Questions before Purchase

John Hansen

I am the owner of a FLEX 5000 (and a 1000 before that).  I am considering buying a 6400 and have a few questions:

1. The 5000 was not really designed as a general coverage receiver and it's ability to receive drops off a cliff when leaving a ham band.  Does the 6000 series do that as well?

2. I've gotten kind of used to the features of the KE9NS enhancement for PowerSDR, particularly the integration with DX spotters.  Has anything similar been developed for the 6400?

3. The 5000 has many stages of audio adjustment in order to get the transmit audio correct.  Has this been simplified on the 6400? (I'm referring to the G7CNF instructions)

4. One alternative I am considering is the IC-7610.  One of the nice things about it is it gives you the choice of horizontally scrolling the panadapter as you change frequency
or holding the panadapter in one place and horizontally scrolling your receive frequency.  My 5000 only allows the first option.  Are both options available on the 6400?

Thanks, John W2FS

KD0RC

Andy W3LI

Bill -VA3WTB

KF4HR

Dwayne_AB6A

Somewhat comically, a **** lesson learned for me is my awesome antenna tuner does a great job of "tuning a fork" but acts as a band pass filter if I don't switch it to bypass when I move out of band. Since antenna tuners can only be tuned using transmit within a band, do remember to switch to bypass between bands.