Some of you know I bought a Flex 6300 rig around the first of August.  Since 
then, I've been working on accessible software for it, using my JJRadio 
program.  I now can say I have the Flex working pretty well with JJRadio.

I implement the pan adapter differently than I did the scanning pan adapters 
for the Kenwood rigs.  The pan adapter is an integral part of the Flex 
radios, and I have it working quite well with my 40 character braille 
display.  It's great to be able to go to a band and use the pan adapter to 
find signals or clear spots.  I update the pan adapter display every two 
seconds, which seems good enough.  While not as good as a visual pan adapter 
and waterfall display, it does work well with a braille display.  I show the 
signal strength at the corresponding frequency by the number of dots in the 
corresponding cell.  You can have the pan as wide as you want, and I 
interpolate to get a frequency close to the signal that exists.  If, for 
example, I listen on the broadcast band, I can set the pan left side, or low 
frequency to 540, and the high one to 940, 540 + 400 kHz, and you can see 
the relative signal strengths for the stations between those points, and 
jump to the station by pressing the corresponding routing key on the braille 
display.  Jaws generates a mouse click at that point when you do that.

The Flex has really sharp filtering, and the selectivity to it is unmatched 
by any other rig I've had.  Also, on CW, you can set the low and high cutoff 
frequencies, just like you can with the Kenwood rigs on SSB.

The 6300 has two slices, and that's all I support at this point.  I treat 
each slice pretty much just as if they're VFOs A and B.  However, you can 
listen to both at once, and that's really handy for split DXing.

I have more to do with it.  I don't have any of the equalization facilities 
programmed in yet, nor the FM repeater stuff such as CTCSS.  However, I do 
have enough that the rig is useful and fun to use.  Also, I have not put 
this latest version out on my web site, as I'm not comfortable releasing it 
yet, and want to put more into it before I do.  However, if anyone out there 
has a Flex 6000 series radio, and would like to try it, I'd be happy to send 
you a copy to see how it works for you.
--
Jim Shaffer, KE5AL
Pflugerville, TX
www.jjshaffer.net
www.pgramblers.com 


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