>Missing a rare one because the "rig's booting up"
>is kind of a turnoff...
The rig itself is pretty much "instant on."
Anyway, it's no great shakes just to leave your PC on all the time. Long before I got my SDR, I was doing that.
Loading the console can be a problem, but it's maybe 10 seconds.
Still, there's compensations. Whatever I lost booting up, I more than got from having a 'scope, something that as far as I know, I can't do without spending a lot more on a rig than this one.
Yeah, it's expensive, especially compared to, say, a used TS 930 or TS 850 or something. There'd have been times in my life where I'd not have sprung for it, either.
But, this is more rig for the money than you can get anywhere else.
Larry WO0Z