It is Shipping!

Yeah Baby, that is right. The first "off the production line", no more beta units, a "real McCoy" FLEX-1500 shipped on April 30,2010 to an undisclosed recipient who is part of the extended beta testers group. This is a BIG milestone as the production hardware boards are finalized and production ramp up can begin as soon as all of the materials have been received to start the production runs. That will happen in a couple more weeks. For the hundreds of you with FLEX-1500s on order, please be patient for just a bit longer. They are coming soon. FlexRadio will notify you when they start shipping.

To prove one really did ship, there is photographic evidence of the unit being picked up by UPS


A big thanks goes to Graham (KE9H), pictured in the center who was the primary engineer on this project who took it to the finish line. That is Julie the Shipping and Receiving Manager on the right.

Now PowerSDR v2.0.0 isn't complete yet, but it is getting there. More coding was done on the BITE routines and that work is getting close to being done. Additionally, a slew of bug fixes and enhancements were added to the pre PowerSDR v2.0.0 alpha code this week, fixing a few long over due issues like a wider and user definable deviation for FM, the last changes for the software to be fully Vista/Win7 compatible so that it will operate in user mode and not need any of UACs "tricks" to make it work, new NR and ANF default settings, ANF was fixed so that it works in AM & SAM modes and a new crash recovery option that will allow you to reset the database if it is so hosed up that PowerSDR will not start are just a few of the things being added. There is a big push to get PowerSDR v2.0.0 done "real soon" so expect a lot of development activity in the coming days. The beta testers are going to be really busy.