Before I bought my F3K I spent a couple months looking for one on Ebay. During that time, I saw one -- and it was snapped up at close to full retail price. A quick search a few minutes ago show a single 1500 and a handful of SDR-1000s. I seriously doubt that any undamaged F3K or F5K put on the market right now would fail to sell for a very good price (probably better than most standalone transceivers as a percentage of retail value).
But somehow I don't think that's what this is about. Some folks just love to complain, and for whatever reason the curmudgeon factor seems a little higher in amateur radio than many other hobbies. Not that I'm complaining. :-) --- On Wed, 2/16/11, W6SDM Steve <[email protected]> wrote: From: W6SDM Steve <[email protected]> Subject: [FlexEdge] CW and an F3K sitting on the shelf for 18 months. To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 10:28 AM Wow... I must be doing something wrong here to miss out on all of the tuned in CW excitement. I am an ex-US Navy Morse intercept operator. I operate CW at about 25 WPM and work both DX and casual conversations. Since getting back into the hobby last year and buying my Flex 3K, I have worked DXCC on CW using this radio and the internal keyer exclusively. I have logged a couple of thousand contacts in the process. I use a Quad Core machine dedicated to the radio with buffers set at 512. Initially, I did notice some occasional latency on the side tone. I attributed that to my Prozac kicking in. Later I found that switching to a Firewire card with the TI chip set and using a granite IEEE 1394 cable solved that problem and I am once again back on my meds. Life is good! -- Steve Miller W6SDM w6sdm.net _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
