Hold on... Lemme check...

Yep... She keeps repeating, "Стэнли раздражает" over and over...

A typical 43' vertical would have an impedance (ignoring ground losses)
around 12-j500 on 75m.  That's 12 ohms resistance and 500 ohms capacitive
reactance.  You can cancel the -j500 with a series coil, but that still leaves
you with 12 ohms.  Without the un-un, that's best case SWR of about 4 : 1.

If the un-un has a perfect 4 : 1 ratio, it would step the 12 ohms DOWN to
3 ohms, for an SWR of about 16 : 1.

Depending on your ground system, the ground loss could add 5 to 50 ohms
to the R value, which will improve the SWR (though at a corresponding loss
of efficiency.)

In this case, removing the un-un will improve the SWR considerably.  The
same goes on 160m, where R is perhaps 3 ohms:  you don't want to step
that down any further.  (In practice the un-un is not perfect, and the
shunt reactance may serve to increase the R value that you have to match.)

Can we have Dragan go too, since he thinks you are self centered for wanting an entity deleted??


I still think given the dimensions given at high tide, the thing is disqualified by size.

wow, the Kenwood booth area was really bare. did anybody else think that?

I wonder if that means they are pulling out of the ham market?

That was 3 years ago. Cheap? I'm just forgetful. OTOH no Russian babe popped up on MY machine. What did she say, TED?

What you mean is you are using a Trial version refusing to pay the $25 for the efforts of the programmer. Cheap Cheap Ham and IMO not honest.

If I use software I pay for it. I do not try to cheat the programmers outta $$ nor will I get a free copy from a "friend" Imagine that.

Stan K9IUQ

Yes, Stanley. But this thread is about Flex 5000 being discontinued. Not N1MM. Or contesting.

For what it's worth, contesters don't drive the ham radio industry. There are plenty of us who just like to experiment with radio and don't mind trying new things, working through our own operating procedures and adapting if needed.

By the way, I wonder which boats "serious boaters" use?


Putting matches to straw men..

K5TED

Last time I tried the free one, years ago, it had an annoying female voice that popped up every 15 seconds or so.

On the other hand, and I have not tried it with the Flex, "com0com" should work for the CAT control. It's free.

http://com0com.sourceforge.net/

How strong is the LED? The 1W or more LEDs, suck up battery power.

The control board is the same in both X20 radios.
Jim
KF9XK