Richard, Suggest you send this or similar e-mail to ARRL: Dave Summer, Steve Ford, Joe Hallas or all. They do have some computer literate persons on staff.
Chas, W1CG At 12:21 AM 8/8/2007, you wrote: >Have you seen the review in the September QST of the Hendricks QRP >FireFly SDR transceiver? Its available now on the ARRL members >website. Once again, the ARRL has done injustice to an SDR radio by >having an SDR neophyte conduct the product review. The reviewer >whines about how computer illiterate he is, and then spends an >inordinate amount of the article discussing how he tried to get the >unit to work with a mono audio line input on a >laptop. Hello??? Next he complains about how he doesn't own enough >computing power and a high enough quality sound card to use the >radio with his PC. He then asks his buddy at the ARRL lab for help >and, in what sounds like a scene from the Three Stooges, they >finally get a dubious choice of sound card to work (rejecting the >M-Audio card). The reported measurements are then made with that >sound card. How unprofessional can the ARRL get? At least get a >reviewer who knows something about SDR to give the radio a fair >shake. Rather than highlighting what may be one of the more >exciting QRP projects out there, the ARRL just perpetuates the myth >of SDR being very difficult to understand and make work. Do you >think the ARRL gave the Tokyo Hy-Power amp review appearing in the >same issue to someone who knows nothing about amplifiers? Of course >not. But they don't treat SDR with the same respect. They treat it >as a curiosity rather than as a revolution. > >So, who will the ARRL choose to review the FLEX-5000, and how many >times will they need to review it to get it right this time? > >Rich W1EZ >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070808/5ade7ba4/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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ >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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
