My comments below.
Bill Ames
KB1LG
>Bill,
>This sounds like the ideal project for one of the QRP kit companies; but
as
>for Ten Tec, I am not sure they are yet set up for surface mounting.
Well, they better hurry, those dip packages are not going to be here
forever!
>Wilderness radio, or the makers of the Tick Keyers might jump at the Scout
>module chance, but for DSP, it looks like you might need more than the
real
>estate of the Scout plug in board. Surely TT will have to get into
surface
>mount now that folks like Kachina have their DSP transceiver. I wonder if
the
>Omni 6 plus has surface mount anything?
There are definatly possibilities for different plugin modules for the
Scout/Argo, just for use as a receiver. I would like to see a plugin that
was connected to a vfo so I could at least have a more "tuneable" rig, even
if it got a bit more noisy.
>Just read the review of Kachina transceiver in QST, but I am one of those
who
>would have to buy the accessory knob; just is not a radio without a tuning
>knob to feel! :-)
A radio is not a radio w/o a knob!
>Like they said in the review; this does now make it possible to have only
the
>computer screen and keyboard on the operating desk, and the RF hardware
can be
>up to 75 feet away.
You need to be that far away so the PC dosen't rfi the rig :-(
>However, I see two camps of hams, those who will continue to want stand
alone
>radios, and those who will want DSP virtual transceivers like the Kachina.
How about getting the fed gov to allow low power amps so I could give an
Argo 50w out and a Scout 200w capability.
>Just as the lowly VOM and DMM was not replaced by the National Instruments
>computer instrumentation.
Who makes a good RF signal gen?
>Guess I will have to open up my new in the box Radio Shack DSP and see how
>much real estate it took. I had one of the W9GR? DSP boards early model,
and
>it was about 3 times the area of the Scout board, and pretty crowded, and
that
>did not count pots and off board switches, etc.
I said it "works", it does have some attributes you will need to learn to
live with ;-(
>--Stuart
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