Respecting your opinion Stan, I can only agree with part of what you said. Yes, they are probably not for everyone.
However, I do not believe that they are as computer frustrating as you say. I have run my Flex radios with a Dell desktop, a MacPro desktop (under Bootcamp), a MacBook notebook, a Tiger Direct desktop, and an IBM notebook with no problems. All I did was add a firewire card and hook things up. I will agree that 'computer challenged' hams should probably not try SDRs. You do have to have a basic understanding of setting up a computer. And there are computers that are not going to work well with an SDR. I use a company supplied Dell desktop at work that has DPC latency so bad it stutters every few seconds playing an mp3 file. I can imagine it's lousy performance with an SDR - it would be unusable. The worst DPC latency I saw on it was over 300,000. However, buying a low DPC latency computer added to the cost of a Flex is still a lot less expensive than a lot of the better transceivers on the market. Then you know it is going to perform well. And a lot better than those transceivers. Last comment - if you have a good high performance, low latency computer you really can use it for everything. I use both my TigerDirect and my MacPro for everything. No problems. It all depends on the computer. 73 Wayne K4ELO _______________________________________________ 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/
