Windows 11 and SmartSDR:
So I have had some time using SmartSDR on my new computer. There are some oddities under windows 11.
The first is that when you first SmartSDR, the Autotune and One Shot buttons do not appear on the RX tab. However, if I toggle one of the other tabs on and off, such as P/CW, they appear on the RX tab. Now I do not have a "License" for those features so that might have something to do with it. However, once I toggle one of the other tabs, they appear and are greyed out as expected.
The second thing that happens is when I had first installed SmartSDR on my Windows 11 machine, the AUX button on the FlexControl would randomly change from AUX2 to AUX3. This has stopped happening though. I assume a driver update has taken care of that. So all is good now.
The third issues is that sometimes when starting SmartSDR, the FlexControl either does not seem to be recognized by the software or it suddenly loses connection to the controller. However, if I restart SmartSDR, the FlexControl starts functioning.
This seems to happen the first time I start SmartSDR after the computer was asleep ( I usually sleep my computer rather then turn the power off at night. The computer starts up faster that way.)
Some Thoughts on CW:
I have been working on my speed/head coping using the morsecode.world web site. I can probable get about 80% of the words at about 16 WPM. I am also doing the letter recognition drills.
One thing I realized is that learning to head copy is very much like learning to speak when you were young. That is, you learned the "sound" of a word, not how to "spell" the word. So when you are doing the drills you should try and recognize the sound and not each letter.
This is really hard for me and unfortunately, I don't do these drills as often as I should.
YACSDR:
Yet another Client SmartSDR APP called AetherSDR. This is a work in progress. It is meant to be a native Linux app. This one seems to be more promising, but there is a lot to be done before it is useful.
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