Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product FLEX-5000A Compaq
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From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL PRODUCT REVIEW Mark J. Wilson, K1RO Product Re view Editor k1ro@arrl.org Bottom Line Key Measurements Summary Revie wed by Rick Lindquist, WW3DE NCJ Managing Editor.
From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL T able 1 FlexRadio FLEX-5000A, serial number 5107-5268 Manufacturer’ s Specifications Measured in the ARRL Lab F requency cov erage: Receive, 0.01-65 MHz; Receive , as specified (sensitivity transmit, 1.8-2, 3.5-4, 5.3305, 5.
From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL T able 1 FlexRadio FLEX-5000A, serial number 5107-5268 Manufacturer’ s Specifications Measured in the ARRL Lab FM adjacent channel rejection: Not specified. 20 kHz offset, preamp on: 29 MHz, 59 dB; 52 MHz, 44 dB. FM two-tone, third-order IMD dynamic r ange: 20 kHz offset, preamp on: Not specified.
From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL of the FLEX-5000A box and the PC. It of - fers 100 W (PEP) on all bands 160 through 6 meters, general-cov erage receiv e (0.01- 65 MHz, same as the SDR-1000) and lots and lots of features, including several that weren’t av ailable on the SDR-1000.
From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL Figure 5 — Y ou can split the Po werSDR screen to show an y combination of the panadapter and waterfall displays. Figure 6 — P owerSDR offer s 3 or 10 band graphic equalizers for both receive and transmit. dow and seemed tacked on as an afterthought (or maybe the y just ran out of space).
From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL The dual equalizers, one for transmit and one for receiv e, go far above and beyond the “tone controls” of many hardware transcei v - ers.
From J uly 2008 QST © ARRL Jots and Tittles (in No Particular Order) The nearly 200 page Owner’ s Manual (updates av ailable online) is comprehensiv e, but the manual and its sev eral supplements can get highly technical. The book includes some guidelines to set up the radio for that first QSO.
An important point after buying a device Compaq FLEX-5000A (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
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If you already are a holder of Compaq FLEX-5000A, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Compaq FLEX-5000A.
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