Hi Tim, No offence taken and point well made. I will make a mention of your comments on my blog while I'm saving up for a quad-core :)
Best regards, Peter - VE3HG VE3HG Blog Follow VE3HG On Twitter > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 24 > Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:45:06 -0500 > From: Tim N9PUZ <tim.n9...@gmail.com> > To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CQP & 1500 > Message-ID: <4cab4802.3080...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 10/5/2010 8:07 AM, Peter - VE3HG wrote: >> I've posted a evaluation of the 1500 under contest conditions at my >> blog www.ve3hg.wordpress.com >> >> All in all, it worked pretty well in last weekend's CQP. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Peter - VE3HG > > Peter, > > Thanks for posting your review. As a 1500 owner it's always interesting > to hear other people's experiences. > > With regard to CW I am certainly not the benchmark. I enjoy CW but am > not particularly fast. I think Flex has been pretty clear that there are > shortcomings until the USB driver issues are fixed and PowerSDR 2 is out > of beta. You might have mentioned that for the benefit of others reading > and also noted whether you tried the workarounds discussed here, etc. > Please don't take this to mean I feel what you said is wrong. That's not > the case. > > The computer makes the single biggest difference I've seen with this > radio which stands to reason--it's doing most of the heavy lifting. I > don't know what a quad-core would be like but my experiences are that > the radio stinks with a 1.9GHz Pentium IV w/XP and 2GB of RAM while it > runs very well with a 1.8 GHz dual-core laptop w/XP and 2GB of RAM. With > a 2.1 GHz dual core and 4GB RAM with Win7 32-bit there is never even a > hint of a problem even running PowerSDR, logging, and cluster software. > > My experiences in the NAQP SSB were very similar to yours. The receiver > worked very well and frankly I was amazed at the reports I got running > 5W SSB. I use a Yaesu MH-31 hand mike with my Flex 1500. > > 73, > > Tim N9PUZ > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
