Dear Bill,
Thank you for your message, I fully respect your comments.
I am just being honest, this is how I feel and those are the comments
made to me by my friends, it does no harm to share these things even if
it does stir the blood.
You must realise that not everyone has high speed internet, I only have
dial up, which is extremely unreliable at best.
I have read much about flex radios in radio magazines, none of which
were bad, I have asked the shop owner, he said nothing bad and
indeed promised new software will be released in the same month I
purchased my radio. Perhaps if radio magazines were more honest rather
than just telling us that everything is great then more of us would know
of these problems in advance.
Has frustration got the better of me? almost certainly, perhaps this is
a weakness, but I openly admit to not being perfect, which keeps my wife
happy too!
My messages aren't meant in a bad way nor are they intended to offend,
however they are honest and I trust you respect me for this.
I have saved for 6 years to buy a new radio, it will probably be the
last radio I will ever be able to afford to buy, so perhaps now you can
understand more why my frustration runs so deep.
As for being a minority, we may well be, however there are actually more
of us than you may realise (reading the messages I have received
directly) and I'm sure that like what has happened in Egypt of late, the
minority will not stay silent forever.
Mickael.
On 17/02/11 01:42, William H. Fite wrote:
Dear VH,
I think you have to expect that when you post angry, querulous
messages on a reflector where 99% of the are quite satisfied with
their Flex radios--yes, warts and all--that you are going to get some
pushback. Anytime one finds oneself a tiny minority, there is going
to be some tendency on the part of the huge majority to discount,
disregard, and dismiss one's plaints. I've been there, myself, and I
didn't like it anymore than you are liking it here.
I do give you much credit for having the grace (and the honesty) not
to dismiss us all as mindless fanbois. Because we're not. Mostly,
we're a pretty hard-headed bunch not given to blind adulation of
radios or anything else.
I should speak only for myself but I will go out on a limb and say
that most everyone here is sympathetic to your difficulties. That
being said, the CW difficulties with the software have been well known
and extensively documented for a long, long time. Flex has made no
secret of them, in fact has entered quite openly into dialogue with
users having CW problems. I find it /extremely/ improbable that, if
you did any kind of in-depth research at all about the Flex range you
didn't hear anything about CW issues. The bottom line for me is that
either you didn't investigate before laying down your cash or else you
knew the problems were there and bought, anyway. Either way, it is
hard to feel too much compassion for you. Anyone who buys a pig in a
poke has no kick coming if they open the poke and find a puppy instead
of a porker. On the other side of the coin, Flex has not made any
promises about when the CW problems would be resolved. You may be
convinced that they are way too slow, but they certainly cannot be
accused of false advertising. Cannot be /credibly/ accused, anyway...
So long as you concur in the dismissal of a hugely popular radio as
"that blue piece of junk," you can expect relatively little respect
from others on the reflector. It is a bloody shame that you are
unhappy with your 3K but that does not make it--and, in fact, it is
not--a piece of junk.
I'm sure we all hope that you are happier with whatever you choose to
replace your Flex.
Bill
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM, TheVillageHam
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've been waiting 18 months already and there are many more who
have been waiting a lot longer.
Ask yourself this, would you buy a new car, have it delivered only
to find that the engine didn't work, and then when the garage
tells you they are
"working on it" and "it will be fixed sometime in the future" put
the car back in the garage and wait months and months more in the
hope that perhaps one day the garage may get the engine running?
I think not and quite rightly so.
On 16/02/11 18:00, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:39:21 -0800
From: Dave Gomberg<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To:"[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] CW and an F3K sitting on the shelf for 18
months.
Message-ID:<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
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At 12:25 AM 2/16/2011, TheVillageHam wrote:
>v1.18.6 drops characters and the side tone delay is
ridiculous to
>the point where it actually affects the CW being sent due
to it
>being so far behind. v2.x also drops characters, has the
same side
>tone delay and NR/ANF/NB don't work.
>Full break-in CW doesn't work on any version.
There is a lot of truth in what you say.
>.....
>When my friends visit they say to me "Why do you still
have that
>blue piece of junk on your shelf?"
>I have to explain to them that I can't sell it because no
one wants
>it due to the poor reputation they have in Europe.
You need to find a buyer who uses phone predominately. These are
stellar radios for SSB. I think they
are quite nice for digital modes too, but not being a user of same
(yet), I can't comment.
I am pretty sure they will be great for CW someday too. But
it will
take several months for that to happen.
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