I agree with Ray on this. I bought the Griffin before I bought my first Flex (largely in anticipation of getting a radio to use with it). When I finally did get a Flex, I found my whole way of looking at radio operating changed. With a conventional radio you tune with a knob in your hand and detect signals solely by ear. With a flex, you identify signals both with your ear and (even more so) with your eyes. So the days of continuously tuning up the band to get a feel how many stations are on are largely gone. You can see that without all the tuning. I tend to click on interesting portions of the spectrum with my mouse and then then use the wheel on the mouse to tune around. If you use the Griffen, that requires that you move your hand back and forth between the mouse to the Griffen. It seems more awkward.
Having said that, it does make a wonderful volume control. In addition, the pulsing blue is really nice. So if you are getting one for free or cheap, don't just shelve it, try it in both applications and see what you think. John W2FS On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray Andrews, K9DUR<k9...@rnacs.com> wrote: > Dale, > > I bought a Griffin PowerMate with my SDR-1000 in January 2006. I quickly > disconnected it & put it in a drawer. Actually, I have it hooked up now > with its default settings. I feed the FLEX-5000A audio output back into the > PC soundcard. The PowerMate makes a really good volume control -- lousy as > a VFO, but a good volume control. Just my opinion. > > 73, Ray, K9DUR > http://k9dur.info > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > Message delivered to j...@coastalchip.com > _______________________________________________ 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/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
