Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-04 Thread Terry Fox
Thanks again for the info, Tim. Let me be clear, I am in no way complaining, I just wanted to get the info as accurate as possible. The fact that the TNF is possibly available as a DLL is perfectly acceptable. I’m glad you have provided a clear answer to those wishing to alter PowerSDR on

[Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread Ken Danser via FlexRadio
Hello, I have been reading and followinghere as others and haven't made a comment here for a long time. I still own a Flex5000 and used toown a Flex3000 for mobile use. I bought the Flex5000 new when theyfirst came on the market.  Some reason or another I ended up in the secondwave of receiving

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread Drax Felton
Lot of angry candle stick makers when the light bulb came out too.  On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:18 PM -0800, Ken Danser via FlexRadio flexradio@flex-radio.biz wrote: Hello, I have been reading and followinghere as others and haven't made a comment here for a long time. I still own

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread Mark Ericksen
Companies evolve and disappear as well. Flex needs to pay attention to their customer base. Mark Ericksen AD4MA -Original Message- From: manual...@juno.com Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 8:13 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000 Time marches on and

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-04 Thread Jay Nation
Free has other meanings besides, cheaper than cheapest. Things with no cost, somtimes have great value. Somethings really are priceless, Open Source Software is one of those things. But Open Source Software can be sold for a price without any conflict with Open Source Licenses, you just can't

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread Tony Estep
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Ken Danser via FlexRadio flexradio@flex-radio.biz wrote: Something like Never Buy Another Radio Again This thread has really brought the reflector back to life, after a period of nearly complete inactivity that seemed to be threatening the death of

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread manualman
Time marches on and future products evolve and/or disappear. We've been talking about the Flex 5000A, and some of you might remember the 5000C, but in poking around the internet archives, it brought to light the originally proposed 300 watt Flex 5000D with the large tuning knob (probably

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread pete M
but the candle stick user were all happy cause the light bulb was working a lot better, but the candle stick are still around and they are used every day. heck they have sent it it! Envoyé de mon iPad Le 2015-03-04 à 22:10, Drax Felton draxfel...@gmail.com a écrit : Lot of

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread Edwin Marzan
I think they do. Flex fixed my 9 year old discontinued radio and it's working as good as new. The problem with SDR is that it spoils you into always wanting more. There are new features that can be added to my radio but there is no incentive for them to continue development on a product that is

Re: [Flexradio] Flex5000

2015-03-04 Thread Jay Nation
Wasn't it more like You keep getting a new radio everytime you upgrade PoweSDR. Go ahead Flex give me a new SDR1000 then a new Flex5000, but don't start that before I get, a new Flex6500 with SmartSDR v1.4. I should be able to locate the old ad in QST. On 3/4/2015 5:48 PM, Tony Estep

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-04 Thread Tim Ellison, W4TME
Correct. The firmware which gets updated with almost every new version of PowerSDR is closed source. We are compelled to keep the source closed by FCC regulation as this is where the transmit frequency restriction logic is stored. Based on the architecture of the radios, there is very

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-04 Thread Tim Ellison, W4TME
The driver and associated firmware are provided as pre-compiled binariesfrom the OEM. We do not modify that code. Nor do we plan to update the Firewire driver unless there is an operating system change that mandates an upgrade. Tim Ellison, W4TME Customer Experience Manager FlexRadio

Re: [Flexradio] PowerSDR and Falling prices

2015-03-04 Thread Tim Ellison, W4TME
Anyone can augment TNF functionality with our hardware products using the tnf.dll. How the TNF filter is applied is all done in the available console C# code. We had asked the HPSDR group to not distribute the DLL when we released the TNF functionality. Tim Ellison, W4TME Customer Experience