[AMRadio] sdr-iq

Wed Feb 10 17:09:27 EST 2010

Hi Jay.
 I do have  mid to upper range sound card, the processor shows that it is 
running at about 65 to 80 %, so I assume that is ok.  I also notice the 
latency, about .5 sec and the noise floor does seem high, not a problem on 
80 however. I am interested to see what it sounds like on 10.  the filter is 
great as is the spectrum display, just the poor audio, and I am not one opf 
the audio nuts, so it must be really bad.   I know the Flex takes a lot of 
computer, I could use a little better video card as the waterfall does slow 
down on full screen.  just seems weird when I can watch a DVD with good 
audio.  Bernie----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Bromley" <jayw5jay at cox.net>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] sdr-iq

> Hi Bernie,
> I am running a Perseus SDR receiver with 2.5 GHz Asus quad core CPU and 8 
> MB
> of ram.  The OS is Win 7 64 bit.  No echo here unless I am sync up to the
> Icom receiver and trying to use them both at the same time.  There is a
> little bit of latency with the SDR.  The sound is very good and the Sync
> detector is the best I have used so far.  It's a little on the noisy side
> with no signals.  A hint was given on the reflector to bump up the AGC
> threshold and that seems help some.  Also a suggestion from Robert, W0VMC,
> was to use a better sound card instead of the internal sound card that is 
> on
> the motherboard.  The Perseus doesn't use the sound card for demodulation,
> but for audio out.  In a way I wish the receiver had it's own line level 
> out
> instead of using the computer's sound card.  A better sound card with more
> ram should off load the CPU, but not sure that would help the latency 
> much?
> I am mainly wanting to lower the noise floor even more if that is 
> possible.
> The spectrum scope and waterfall are very useful.  I got another program
> called HF span that makes it into a nice 40 MHz spectrum analyzer. 
> Overall
> a very powerful box.
>
> 73 de w5jay/jay..
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Bernie Doran" <qedconsultants at embarqmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:02 PM
> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service"
> <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [AMRadio] sdr-iq
>
>> I purchased an SDR-iQ about five weeks ago and while it performs great in
>> a
>> number of areas it seems to be poor in the audio demodulation, at least 
>> on
>> AM,  I am getting what sounds like a low level echo and a general
>> artificial
>> quality of sound, my 75A2 sounds much better and that certainly is not
>> good
>> quality audio. it is difficult to copy a moderate level AM signal. the
>> computer plays DVDs and CDs fine and sounds good. I talked to the store
>> that
>> I purchased it from and they said they have heard this before and that I
>> should not expect it to sound like a VT receiver!!!!! that was a  shock,
>> what did I buy it for?.  computer is a single core 2.8 gig, it shows it
>> running at about %75. any one else use these things? or have experience
>> with
>> the Flex 5000a? Bernie
>>
>>
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