[Premium-Rx] Cubic CDR-3280 Receiver

[Mack Rogers]

Pete, my display is in the same condition, perfectly
legible but showing age, matches my personal
condition.

firmware ver. 2.08 8-7-95
dsp ver. 2.08 7-13-95

I bombarded Cubic with emails and received not one
reply. Calling many of the proper phone numbers got me
people that were "going to get back" on the matter.
I'm still waiting?

Addition of the RF IF output option, new firmware,
software for remote control and software to process
the I&Q data stream would be very interesting to me.

If you should make contact with a helpful Cubic
employee, please pass the contact info to me also.

I have no complaint about the stand alone 3280
performance at all. I would only hope to enhance it
further. I would, in the future, like to play with
some other options in the roofing filters also.

Mack Rogers
N4VGB



--- Peter A Schroeter <ka5fun at juno.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Mack, thank you very much for your response and
> advice.
> 
> I just got the radio delivered via UPS last night,
> and must say that I am
> very impressed with it.
> I checked its specs in my lab and everything is
> exactly as it should be,
> meeting Cubic's specs and sometimes beating them.
> The fluorescent display appears somewhat blotchy and
> unevenly bright -
> does yours do that?
> 
> 
> 
> When selecting the “SYSTEM – ABOUT” option, it
> indicates that the main
> firmware is version 2.05 (dated 07-19-94) and the
> DSP firmware is version
> 2.04 (dated 03-17-94). 
> I am sure that there are more recent firmware
> versions which begs the
> following questions:
> 1- What if any bug fixes, improvements and/or new
> features are
> incorporated in the later firmware?
> 2- How can I obtain a copy of the latest firmware,
> and at what cost? 
> 3- Is the newer firmware compatible with my
> receiver?
> 
> What firmware versions are in your receiver?
> 
> Looking at the remote control protocol for the
> receiver, I see that it
> would be relatively easy to write a program in
> Visual Basic to accomplish
> remote control and monitoring of the receiver's
> parameters. Indeed, I
> wrote such a program many years (1994) ago when I
> had a brand new WJ
> HF-1000.
> 
> I plan to email Cubic and have already composed a
> letter with all the
> relevant questions. 
> I may get lucky and get a response from them, or
> else I will keep
> pestering them... If and when I receive a reply I
> will let you know.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Pete [KA5FUN]
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Mack Rogers
> <n4vgb at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > Welcome to the dead zone!
> > 
> > I also own the same rcvr and I'm very pleased with
> > it's performance. Numerous emails and phone calls
> to
> > Cubic Corporation have netted zero results on the
> > software and their website states that the
> software
> > can only be purchased with the purchase of the
> radio.
> > I would love to have the Cubic Corporation
> software
> > for remote control and for the processing of the
> > serial formatted I&Q signals. I had thought at the
> > time of purchase that the I&Q output would work
> with
> > any of the SDR software but it's format is
> completely
> > different. I2PHD/Alberto indicated that his free
> SDR
> > software Winrad would handle this serial formatted
> I&Q
> > data stream via a Windows I/O DLL. Both the SDR
> > sofware and the instructions to write the DLL are
> on
> > http://www.weaksignals.com/ . I have not attempted
> > this, as it appears to need two way communications
> > with any external hardware and the Cubic 3280 does
> not
> > appear to provide for that two way communications
> on
> > the same port as the I&Q stream. My software
> skills
> > are minimal, to say the least.
> > 
> > If you should come up with any contacts at Cubic
> > Corporations that are useful or any other source
> of
> > the software functions needed, please inform me as
> > soon as possible. The 3280 is an excellent rcvr in
> > stand alone mode.
> > 
> > Mack Rogers
> > N4VGB


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