In short, it's not ready for prime time.

I've had it for a week now and it's already slated for a return trip to the factory for repair.

The first issue was setting it up to work on my desktop. Vista is not a good OS to use with the Flex 1500. I spent a couple hours trying to make it all work together and eventually gave up. I grabbed my Acer One netbook that is running XP and had everything up and good to go in about 10 minutes.

I thought I might post occasionally and describe a bit of my kit building experience.

My Genesis Q5 30M transmitter kit showed up a few days ago. I felt it prudent to start small, hence the Q5. I'm the only one home at the moment so I thought this would be a good opportunity to get started on it.

I have a new soldering iron on order, FedEx claims it will be here tomorrow. I dug out my trusty old Radio Shack 40W pencil iron in the meantime. The first thing I did was find some fine grit sandpaper and scoured up the tip. Then with flux and 60/40 rosin core solder in hand I tinned it.

They just followed me home...I swear!

Got a little in the mailbox yesterday.