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I got a couple of these, a later version and and earlier version at a hamfest this past spring, and plan on utilizing them. I like the fact that FT8 can run on it . Thanks for a great all informative video! de WB9DBD
thanks very much for the info l use Mac mini M1 and a Mac desktop M1 come back to ham radio after 35 years my god how things have change since the 70s all the best Allan G6TMO
This is a super high definition video, not only to show this 6400M features butr also t make us enjoy the images definition and colors. I enjoyed it very much, good job
Don't bother with NOOELEC. They're products are crap quality and break after a few months. Support will just fob you off and make out you're the problem. I'd just avoid them and buy a cheap one from ebay, can't be worse than NooElec and doesn't cost a fortune either.
I appreciate the M1 MM is a quick machine and the comparison is interesting however, why do we need a fast Mac in the shack? I’m using a 7 year old mini which does everything I need and purchased 2nd hand for approx. $120.
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Mostly SmartSDR for MacOS with a Flex since it’s pretty much a one stop solution with the Flex. Also Parallels with the ARM version of Windows 11. A good number of Ham Apps will work under Parallels Windows 11 ARM. However some programs won’t work that use custom drivers like SDRPLAY or Windows SmartSDR. It will work with with Yaesu drivers installed manually with programs like Ham Radio Deluxe or Yaesu Suite. The author of SmartSDR SDR has released a macOS control program that supports some Icom radios.
It's great for the metal AAA games out if they get structurally optimised it will compete with mid range dedicated graphics, Apple has been putting out arm chips for 21 years, starting with the iPods
You can get the iPad version of SmartSDR. Works well and easy to use. It doesn’t have quite as many features as the desktop version but close. There are also some inexpensive add ons for it that add additional capabilities.
Loved the detailed video, please excuse me if you mentioned it but what part of the world are you using this in? I'm in the states and was wondering about how it will work with GSM networks here
USA. It should work ok for most GSM based cell services. Not CDMA networks. I am currently using the 900A which is an upgraded version of the 700A. The 900A corrects some of the issues of the 700A as well as improvements to the radio specs.
Excellent presentation. I've been an Apple user from day one, currently running an 8 core Intel Xeon iMac Pro with 32 GB DDR4, and it's refreshing to see that the amateur radio software developers are finally coming around (kind of) to the Mac side of the fence. The M1 chip has me poking around to see what's been happening in that regard, knowing that the second after I purchase an upgrade it'll be trumped by new and improved version :) ... Thank you for the thorough overview. Nicely done.
I'm seriously considering making the jump to an M1 mini, but like others, I've got Win10 compatibility issues. Good HAM centric overview. I see you got SDRUno to run on Win 10ARM parallels, but it sounds like you didn't get it to communicate with the RSP box. I'm guessing the drivers are for x86, which is why there's issues. That is one app that's keeping me back as well as anything for the RTL-SDR drivers, the other being my DMR radio programming S/W. If you get any of these working let us know!
Yep. Parallels is currently running Windows 11 since Parallels has added a virtual TPM chip. The nice thing is the M1 Macs can run the virtual machines blazingly fast. I also run the ARM64 version of Ubuntu. You can run the three operating systems simultaneously with no noticeable slowdowns. Also SmartSDR for MacOS has added more features since this video. I plan to do an update video in the near future.
@@hamradioscience thanks. Had a strange thought. I wonder if running windows 10 ARM on parallels you could somehow use one of the SDR play drivers for ARM.and make that work. That’s great to hear about running multiple operating systems on parallels such as Ubuntu.
@@Screamer916 No luck with SDRPLAY. The drivers being used aren’t compatible with ARM. SDR uno runs fine stand-alone playing an IQ file. The same is true for Zadig drivers and RTL sticks. Also the Windows version of SmartSDR will not work under Parallels simply because the SmartSDR for windows now detects a non Intel or AMD processor and will not allow the install. Some Windows compliant USB drivers will work. I did get the USB drivers to work on a FT-991a with several control and logging software Windows applications. It seems that most Windows programs work ok on the ARM64 platform, but it can be hit or miss at this point.
@@hamradioscience thanks for the detail. I just looked on SDRplay’s roadmap, and I saw this for version 2 of SDRuno: “Cross Platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) This will support both x86 and the new Mac M1 architecture if practicable” . Yeah!
Thanks very much for taking time to make this helpful video. I went one step further with the Streamdeck, because I wanted to have more single-press button access rather than having to create folders for band, rx bandwidth, modes that you did with the 15 button Streamdeck. I ordered the Streamdeck XL (32 buttons) and will be using it with a flex control knob. 73 de VE7OVY
It’s a shame the Numark doesn’t work on the Windows Version of SDR. If it did it would eliminate the need for purchasing the M version of the Flexradio 6000 Series. KB3Z
