Flex 6300 vs......

Michael Coslo

Mike-VA3MW

Pat Hamp

Mark WS7M

Mike_WB8CXO

When I need to operate my 6600M with a PC I use Win7... no problems! I no longer belong to clubs, TOO MANY OPINIONS. Started as a member, left as President. BTDT

Michael Coslo

The interesting part about what you wrote is that while yes, there are some folks out there that hate Flex radios, when I just cruise around, I get people who find I have a Flex almost always ask for extensive audio analysis. They are excited to be talking to a FLex user. The irony of that is I'm half deaf. But I can adjust the Flex sound to be great for these ears, and give them a pretty accurate report. 

I kinda doubt those other guys who are "better" will take the time to help people. 

Michael Coslo

I just hope they are happy with the radio. If not, well it wasn't for my efforts to buy a Flex. In the meantime, I comfirmed that in matters of SDR radios, I made the right choice for myself

Pat Hamp

I have a great example I am also hard of hearing in one ear. Thus the EQ on the receive side allowed my trim my hearing so I caught a hard to get DX call one evening. basically it became my hearing aid.

Bill -VA3WTB

Mark that is really funny. The Anan is a good radio. But the way some of these guys carry on about it is so funny.
It was not so long ago they were laughing at Flex for taking so long with getting a new release out and features.
But now Anan is missing features and waiting about a year now for an update they are looking for. hmmm

Mark WS7M

Well most of these Anan guys I hang out with don't bash flex.  Just a couple and they never give me a hard time about my audio.  I have found that for SSB doing all the audio setup outside the flex then going in XLR to be the best.  I have not had the same success with USB mics.

If FRS ever does Adaptive Pre-distortion then Anan will have nothing on flex.  I will say the pure signal stuff is pretty amazing.  When I watch my cross town anan neighbor with it off I can see the stuff on either side of his signal.  The moment he turns on Pure Signal that stuff just disappears completely.  Very obvious when close but honestly if you were 200+ miles away I am not sure you could see it.

I agree the Anan is a good radio.  200w, lots of features but the software being public domain is both good and bad and you have good releases and not so good releases.  For the most part Flex releases are pretty stable.  I've had my Anan friend have to go back a couple revs because of a problem.

One very funny thing is that I don't think twice about opening 2 or 3 even 4 pans on different bands and watch what is going on.  I mentioned one day while we were on 40 that "hey 20m is looking pretty good... you should check it out".   What ensued was a 10 minute back and forth trying to figure out how to open a second pan on the Anan PSDR and in the end they got something that was like a merged version of the two.  I had already opened my forth, scanned multiple bands while they were still poking at buttons.  

Honestly each radio has its strengths.  I think the Anan has some very good points.  So does flex.  I get great audio reports and I can run as wide or narrow as I desire with different profiles.

I blew them all away one hot saturday morning when I joined into the group using my laptop and a set of bose headphones and mic from my shaded under deck patio overlooking my backyard.  They could barely tell I was on a different mic and on my laptop operating WiFi from the back patio.  This is something none of my Anan friends can do.  They are locked into their shacks surrounded by massive racks of audio gear and amps.  I have all my stuff tucked in a utility room.  I op from anywhere in the house even outside.  I've installed a number of WiFi access points so the signal is good just about anywhere I desire to be.