I picked up a Ensemble at a hamfest with no documentation or knowledge of bands it was built for. I loaded a driver and HFSDR . I can get it to receive cw. I noticed that dashfive.com has recently been taken down. It was there day before yesterday. Where is a good place for operating instructions? I also have the Flex software.
73s John N4HNO

The best source of information about your Ensemble RXTX and other recent
Softrock models is https://www.wb5rvz.org/ Information about older ones
can be found at https://www.wb5rvz.com/index.html

www.fivedash.com (not dashfive) does appear to be down at this time. But it
never was the best source for building and operating information; it's
where you went to order the radios.

The Softrock receivers are still excellent performers in 2024 if coupled
with a high quality sound card. The transmitter is a bit more work to get
working well, as you need the ability to monitor your own signal to get the
I/Q levels and phasing right for best opposite sideband rejection.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM Tech Guy via groups.io <tech48055=
gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

I picked up a Ensemble at a hamfest with no documentation or knowledge of
bands it was built for. I loaded a driver and HFSDR . I can get it to
receive cw. I noticed that dashfive.com has recently been taken down. It
was there day before yesterday. Where is a good place for operating
instructions? I also have the Flex software.
73s John N4HNO

Thanks! I have a StarTech usb sound card on order. Hopefully I can get it working better. The bands seem to be good one minute and bad the next. I heard a lot of cw the other night. Tonight I have nothing on my regular radio. I guess that's just conditions today.
73's John N4HNO

On 22/07/2024 21:55, Tech Guy via groups.io wrote:

Where is a good place for operating instructions?

John,

These pages https://sites.google.com/site/g4zfqradio/installing-and-using-hdsdr were started when I was using Softrocks. Other pages cover most Softrock topics.
Operating is basically connecting up and using software.
Robby's pages should give a clue to the bands available, maybe core colour and turns of the LPF.

73 Alan G4ZFQ