[Flexradio] Surprise, there is a new HRFIO board to buy for your Flex 5000a (maybe I missed an announcement on this also)

[Jerry Johnson]

Thanks Jim. That's the info I was looking for. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim R [mailto:rizzojim at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:37 PM
To: Jerry Johnson; flexradio at flex-radio.biz
Subject: RE: [Flexradio] Surprise, there is a new HRFIO board to buy for
your Flex 5000a (maybe I missed an announcement on this also)


Jerry

That link was working earlier today but is down now. I don't know if it was
taken down for editing or not. 
The exact same info I saw there can be seen here:

http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10495

Some more info showing how the HRFIO board relates just to RX2 can be found
here:

http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10494

Hope this helps.

Jim
K5HY


> From: jjohnson at cableone.net
> To: flexradio at flex-radio.biz
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:19:44 -0500
> Subject: [Flexradio] Surprise, there is a new HRFIO board to buy for your
Flex 5000a (maybe I missed an announcement on this also)
>
> Looks like our designers missed something when designing the Flex5000A and
> some of the promised future expansions. So much that now it's time to
start
> paying for upgrades to fully use some features.
> I was caught off guard last week to find out the price of the RX2 has went
> up in price or to say the promotion was over. (I missed any announcement
> that there was an end date to that one). Now it appears we might need a
new
> HRFIO board according to the Flex ordering web site to fully use the
second
> receiver.
> All of sudden I'm learning why I shouldn't be an early adopter.
> Don't get me wrong. I love the Flex and how it's changing the industry,
but
> they apparently have identified a short coming on the original design and
> have come up with a fix. But what's next? They finish the design of the
> transverters and we find the next board that's going to have to be
replaced
> and maybe it won't be this cheap.
> According to the web site there is a $40 rebate when you return the old
> board so that helps ease the cost.
>
> So a questions and I'll shut up.
> Can Flex outline what features each of the 3 HRFIO boards has so I can
make
> a decision if I even want this upgrade? That way I can decide if the RX2
> which now costs $649 + $169 (HRFIO) -($40 REBATE) is worth it.
>
> Thanks, Jerry, WB0UZW.
>
> PS for Tim I think. The 'More info'. .link on this new board appears to be
> broke. The link might have the answer to my question buy I can't get it to
> work.
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