[K3PZN-List] Another New Rig

Sun May 20 17:34:21 EDT 2012

John

This link at least has some nice pictures - but I suspect you know what it looks like.  If you remember Icom once had a big rig close to $10k .  Tuning around I heard someone discussing it - maybe something like $7k.  

http://qrper.com/

Even my humble FT-950 has more knobs than I know what to do with - or use during a contest!  Once a good enough rig is hooked up to N1MM, there is not much for the operator to do but make small adjustments.  

While it always cool to operate a different rig (why doesn't someone buy one and bring it to FD!) often the best rig is what you already have.  Cool to see this stuff anyway.  We got the tiny thing from Elecraft (ok the PA is not out yet) and the monster from Kenwood.  I can imagine nothing 'affordable' was introduced at Dayton for the new ham.  Someday someone will introduce a simple box for about $250 that is used with a PC that does SSB and digital modes on 20m with some power output.  Well except no one sees a market of new hams.  

73 Curt

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 From: John Chesley <hamster749 at comcast.net>
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Did anyone get information and pricing on the new Kenwood TS-990S?

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[mailto:k3pzn-list-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Morton
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Jim-

I saw the stacks at the Flex booth last year at Dayton and discussed them
with the Flex rep there.  If you look at the QRPer link in Curt's posting,
photos of the 2012 Flex booth at Dayton show also the Flex-6000s stacked in
a rack.  Obviously, these are for the "alphabet" agencies.

-Pete, W3GVX

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> Pete, any amateur that likes to compete in frequency measuring tests or 
> that likes to characterize unknown signals could use that level of 
> uncertianty. This system is an offshoot of the one I saw at Dayton several

> years ago. They had a demo unit and it had 10 or 20 separate receiver 
> units and had a target audiance of the alphabet agencies.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Morton" <mortonph at comcast.net>
> To: "Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
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>
> Impressive technology! Interesting what can be done by connecting an
> antenna directly to an A/D converter.
>
> The FLEX-6500 model has one receiver or "Signal Capture Unit" (SCU) and 
> the
> FLEX-6700 has two. Each SCU and processor captures the whole spectrum from
> .03 to 77 MHz and provides four spectrum displays simultaneously, each 384
> KHz wide, and demodulates four signals simultaneously with four 
> independent
> audios. The FLEX-6700R adds the frequency range of 155-175MHz. [I don't
> see individual audio outputs so I suspect the four audios are provided
> digitally. Wonder if two or more can be combined on the headphone jack?]
>
> It is obvious that FLEX-6000 series has more than just the radio amateur 
> in
> mind. What amateur needs 1 x 10^-12 frequency accuracy, or even 1 x 10^-8?
>
> FLEX has a lot of software development to do to launch this radio.
>
> Interesting times. What lies ahead?
>
> -Pete, W3GVX
>
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> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 7:45 AM
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>
>
>>
>> Noticed a new rig on the flex-radio page this morning - the Flex 6000
>> series:
>> http://www.flex-radio.com/FLEX-6000.pdf
>>
>>
>> Andy
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