As a prior owner of a 1000, I can add honest feelings for anyone using the original Flex...
If you are considering a software defined radio, but don't want to spend too much money, here's what you can do. Get a Flex 1000 radio (with or without an internal antenna tuner), and marry it with a nice external sound card. The Edirol FA-66 worked VERY well for me. Don't forget to use a nice microphone for that outstanding transmit audio. Build a computer with a fresh install of Windows XP. Doesn't have to be a dual core or better. A good Pentium IV around 3 GHz will work fine. Install Power SDR version 1.18.6 on the computer. Don't use this computer for web surfing, email, bill paying or garbage like that. Keep it clean. Use it just for your radio. If you don't do any further software or hardware upgrades, you'll have a darned good and fun to use HF transceiver for many years to come. Total cost will be much less than knobby radios. Many times with much better performance! Tim, WK4U _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
