[Elecraft] TS-990

[Kevin Stover]

You can't see Internet spots or balance your checkbook or read the 
Elecraft reflector and run that "radio" at the same time. I guarantee 
it. So....you get to buy a top of the line high performance PC to run 
your radio.
I find it interesting that nowhere that I've seen does Flex give a 
minimum requirement for om-board memory.

I had a Polycom salesman try that while selling us an H.323 video 
conferencing system.
I couldn't get the man to tell me exactly how much of my T1 connection 
to home office in Green Bay was going to be used for our daily 
teleconference. Finally got a ridiculous number out of him (256 Kb/s).
The truth was 3X that much, half my T1 while trying to send real time 
data to GB.
Now I always multiple minimum retirements by three....four if it's 
Microsoft, Cisco, or Polycom.

Windows 7 and Vista need 4G of memory to run well. There is a difference 
between running well and running.
How much memory does SmartSDR require to run well? I couldn't find it 
but I couldn't spend an hour looking.
That number isn't a sales bullet point on the Flex website. Hmmmm, makes 
me wonder.

Maybe it's just me.
After a long day of dealing with the machinations of MS, IBM, VM Ware, 
Cisco, Barracuda, Dell and HP, all day along with 700 users who 
sometimes I'm convinced are UN-trainable, All I want to do is lay my 
hands on a radio, even though I know it's mostly firmware, and not 
another keyboard.


On 3/10/2015 9:45 AM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> And try as I might, I can't see Internet spots on my K3, nor can I use 
> it to keep my banking records, write email, do antenna modeling, etc.  
> For this I still need a computer.  And believe it or not, that same 
> computer is connected to my K3 and I would be lost without it.  I 
> don't want to go back to my BC-342 and crystal-controlled 6L6, which 
> some still think are the only "real" radios. Time marches on...try to 
> keep up.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>


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