Yea, I will second that! No falling off the perch here! I have had the Flex 5000 from the beginning, and I really enjoy it! I used to buy radios all the time! Not now, except for a Flex3000 a while back!!!
Ken K3YI ________________________________ From: Bill <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Re - Deep Impact Gee David. maybe it's my old age. but I'm having enough trouble keeping up with the new or improved features we get every couple weeks. I tell my ham friends, owning a Flex is like getting a new radio twice a month. But it could be that I am just not very knowledgeable about programming. So each improvement like TNF is a small miracle to me. On 9/19/11 8:10 AM, David Painter wrote: > For almost five years FRS has been making announcements about a New > Architecture/Deep Impact development which, it was claimed, would permit > implementation of enhancements such as independent mode/filter etc selection > on the Multiwatch VFO; implementation of Multiwatch and independent > mode/filter etc on the optional second receiver; totally separate panadaptor > panels for the main and second receivers; rewriting of the GUI to sort out > the appalling mess created when the second receiver was added (the epitome of > an afterthought). Additionally, many of the user enhancement requests (now > standing at some 644) have, in the past, been annotated with wording to the > effect that implementation would be dependent upon the NA/DI. Not to mention > the many other enhancements requested directly by Brian Lloyd et al. > > Now that the Deep Impact development has, seemingly, been abandoned, an > announcement apparently being made at the Dayton Dinner in early May but > advised to the wider Flex community only a few days ago by Neal Campbell, > (neither confirmed nor denied by FRS themselves) the question is: > > What happens next? > > If DI has been abandoned does that also mean that all these enhancements have > also been abandoned and will never see the light of day? > > If incremental enhancements are going to be the order of the day, what are we > talking about in terms of the above enhancements...another five years...ten > years...twenty years...sometime...never? > > Many Flex customers are in danger of falling off their perch due to an over > abundance of patience...don't you think you owe them something more than the > contempt you have shown over the last few years? > > > > > > G4PNX > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- --------------------------- A will is a dead giveaway. --------------------------- Bill H. in Chicagoland Doing my best to annoy nearly everyone since 1945. webcams at http://w9ol-towercam.webhop.org weather at http://hhweather.webhop.org live weathercam chat hhweather.chatango.com _______________________________________________ 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.
