Ok - We are now well past the posted closing time for this thread, due to the large number of postings.
Thread is now closed. 73, Eric List moderator elecraft.com _..._ > On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Kevin Stover <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > R. Kevin Stover > AC0H > ARRL > FISTS #11993 > SKCC #215 > NAQCC #3441 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
