Nice video! Thanks for the video, Jim. This officially makes us Flex Radio brothers, lol. Something else besides Illinois that we have in common. Welcome to the family! Thanks for having me on the stream the other night. 73 de K0WHW @Bill-HRT
I'm very happy for you Jim.🍻 Great new toy, tons of features and working without knobs must be strange. I finally get to see what a Flex can do and I'm really liking it. Now you can Flex what it can do with other Don, N5SKT. Haha👍🤠
I have a Flex-6300, run it with my iPad Air with SmartSDR, or my Mac mini with xSDR6000. Typically I'll run the radio with the iPad, use network xCAT and xDAX on the Mac and run my digi mode software on the Mac. I use the RCA TX 1 for the PTT trigger for my Ameritron AL-811 amp. It's configurable in the software as to which of the RCA jacks you want to use for a third-party amplifier. The Flex-6300 is a great radio, I've had mine for years. Frankly, the Windows version of the software sucks eggs thru a straw because Windows itself sucks eggs thru a straw. On the Mac you have your choice of several SDR clients for the Flex.
Jim, just dropping a comment. Great video. Good first go through on the Flex. One thing I noticed is your profiles. I will drop mine in the discord and let you see how I do mine. Makes a the radio really unique.
Hello. I loved your video! Im thinking of buying a true SDR radio(Flex or Anan). Will it be better to go for a Flex 6400 vs a 6300? Thanks and regards. TI2JS
Thanks! the 6300 and the 6400 are darn near the same radio. THe 6300 is a 1U pizza box enclosure, and the 6400 is more of a toaster oven sized box. THey both have 1 SCU, and can run 2 slices. As the 6300 is out of production, you can probably pick one up for 800-1000 less than a new 6400. Mike Walker, VA3MW (Flex Radio) mentioned on a live Coffee and Ham Radios stream specifically that he thought the 6300 was a super good value buy.
Interesting question, I would assume so? Of course, when you transmit on Slice 1, Slice 2 probably gets attenuated a lot, to prevent an overload of the front end.
That looks like a great radio Jimbo, thanks for sharing .
Nice video! Thanks for the video, Jim. This officially makes us Flex Radio brothers, lol. Something else besides Illinois that we have in common. Welcome to the family! Thanks for having me on the stream the other night. 73 de K0WHW @Bill-HRT
I'm very happy for you Jim.🍻
Great new toy, tons of features and working without knobs must be strange. I finally get to see what a Flex can do and I'm really liking it.
Now you can Flex what it can do with other Don, N5SKT. Haha👍🤠
Thanks Jim, Very cool stuff. I hope you do some more on this radio because I've never been around one at all.
I don’t own a Flex but excellent description of all the workings. Thank you.
I have a Flex-6300, run it with my iPad Air with SmartSDR, or my Mac mini with xSDR6000. Typically I'll run the radio with the iPad, use network xCAT and xDAX on the Mac and run my digi mode software on the Mac. I use the RCA TX 1 for the PTT trigger for my Ameritron AL-811 amp. It's configurable in the software as to which of the RCA jacks you want to use for a third-party amplifier. The Flex-6300 is a great radio, I've had mine for years. Frankly, the Windows version of the software sucks eggs thru a straw because Windows itself sucks eggs thru a straw. On the Mac you have your choice of several SDR clients for the Flex.
That is cool stuff Jim, I suspect you are about to have some big fun with that rig. Thank for making this video
That’s pretty sweet 👍
Jim, i did a thing...thx for your vijay on the new toy. Much to learn as i await usps
Jim, just dropping a comment. Great video. Good first go through on the Flex. One thing I noticed is your profiles. I will drop mine in the discord and let you see how I do mine. Makes a the radio really unique.
Thanks for the tips! I have not tinkered with profiles at all yet.
Great video
Very nice.
Hello. I loved your video! Im thinking of buying a true SDR radio(Flex or Anan). Will it be better to go for a Flex 6400 vs a 6300? Thanks and regards. TI2JS
Thanks! the 6300 and the 6400 are darn near the same radio. THe 6300 is a 1U pizza box enclosure, and the 6400 is more of a toaster oven sized box. THey both have 1 SCU, and can run 2 slices. As the 6300 is out of production, you can probably pick one up for 800-1000 less than a new 6400. Mike Walker, VA3MW (Flex Radio) mentioned on a live Coffee and Ham Radios stream specifically that he thought the 6300 was a super good value buy.
The TX input is to activate PTT remotely. For software upgrades it is required to push the PTT.
That makes sense. You can also do that with the hand mic. I had to do it to enable smartlink. Which I discovered when I was not at the radio. :(
So if I use a separate receive antenna I can use both my transmit and receive antenna at the same time on the same frequency?
Interesting question, I would assume so? Of course, when you transmit on Slice 1, Slice 2 probably gets attenuated a lot, to prevent an overload of the front end.