The F5K does not have a sound card. The hardware has been upgraded and what used to be done in a "sound card" is now done in a dedicated internal DSP unit. So if you purchase 2 x 5K's you basically have 2 complete systems. That being said I do not presently know if you can run 2 firewire based 5K's on the same system.
I have 2 SDR-1K's and I run them at the same time every day. For the SDR-1K's I have to use 2 different sound cards since the drivers for the firebox or the FA-66 do not allow 2 instances of the product. What I run is one Firebox and one FA-66, one radio on a parallel port and the other on a USB adapter. I use one as a CW radio exclusively and one as SSB/AM/Digital/IF for my transverters all purpose goof around radio. One radio uses a serial interface for CW input and the other uses the jack on the back. PowerSDR for each rig is in its own seperate SVN folder. Each radio had to be initialized seperately and the cal routines gone through seperately, and they basically are totally independent. With respect to CAT control I don't know if Logic 8 allows you to run 2 seperate radios simultenaously. I use the DXlab suite which uses a soft control button to switch back and forth between rigs, and I can do that fine. The problem comes when you want a DX cluter spot to tune the CW radio, how does the CAT program tell which radio it is supposed to be sending commands to? So basically I think if Logic 8 is smart enough to run 2 CAT radios, 2 instances of PowerSDR is smart enough to respond. 73 W9OY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
