v3 Upgrade Price for Less than One Year Owners

Roger_W6VZV

James Whiteway

I rarely mix my latte with my **** anymore. :-)

Mark_WS7M

Hi Scott,

First, don't let discussions like this throw you off track!

In my experience as a ham, since 1970ish, hams are super cheap.  The moment that money comes up for anything everyone in the room has a opinion, just like something else we all have.

And, forums are great places for people to post whatever **** they want because it sort of isn't real.  I mean most of the stuff people post that is negative on a forum they would not say to a person face-to-face.  It is just too **** easy to hide behind our keyboards and screens and spew out **** that can be hurtful.

So, please, don't let this forum dull you on FRS or the radio.

Val DM1TX

Ria

I would be opposed to a subscription fee like this. Sometimes the old version just works for people. 

KF4HR

Burt Fisher

Hold their value fairly well? Have you checked the retail price of the 6300 compared to going price today? ICOM, Yaesu, or Kenwood radios are finished when sold they are not sold awaiting FM nor needing bugs in software updated.

Burch - K4QXX

Just curious Burt, you used to have a flex and then sold it.  Now you have purchased another one.  If you don't like flex radios, why did you purchase another one?  Seems odd to me.

Bill -VA3WTB

That is correct Burt, The great thing about SSDR, is it is never ever finished,,it is alway progressing, changing. Yes the radios you listed are finished when they ship. of cource they are, and that is the state they stay in for ever.

But all the other radios also have bug up date fixes, for their firmware. Icom has had a few for the 7610.

The 6300 brings a good return for a discontinued radio.

Chris Hillier

how about when you have 4 flex radios like we do in our network and need to upgrade all, not so easy to drop 800 USD on firmware upgrades. Never paid for an upgrade yet on my ICOM or Yaesu radios

ctate243

K2CB Eric Dobrowansky

Based on what we have received with the past few upgrades, calling it a NEW radio each time is a real stretch of the imagination!

Bill -VA3WTB

In a conventional radio, the last updates Flex gave us would mean a new radio model in anything else. They would have to buy another new radio.

KC2QMA_John

Bill -VA3WTB

The auto save causes me no trouble at all, but I have not upgraded to V3 because I am not needing the features it has at this time. But I do commend Flex for the great programing feat producing Multi Flex. That is some complicated software. Isn't it nice to have a radio where you can pick and chose the updates you want and have your radio just keep running well either way?

Mike VE3CKO