Tim Ellison

Even when using a purely resistive dummy load with no reflected voltage, you may notice that the VSWR meter in a FlexRadio SDR never reads a perfect 1.0:1. This is because the radio is not measurin...

To manually install the FlexRadio DAX drivers on a PC, you must run both the .inf file and the .batFor Windows 11 usersSome users with Windows 11 have needed to take an additional step due to secur...

If SmartSDR for Windows looks like the image below, then some of the SmartSDR application fonts may not be installed on your PC and/or the PC monitor scaling percentage is not set to 100%. System F...

What is SmartSignal, and how does it improve my transmitted signal?SmartSignal™ is FlexRadio’s implementation of dynamic adaptive predistortion (APD), a technology that actively improves the linear...

When using a FLEX-8000 equipped with a GNSS receiver (standard) or a FLEX-6000 or FLEX-8000 with a GPSDO, for them to be a suitable candidate as the 10 MHz driver clock source for disciplining the ...

With SmartSDR v3.9.18 and above, FlexRadio introduces Serial Pass-Through, a new capability of the SmartSDR USB Cable feature that allows you to connect and control RS-232 serial devices, such as a...

There have been occasions where providing power for a Tuner Genius XL (TGXL) using a 13.8 VDC power supply has resulted in voltage sags, resulting in anomalous operation with the TGXL. Operating th...

Here are the instructions:Configure a Sports CAT port Open the SmartSDR CAT application. Click "Add…" to add a CAT port. Select the pulldown for Port Protocol: and select N1MMSpot. Record the UDP ...

The following instructions describe how to install (aka "burn ") a bootable image file to a USB drive (aka "thumb drive")This procedure is needed when performing a USB Recovery process on a FLEX-80...

You were redirected to this webpage due to an unhandled exception error in SmartSDR. The following information is provided to help determine the exact nature of the error and suggestions on how to ...