Tim Ellison

For the Firewire-based FLEX-5000 and FLEX-3000 connected to Win7 PCs, you may experience intermittent connection behavior due to software defects in the native Win7 1394 bus driver that interfaces ...

There is a bug in the Windows XP Service Pack 3 update that decreases the data throughput (speed) of the Firewire interface from 400 Mb/s (S400) to 100 Mb/s (S100) that can significantly affect the...

CPU Parking is a feature of multi-core/SMP systems that disables cores when the system load is low. According to public documentation on the feature, unpark time is near instantaneous, but there *i...

There have been reported several incidents of AMD FX processors not working properly with the new 4.0 Firewire driver. We have learned that there are several Win7 bugs and subsequent hotfixes relat...

The Windows operating system has a feature that allows it to shut down PC hardware after some time of perceived inactivity.  If your radio is running and Windows shuts down either the Ethernet inte...

There are two primary methods for connecting a balanced dynamic microphone (one that does not require phantom power) to the FLEX-5000 by using either the front 8-Pin Foster connector or the 1/4" TR...

If you are using the Heil CC-1-Y mic cable from Heil Sound with your FLEX-5000, you may experience RFI issues due to the way some of these cables are wired. The FLEX-5000's microphone input is ess...

The FlexControl uses a USB connection that emulates a serial or com port on your PC which allows it to communicate with PowerSDR or SmartSDR.  The com port in Windows emulates a 16550 UART (Univers...

The following PDF download describes in detail how to configure a FLEX-5000 + RX2 + VU software defined radio to operate satellites using SATPC32 for Doppler correction tuning. Setting up the FLEX-...

If in the rare event, your Windows PC is crashing, generating the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), Windows will try and create a "dump file" that contains diagnostic information about what caus...