Steve wrote, "In the DOD industry the long held "standard" rate of good tested software code output per person is 2 lines of code per man per day. Really!" Considering the amount of resources available to the DOD (they are not a private company but a huge govt agency with access to limitless taxpayer dollars) that is really disturbing to read but it puts things into perspective. Thank goodness for the FlexRadio team!!
Edwin Marzan AB2VW > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:17:53 -0800 > From: w4...@yahoo.com > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] FlexRadio-An Important Perspective > > Greetings All, > > As a professional RF and radio systems design engineer for 31 years, and > currently chief engineer in charge of one of the largest and most complex RF > systems in the world, I would like to provide an important perspective given > the > recent chatter here on the reflector. > > I have met the folks at FlexRadio many times, engaged them in lengthy > technical > and business discussions, and I can assure you that they are some of the very > best technical professionals (hardware and software!) in the industry, hand > down! Customer satisfaction and service is truly held dear in their hearts. > I > have never met a more conscientious bunch of sincere people. > > In the DOD industry the long held "standard" rate of good tested software > code > output per person is 2 lines of code per man per day. Really! > FlexRadio does so much better than this. Yeah, they are not 100% perfect, > however they blow the doors off of the big companies and their slow and > inefficient software output. And believe me, the big companies have some > awful > bug ridden software out there, sold at a high prices into critical > applications, > and the resulting system crashes are spectacular. I have routinely seen way > worse software/hardware performance than FlexRadio has ever been. > > Software experts in my company are truly amazed that FlexRadio has even > attempted to do a real time software defined radio on a Windows PC platform, > where most would dare not go! And of course PowerSDR does indeed work very > well > on this platform where the Amateur market must be. Flexradio has > accomplished > something huge that we all take for granted now. > > My Flex5000 is one of the best radio transceivers I have ever used, and I > have > had absolutely no trouble with it or the software over 3 + years. > We do use a Flex3000 in a professional application with great success, again > with incredible results and absolutely no problems! > > For the cost of the FlexRadio product line the company is providing a level > of > performance that is an incredible value by any measure. > And all future PowerSDR software versions are provided Free forever! Bravo > Flex > radio! > > Recently Flex has pushed the envelope to get more product and software out > there. They have clearly taken some risk for a small company and we all have > benefited greatly. Some will have a bad experience, and not get things to > work > after some struggles. This is rare, and with some normal human respect and > politeness, FlexRadio will take care of you even if they take a loss > supporting > you. What more can one want? We all expect perfection 100% of the time. > Patience my friends patience. > > And most important, Tim, W4TME, is a volunteer and one of the best and most > prompt technical support persons I have seen in the industry. I have great > respect for Tim and his knowledge, and his character is impeccable! > > > Flames and criticism come easy and travel quickly. Well deserved compliments > and sincere Thank You's do not come so easy. > > Thank You Gerald and the FlexRadio team. From my position in the > professional > RF system engineering industry you folks are an A+, no question about it. > And > Thank You Tim for your fine example of a superior technical moderator. Well > done! > > Congratulations FlexRadio! Please keep up the great work! > And by the way, I can't wait to get my Flex1500. What a beauty! > > 73' > Steve Floyd > W4YHD > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
