{"id":45624,"date":"2020-09-30T06:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45624"},"modified":"2020-09-30T06:41:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:41:24","slug":"dean-reviews-the-flex-6400m-sdr-transceiver-from-an-swls-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/dean-reviews-the-flex-6400m-sdr-transceiver-from-an-swls-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean reviews the FLEX-6400M SDR transceiver from an SWL&#8217;s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Flex-6400M.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45626\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Flex-6400M.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Flex-6400M.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Flex-6400M-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Flex-6400M-624x331.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dean Bianco, who has written a review of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flexradio.com\/products\/flex-6400m-signature-series-sdr-transceiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FLEX-6400M SDR transceiver<\/a> from the point of view of an SWL DXer.<\/p>\n<p>Dean&#8217;s review has been posted on Dave Zantow&#8217;s radio website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/n9ewo\/flex6400m.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dean Bianco, who has written a review of the FLEX-6400M SDR transceiver from the point of view of an SWL DXer. Dean&#8217;s review has been posted on Dave Zantow&#8217;s radio website. Click here to view!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,129],"tags":[8351,8845],"class_list":["post-45624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","tag-dean-bianco","tag-flex-6400m"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bRS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10948,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/sherwood-engineering-ranks-the-flex-6700-sdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":45624,"position":0},"title":"Sherwood Engineering ranks the Flex -6700 SDR","author":"Thomas","date":"September 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Rob Sherwood has now tested and ranked the new FlexRadio Systems 6700\u00a0transceiver on his benchmark receiver test data page.\u00a0 The '6700 tops\u00a0the list when sorted by third-order dynamic range, narrow spaced. 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