Hi, Price is all relative. Isn't the Omni-VII about $2500 or a little more, and it's not even a top-of-the line transceiver. I paid $3200 + - for my Omni-VI in 1992, in 1992 $. What does the top-of-the line transceiver of the big 3 plus Ten Tec go for? Can you compare the Flex 5K to them? Maybe not quite. Where does it fall short? Two full receivers? Close-in dynamic range? Roofing filters? QSK? Manual notch filter? What will they be in 3-5 or 10 years compared to the Flex 5K? As long as the hardware is there, the 5K software in 3-5 or 10 years most likely will be an order of magnitude more advanced, in which case in order to keep up, you can buy another big 3+ transceiver, probably for 10K+ $. The Flex 5K is a lot of radio for the price, and seems to be a good investment in future technology. I would like to see a point by point comparison of the performance of the Flex 5k and the IC-7800 (list $13466.65, discount $10588.98) or Orion II ($4395) or FT9000. I guess we will have to wait for the ARRL lab report for this. I can wait.
73, Chas W1CG On raw performance, it's pretty hard to beat a K2. At 03:22 PM 4/12/2007, Larry W8ER wrote: >Lee .. What I think is interesting is that the impact of the >announcement centers around the price. The lack of information is >leading to a lot of negative talk where the price is the issue and not >the various features and improvements. As soon as you mention that the >$2500 includes a TCXO and soundcard plus the other technical leaps, the >price doesn't seem to be as large a factor and the negativity seems to >melt away. > >It would have been interesting to release pictures and technical >information and NO hint as to price for a month or so. My guess is that >the speculation would have had the price much higher and the price, when >announced, would have made it seem a bargain! > >--Larry W8ER > > > >Lee A Crocker wrote: > > Part of the problem is that the announcement of the F5k was a bit > premature. QST is released to a select few members before the rest > of the membership and a premature release of the F5K advertisement > kind of forced the issue. I think Flex was expecting a little more > lead time to get all their ducks in a row. I'm sure Flex will > release all data once they are satisfied the information is > precise. I think it is worth waiting for precise data so there is > no confusion. > > > > 73 W9OY > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > It's here! Your new message! > > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FlexRadio mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ >FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
