[TenTec] "End of an Era"

[Charles Greene]

Tod,

That's just the point.  When the OS changes, the developer just 
changes the software to match.  Its nearly a trivial task.  The only 
real limitation is the hardware, and as this is the first one, it is 
bound to have more hardware limitations than the second, etc.  There 
are few software limitations.  To wit, there is software for Linux.

Chas W1CG

At 03:42 PM 8/20/2006, Tod Glenn wrote:

>On Aug 20, 2006, at 5:39 AM, Charles Greene wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Back in the early 70s, I sold all my tube rigs and went solid state
> > with a Ten Tec 940 Triton IV and I vowed never to have tube rigs in
> > the shack again.  This is still true except for a couple of linear
> > amps.  Now I am contemplating to do the same with analog rigs of
> > which I have several including the Omni-VI, and go to software
> > defined radios.  This would apply to the shack, as analog rigs still
> > have a place in portable and mobile operation.  I still have the 940
> > and would probably keep it as a back up.  I plan to wait until Flex
> > Radio comes out with there their top of the line software defined
> > radio, designed to compete with the Orion, Yaesu FT1K and ICOM
> > IC7800.  I have the SDR-1000 and it keeps getting better all the
> > time, but there are still some hardware limitations that the
> > developers have not come up with software work-arounds for.
>
>
>I think the point was well made that since SDR depend on computers
>you might be inviting problems.  Unless you plan to buy a new SDR
>every few years, it very likely that as the OS changes, that the
>software might not be updated.  You can still use a non-SDR radio
>made 20+ years ago.  I doubt that will be the case with SDR.
>
>----
>Tod Glenn
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>
>
>
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