Time Just Flies Doesn't It? 

It's March of 2022 and it's been years since I posted here. My Flex Radio 6400 has been down for the count for going on 2 years. Since I don't QSO I have been using my other radios and an SDR Play for listening and with the Pandemic haven't needed to have remote listening available. So I finally wrote Flex to get a new RMA so I can ship them the radio then I'm likely selling it.

The SDR Play works great, I'm going to upgrade to the newest model with the receivers. With the war going on in the Ukraine there are some interesting SWL listening going on at night. The bands are improving as well which is nice.

The shack has changed a lot, I'll post pictures this weekend, not because anybody will see this, but because it's cool to look back to see how things progressed. 

15 Years later

Before And After Shack Pictures

Before, lots of wiring and a mess above the monitors.

After, removed the shelf and mounted a new 16 port Netgear Smart Switch.

The three Radios, the Yaesu on the bottom has no use anymore, the Flex 6300 dominates.

The new Netgear Smart 16 port Switch

The Wonderful World Of SDR

Listening to Shortwave via the SDRPlay RSP and SDR Console V3

All sorts of programming after 8:00pm CST!

Two slices via the FlexRadio 6300

Listening to the FlexRadio 6300 via my HP Omen Laptop, awesomesauce! 

The FlexRadio 6300 Is Here!

Long story short, they got a bit confused when I got there because somebody scanned the name wrong. They eventually found it and it had to remain in the back of the car for the entire day.... the horror!

Here it is in its temporary location until I can move everything so it's where I want it.

Here is a screenshot of everything running. The big screens have the 6300 on the left and SDRPlay on the right.

More to come, I'm playing with the 6300 on my iPad 2, it's a bit overwhelmed so I'll switch to the laptop for around the house operation. The Maestro is back ordered so playing the waiting game on that, 4 weeks hopefully will go fast!

UPS Exception

The dreaded word "EXCEPTION" is never good. I just received their email stating due to a mechanical failure they will "TRY" to deliver my package as soon as possible.

Last time this happened, it took weeks to resolve so I'm calling for an update first thing in the morning. I don't know how hard it is to get a truck to the location of the mechanical failure and load it up and move on, this wasn't sent ground, it was sent via the expensive option of 3 day select.

DRAT.....

New Radio And Head Unit Are On Their Way!

I ordered the FlexRadio 6300, FlexRadio Maestro and the Astron SS-25 power supply.

The Head Unit Maestro is on a 4 week back order but the rest should be here by this coming Wednesday. I'll post more when it gets here.

I have a dedicated 20m and 10m Dipole ready to go and the SDRPlay will be used as well as the Yaesu MP1000 Mark V and the Icom 746 Pro.

Now, I have to re-arrange the entire shack to prevent RFI issues and antenna coupling.

I'll post back next week.