What is a FlexRadio?

[@k2wo1]

Well done! Great video with outstanding overview of the Flex product features. Lou, N2TU, did a great job as well. Thanks. 73 George K2WO

[@HamRadioTV]

Thank You! The camera was getting heavy by the end of the show, LOL! ~73 KM6FAK~

[@alphasxsignal]

But is the FT* built into the radio or do you have to have a outside computer. I see the MB-1 Expert has all programs you can run from inside the radio because it is a I7 computer with a SSD solid state drive internal. It also can display the DX spots right on the screen , I have never seen a radio do that.

[@KE8ODY-WV-Ares-Ham-Dad-3O4]

Is there ssb and a phone mode

[@geod3589]

I am interested in this radio or maybe the 6600. I would like to do as Lou does and put main unit under the desk with Maestro on the desk. As for a monitor, would a touch screen monitor be necessary?

[@HamRadioTV]

A touch screen monitor is not necessary, but more preference. Some people don't like smudging up the same surface they are looking at and others like that "tablet" feel. Thanks for the comment, and to be clear we don't represent Flex Radio here at Ham Radio TV. We just interviewed them at Pacificon 2018. 73 Jason / KM6FAK

[@dsim3596]

I have the 6600 and it sits on my desk. I don't use a Maestro but an Intel NUC Core i7 PC running Windows 10 in the shack and I can also operate from my laptop anywhere in my home or from anywhere else using a WIFi hotspot.

[@RyanThompsonrthomp]

Warp stabilizer for the win

[@HamRadioTV]

lol, you got me. Yeah, I was holding the camera. I'm glad FCP has that built in.

[@kd5ozy]

great for the new age appliance operators.

[@HamRadioTV]

Best part about this Hobby...there is something for just about everyone. Imagine if Kodak would of done some R&D into digital back in the day, they might of been around today.

[@sm6wet]

@@HamRadioTV Kodak still do exist.

[@revadan]

does the radio has Voice TX?

[@HamRadioTV]

I'm not sure what your question is? It can transmit and receive voice via a microphone. It has SSB phone and VOX too.

[@revadan]

@@HamRadioTV Voice memory for contesting..

[@HamRadioTV]

revadan Oh, I gotcha. I’m not sure. I would imagine it has several memory channels for that and CW. I tried looking on their website and still didn’t find the answer. I would reach out to them.

[@dsim3596]

No the radio doesn't have voice memories built in but the API is open and there are 3rd party apps that do exactly that.

[@vu3mes]

Hi someone is offering me a 3000 in mostly unused condition. I am confused about the model being discontinued and age of the radio parts, Is this worth buying?

[@jamesmk2003]

Windows in a rig? I am not stupid to buy it.

[@HamRadioTV]

Good point. It is a very interesting radio though. I know a few people with them and haven't herd anything bad yet. If I had too much money I would buy one for the line up. But, I'm a one radio kind of guy right now.

[@godzilla6765]

Nice radios but buyer beware. Ask their service department how many units have failed with software, hardware and sd card faults.

[@HamRadioTV]

Good info. I hope they have a good warranty program.

[@MrAlphacallsign]

HOW MANY MAESTRO ( REMOTE ) YOU CAN ADD, CAN YOU BUY 2 REMOTE FOR EXAMPLE 1 MAESTRO FOR ME AND ONE FOR MY BROTHER AND BOTH CAN OPERATE THE RADIO ? YEAH ! THATS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION .

[@HamRadioTV]

Thanks for watching the video. This channel does not represent Flex radio. This video was an interview at a Ham-fest. That said I will give my best guess on a answer: You can buy multiple Maestros, but only operate one of them at a time. You and your brother could both use the radio, but not at the same time. Here is A email for Flex radio to get the official answer. [e-mail]

[@dsim3596]

You can have as many Maestro's as you want and two of them can operate at the same time with v3.x software. Only one transmitter though so you have to timeshare that.

[@w8mpx667]

@@HamRadioTV thanks

[@w8mpx667]

@@dsim3596 thanks

[@paulevans7876]

"within 15 minutes you'll have someone who's met that problem before and will have a solution for it". Rubbish. Most of the time you'll have somebody tell you that that feature doesn't work or that it used to work and Flex have broken it. This guy is a remote salesman from NC who is working for a TX company and is a programmed yes man.

[@HamRadioTV]

Thanks for the feedback. I've only talked with a few stations on HF that were using a Flex. And, so far everyone seems to love them. But, I have not used one yet.~73

[@AudiS41994]

Just tell me how to use my wonderful Bencher CW manipulator with SmartSDR AND Smartlink to work...the Bencher and Maestro via Smartlink is a joke!

[@HamRadioTV]

I can't help you there. This was just an interview and I'm not connected with FlexRadio. Best of luck 73! KM6FAK

[@TingILi]

Nice radio. Play the digi mode ... why use the HAM RADIO? Just use mobile phone =>Skype, WhatApp, Line, Wechat ..... they are more easy and reliable for message delivery???

[@HamRadioTV]

It's all preference and you are still enjoying the magic of RF. SSB on HF was once made fun of too.

[@Thejohnnyoshow]

the same reasons some people sit in front of computers and waste their life playing video games, or on their phones playing video games, because it's fun to them. Ham is a hobby and it is fun to us that do it. chatting on the phone or skype is not fun.

[@edpetrovski6640]

Nope. For two grand I can have a radio that has real knobs....and does everything I want it to do without having to use a computer to make it work. You like...you buy...but not this cowboy.

[@dougbrown479]

New technology. I know conventional am/fm & shortwave. Don't know what you got.

[@HamRadioTV]

I don't own a Flex yet, but they are very interesting. I wouldn't buy a Flex, if that was the only radio I was going to own. But, would love to have it as a second.

[@w8mpx667]

@@HamRadioTV but what about when internet is down for days in disaster like Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 it took 3 months to get internet same in the panhandle in Florida with Michael hurricane in the panhandle there was about 6 mounts with no power and no internet or cell phone , in my town in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 it took 8 months to restore electricity

[@keithdickson8364]

So when the internet goes down you have a very expensive paper weight. No thanks.

[@HamRadioTV]

If your operating it locally (at your house) you don't need the internet. When you operate it remotely you will then need the internet.

[@keithdickson8364]

Well now I learned something. Thanks.

[@dougbrown479]

Would be nice if this gentleman was speaking English.

[@HamRadioTV]

Well...you could turn on closed captions. lol

[@dougbrown479]

Just a perplexed AM/FM, Shortwave, collector, and hobby listener, not having a clue as to what this fellow was talking about.

[@HamRadioTV]

Doug Brown Yeah, these new FlexRadios are built like a computer. Which gives the operator so many options. It also gives you an option to operate this radio at your house while on a business trip or vacation.

[@RuSomeKindaIdiot]

Torn between Flex 6400 & Apache Labs Anan 7000dle MKII. My main interest is SSB / ESSB. Both radios have excellent RX capabilities. However, Apache Labs has a much better TX performance with LDMOS PA hardware and adaptive pre-distortion software. Flex has been dangling that carrot for years and is either not capable or not willing to provide that feature. Flex is made in the US and that's a big plus for me. But they seem all wrapped and consumed by multi-user remote operation without first leveraging some important benefits that SDR allows, or at least on a parallel path. Apache Labs relies on open source software development and flex allows that too if it works within their inhouse developed OS. Flex provides updates that frequently disable or hinder past capabilities that seem to frustrate members of their user group as mentioned in this video. But Flex is made in the US. So I'm torn but leaning toward the Apache Labs unless Flex can offer a similar capable standalone product in the next several months, I'm too old and too wise to be chasing carrots...

[@HamRadioTV]

Have you made your purchase yet? If so, what did you get?

[@paulevans7876]

Good choice. Go for the Apache Radio Anan. Software is going in the right direction, while Flex are going off at a tangient. Read the RSS feed from Flex to see some angry owners (!!).