On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Christopher D. Sanger < [email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry but the story about the ENCLOSURE availability is very hard to buy > ...... > > It's not like it is a hand hammered aluminum shape crafted by artisans > .... personally I always felt that it resembled something from a high > school science fair project. > > With almost 1/10 of this country out of work it shouldn't be that > difficult to find a metal shop willing to produce a suitable exoskeleton > for such fine components .... > Geez. It doesn't matter why Flex has discontinued the 5000. The bottom line is that they have discontinued the 5000. The case may have been the final straw that precipitated the actual event but the truth of the matter is that the 5000 was dead the day Flex announced the 6000 series. People are going to buy the 3000 or the 6500. No one is going to buy the 5000 so it makes no sense for Flex to keep producing it. Sure it might have lasted a few more weeks/months while shipping of the 6500 is delayed but once the 6500 is shipping in volume, the 5000 really WOULD be dead-as-a-doornail. And how many people are out of work has nothing to do with what Flex should do. Flex should make an obsolete radio that no one will buy because there are people out of work? Really? Let's put those people to work building cases for the 3000 and the 6500 instead. Oh they don't have the skills to build the cases? Huh. So, time to stop stressing over this kids. The 5000 is dead. It was a good transceiver. The new DDC transceivers are flat-out better. Way better. I am not going to mourn the 5000. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 706 Flightline Drive Spring Branch, TX 78070 [email protected] +1.916.877.5067 (USA) _______________________________________________ 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 innovation and other technical SDR topics.
