Just a quick note to report on my activities at the ARRL. At 1800 UTC I was joined at W1AW by about 15 employees of the ARRL, including Dave Summer. I officially handed over a FLEX-5000 (an upgraded beta unit) for use at their station. Following the official presentation, I spent about 90 minutes demonstrating the radio and discussing the world of software defined radio. I was then invited to take a tour of the ARRL complex, which was very interesting.
I returned to the station at 2000hrs UTC to begin operating ( a hour later than promised). I experienced high SWR problems, which turned out to be a bad coax cable run from the antenna box to the F5K operating position. I began operating as soon as the problem was repaired but had to cease operation at 2047 UTC so that the regular broadcast could begin. I worked about 50 stations in about 30 minutes despite terrible band conditions. The F5K performed flawlessly and was fun to use with their monster antenna system. I worked several FLEXERS but Dudley, WA5QPZ had, by a large measure, the strongest signal of any station worked. The 5000 is now a permanent part of W1AW/ARRL and available to anyone to use when visiting there. I recommend a visit to the ARRL-it's like a Smithsonian museum for amateur radio. 73 John P. Basilotto W5GI VP Amateur Division (NA) _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
