At 04:05 PM 5/21/2012, you wrote:
Reading through all these posts, I'm not sure if it helped or if I am more
confused. I've read the sales brochure three times now and I think I have
absorbed 50% of it. I too pulled the trigger at Hamvention before the show
opened Friday morning. I'm certainly excited about the 6000 series radios.
What Flexer isn't?
But I want to understand a few things right now, so I can understand just
what I've bought!
1 - 2 Meters
I thought both the 6500 & 6700 had 2 meter. At least this is the info I was
given at the show, before I pulled the trigger. Another post said the 6500
didn't have 2 meters.
The brochure on the flex website is pretty clear: 6500 does not have
2m. But even the 6700 is rx only on 2, and with unknown sensitivity
even then, as I recall. Brochure at: http://www.flexradio.com/FLEX-6000.pdf
2 - Diversity receive and beam steering
I'm really trying to get my head around why only the 6700 will do this. I
assumed the 6500 would do this. (Pardon my thickness on this.) Since the
6500 has a "Receive A" and standard antenna connector, why won't it do it?
I read a previous post on this subject, but it read like Greek to me.
The 6500 has only one hardware receive path. Two, with two different
antennas, are required to do the beam steering we are familiar with.
As I understand it, the "slice" receivers are similar to the multirx
receiver in the existing lineup for the 3000 or 1500, except they are
less restricted in tunable freqs. I think we haven't heard anything
about being able to use audio from any of these slice receivers -
they may be panadaptor-display only.
The 5000 with rx2 is more capable than the 3000 or 1500 because it
has the two hardware receivers required for beam steering and if you
have two antennas, you can do beam steering.
...
4 - 600 Meter operation
I know this is somewhat of an unknown thing yet. But being a SDR, will the
6000 series (or any Flex) be able to handle RX and TX on the newly to be
assigned 600 meter band?
Receive freq range on all of them go down to 0.03 MHz. You will see
some disagreements in the brochure, but in a posting last night, Flex
said 0.03 is correct. If it was able to tx on 600 meters, I think we
would have already heard about it from Flex, and lowfers would
probably be lining up to order as we speak. OTOH, maybe they just
can't announce this if it is not yet a legal ham band(?)
73,
Scott Myers AC8DE
Which one did you order?
Jerry W4UK
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