Good Morning, I recently had to part with my radio and decided that this was a good time to bring my station into the 21st century.
I have a couple questions, so please bear with me. At the moment, I'm leaning toward the Flex 1500. Reasoning: my computers are old (Dell 530 and a couple of HP (with serial ports)). All the computers are running XP SP3. I looked at the 3000; but that would necessitate purchasing a new computer. etc. I'm not sure I'm ready to jump that far into the pool. Question 1: I'm primarily a rtty contester/dx person. I've been through the videos/faqs etc; however, I see no mention of anybody utilizing rtty on sdr. PSK yes, rtty no. Along this line, I also do cw. Reading the eham reviews, I noted a latency in cw operations. Some of the posts (reviews) were older, I was wondering if the latency problem has been resolved in the newer versions of PowerSDR. Comments? Also on the eham reviews, one poster mentioned that there was a "demo" version of PowerSDR available for people to become familar with it. I cannot find it. Is it still available? Question 2: I have a Ameritron ALS 600 amp available. I turned my present radio (IC735 backup) down to 5 watts and ran it into the amp. I got 45 - 50 watts out of the amp which I figgered was about normal. I would be interested in a 100 watt amp to put behind the 1500. Are such animals available? A 100 watts will do me just fine. Basically, that is my first of many questions. I'm hitting the web site for answers to most of them and the videos are a great help. Any recommendations, etc are more than welcome to a new kid on the block. Thanks and 73 Marty W8AKS _______________________________________________ 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/
