob!  

I should be getting these SDR-IQs ready to take to PJ2T for the CQWW 160 CW Contest in  week or so, but I am not yet ready to risk the travel through three airports and two airplane flights each direction with COVID rampant in Ohio and Florida. Curacao just decided to let the ?plague rat? Americans in effective January 1, but the airline has not yet re-established all the connections that would make travel connections from Ohio less ?iffy?.

73,  Jeff  K8ND / PJ2ND

 

 

From: Bob Wilson, N6TV [mailto:n6tv at arrl.net] 
Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2021 3:51 PM
To: Jeffrey Maass <jmaass at k8nd.com>; SkimmerTalk Reflector <skimmertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] CW Skimmer Problem - Win 10?

 

Are you running CW Skimmer 2.1?

 

In the Settings Menu, Radio tab, is radio type still set to SDR-IQ?  What sampling rate?

 

Is the RS232 port of the SDR-IQ connected to your transceiver to get frequency information?

 

Is the antenna port connected to an IF output of a transceiver, or to an antenna?  Or RX ANT out of a transceiver?  Is RX ANT enabled in the transceiver?

 

I suggest power cycling the SDR-IQ, then start CW Skimmer (do not run SpectraView first, as it may reset the parameters of the SDR to different values compared to what CW Skimmer wants).




73,

Bob, N6TV

 

 

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:50 AM Jeffrey Maass <jmaass at k8nd.com <mailto:jmaass at k8nd.com> > wrote:

All:

 

I received a new SDR-IQ receiver to add to my collection (my 8th), and was testing it. I have SpectraVue and CW Skimmer (several instances) previously installed on the laptop used. They both have worked in the past, but I have not used them in the past year. 

The new SDR-IQ worked fine with SpectraView, but when I tried it with CW Skimmer v2.1, parallel green lines filled the Skimmer display rather than the expected CW signals. It then locks up and will not exit cleanly on request. I repeated with one of my other known-good SDR-IQs, and it behaved the same.

I?m wondering: did I miss some Windows-update changes in the past year that affected CW Skimmer operation?  I looked through the archives, but found no mention of drivers being overwritten, etc.

 

Thanks & 73,   Jeff  K8ND / PJ2ND

 

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From wc2l at wc2l.com  Thu Jan 21 12:05:33 2021
From: wc2l at wc2l.com (William Liporace)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:05:33 -0500
Subject: [Skimmertalk] AR-Cluster on groups.io
Message-ID: <29072200-fee7-0ed9-56e8-3041fe6e41ce@wc2l.com>

I went to post a question about AR-Cluster today and realized that there 
was no email list. It had closed on Yahoo Groups. It has now been 
created on groups.io You can get to it here: https://groups.io/g/AR-Cluster

This will be a moderate membership with first posting also moderated. 
After that members will not be moderated. Please keep discussions to the 
operation of the software.

Will WC2L

-- 
William Liporace WC2L
http://www.wc2l.com or http://dxc.wc2l.com
AR-Cluster Node  telnet dxc.wc2l.com or 144.93 MHz
wc2l at wc2l.com

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From bjorn at ekelund.nu  Fri Jan 29 05:06:41 2021
From: bjorn at ekelund.nu (=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Ekelund?=)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:06:41 +0100
Subject: [Skimmertalk] Is your skimmer controlled by an external reference
 such as a GPSDO?
Message-ID: <CABmD_KRtRa1QEVnMi1gsZ+_tcZL0h-Q6TCeTca+iRsGKWwKaVA@mail.gmail.com>

If it is, please let me know its callsign so I can add it to the list of
highly
trusted skimmers used by the software for https://sm7iun.se/rbn/analytics

Thanks in advance,

Bj?rn SM7IUN
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