After viewing the Flex 6700 at Dayton and following the discussion on the reflector, it appears this is a major advance in technology. I am trying to determine if it fits my operating requirements.
I am currently using a 5000+Rx2+ATU+VU. My antennas are: 1 - Shunt fed tower on 160m with remote matching network. 2 - Ground mounted vertical with remote tuner on 80 through 30m (tune one band at a time). 3 - Cubical quad with common feed line on 20 through 10m. 4 - Cubical quad with separate feed line on 6m. 5 - Individual yagi's on 144, 222, 432 & 1296 MHz. With the 6700 I believe I could simultaneously monitor: 1 - Any two of 160m, 80 - 30m (one band) or 6m; or 2 - Five bands on 20 - 10m (common feed) plus one on 160m, 80 -30m (one band) or 6m. With these two options I would need a matrix of external antenna switches to select antennas. For VHF/UHF I could only monitor one band at a time since there is only one transverter port and would require an external switch to select from multiple transverters. While the elimination of Firewire and its latency issues and the optional GPSDO are major pluses, it would appear that for VHF/UHF weak signal operation (70% of my operating) the 5000 with VU provides more flexibility than the 6700 as currently configured. Perhaps as someone on this reflector suggested, another radio designed for VHF/UHF operation with multiple transverter ports would be more appropriate. Is my logic correct or am I missing something? 73, John, N8WNA _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
