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Seems they have a ramrod up their derrieres about out-of-band use.

Some folks whose opinion I trust think that the resident non-volatile firmware on board the Flex has a specific transmit lockout between 26 and 28 MHz. And the source code for that firmware is jealously guarded. Updates are applied strictly as the executable binary. Makes bypassing the lockout an enormous chore, disassembling (de-compiling) it.

"Opening up" the pc-resident software doesn't matter if the code executing inside the radio refuses to transmit on 11 meters.

Don't really know for sure. Don't own a Flex. Not really planning to for now.

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[QUOTE="nomadradio, post: 679808, member: 22"] Seems they have a ramrod up their derrieres about out-of-band use. Some folks whose opinion I trust think that the resident non-volatile firmware on board the Flex has a specific transmit lockout between 26 and 28 MHz. And the source code for that firmware is jealously guarded. Updates are applied strictly as the executable binary. Makes bypassing the lockout an enormous chore, disassembling (de-compiling) it. "Opening up" the pc-resident software doesn't matter if the code executing inside the radio refuses to transmit on 11 meters. Don't really know for sure. Don't own a Flex. Not really planning to for now. 73 [/QUOTE]

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