Absolutely true, but you have to wonder about the modern day "motor heads" who are tweaking these modules for various "performance" goals. You can bet they see some bugs from time to time. But then t
Very well stated. Also consider that there are two different levels of code writing involved here. One is control software and the other is the low-level DSP code. The control code for the computer c
There is actually a wide variety of different grease types used throughout agriculture, some of it is totally worthless for this application and would gum up the VFO from the start. So if you do go t
Yupp, and it doesn't hurt to wildly speculate and pontificate every now and then either ;). I find that of all the brand specific reflectors this is one of the more interesting and entertaining ones.
I have had great success for the last year or so driving up to 3 Pegasi and an RX320 with a 4 RS232 port PCI card from SIIG, Inc. http://www.siig.com/products/io/features/QuartetSerial850PCI.html As
If you are going to be using a Jupiter as an IF radio it would be reasonable to expect similar overall performance to the 526 since they share a certain amount of similarity. The main difference betw
Consider a transverter for 2M. That will give me another easy to work 2M station from EN53 :). Seriously though it would give you a real good sense of how a transverter will work without duplicating
I wouldn't get too wrapped with having all bands in one box. If you are serious about VHF/UHF weak signal work you want mono-band radios for each of the bands anyhow. There is also good reason to hav
The 20W of the 526 will drive the typical 6M brick fine, probably even need to back off the drive a bit. An Astron RS-35 or SS-30 series power supply will handle such an amplifier handily. While thi
It is fixed at 57,600. The main advantage of a Jupiter over a Pegasus is that you do have more versatility by virtue of having traditional controls AND 100% computer control. While RS232 ports may go
Yes it is somewhat along the lines of what I'm thinking, this basic style of frequency spectrum display presentation could be included as one of the options for the "spectrum display centric" band tu
Dave, Maybe I'm reckless, but I'd bet far more than a nickel that your assessment about the hardware implementation is essentially correct. As for the need to restrict audio streaming bandwidth I thi
However if you accept the notion that a "Software Defined Radio" can never be truly complete, then "incomplete" software in and of itself is not a problem. The basic assumption is that as a designer
There may be several different variables at work here. First keep in mind that only firmware versions 1.15 and later have both Noise Reduction (NR) and Noise Blanker (NB) capability. This version of
I surely hope so, if they don't I will be sorely disappointed, and it would then be just like all their imported competition. In a word boring, because once you've bought it, you own it with NO prosp
I too agree that this would be an excellent way to handle these kinds of firmware releases. Those of us who aren't squeamish about alpha and beta code can go ahead play, and the more conservative typ
W5YR: ?Sadly, we have yet to see a true "software-defined" radio from ANY manufacturer. We have had *software-controlled* radios for years now, but even with the Kachina, Pegasus, Jupiter, et al, you
I have been wondering if this is where the state of the digital based radio art is at today. I guess that those A to D chip designer guys have some catching up to do. Hmmm, I guess this indirectly an
Actually what I perceive to be the RX (and low level TX?) band pass filter board (upper right radio quadrant of "voldermort-orion-inside3.jpg") looks like it may be diode switched unless there are sm
They all use the Analog Devices ADSP2181 family of DSP's, can't recall exact clock speeds or part numbers though. Yes they are 16 bit. I'm fairly sure that they haven't been End Of Lifed by Analog De