Rick, trying to follow you - why have you concluded that you need to go
from an Eagle to 6300? Interface, performance or ??? Is there some reason
an Orion isn't in the picture (you mentioned Eagle and K3)?
73, Barry N1EU
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick@dj0ip.de> wrote:
> Geoff, you know this technology better than I do, but IMO, you can't now
> and
> perhaps never will be able to do all the work in a PC because the amount of
> and speed of data needing processing is way beyond that which a PC can
> handle.
>
> In addition to the ADC,s we would need a lot of FPGA's in the PC as well,
> and then the cost of the PC would be very high.
>
> I'm interested in what's gonna happen in my lifetime, not in the distant
> future.
>
> The ham transceiver world is transitioning and will eventually be totally
> different than what we know today.
> If we don't make the transition in small baby steps, we may find ourselves
> in a position where eventually one giant leap is necessary, and then it
> will
> be too late to learn.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of geoffrey
> mendelson
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 11:21 AM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Radios in the Future
>
> On 11/3/2014 11:59 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> > So it seems to me a great contest radio on a shoestring budget is
> > going to be an SDR, like it or not.
> > The good radios with knobs just cost too much.
> >
> Until someone locates high quality HF analog to digital converters, puts
> them in a PC and develops DSP software that is far better than anything on
> the market and charges appropriately. :-)
>
> Geoff.
>
> --
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
> Jerusalem Israel.
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