Maybe I have a "foot in both Worlds"... I prefer to use my old Corsair II
(and remote VFO) with an eMachine running Vista Home Basic, DXLab Suite and
WinWarbler 5.8.1 for PSK-31. I operate the radio, DXLab takes care of
everything else except turning the rotor.
I can operate my Omni VI Plus or let DXLab Commander QSY it to a DX spot.
I'm biased to analog radios for DXing conditions where the receiver must be
able to hear a very weak station 1 to 2 KHz away from numerous 1.5K signals
in the pile-up. The Digital radios are getting closer but a PTO based
receiver like a Corsair II (or modified R4B) is hard to beat.
I'm comfortable with computer programming (since the early 80's), I spent
over 20 years working with computers, telecom equipment, commercial two way,
cellular, paging, and wireless devices and I'm not comfortable with the FLEX
500.... too much computer for me!
Best regards,
CSM(r) Gary Huber - AB9M
9679 Heron Bay Rd
Bloomington, IL 61705
(309-662-0604)
www.csm-gh.com
glhuber@msn.com
gary.huber@us.army.mil
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From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 3:56 PM
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Help me Decide ??
> One can easily be comfortable with computer programming and still prefer
> not to be dependent on a computer to operate their radio, so I would say
> the first part of your hypothesis is not necessarily true. The second
> part may be more true, particularly with regards to "digital ops", since
> digital ops these days almost always are done with a computer. If you
> need to have the computer up and running in order to read the received
> data and produce the transmitted data, then may as well control the
> radio with it too.
>
> We can all enjoy ham radio in our own ways, as long as we are
> considerate of each other so that we avoid QRMing. I think the new
> technology is great. It is just not the way I prefer the enjoy ham radio
> at this time. That could change. If so, I will still maintain the skills
> and the equipment to do it without computers.
>
> DE N6KB
>
>
>>
>> I have a hypothesis I'd like to check out through this reflector: most of
>> the people I know or whose posts I've read who like the Flex 5000 are (a)
>> comfortable with computer programming and/or (b) are primarily phone or
>> digital ops, not CW.
>>
>>
>>
>
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