I usually don't send out Emails to the group unless something's important to me. I received my Flex-3000 today and I also own the wonderful Flex-5000 and after playing just a few hours with the FLEX-3000 and making several contacts I have come to the conclusion that this Radio is going to be a huge success and is a terrific radio. In my opinion and for the Money ($1599.00) this is at least twice the radio then the BIG 3 in the same Price Range or higher that I have either owned or have used (Kenwood, Yaesu, ICOM, and a radio way out of the 3000's price range the TEN-TEC Orion II with Filters installed)
I thought for the Price of the FLEX-3000 that it would be closer to the performance of the Ten-Tec Orion II but using it proved to me that FLEX is the only game in town if you don't care if your radio has knobs or not this is the way to go. Just think NO extra filters to buy just plug, Load software and Play. The only thing I would have liked to have seen is a wider range on the Auto Tuner, Maybe it will get better after the software guys get working on it, I have found that trying the tune button 3 times will usually find a Match if there is one in it's range. I am running this on a 5 year old Panasonic Tough Book using WinXP SP3 with the built in onboard Firewire Card, the CPU Runs around 57% with VAC on and no NB, NR or ANF turned on, With them ALL on it runs at around 97% but no drop outs or Audio glitches, the peak DPC latency was 330us which isn't to bad. I am still looking for the Windows XP Fundamentals OS which should let this PC run even better (Dudley). 73's and again this is my own opinion. Bret WX7Y _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
