[Lowfer] Flex-5000A or Flex-1500

[JUAN A. GRANADOS]

Hi Stan!

Thank you for your interesting comments which call for serious reflexion.

I consider myself a hobbyist. A licensed ham for 54 years who began 
playing with SDR with a Flex -1000 EIGHT years ago. LATER, with a Flex 
-5000A, an SDR-IQ receiver 2 years ago  (all excellent SDR radios, the 
later a DDC receiver), using all the versions of PowerSDR as it 
developed, HDSDR, HDR-Radio, SpectraView, etc. (all excellent softwares, 
in constant development) , and now in my second year of experimenting in 
the 600/630M band TXing and RXing nightly, pursuant to my Experimental 
FCC Grant. I have tried to stay away from exotic hardware, which perhaps 
would not have proper customer support, and proper software and software 
support.

The question was posted to obtain information on results of field use of 
these radios by actual experimenters so that I can improve the results 
of mine using the radios that I already own.

Indeed, the radios you mention are excellent and technically advanced 
SDR radios which I am sure will be able to meet your requirements.

Sincerely and 73

Juan /K4LCD - WF2XXQ - https://sites.google.com/site/k4lcdars/


On 01/21/2013 4:44 PM, Stan, W1LE wrote:
> Hello Juan,
>
>
> I have have only casually considered the Flex radios.
>
> I am considering the Apache Labs Hermes board and chassis at ~ 900$.
> Hermes does allow for an external 10 MHz station reference like a GPS/DO
>
> I do not need the 10W nor the 100W HF (160M thru 6M)  filtering and 
> amplifier.
>
> You really have to ask yourself where you fit into the 2 extremes,
> an appliance operator or a
> experimenter into the bleeding edge of SDR hardware and software 
> technology.
> There are many advantages to both conditions.
>
> The newer Angelia may have multiple receiver capability to allow 
> unattended monitoring on many bands
> like 137, 185 and 500 KHz simultaneously or medfer/hifer.
>
> Stan, W1LE    Cape Cod
>
>
>
> On 1/21/2013 9:33 AM, JUAN A. GRANADOS wrote:
>> Good morning!
>>
>> Anyone using these radios for MF or LF experimenting?
>>
>> Regards and 73
>>
>> Juan /K4LCD - WF2XXQ - https://sites.google.com/site/k4lcdars/
>>
>> -
>>
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