The Power of the Flex 5000 Antenna Switch

This is a demonstration of the power of the Flex 5000 antenna switch. It is a feature not often thought about but it is a feature that gives incredible flexibility to your station.

It allows up to 3 transmit/receive antennas as well as up to 2 independent receive antennas on HF, internal transverter jacks for 2M and 70cm as well as a loop feature that allows you to insert filters or external high performance pre-amps into the receiver line. These features are controllable manually through a popup or can be custom controlled automatically by the band switch. In addition the F5K allows for independent control of up to 3 linear amps. It is a very powerful switch that I use extensively in my SO2R station and to control my antennas for diversity reception.

It is one of the features that allows the Flex 5K to be the control center for an entire radio station as well as streamlining remote base operation In a future video I hope to highlight how I use this feature plus some BCD encoding to automatically choose bands on my amplifier and antenna switch making my Flex 5000 into a 1.5kw auto switching transceiver. Just click and GO 73 W9OY

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Science & Technology

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• antenna
• switch
• Flex
• 5000
• 5000A
• SDR
• software
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That is a powerful feature that it has! I use ant-1 for TX, ant-2 for RX, ant-3 T/RX for 6m and a HF 1kw sold state amplifier but I had the ant unit twice burned. Fortunately they replaced it free of charge and they say it's ok now. Still I love it!! Never had this experience before...73's de SV2BWM