Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Community for the rest of us?

2013-10-21 Thread Greg Jurrens
Evening folks: I apologize that it feels like nobody is watching the email reflectors. As you can imagine, we've been pretty busy in Customer Support and that has caused us to be temporarily less responsive in some areas. As Ed posted, our plan has always been to roll the Flex Community out

Re: [Flexradio] 3000 T/R relay question...

2013-10-21 Thread Greg Jurrens
Tim: The relays used in the FLE-Series radios are designed for extremely long life. 20 Million cycles is the norm. That's the standard CW word "PARIS" 1,428,571 times! They may be a bit noisy but the relays are very reliable! 73, Greg - K5GJ On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Tim Lemmon

Re: [Flexradio] Any recommendations on a good foot switch?

2013-10-21 Thread Greg Jurrens
The Heil FS-2 is actually pretty cool. It has a 2-stage switch that allows you to key your amplifier just before keying up the radio. Unkey is the same in reverse. We stock them if you are interested. Check out the online store. For dirt-simple bullet-proof foot-stompin'. I use a momentary

Re: [Flexradio] Any recommendations on a good foot switch?

2013-10-21 Thread Bruce Rattray
If you can find the old Dictaphone machines, they have really good foot switches for this purpose. I used several of them to do a transmit foot switch function at no cost. You just have to put the proper wiring on the end. 73 Bruce ve5rc -Original Message- From: FlexRadio [mailto:flex

[Flexradio] 3000 T/R relay question...

2013-10-21 Thread Tim Lemmon
Hey everyone. This has probably been discussed before, but I don't remember. When operating a 3000 at a fairly fast rate on CW, lately I've set the delay down to zero for darned close full QSK. Wearing a headset of course, so I don't hear the relay(s), but they're clickin' and a clackin' pretty

Re: [Flexradio] Any recommendations on a good foot switch?

2013-10-21 Thread Carol F. Milazzo, KP4MD/W6
I modified a $11 power tool foot switch from Harbor Freight Tools. It was quick and works great! Harbor Freight Tools power tool foot switch ($11 with 25% discount coupon) > modified for use as a foot operated push to talk switch with the FlexRadio. > Photo journal at > https://picasaweb.google.c

[Flexradio] Request for Voice Keyer Software for Win XP

2013-10-21 Thread Steve Floyd
I have been trying to install the K9DUR Voice Keyer software with no success in  my Win XP machine.   Would someone pass along a recommendation for a Win XP compatible Voice Keyer software program that will permit selecting a COM port up to COM 9 (for PTT keying) and select VAC for audio interfac