[Flexradio] Nothing wrong with my Flex 5000?
My Flex 5000 (2nd RX and ATU about 4 years old) spent the last 3 ½ weeks at the factory for repair (I thought) of the amplifier keying circuit. It worked fine directly connected to my Ameritron ALS-600 at our old QTH. It then spent perhaps 4 months in its factory packing cartons. When I installed it at the new QTH, it would not key the amplifier (tested with same and several other different shielded audio cables). Whenever I connected the radio to the amp, the green operate light came on weakly. As at the old QTH, all equipment in my shack is connected via 1 inch tinned copper braid to a 10 foot ground rod no more than 8 feet away. The amplifier appears to be working fine. When I ground the center pin of the RCA plug, it keys normally. While waiting for the repair, I did buy one of the Ameritron 704 solid state keying buffers. The amp also keys properly through the buffer when the center pin on the to radio cable is grounded. The good folks at flex called to say that they could find nothing wrong with my radio. However, they did strongly recommend using the Ameritron keying buffer device (which I bought in the interim). My question is has anyone ever run into this before? I did talk to Ed at Flex Service. He said that the radio meets all factory specs and that this sometimes happens as solid state devices change. In all respects, the Flex people have been courteous and professional. 73 Bill Roberts ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
Re: [Flexradio] Moving to the FLEX6300
On 09/02/2014 10:41 AM, Neal Campbell wrote: > The email reflectors are things of the past, Flex uses its community > website for all customer interaction (and many of its customers do also). > Go to community.flexradio.com and sign up! I signed up for the Flex community website a while ago and found it very tedious to use. Rudimentary "search" ability - e.g., no way to search for messages from a particular author. No way to filter messages, e.g., to hide, or flag, or tag, messages I've already read. No way to order messages, e.g., by date or author, etc. No way to save, forward, or print, a message. No way to read messages except through a browser - in contrast to my desktop, tablet and smartphone where there are many quite good custom apps for handling mail efficiently. I searched for a way to set up a forwarder so that messages would be sent automatically to my regular mailbox, where I know how to do all of those things plus more. Couldn't find any way to do it. The "how to use the community" information posted by Flex is minimal at best. No answers there. Shortly after I signed up I posted a question about something.There may have been replies. But now I can't remember exactly how I posed the question, and I can't find that "conversation". There's no "SentMail" folder to capture all the messages I have sent, and no way to carbon-copy my mailbox as I send something. It also seems that the Flex Community materials are somehow hidden from search engines. If I Google "flexradio.biz haverty", I get a list of postings I've made on this list. If I Google "community.flexradio.com youngblood" to see what the company president has said, I get nothing except a pointer to community.flexradio.com. It's possible that I just didn't spend enough time to figure out how to do any of these things. But I find that I don't log in much at all, and when I do there's such a hodgepodge of stuff that it's hard to see if there's anything of interest since I last looked. Am I missing something? Is there a way to get a "feed" of the community messages into email, or a newsfeed, or any other such mechanism that is commonly used in the Internet? 73, /Jack de K3FIV ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
Re: [Flexradio] Moving to the FLEX6300
See the independent FlexradiosmartSDR group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FlexRadiosmartsdr/info . Jerry W4UK At 01:09 PM 9/2/2014, David Land wrote: Well, I've sold my FLEX 3000 and moving on to the 6300. This reflector seem to cover just the older models, is there another one for the new models? 73, Dave ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
Re: [Flexradio] Moving to the FLEX6300
Hi Dave Congrats in upgrading to the new Signature line! The email reflectors are things of the past, Flex uses its community website for all customer interaction (and many of its customers do also). Go to community.flexradio.com and sign up! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal LLC On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:09 PM, David Land wrote: > Well, I've sold my FLEX 3000 and moving on to the 6300. This reflector seem > to cover just the older models, is there another one for the new models? > 73, Dave > ___ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > To opt out of the Reflector: > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
[Flexradio] Moving to the FLEX6300
Well, I've sold my FLEX 3000 and moving on to the 6300. This reflector seem to cover just the older models, is there another one for the new models? 73, Dave ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
[Flexradio] My station
Hi Folks, I am closing down my station. I am only going to us a 2, 440, and 6 meter all mode radio when I find one. I have for sale my entire station: Flex Radio SDR Flex 3000. $1,200 The computer for it is $700. This computer was built by Neil and you all know him. You can use your own computer if it is powerful enough. DJ Control for the set up if you want $100 MFJ Giant True Peak Reading SWR/Watt meter 1.8 60MHz. About 8in high and 6 or 7 inches wide. $100 A Palmar AT2K HF antenna tuner. $300 An Ameritron AL-811H Amplifier $650 Everything is less than 7 or 8 months old. You can contact me (Bill) at ope...@rcn.com ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
