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Re: [CQ-Contest] SDR's have knobs too!

To: Neal Campbell <nealk3nc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SDR's have knobs too!
From: "Martin , LU5DX" <lu5dx@lucg.com.ar>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 17:34:32 -0300
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Fyi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBVOCJDsqL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR-ZwUaffI8

73

LU5DX


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Neal Campbell <nealk3nc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Its interesting that knobs seems to be a stumbling block when considering
> SDRs but once you own one for a couple of weeks, the issue is never raised
> again (except when a visitor comes). Like Stu, I also use knobs during
> contests. An innovative person has written software that allows me to use a
> Hercules MP3 controller (a small box like DJs use at parties) that provides
> a version of the remote VFO knob on steroids.
>
> The biggest stumbling block I have seen isn't knobs but integration of the
> various "receivers" of an SDR into a multi-radio setup for Writelog/N1MM.
> We now have the capability to run 4 copies of skimmer, each fed from a
> separate "receiver" from a SDR with WRitelog treating the radio as SO4V.
>
> This is still a work in progress but we have already gone to a point of no
> return, the rewards will be too great to not see it through. Then we can
> get more and more people operating SOxV with them and start the incremental
> improvements needed.
>
> 73
>
> Neal Campbell
> Abroham Neal LLC
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Stu Phillips <stu@k6tu.net> wrote:
>
> > Ed,
> >
> > Software Defined Radios have knobs - and if you want, more than one!
> >
> > So let¹s debunk this myth once and for all:
> >
> > 1. Software Defined Radios can and do have knobs
> > 2. Don¹t let knob-itism get in the way of appreciating the better
> > capabilities
> >    offered by software defined radios.
> >
> > I respect folks who like their knob based radios - and indeed, I use
> knobs
> > with my SDR based station and wouldn¹t be without it.
> >
> > But I would never go back to a non-SDR radio - the experience and the
> > advantages are simply too compelling.
> >
> > Stu K6TU
> >
> > On 5/9/14, 9:49 AM, "Edward Sawyer" <SawyerEd@Earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > >There might be an app for sex too - but that doesn't mean its better or
> > >more
> > >enjoyable than the real thing.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >A lot of us like turning the big knob.  And as SO2R ops know - 2 big
> knobs
> > >are better than 1 big knob ;-).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Just because its possible - doesn't make it better.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Ed  N1UR
> > >
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