The ELAD FDM-DUO is an SDR transceiver that offers the possibility to operate Standalone like traditional radio and when attached to a PC it opens up the possibilities offered by the SDR technologies. This is an operators review, hope you enjoy! Please subscribe and share! Thanks for watching. 73 Pascal VA2PV
Please crank up the volume because I had different issues with the making of this video. My first take had a bad shadow from the boom mic and the other take had a mic issue. But after a week I decided to work with in post production. Sorry about the inconvenient and the echo. Working with 4k represents a real challenge, hope the image is good. ;-) Thanks for watching ! 73 Pascal VA2PV
Performance quite good ,Italian design looks quite good , but mechanical construction could much better , vfo knob made out of light and painted plastic , so no flywheel operation possible , microphone connection placed at the rear ( should be at front ), mainswitch at the rear as well ! Sold my unit and got an IC-7300 instead !
Thank you for the review. It has me interested. I own 2 Flex 6300's but current problems with the reliability of the fans has me concerned. I am a guy that used to like to have a rig on in the background listening when I worked in the office but now I only turn on the Flex when I am going to operate. How hot does this rig get? Have you ever heard of a heat issue with it? My station is powered by my solar power setup and I use a MFJ battery booster to keep the voltage to 13.8 no matter the load I am asking and it works quite well dealing with the 50 feet of # 6 wire I have coming from the battery bank. My question is most us rigs are 13.8 +-15% this one says 10% That could be a problem at 10% over that is 15.18 volts and my charge controllers will run up the voltage to 15.5 volts for a few hours once a month to condition the batteries. In the shack I have Icom's, Flex, and Alinco rigs and have never had a problem. When I installed I check with Icom and they said it would be ok and it always has been. Do you have a way to ask the tech support of that company and find out if 15.5 volts would damage the rig? Thank You again for a very nice review. DE K8OCN Del
Hi Del, I did test it down to 10V and it worked, I was able to transmit too. I didn't show it in the video because I thought it was to low. If you look at 17:14 in the video I do test the Voltsage operation from at 13.8, 12 and 11V. I can't answer for the manufacturer but I know they saw the video and had no comment about the test. I strongly suggest to write an email this address sales@elad-usa.com and ask the question, just in case. Personally I do not worry over 12V, but that's not a recommendation. Thanks for watching! 73 Pascal VA2PV
Fantastic review. You did a great job editing and integrating the information with production! Thank you for such a well done and informative post. A pleasure to watch. 73 K7GYB
