There are pluses and minuses (as witnessed by the battle between methodologies in apple and Microsoft).
The more Flex allows you to run apps, plugins, etc. in the less they can guarantee the performance of the radio, not to mention make diagnosing and debugging user problems more difficult. I own an AIM 4170 analyzer from arraysolutions http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/AIM4170.htm#top%20of%20page and while I think the processing power in the new 6x00 series of Flex radios would allow video editing, advanced audio processing, etc. I am paying my $7K for a first class radio and it better deliver on that promise and prove itself before I would support opening up the architecture for other purposes! 73 Neal -----Original Message----- From: Greg Zenger [N2GZ] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 3:23 PM To: 'George Allen'; 'Stan Williams' Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Flex 6000 series - Antenna analyzer and time-domain reflectometer Or 3rd-party Firmware. I think the 6000 would really shine if there was eventually provisions to write your own 'plug-ins' that would run directly on the radio. -Greg. N2GZ/1 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Allen Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 11:04 AM To: Stan Williams Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] Flex 6000 series - Antenna analyzer and time-domain reflectometer That would be a fabulous capability. I suspect that the hardware can handle that; but, the first version of the software won't do that. I can see that being done in third party software. George K2CM Sent from my pet Octopusses iPad On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:36 AM, "Stan Williams" <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the new hardware have, or can be made to have, the ability to > send a pulse down any of the antenna connectors and: > > a) Monitor the reflections and display the results as a time-domain > reflectometer at a base frequency of choice (any frequency on which > the 6000 > may transmit) . Providing the power is low enough the receiver can > stay on > to "see" the sent pulse and reflected signals; then graph the > reflections on > a time or distance basis. This will permit exact real-time > measurement of off-centre fed antennae as well as feed line analysis > and balun impedance matching. Velocity factor if a bare wire is > paralleled with a test cable and the difference in reflected time represents the velocity factor. > > b) Perform the function of a graphic antenna analyzer by sending a > series of very short bursts (several cycles on each frequency) and > graph the > results with SWR and impedance. The user selects scan centre > frequency and > scan width. > > > > Stan Williams > VE3FLW > FlowBased Solutions Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
