So after 9 months of waiting (7 month delay) its going to be gone a couple more weeks minimum.
Yes, I am frustrated.
Grrrrrrr
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Someone with Flex will have to chime in as I have no info beyond that.
Rich
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It almost sounds like the knobs are to close to the radio and not allowing them to depress properly, but I'm sure you have gone over that with support.
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I just was thinking about hanging on to it for a couple weeks to see what other manufacturing problems (if any) turn up.
Just frustrated and will be back to normal tomorrow. LOL
Rich
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When I press the center knob its changing the filter setting for the center knob and not what would be controlled by the outer knob.
I would have bet that something in software would have fixed it but guess I am wrong.
Rich
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Hopefully it will get sorted soon.
James
WD5GWY
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All knobs function smoothly, v2.1.32 s/w working with no issues. Ran it with just two slices on the radio itself during the arrl ssb dx contest over the weekend.
Have run two slices on the radio itself and used xdax and xcat to make two instances of fldigi work on mac i7 mini.
Have run all four slices with win7 VM on a mac i5 mini and also with 4 instances wsjtx on i7mini on the network with jtbridge, mldx logger, xCat and xDax and loopback processing the FT8 Data streams.
So all digital modes are working fine.
Have wired up a heil proset with hc5 element using a simple mono to stereo adapter off ebay. SSB mode working fine.
i have yet to setup four cwskimmers but that is my next project
and
all i can say here...so far so good
and
to Rich..
i hope you get your hands on a good one real soon.
they are a pleasure to operate
Paul K3SF


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hope you have your flex back soon
Best Regards
George, YV5WZ / PY3ZZZ
Steve K9ZW, Elmer
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Where are you located Rich? (Thinking out loud here.)
73
Steve K9ZW
Steve K9ZW, Elmer
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Was hoping you were closer (I live near Green Bay, WI) as I could loan you my spare while yours is off getting fixed.
I won't be out your way traveling until next month though.
If only closer...but that is again why one likes radio, as you can reach out so far so easily.
Saw a list of radios on your QRZ page, so hopefully you stay on the air while your new one makes a quick roundtrip to the mother ship.
73
Steve
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I have an Icom 9100 that will keep me on the air. I have sold everything else to get the 6600m but have the 9100 for 2 meters and backup.
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Steve K9ZW, Elmer
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Bill speaks for himself and peanut gallery jive is unhelpful.
Now that I have your attention, think about what you’ve tried to do - derailing a sensible forum thread because Bill has another opinion differing from whatever your imagining might be true.
Veiled or not, personal insults fall below where a community of friends, fellow amateurs, should be operating at.
Of course you will probably have a go at me for pointing it out, but then I am sure you have just a thick of skin as you expect the rest of us to have, eh?
Back onto topic, my 6600M has been on nearly continuously since early delivery, and is doing the job outstandingly.
Easter Island was two calls and confirmed, as is most DX. Taking the time to properly manipulate the various filters I am able to dig out phone DX that hardly shows on the panadapter or waterfall.
As for folk who get cold feet not understanding that a great proportion of the community is public venting and kind of peer group troubletickets, I think you’d be unable to buy any radio if you had access to just the list of things that need to be worked out. You’d also not necessarily see that each new release of SmartSDR deals with a huge amount of user-requested fixes and enhancements.
If you want a no-change static product why even look at an SDR, especially one known for constant innovation?
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Steve
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The good thing for me is I know by now if a person is venting out of frustration, and there are times when frustration is ecceptible. Some are saying things with an agenda in mind, you get to know who they are. There are times I have incorrectly commented on someones comments, and I am sorry for this.
But thank you for thinking I represent Flex, I'm honored.
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Come on Rich, just take the rubber booty off loosen the set screw and adjust the closeness of the knob and you'll be fine, plus you wont have to send it back. It does not appear that with all the reports of the same issue that quality control is testing every radio fully before they go out the door. They are probably just doing the burn in and if they pass its in the box and out the door.
This issue has been reported at least on 4 different recently shipped radios and the fix has been described in the community.
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This is what I was told.
"It's an manufacturing issue found late last week, that is causing the touchy knobs and pop ups that your are seeing. Had to be tracked down, so sorry for the problem(s) ..
Dudley Hurry, WA5QPZ"
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Logic tells me there are probably a fair amount of these radios out there with this issue. The fact I am 2 for 2 on radios that were probably built 3 weeks apart would indicate that.
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Power button starts blinking red and shuts down receivers and goes back to connect screen.

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