Dayton 2016

EA4GLI

I cannot believe we do not have a Dayton 2016 thread going! So here it is.
Post pictures, the lucky guys at Dayton please, for the many of us that cannot be there!

Steve (N9SKM)

Orly?
https://community.flexradio.com/flexradio/topics/wow-new-kx2-lets-hear-some-dayton-news
hehehe.

I agree, lets see whats new and exciting.

Jd Dupuy

Very professional display and look more than one spot for folks to sit down and turn knobs. Sure beats one radio and a crowd. First class as one would expect from the World's Leader in SDR!

W9OY

I would really like a pic of the operation of K9CT via Maestro at the ARRL booth or where ever it is

Wim

You can see the flex booth on the k5kub live video stream   http://w5kub.com/

Mike VE3CKO

Ah, no wonder I haven't got my Maestro, it's in Dayton   seriously though I'm getting impatient waiting for RadioWorld (Canada) to get their order. I placed my order the same day Maestro appeared on flexradio.com

Jeff, wd0exr

w5kub live feed - watching activity at the Flex booth ...

EA4GLI

VK7WH Winston

It pays to get there early before the crowds arrived. Gerald showed me the prototype linear. I went back a couple of hours later and you couldn't get near the Maestros. Steve is participating in an SRD forum in an hours time. A must forum for me. I hope it will be recorded. Winston ps the toilets haven't blocked yet. Fingers crossed! src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6032377/uploads/attachments/RackMultipart20160520-27371-q042j-image_inline.jpg" >

Steve K9ZW

Gerald messaged that the FRS booth is mobbed! 

https://community.flexradio.com/flexradio/topics/4o3a-power-genius-info

Some other new items:

• PalStar has a linear

• Kenwood has a DStar ready HT (Maybe - "Kenwood Tentative" status now)

• New FT-891 HF Rig

• There at $28 dual band HTs!!

• Several new, some SDR incorporating, radios from LNR, Expert Electronics (MB1), Elad, Woxun and more.

Jeff KE9V has posted photos and some details on a good number of these at: https://twitter.com/ke9v

73

Steve K9ZW

Lawrence Kellar KB5ZZB

Any bets on Flex announcing anything new. I'm hoping for a qrp rig that will work with Maestro

Steve K9ZW

In addition to production Maestros and the FRS/4o3a Amp?

Might be a lot to ask?

73

Steve
K9ZW

Rick Hadley - W0FG

The 4o3a amp is gorgeous, but likely to be out of my budget range for the near term. Looking forward to hearing more about it at the dinner in an hour or so. I did come home with a new Begali key for the 6500.

Lawrence Kellar KB5ZZB

Please comment about the dinner for us poor souls that can't be there

Varistor

Flex is running a promotion that is targeting- surprise!- the Icom 7300 users: 1) Buy a Flex AND an Ic-7300 2) Within the first thirty days, decide which radio you want to keep 3) If you like the Icom, return the flex for a 100% refund 4) If you like the Flex, send the Icom to Flex for a 90% credit of your Icom invoice

Steve (N9SKM)

If this is true I hope people are honest with their choice. Of course to do this you will have to have the money to buy both which should **** out some that may try to take advantage.

Lawrence Kellar KB5ZZB

Ok Dinner is over. What's up guys

Bob N7ZO

Maybe they're digesting.  :-)

Tim - W4TME

Burp. Going to bed now. Tomorrow comes early

km9r.mike

Seems to me to be a simple promotion for those @ dayton who can not decide between a new ic7300 or the superior flex 6300. I doubt icom is offering such a promotion.

 Flex already offers a 30 day try for free and this appears to be modified for the dayton market. Perhaps this will not disappear.

Steve-N5AC

Lori and sharon prepared to sell radios Friday Morning



The Maestro Bar was busy, sometimes with folks packed 4-deep waiting for a seat



Chris, K6OZY, showing off Maestro running the K9CT superstation to both Craig, K9CT, and new FlexRadio owner HK1R, Jorge (see http://hk1rjumanji.dxarc.org)



More Maestro Bar



SDR Forum Friday afternoon with Scotty, WA2DFI, speaking (Jared, AF7SO and Steve, N5AC also talked).  In another 20 minutes there was even more folks lining the walls standing.



Friday night FlexRadio Banquet -- filled to the gills!  We had 200 people, our largest crowd to date.



Lots of folks were demoing their remote FlexRadios.  Chris would send CW from K9CT's station over remote from a Maestro to another station in Finland using the DL8MRE RadioApp, etc.  Fun had by all!

EA4GLI

Thanks for the Pics!!!
One of these years I might make it to one of these events!!

Varistor

Seems to me to be a half-baked promotion. If someone is planning to spend $1500 on a rig, how is losing $150 (10% of the purchase price) is going to compel them to spend twice as much? Then there is the question of how many people would charge $4,000 on their credit card just to test two radios...not many.

KY6LA_Howard

More DL8MRE communications San Diego to Indiana viaDayton

Walt - KZ1F

It indicates something else though. In this political season one often hears the pundits admonishing, you should always attack up, never down.

Varistor

A deal should have a balanced value exchange to work. In this case the buyer pays $150 to buy a radio he could have bought anyway. On the flip side, Flex does not spend a penny to acquire the buyer- remember, they buy the 7300 at 90% which allows them to sell it with no or very little loss. I also think that the buying decision has been made much earlier in the process. People know if they want a standalone knobbed radio or a mouse, computer, and a monitor. Conversely, having the 7300 next to a Flex is likely to make potential Flex buyers reconsider their buying decision in favor of the 7300.

W9OY

I count like 10 Maestros at the Maestro bar.  What do you have all those Maestros plugged into?

73  W9OY

Walt - KZ1F

That's the danger of going toe to toe with the weaker opponent. I would have thought positioning the 1500 as direct competition to the 7300, that would be competing up.

KY6LA_Howard

They had a 7300 vs 6300 side by side at theFkex Booth. No Contest 6300 blows away the 7300

KY6LA_Howard

12 Maestro Stacked 6300 in a travel case.

Philip KA4KOE

Can't wait to get mine in June!