Don't forget the power supply and the speaker. <sorry, my evil twin kicked in for a moment>
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:18 PM, W6SDM Steve <dd.maricopa...@gmail.com>wrote: > I never understood why anyone would think otherwise. Computers today are > cheap. Sure, you can spend a few grand on a high end gaming computer if > you want to, but it's really not necessary. In fact, It's not going to > help at all past a certain point of performance. For around five hundred > bucks, a third the cost of a Flex 3000, you can get a decent, capable > computer. Why would you by a premium radio, the heart of which is a PC, > and then scrimp on the PC? You may as well try to run the station off a > ten amp power supply and see where that gets you. > > My dedicated PowerSDR computer is an HP Quad Core that I got for well under > $500 at Amazon. I feel like I got a capable computer at a reasonable > price. I could have scrimped and bought a refurbished DualCore off of > eBay, or even tried to fire up an old Pentium. It just doesn't make sense > to do that considering the amount of time that I put into this hobby and > the amount of joy I get from it. > > I may be off base doing this, but I compare my 3000 (and hopefully my > 5000RX2 before the weekend) to the high end box contest radios. For what > they cost compared to the Flex, there is plenty of money left to buy a nice > computer, a good mic, and still have money left over. > > > -- > Steve Miller > w6sdm.net > _______________________________________________ > 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/
