[TenTec] FLEX, Omni-VII, Hilberling

[Grant Youngman]

YES, Yes, you're the third person (but the only one who made a public post)
that has corrected my misunderstanding of the mysteries of "open source" in
the SDR-1000 and Flex-5000 and the "true meaning" of FAQ #44

And I'm sure many "bright folks" have contributed.  Many bright folks
contribute to the design of many radios, open source or not.  I wonder how
many users of these radios have contributed even one line of code or one bug
fix.

Not referring to your comments, I'm also quite tired of being privately
beaten up instead of the "offended" parties in question simply coming to the
table and telling their story.  You can't post on a free and open list any
more without a very large liability insurance policy, because surely SOMEONE
SOMEWHERE has some financial interest and will take umbrage -- 

I'll bet that for all of the garbage, misinformation, cockpit error and just
plain ignorance blamed on crummy software, and even vitriolic personal
attacks made on specific T-T employees that have been posted here, and
comments about how T-T radios suck and this has never worked and that hasn't
worked since 2003, and the developers are incompetent and so on --- I'll bet
that not one person has ever been threatened -- even politely -- by T-T.

I regret thinking it worth posting to this list.

Grant/NQ5T

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Merle Bone
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:58 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] FLEX, Omni-VII, Hilberling
> 
> Grant wrote:"I did note that all of the "open source" 
> balderdash about the Flex radios
> has passed into oblivion."
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Well, Grant, I don't think that is actually what has happened 
> (More on the Flex reflector). Nearly all of the code that we 
> call "firmware" in the Orion/Orion II will continue to run in 
> a "PC" and will be "open-source." There is some firmware in 
> the radio that controls some of the functions of the radio - 
> like frequency setting of the DDS etc - that is in 
> controlled firmware, but it really relates to very basic 
> hardware functions. None of the complex radio functions like 
> modulation, demodulation, filters, noise reduction, speech 
> processing, band-scope etc are in the "firmware."  All of 
> that complex function code will continue to be open source 
> and execute in the "PC" that goes with the Flexradio setup. 
> Lots of very bright folks contributing to the code for those 
> complex radio functions.
> 73, Merle - W0EWM
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