All Stop

I feel like my life is in a total state of limbo!

I'm in Sue's hospital room keeping her company. She's doing OK atm but that always seems to change. She had a stroke Jan 25th. The side affect is causing high blood pressure and dizziness which leads to vomiting. High blood pressure is a major cause of stroke so you might say her body is trying to self destruct. So we're trying to find the correct treatment so she can go home. In the meantime I spent most all my free time here with her. Other than that I'm at home tending to the dogs/home chores or at work.

Flex Radio just released the latest beta of PowerSDR v2.0.19 RC1 (Release Candidate 1). This morning I made time to download/install this on the 5K. Needless to say the install went flawlessly. Tuned around 40 and 20 little. The noise blanker works better but I don't like the way it sounds. Would be great if you had to dig a signal out of the noise but for casual listening I probably might not use it. Although I did forget it was on so I can adapt. Tried it on the VO52 hamsat and the it still won't emulate the TS2000 satellite mode correctly orindidnt have the time to figure it out. It did track under control of SatPC32 in a very stable fashion shush is definetly an improvement. I would suspect Flex will have PowerSDR completely finished by DAYTON. This is a FANTASTIC RADIO SYSTEM!

AMSAT sent me some LVB Tracker pc boards last week. And they are at least 4 orders behind. The goal is to build 10 a month which I have yet to do. This last time because I ran out of pc boards. And now with Sue in the hospital it adds a new dimension to time management. So I have taken the project to the hospital. By the time Sue leaves the hospital I hope to have 10 boards built. This normally takes about 8 hours at home but a little more time at the hospital. I've done this before when my Mom was sick. A great way to utilize time!

Back to work!