I wouldn't schedule a trip to the Smithsonian just yet to view an
obsolete SDR know as a Flex 5000 A. First the rice burners have to
catch up to the 5K before it can become obsolete. No improvements does
not equal obsolete until its features are out classed by the rice burners.
Oh by the way, just for the record I have a BS in comp sci and a MS in
software engineering. I'm not currently interested in playing with the
code but who knows what the future will hold.
Patrick
On 3/2/2015 10:35 AM, Richard Solomon wrote:
One thought ... if Flex released the software then some enterprising
chap might
take on upgrading it. But I doubt that will happen.
Therefore, I predict the 5000's will continue to decline in value.
Perhaps in the
future they will be looked on as historical artifacts.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On 3/1/2015 5:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
What might perk up interest in buying a used Flex 5000 or 3000 would be
if Flex released a new version of PowerSDR. The last version, 2.7.2, was
issued almost a year ago (March/April 2014). Potential buyers might be
swayed positively if they saw that the software was still being updated
even if for the most part, it was mainly just bug fixes. To me, it could
be a win-win for Flex. New Flex users would come into the fold buying up
the used 3000's and 5000's and existing Flex users could migrate to the
6000 series without sitting on a double investment of equipment.
Pete, wa2cwa
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 22:32:12 +0000 (UTC) [email protected] writes:
Here's my $0.02 from someone who's trying to sell a plain vanilla
5000a at the moment.
I've been studying values of all the 5000 models as of late pretty
closely.
The last 3 5000a with 2nd RX, tuner and V/U that I saw on QTH went
for around $2300. A big difference than 6-8 months ago when they
were going for $2800-$3100.
Units with tuners and 2nd RX seem to be in the $1600 to $1900
lately.
Mine is a bare bones unit and I have it advertised on QRZ and
QTH.com for $1500 OBO which I *thought* was a fair price.
I've had 4 responses between the 2 sites and no offers whatsoever.
It's clearly a buyers market right now.
YMMV..
Thomas - [email protected]
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Message: 1Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:02:59 -0600From: Harry Williams
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I have been thinking of buying a 6500 and sell my Flex 5000. Trying
to determine what its worth today. Mine is a 5000a, 2nd rx, and a
V/U module. Could not find any recent sales that looked like my
config. Any ideas of worth or has anybody seen any recent sales for
a radio like mine?
Thanks,HarryW0LS
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