I know its none of our business but, Thanks for sharing!
Maybe, you meant to hit the delete button and not the Send button.
Zing ;)
73
Jay -- NO5J
On 8/22/2012 3:49 PM, amsct...@comcast.net wrote:
Or maybe, as in my case, a seller is simply going in a different direction.
I like(d) my 5000, but I am going to take some of my limited free time this
winter and contribute some effort to a couple of open-source SDR projects. I
don't need it (it being the 5K), am not going to use it and am not much
interested in having things for the sake of having them. So off it goes to
someone that will enjoy it as much as I have.
For the record: the 5000 is superb and the support from Flex has been
top-notch. I have to say, however, that this is the first time in
blah-blah-blah years online, involved with various (e.g. ham radio, sportbike)
forums and mailing lists, that anyone (not the original poster of this thread)
has ever emailed me directly to question my judgement in selling something that
I bought and paid for with my own hard-earned money. It is, quite frankly,
no-one's business but my own...and the same goes for anyone else selling, quite
frankly, anything.
These conversations, and the speculation contained therein are fun, but being
such a fan-boy of a consumer product that you feel you have to email someone to
question their judgement should give a sane person pause.
Mike Alexander - N8MSA
amsct...@comcast.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Greenlee" <patric...@windstream.net>
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:06:12 AM
Subject: [Flexradio] Lots of lightly used Flex Radios for sale.
This has been explained but may bear repeating/amplification.
Flex customer demographics include a high percentage of tech weenies and a
fair number of whatever is the latest greatest new shiny ball folks. Some
folks have to have the latest tech gadgets whether or not they understand
the technology. This is not to say that techies aren't interested if their
"wad" permits. The 5000 is still one of the best most capable radios
available for anywhere near its selling price. The new radios promise to be
EVEN MORE. So the folks who have to have the new shiny ball will bail on
the 5000 to get the next latest thing. Ditto the tech freaks to whom better
is worth a lot.
Hype aside, the "Game Changer" is an evolutionary change (likely a true
evolutionary LEAP) but still not a REVOLUTIONARY change. SDR was a
revolutionary change compared to the "traditional" hardware implementations
of radios.
Given you are shopping performance vs price you will find the 5000 to have
a better figure of merit (divide performance by price) than lots of
traditional radios, radios incorporating some DSP, and likely the new Flex
offerings too. Still if you want higher tech and better performance and are
willing to pay for it, the new Flex is the good deal. The cutting edge of
tech typically costs disproportionately more than a half step or more back
from the bleeding edge..
Tech doesn't stand still. Buyers of the NEW flex radios should savor the
moment (months/years) of superiority before Flex or some other outfit makes
another leap forward. It wasn't that long ago that the IBM PC booted from
floppies and ran a clock speed of 4.77 MHz and was THE thing nearly every
tech weenie wanted. Technological obsolescence comes at an ever accelerating
rate. It is the way of the world. Until or unless there are fundamental
changes in operating modes not conveniently handled by a 5000 They should
serve well for many more years. Collins S-Line gear still works well and
does what it always did. The 5000 may turn out to be the SDR equivalent.
73 Patrick AF5CK
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