I think people believe that USB is a better alternative because they believe that its the firewire interface that is giving the sporadic "radio cannot connect" or distorted audio issues.
While there are definitely more USB ports on "best buy" computers than firewire, I doubt that even if the 3000 and 5000 could run on USB 2.0 it would present the same set of latency requirement as firewire (although it would make debugging them easier since I have a USB sniffer but a 1394 monitor is out of my budget!). I also think that chipsets like the ICH9 and ICH10 have grown so complex and have crept into so many different device controls that it is its own minefield. Almost every issue I have seen with the 1500 has been on a board with those two chips. Granted a high percentage of motherboards have those chips but I haven't seen any issues with other southbridge chip makers on USB. One difference between the radios Lyle mentioned and the Flex is they are all receivers not transceivers so are not carrying all of the channels that the 3000 and 5000 do. But, as Ray said, we have beaten this dead horse so many times on this list that I fell asleep while typing this note. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Ray - K9DUR <k9...@rnacs.com> wrote: > Brian, > > Right on! At the time that the FLEX-5000 was being developed, the design > decision was clear: At that stage in the technology, IEE1394 was the > better > choice. > > 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.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/
