Thanks to everyone who responded to my post both on and off the reflector. It has helped to curb my recent reservations. I know that the staff at Flex always go the extra mile to help out the customer. I have no problem with possible glitches on new firmware releases, since I know that Flex quickly resolves such issues. It was just the possibility of RFI issues with the radio that concerned me.
Again, thanks to all who responded, and I am anxiously awaiting my 5000a. Back to the listening mode. Sorry if I disrupted the reflector with my concerns. 73 de Gary - W9BS -----Original Message----- From: Jim, W4ATK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:15 AM To: Gary; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Flexradio] 5K HF Lockup I am one of the unfortunate ones whose 5000A had to be returned for a bit of re-work. I can truthfully say, I saw absolutely no evidence of the failures that I could attribute to RFI, and believe me I am very familiar with RFI as my operating position is scarcely 20 feet from the antenna "farm" here which is in my attic. I have dealt with RFI at its worst and neither the SDR-1000, or my SDR-5000A showed any succeptibility to the problem. The fix here was to "cool down" the coax coming into the shack with RF isolators. Place a few clamshell ferrites on a couple of computer peripheral cables, and my computer speaker cables, create as much free space as possible between the operating position and the antennas, and perhaps most important improve my ground system. Approaches that would have pertained to any radio, software defined or conventional. 73's Jim, W4ATK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mac.com/jimrogers_w4atk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5K HF Lockup I have been reading this reflector on the 5000a since I ordered one back in late September. Based on what I have been reading about these various lock-up problems probably due to RFI, I am seriously considering cancelling my order. Since I plan on using this rig for a few major phone contests a year, these sort of reliability problems are of major concern to me. Especially if is based on RFI, which means that it can't be fixed with new firmware. I don't care to spend days trying to play with different grounding techniques and wrapping leads through many torriods to get it to work reliably, when my present IC756Pro had no issues with RFI running the full legal limit on any band. It seems that RFI susceptibility is the Achilles heel of this radio. I will continue to read the reflector for the next couple of week or 2, then make a decision whether to cancel my order. But it's not looking too promising to me at this time. Sorry for the negative post, but I am sure that there are others who are waiting for their 5000a's and have the same concerns. Thanks for your attention, Gary - W9BS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.Haighton Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Flexradio] 5K HF Lockup I find the 5KA to be an excellent device on 80, 40,M but am having troubles on higher frequencies with HF Lockup after transmitting. It seems that the transmitter stays on and the only way to switch off is by removing power from the 5000A then re-booting Power SDR I have tried extra chokes on all the leads ands using a direct connection to a Dummy load as well as various grounding systems - all to no avail. Has anyone else met this problem and if so what is the solution?. 73 Robin Haighton VE3FRH -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20 071127/1c35bb0c/attachment.html _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
