Hi Phil, Glad the tuner is working so well for you. The complaints about the tuner only apply to the old software (1.18.x). It is fully fixed in 2.0.8. We had a communications problem that was diagnosed and fixed in the newer software.
73, Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: ger...@flex-radio.com Web: www.flex-radio.com Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Phil A. McBride (VA3QR) <va...@rac.ca>wrote: > So I just got my Flex 5Ka last week. Got it all setup, antennas plugged > in, software, etc... It's fully functional and I'm running PowerSDR > 2.0.8. > > > > I had heard some mixed reviews about the internal ATU, but I got one > anyways. Until today, all I had was a Hustler 6BTV and a Cushcraft > 5-band 20-10m beam. However, today I put up a random-length wire antenna > fed by a homebrew Magnetic Longwire Balun into a broomstick with a coil > of about 30'of AWG14, finally going to a straight run of another 70-80' > of AWG14 ending at the big willow tree in my backyard. On average, it's > about 2.5-3 storeys above ground. > > > > I was going to go buy a manual tuner for it, but I thought I'd hook it > up to ANT3 and see what it would do. > > > > IT TUNES EVERY BAND FROM 80-10M WITH NO HIGHER THAN 1.4:1 SWR!!! > > > > I'm currently doing some PSK31 on 40m, but it's stable and working quite > well. I still need the tuner for 160m (although I'm trying to figure out > if I can add another 30' or so and give it another try), but the ATU > rocks everywhere else. > > > > Just thought I'd share with the group J > > vy 73 de VA3QR > > _______________________________________________ > 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
