[TenTec] KB7OEX: a big plus favoring ORION

[Carl Moreschi]

The RX340 has a digital data out port that allows you to sample
digital data directly.  This has some great possibilities.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, North Carolina
n4py at earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McClafferty" <ve1adh at accesswave.ca>
To: "Duane Grotophorst" <n9dg at yahoo.com>; <W8JI at contesting.com>; "George,
W5YR" <w5yr at att.net>; <cyr999 at extremezone.com>
Cc: "tentec" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] KB7OEX: a big plus favoring ORION


>
> > The place where DSP can earn its mettle is
> > processing signals other than just CW and SSB. There
> > is no good reason to not handle modes like SSTV,
> > PSK31, WSJT, PUA43 packet etc. natively in a DSP stage
> > of the radio, so far no one has done this in a
> > meaningful in the amateur radio market. Taking the
> > logic that having many stages between the antenna and
> > your intended output is a bad thing; it makes no sense
> > to take those kinds of signals all the way to audio to
> > only have to re-digitize them in the computer sound
> > card in order to process.
> > Duane
> > N9DG
> I am amazed that no one has modified the Pegasus firmware to do just that.
> It has been suggested to Tentec and they show no interest. I thought about
> doing it myself but I know it is beyond my capabilities. There must be
some
> hams out there who have this capability I'm sure.
> Another plus for doing this with SSTV, that you have digital video, which
> suffers no generation loss. Hams could pass pictures on with no serious
> degradation.
>
> Dave, VE1ADH
>
>
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