[Elecraft] TS-990

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

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Eric
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> On Mar 10, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Kevin Stover <kevin.stover at mediacombb.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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