Re: [Flexradio] The Flex Insider

2012-12-30 Thread Jerry Flanders
At 11:37 PM 12/29/2012, Stephen Hicks, N5AC wrote: ... You can slide the center of the panadapter anywhere the radio will tune and still see this bandwidth if you choose. I noticed that ALL tuning in the Youtube demo was done this way. There were no click-tunes in the demo, and now your

Re: [Flexradio] The Flex Insider

2012-12-30 Thread Tim Ellison
Listen to the video again. Greg said that not all of the display controls and slice tuning features are active. Click tuning will be a feature of SmartSDR. -Tim --- Sent from my mobile phone On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Jerry Flanders jefland...@comcast.net wrote: At 11:37 PM 12/29/2012,

[Flexradio] fan noise on a 3000

2012-12-30 Thread y...@aol.com
Have a new 3000, also had one when they first came out, this one seems to have a louder fan noise level, than the older one. Has anyone taken a look at the fan assembly to see if the bearings are serviceable . thanks dale wt4t ___ FlexRadio

Re: [Flexradio] fan noise on a 3000

2012-12-30 Thread Ed Wilson
Dale, I have owned a Flex-3000 for about three years now, although it does not see much use as I later purchased a Flex-5000 as my primary rig. I found the fans in the 3K very noisy and replaced them with two Silenx IXP3416 iXtrema Pro Fans. The cost from Amazon was about $25.00 and well worth

Re: [Flexradio] fan noise on a 3000

2012-12-30 Thread Tim Lemmon
Dale. I felt like you, and even tried the Silenx fans. They were certainly wonderfully quiet, but looking at the rig temperature (CNTL-SHIFT-I) shows the rig gets hotter with the quiet fans. Apparently they don't move enough air. Rigs hate heat, and I hate noise, but rigs hate heat more :) If