Interesting - my Flex-6500 has nearly instantaneous QSK T/R turnaround.
Really nice. Faster than my Orion was.
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Wade Staggs
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 12:34 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Radios in the Future
*A very good Friend of mine has a Flex Radio. He Brags about it Constantly.
So why is it that every time we hear him On the Air, He is talking on an
Omni D which he has had on loan from me for a bit over a year now? He even
has the 100 Watt Amplifier and All the Bells and Whistles........ We have
tried 3 different Computers from Slow to Quad Core with 4 Gig of RAM. There
is still about a 1.5 second delay between Keying the Microphone and
Actually Transmitting anything. The Receive has about the same Lag Time.
Yay and Whoopie for the SDR Radios, if you want to be constantly doubling
with other stations. I like my radio's to work in Real Time. *
* Just my opinion and 73 from Wade/KJ4WS*
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Lee <ny6p01@gmail.com> wrote:
> Think you have your finger on it. What would facilitate this even more,
> would be if those who designed s_d_r, would adhere to a few common
> standards which would make hardware controllers of the type you indicate
> portable and interchangeable.
> On Oct 31, 2014 4:26 PM, "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@dj0ip.de> wrote:
>
> > IMO, the time has come to stop worrying about which "radio".
> > It's time to abandon the concept of a radio as being the single stand
> alone
> > device that gets us on the air.
> >
> > SDR radios such as FLEX and ANAN ARE THE FUTURE.
> > BUT NOT as stand-alone devices.
> > Most of us will have and use an additional "Human Interface Box".
> >
> > What most of us don't like about the current SDR radios is their human
> > interface.
> > ..We want knobs.
> > ..Some of us want big knobs.
> > ..Some of us want more knobs
> > ..Some of us want fewer knobs
> >
> > The Eagle is a fantastic radio but we can't seem to agree on the knob
> > arrangement for the perfect Eagle.
> > WHY MUST WE AGREE ON JUST ONE SOLUTION?
> > What if we could have a dozen different solutions to the knob
> arrangement,
> > but they all control a black box called "Son of Eagle"?
> >
> > CONSIDER THIS:
> >
> > In the future there will be multiple companies offering various Human
> > Interfaces.
> > Our choice of human interface will be just as important as our choice of
> > SDR
> > radio that goes behind it.
> >
> > Before I continue, let me explain what I have in mind.
> > I'm thinking of things like the Wood Box interface such as their TMate2.
> > See: http://www.woodboxradio.com/tmate2.html
> >
> > My first impression of the TMate2: "Nice but too expensive."
> > But is it really too expensive?
> > It is exactly the knobs that this device has which I like so much in my
> > radios.
> >
> > Considering its price, the performance of the FLEX 6300 is phenomenal.
> > But who wants a radio with no knobs? I certainly don't.
> >
> > In the future, that performance level will be available for $1K or even
> > less.
> > Couple that with a $300 human interface and we'll have a lovely radio at
> a
> > reasonable price.
> >
> > Each of us can choose which human interface we want, with as many knobs
> as
> > we want, and the radio behind it is a black box engine. We can swap the
> > SDR
> > black box engine as often as we want, but keeping our own favorite human
> > interface. Each new radio will have the same look and feel as the old
> one.
> > No new steep learning curve.
> >
> > Upgrading to newer technology will be cheaper because we don't replace
> > everything.
> > We just purchase a new engine.
> >
> > I believe this will be the ham radio of the future.
> >
> > This approach will enable each of us to create a radio environment that
> > suits our own personal tastes.
> >
> > Even though I was one of the ones yelling loudest that real radios have
> > knobs, I'm ready to jump ship as soon as they build solutions like this.
> >
> > 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> > (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
> >
> >
> >
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