Tim Ellison

The FHM-1 is a communications grade microphone and will never sound as good as a quality studio microphone, but compared to many hand mikes you can achieve fairly good fidelity by using the tips be...

If you have two or more FLEX-6000s on the same IP network (subnet) they will all show up in the radio chooser.   If you want to force a specific PC to connect to a specific radio and this includes...

Experience has shown that Windows does not always correctly identify or enumerate existing serial (COM) ports on a PC, particularly when some of those ports are virtual. In these cases, Windows may...

DownEast Microwave (DEMI) has new pre-assembled 4 and 2 meter power amplifiers / LNA exclusively for the FLEX-6700 and FLEX-6500. Based on the popular DEMI VHF transverter design, they have develo...

We've discovered that somewhere along the update path, Microsoft has changed the way Windows XP does it's shutdown resulting in a new shutdown procedure for the FLEX-5000C. Power the radio and PC ...

Content provided by:  Chris, K6OZY. Updated by Joe, NC8D This guide is to show how to configure SmartSDR and HRD v6.2 for use with DAX.   I will demonstrate transmitting on 20M PSK31 using Slice A ...

Here’s a link to a PDF by Howard, KY6LA on “How to Build a Quiet Station V2” for a talk he gave at the San Diego DX ca club in July 2014.     

This article shares how to set up and send email via Winlink Express and VaraAC with SmartSDRDownload and install RMS Express here: https://winlink.org/WinlinkExpressDownload and install Vara AC HF...

Steve, N4LQ has created a nice and informative YouTube video on how to set up SmartSDR for Windows and any FLEX-6000 Signature Series SDR with the Fldigi digital mode program. https://www.youtube....

Occasionally Windows can get confused and orphan both physical and virtual comports.  These ports are not visible to the user in Device Manager, but Windows will enumerate them causing failures whe...