[TenTec] Computer Control of the Orion

[Ron Morell]

Lee,
I will be interested to see this next generation of Flex SDR radio.  Full
QSK is required as well as a great receiver.  It definitely sounds like it
is headed in the right direction.  If a knob is required, a blue tooth
remote control box should be about the right answer for that, or even better
a nice remote joy stick with wheels and buttons, or why can't we just use CW
or voice commands. We really need to get rid of all these wires and cables
strung all over the shack.

N4PY software currently provides for pan adapter tuning, but it sweeps very
slow for a reasonably fine display and is not an analogue type device but a
bar graph simulation similar to the ORION display.  Still it has the pan
adapter tuning and it works pretty well to jump to a signal.  A real
analogue IF derived pan adapter display would be great.

I think the technology to provide these type radios exists and is cheap and
well understood.  So, instead of complaining about the patch for last years
model, I am starting to look forward to the new and improved radio with
hopefully a new set of features and of course all the frustrations that will
come with it.  And of course if I have to get back to basics, I can turn on
the HW-16 and keep on keeping on.
Ron
KA7U



-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Lee A Crocker
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:59 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Computer Control of the Orion

Ron

Sounds like your pine-ing for the next generation of
the Flex SDR radio.  Six slots so you can plug in
multiple transmitters/receivers.  Open source software
so you can write the radio interface to be just
exactly how you want it.  A built-in computer, and
since it's built on the format of a server chassis as
computers improve, will be perpetually upgradable. 
Put the radio up on a shelf or in a closet.  Oh yea
you want QSK?  This radio will be full duplex.  Back
to the days when men were men, QSK WAS QSK, and the
sheep ran scared.  

I can hear the bleating now:  but it doesn't have a
knob!!!  I can't live without my knob!!!!

You are right about N4PY's software making the Orion a
wonderful radio.  Thank God for Carl.  If the Orion
could use the SDR-1000 panadapter tuning it would be a
profound radio.  It won't ever happen though.  TT
hasn't done anything profound since the Omni-V.  They
just keep trotting out the same radio with yet a
little more tinsel and fringe on it.  Kind of reminds
me of someone that takes a Cadillac and turns it into
a pimp mobile.  Fuzzy dice errr IP address anyone?

73  W9OY

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