Mark
All I have to say is that Linux has been open source for years and It hasn't
put Microsoft out of business .So I don't think Ten-tec, Icom and Yaesu are too
worried about Flex radios .
John
WB4QDA
----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kachel <kachels@wi.rr.com>
To: tentec@contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:03:56 PM
Subject: [TenTec] "End of an Era"
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. Some circuitry for a DC receiver feeding an analog to digital chip
and an RF amplifier. Every thing else is software. Pretty impressive numbers.
Cost with a new sound card is less than $2,000.
Then there is the SDR 14, basically a spectrum analyzer that can function as a
general coverage receiver to 30MHz. The antenna is connected directly to the
analog to digital chip. Might be nice to have some front end filters, but
basically no RF parts. I'm not sure what the receiver's numbers are but I
suspect with some tweaking of the software they would be better than anything
on the market.
So who is going to be the next Collins and what will it look like? I think it
will be the Elecraft K3
Mark, NÃOKS
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