Bob, I recommend that you visit our web site and read what others have to say about the SDR. http://www.flex-radio.com/Users.aspx?topic=testimonials
The Reflector is like headline news; typically the bad news gets all the press and attention. The overwhelming majority of our customers love their radios and they're not programmers or computer scientists. John P. Basilotto W5GI Marketing and Product Manager FlexRadio Systems Office 512-250-8595 Mobile 512-663-6727 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Bower Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:34 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Ready to take the programming plunge My old base station of thirty years (an FT200) has finally died and I need a new rig. I've been hanging my nose over the SDR1000 for some months now. It appears to be the future, but at the same time my natural comfort zone says the easy option is an FT2000 or the like. I've done plenty of programming in archaic languages like Quickbasic - I'm a maths teacher and over the past eight years or so I've developed a complete suite of programs to teach numeracy for the whole of the Scottish secondary school curriculum, which I use on a daily basis with my classes. I've had to beg,steal or borrow hand-me-down PCs in order to get a complete class set of 30 machines - the corollary is that the lowest common OS denominator has had to be MSDOS (as I said, archaic). My immediate reaction to the SDR concept was "Wow - just what I need to progress my programming skills into my retirement - and what a great way to combine two aspects of my interests." However, rather than just throw money at it, it seemed sensible to check out this forum first. Having read Richard Stasiask's very encouraging message of a few days ago I thought "that's it! - time to buy" - but then I've been equally dismayed by other messages since then, of which I cannot make much sense - can I emphasise here that I'm not trying to be in any way offensive to anybody - but, my goodness, from my rather basic (no puns intended) programming skill level there appears to be an awful lot of jargon! Is there anyone out there feeling the same way as me? Am I wasting mental energy even contemplating the prospect of ever being about to effect personal changes to PowerSDR? Bob GM4DLG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061019/6fc35f4f/attachment .html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
