You can't see Internet spots or balance your checkbook or read the
Elecraft reflector and run that "radio" at the same time. I guarantee
it. So....you get to buy a top of the line high performance PC to run
your radio.
I find it interesting that nowhere that I've seen does Flex give a
minimum requirement for om-board memory.
I had a Polycom salesman try that while selling us an H.323 video
conferencing system.
I couldn't get the man to tell me exactly how much of my T1 connection
to home office in Green Bay was going to be used for our daily
teleconference. Finally got a ridiculous number out of him (256 Kb/s).
The truth was 3X that much, half my T1 while trying to send real time
data to GB.
Now I always multiple minimum retirements by three....four if it's
Microsoft, Cisco, or Polycom.
Windows 7 and Vista need 4G of memory to run well. There is a difference
between running well and running.
How much memory does SmartSDR require to run well? I couldn't find it
but I couldn't spend an hour looking.
That number isn't a sales bullet point on the Flex website. Hmmmm, makes
me wonder.
Maybe it's just me.
After a long day of dealing with the machinations of MS, IBM, VM Ware,
Cisco, Barracuda, Dell and HP, all day along with 700 users who
sometimes I'm convinced are UN-trainable, All I want to do is lay my
hands on a radio, even though I know it's mostly firmware, and not
another keyboard.
On 3/10/2015 9:45 AM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
And try as I might, I can't see Internet spots on my K3, nor can I use
it to keep my banking records, write email, do antenna modeling, etc.
For this I still need a computer. And believe it or not, that same
computer is connected to my K3 and I would be lost without it. I
don't want to go back to my BC-342 and crystal-controlled 6L6, which
some still think are the only "real" radios. Time marches on...try to
keep up.
Wes N7WS
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R. Kevin Stover
AC0H
ARRL
FISTS #11993
SKCC #215
NAQCC #3441
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