Again, I have to respectfully disagree. I do think they are plug and play. If you play it safe.
IF you have a decently powerful computer with low DPC latency, all you have to do is plug in your firewire card, connect the radio, load the driver and PSDR. The default settings on PSDR get you on the air immediately. Assuming you have the right OS. Yes, you might want to tweak a lot of settings in PSDR, but it's not necessary to get on the air. I think the hard part is tweaking the settings. There are a lot of settings that the manual could explain a lot better. But it's still plug and play to me. Admittedly, I am speaking from Windows XP experience. Those going to newer operating systems do so at their own risk. Microsoft always screws something up with every new release. They are guaranteed to have bugs. It takes years for the code to get really stable with patches. That's not an opinion, it's MS history. If you want plug and play stick with a mature OS. Isn't the point to get the radio up and running? Not to try and do it on the latest MS thing? You definitely do not want to be on the bleeding edge. Folks can complain all day long because Flex can't keep up with Microsoft, but that won't do any good. Their expectations are unrealistic. I have great empathy for Flex, having to run under multiple releases of MS. It's not easy. Watching the forum, it looks to me like the majority of hams with Flex problems are running Vista or Win 7. Heaven forbid, 64 bit. What for? PSDR can't use it at this point, so why make trouble for yourself? What are your really trying to do with the computer? Sort of like buying a Ferrari and expecting it run on regular gas. Again, I run every application that I want to on my computers as well as running PSDR with no problems. Many at the same time. Sorry for this long post, but I do think some folks are just making problems for themselves and blaming Flex unfairly. I suspect the computer experienced folks on the list would agree. 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/
