Those little blue dot labels (office supply) do a good job of knocking down
the light from the front, but there is still an opportunity to be blinded
from the side, especially in a dimly lit shack.
At 10:31 AM 6/21/2009 -0400, you wrote:
It was a part procurement issue. A while back the blue
Flex should carry these as a accessory, with a little stand to put it in
front of the light...
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16807
N4BFD
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Tim (W4TME) wrote:
> It was a part procurement issue. A while back the blue LEDs started having
> very long
It was a part procurement issue. A while back the blue LEDs started
having very long lead times and missing one part delays the entire radio
production and delivery. so the "Ruby" version of the FLEX-5000 was
born. The early blue ones became known as the "Sapphire" version.
For both version
Interesting. My 5KA is about 4 weeks old. The power switch light is
RED. I was expecting blue. Now, ordinarily, a red indicator would not
bother me. But, this switch light is so bright it is rather irritating
insofar as it is bright enough to be distracting. I wonder if this
was a systemat
I put my 5K in a cabinet with the power supply just to hide the
not-so-little LRL. (I didn't really do it for that purpose, but hey - it
fits the story line)
Using the rear-panel balanced mic input and having the radio fan and
linear PS mechanical hum all bottled up is a good thing. I need to
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Geep Howell wrote:
> Woe is us who have to suffer with the new RED light...
They went with red? Oh.
Well, if you are into the whole dark, Goth, vampire, blood thing that
seems to be popular with the younger set, (after all, we do rise at
sunset to work DX on the l
Woe is us who have to suffer with the new RED light...
On Jun 20, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
One other advantage of this orientation is that the Blue Light Of
Death illuminates the wall giving a very pleasing, high-tech, back-lit
effect
It has been awhile and there seem to be a number of new Flex 5000
owners on here. I thought I would throw out some of my logic for
orienting the F5K in the shack. The F5K has six approximately-equal
sides but only two hold much interest. One has three things: the mic
connector, the headphone connec
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