Folks, I was looking at the FLEX-100 SDR today as a potential IF rig for a VHF/UHF contest station (potentially for field or rover use as well). Has anyone bought and used one of these rigs? I'm part
I owned one very briefly, and returned it immediately. I couldn't get over the lack of VOX. 73 de Sebastian, W4AS _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontest
I was looking at the FLEX-100 SDR today as a potential IF rig for a VHF/UHF contest station (potentially for field or rover use as well). Has anyone bought and used one of these rigs? I'm particular
CW transmit using internal (iambic) or external (key/keyer) has timing problems awaiting a software release I've been told is due in December (2010). If CW transmit is important to you, I'd check car
The newest beta (2.0.16) supposedly fixes (or at least significantly improves) CW performance from what I've seen on the Flex lists. I don't operate CW so I have no first-hand experience with it othe
Also important to note is that FMN operation with any of the Flex radios is severely crippled and that it won't be fixed until version 2.1 of the software (2.0 has been beta for almost a year and sti
Unfortunately, at least in my case (I am almost 100% cw op, have a 1500 now, ordered early adopter, shipped early adopter, and is now running 2.0.16 on a dedicated machine) there are CW transmit prob
We (W4IY) used the Flex 1500 and 5000A for the ARRL VHF/UHF contests on 432 and 222 with Elecraft transverters, solid state amps and mast mounted preamps. The biggest challenge was converting to a ra