[Elecraft] Flex VS K3

[Tony Estep]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> ...investing the serious amount of money a Flex gets and then running it
> on an antiquated computer.
>
> =============
One of the various things that conspired to kill the previous version of
the Flex software was the proliferation of cloud-related software on newer
machines. A Microsoft Skydrive, or a Google update program, or one of a
large number of other stuff, would periodically issue an interrupt that
would take the CPU's attention away from the Flex data stream, introducing
latency and/or crashes.  The first design was a recipe for obsolescence.

Besides, if you wanted PSDR, a K3 with LP-Pan and NaP3 has a superset of
the capabilities of a Flex 5000, and none of the endless series of  bugs
that plagued the Flex version of PSDR.

The new Flex stuff brings the data path inside the radio, so that the
dependency on the OS is reduced, and it probably works okay if you want to
try to operate your station with the mouse. But at least IMHO, a DXer
working split in a big CW pile without knobs is at an overwhelming
disadvantage.

73, Tony KT0NY