With Varying Frequency – Amateur Radio Ponderings

I’ve had a couple emails asking what computer system I settled on to run my Flex-5000A.

From Dell I specified out quite a nice machine featuring Dual 20 inch Monitors and a Dual Hard Drive setup!

This is the computer spec I will end up with – this spec seems to be working out very well indeed:

• Dell Vostro 220 Mini-Tower
• Core 2 Duo E7300/2.66GHz 3M,1066FSB
• 4GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz, Dual Channel DT
• DUAL – Dell 20 inch Wide E207WFP Analog Flat Panel Monitors (Side-by-Side)
• DUAL – 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive 7200RPM, 8MB Cache Hard Drives (Mirrored)
• Dell 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
• WINDOWS XP PRO SP3 (downgrade from Vista 32 with later upgrade rights)
• Usual DELL DVD/CD Burners, USB Ports, Keyboard, Mouse and such…..

Added none Dell items are:

• HIS Radeon HD 3650 iCooler II Video Card for DUAL DVI outputs
• A four-port serial port card
• Contour ShuttlePro v2 Multifunction Controller
• Griffith PowerMate
• my backlighted USB keyboard from the old machine

Seems to be working the treat!

73

Steve
K9ZW