In any environment there is usually that one percent that doesn't fit,
doesn't agree with the other 99 percent, and feels that he has been cheated,
picked on, and selected for abuse by everyone he deals with.
I know from reading the Flex Forum that as far back as two years ago Flex
had acknowledged an issue with CW performance in some instances. Flex has
stated their intentions of improving the CW performance and, based on the
software upgrades, it is obvious to the 99 percent that Flex is doing their
best to keep their word in eliminate such issues, one at a time. Each new
issue of software has continued to make a better radio than it was
initially. But that one percent just can't wait even though when he bought
the unit he was, or if he read the forums, should have aware of some
instances of a CW performance issue.
Resale numbers probably don't show it, but I feel my Flex 5000 is now worth
much more than it was when I bought it. A bit like the Energizer, just
keeps getting better and better.
Pierce W4ZDI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blazie" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] CW and an F3K sitting on the shelf for 18 months.
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
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