Page 2 - PowerSDR; — the Face of the
From July 2008 QST © ARRL table 1Flexradio FLeX-5000A, serial number 5107-5268 Manufacturer’s Specifications Measured in the ARRL Lab Frequency coverage: Receive, 0.01-65 MHz; Receive, as specified (sensitivity transmit, 1.8-2, 3.5-4, 5.3305, 5.3465, degrades below 0.2 MHz). 5.3665, 5.3715, 5.4035, ...
Page 3 - really; “Light Years Ahead”; What the FLEX-5000A brings to the table
From July 2008 QST © ARRL table 1Flexradio FLeX-5000A, serial number 5107-5268 Manufacturer’s Specifications Measured in the ARRL Lab FM adjacent channel rejection: Not specified. 20 kHz offset, preamp on: 29 MHz, 59 dB; 52 MHz, 44 dB. FM two-tone, third-order IMD dynamic range: 20 kHz offset, pream...
Page 4 - Need No Stinkin’; Knobs; Figure 4 — Rear view; Switching computers Midstream
From July 2008 QST © ARRL of the FLEX-5000A box and the PC. It of-fers 100 W (PEP) on all bands 160 through 6 meters, general-coverage receive (0.01- 65 MHz, same as the SDR-1000) and lots and lots of features, including several that weren’t available on the SDR-1000. For example, the newer model of...
Page 5 - Of Buffers and Sampling Rates
From July 2008 QST © ARRL Figure 5 — You can split the PowerSDR screen to show any combination of the panadapter and waterfall displays. Figure 6 — PowerSDR offers 3 or 10 band graphic equalizers for both receive and transmit. dow and seemed tacked on as an afterthought (or maybe they just ran out o...
Page 6 - CW Choices
From July 2008 QST © ARRL The dual equalizers, one for transmit and one for receive, go far above and beyond the “tone controls” of many hardware transceiv-ers. Both offer a choice of 3 or 10 bands (see Figure 6). The 3 band EQ unit is great for quickly compensating either transmit or receive audio;...
Page 7 - Jots and Tittles (in No Particular; Owner’s Manual; Are; long; com; Summer reading List; Check out the April and October 2005
From July 2008 QST © ARRL Jots and Tittles (in No Particular Order) The nearly 200 page Owner’s Manual (updates available online) is comprehensive, but the manual and its several supplements can get highly technical. The book includes some guidelines to set up the radio for that first QSO. In addi...