I finished the SoftRock last night and I plugged it in to one of my
USB hubs...no green light from the LED. I put it back on the bench and
verified everything and all looked ok. After messing with it for a while and
still not getting a green LED from my USB hub, I decided to plug it in to
the USB on the back of the computer...GREEN LIGHT. Wondering why the USB hub
doesn't put out 5 volts, but will worry about that later. I thought that the
5 volts daisy chained from device to device.
So, it lit up, but I am not receiving anything. The latest binary
was acting really weird on my computer, so I reinstalled PowerSDR and then
unzipped the binary's from August in to the SDR install. It appears to work
ok now, I think. I have no way of verifying that. All I get is a little
background noise (I got this before though) and a solid S-9 carrier at
7.056, but this is ALL I ever got from the software whenever I would start
it up with NO hardware. So, I hope this is making sense, the SR-40 is either
not working properly, or the software is not working.
I can play the canned .wav files and that works, but nothing from
the SR-40. Made sure my LINE-IN port on the soundcard was selected, and
checked that the volume was up sufficiently. I don't know what else to
check, or how to check it. I am electronically challenged, sorry guys. Plus
it is hard to get back behind the PC to do anything. I don't have a 5 volt
power supply. Can I use a 6 volt wall wart?? I didn't see a 5 volt regulator
on the SR-40.
Can someone tell me where to start? And what about the S-9 carrier
at 7.056?? Is that supposed to be there?? I do have an XG-1 signal source,
but I'm not getting anything to the software.
Thanks,
Stan Rife
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 S/N 4216
