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flex-6500 documentation ???

Cal Page
Cal Page Member
edited January 2017 in FLEX-6000 Signature Series
I am considering a 6500 but would like to look at the documentation. Can you make it available? Specifically, I'm guessing but it connects to a pc with firewire because you sell those. What types of connectors are available for me to hook up cw skimmer or Signal Link modem? AB1XT

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  • KY6LA_Howard
    KY6LA_Howard Member ✭✭✭
    edited January 2017
    All documentation is found at http://www.flexradio.com/support/downloads/ The 6000 series uses standard Ethernet not FireWire v
  • Andrew O'Brien
    Andrew O'Brien Member ✭✭✭
    edited April 2016
    and... it does not use Firewire.   CW Skimmer is easy to set up using SmartSDR and SDRbridge. You can sell your SignaLink because with a Flex radio you don't need it. A Signalink is used to get audio in/out from computer to radio and the Signalink uses VOX to execute a PTT of the radio when needed. With a Flex you do all this with the Flex DAX system and by configuring your software (Flidigi, Mixw, Winwarbler, DM780,WSJT,  Multipsk, etc ) to interface with the Flex.
    Andy K3UK
  • K9DUR
    K9DUR Member ✭✭
    edited January 2017
    As Howard said, the connection to the radio is via Ethernet, not firewire.

    No connectors are needed for CW Skimmer or the SignaLink. Both CW Skimmer and your soundcard digital program connect directly through software.  SmartSDR (the radio software) includes a program called DAX which emulates a soundcard.  You will not need your SignaLink at all.

    73, Ray, K9DUR
  • KY6LA_Howard
    KY6LA_Howard Member ✭✭✭
    edited January 2017
    Since everything digital is internal to. The computer you tend to get much better digital performance as signalink introduces analog to digital to analog conversion distortion that you do nort get with a pure digital system. Nor do you need external cables which can pick up or generate RFI

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