> Bravo to the TenTec Omni VII, Orion II, Icom 7800 & Yaesu 9000. They are
> the last of the dinosaurs of this generation. They are in the same
> position as the Johnson's, National's, Hallicrafter's, Hammarlund's and
> others the day before Collins introduced the S line, way back when. I've
> been looking at the Software Defined Radios. The SDR 1000 transceiver
> looks good..."
Wow, that's quite a sanctimonious and back-handed compliment if I ever heard
one. The SDR-1000 may very likely become a "dinosaur" sooner than you
think.
The SDR-1000 certainly produces some good performance numbers, but much of
the impressive high-signal handling performance comes at the expense of
mediocre MDS. Refer to the ARRL's last lab report and witness that the
SDR-1000 missed their published MDS specification by 10dB -- and that's
using their preferred low-noise M-Audio Delta sound card.
History has shown that radios without a good user interface (e.g., real
knobs and displays) are adopted by a small set of users. I suspect the vast
majority of the buying population does not want to "kluge" a radio system
together from a handful of computer components. I've been there, and I'm
done with it. The SDR-1000 has been available for some time, and while it
is going through an evolutionary process, I suspect their sales growth is
increasing, but at a decelerating rate.
Paul, W9AC
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