Heading towards 12 years of having a FlexRadio in my shack, and 14th season of blogging

Steve K9ZW

Mike-VA3MW

Thanks Steve!  I forwarded your comments to the entire company which has as LOT  more staff in it now than 2008.

73

Val DM1TX

Steve K9ZW

Thank you Val DM1TX 73 Steve K9ZW Blog: https://k9zw.wordpress.com/

John Harper

"An inspiration for us all"? I've been (and continue to be) inspired by a number of people. K9ZW is not among them.

John AE5X

Steve K9ZW

KD0RC

Sometimes it is the little things that inspire us. I have been a ham since 1970 and have been active all that time. There have been lulls in activity over the years, however. Little things like job, marriage, arrival of a child and other handy excuses help slow down ham activity.

I managed to retire in June of 2018, and as my ham radio activity started to pick back up, I spent some time in my buddy Dave's (W4WKU) shack messing with his Flex 6400. He inspired me to get one as well (not to mention the inspiration I got from the Flex itself...). Once I had the thing and started using it, I was inspired by Enzo, IW7DMH who wrote an Arduino library for interfacing with the Flex TCP/IP API.

This chain of inspiration led me to experiment with the API which led me to build a Flex control box that I call a TeensyMaestro. This is the most ambitious homebrew project I have ever attempted, and it all started with some small inspiring actions of others. I hope I have inspired others to attempt this or another homebrew project - it is really rewarding to use something you built yourself!

Steve, thanks for the shout-out in your blog, I really appreciate it!

73,

Len, KD0RC