At 15:04 30-03-06, you wrote:
Hello,
I am a "long time" Orion owner and follower of things related to SDRs.
Lately, I've started to monitor the FlexRadio discussion lists
relating to the SDR1000. At first glance, the SDR open source
software backend looks like what some (but not all, by any means!)
Orion users have been wanting from TT. On the other hand, the Orion's
self-contained box and controls are much more mainstream for ham
radio.
I have both radios. Quite frankly other then both radios are for
amateur radio use the SDR1000 is very different. The Orion is
certainly more mainstream in the way it is manipulated. Front
controls and backend conections are about the way most of us have
been use to operating. The SDR1000 is very different in this
respect. The SDR is not a radio for those that are not familiar with
software. As a completely software dependent radio it must use the
full power of your home computer. This computer must be powerful to
get the full benfits from the SDR 1000. The soundcard must be very
powerful and thus expensive. If you are going to interact with your
current software then there will be issues that are quite unique to
the SDR1000. Using such things as Vitual Sound Cards and Virtual
Comports is a very common practice. These issue may overwhelm the
first time user,HI.
As far as the performance I cannot speak in a technical way but the
SDR1000 appears to be way ahead of the Orion. The sound is
unbelievable in the sense of what full DSP can do. The
upgrades(betas) are constant. The expertise from the factory is very
professional. You have an extremely competent software engineer
answering software questions and you have an RF engineer handling
those issues. The ARRL said that they thought the SDR1000's
performance was good but not great. That was in their first review.
Probably pretty correct but the latest software version is
remarkable. I think the major factor in the very quick beta releases
for SDR1000 has been the "open source" concept. I have
downloaded about 14 Beta's in the last nine months,HI. Most of them
have enhanced the performance of the radio.
So if you are a computer person the SDR1000 will be just your piece
of cake. If you are not a computer person stick with Ten Tec. As long
as Ten Tec makes a reasonable effort to continue to improve their
software then I am a happy camper.
Fortunately I have enough radios to keep my interests going for some time,HI.
73
David
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President, Yale University Amateur Radio Club - W1YU
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