[TenTec] Ten-Tec Marketing (?) + Ten-Tec "FIRSTS"

[Lee WA3FIY]

No fire suit needed James!   :-)    

I think it is fair to say the RX320 is both.  

It is of course "Controlled" by software.  N4PY, Ten-Tec etc.  But it is also "defined " by 
software.  That is to say that once the N4PY software tells the radio to receive let's say USB 
with 2.4 Khz bandwidth, the software in the radio runs various routines that operate logically 
and mathematically on digital data which represents the RF signal (and many others) you are 
listening to.  Those routines strip away the undesired signals and process the desired signal 
as needed to get useful output.  Once the internal software has done it's thing, the digital data 
is converted to analog and presented to the loudspeaker.  The internal software "Defines" 
what sort of radio we have.  Modes, filters and so on.  A change in program code re-"defines" 
our radio.  A good example of that is the Pegasus.  When introduced it had no noise blanker 
or AM transmit.  New software installed both those features (software defined) shortly 
thereafter.

I greatly oversimplified the description of what happens from antenna to loudspeaker, but this 
is why I think the the RX320 is both software controlled and software defined.

73,

-Lee-

WA3FIY 

BTW...as I write this I am monitoring 40 CW and 20 PSK with my Pegasus/N4PY/RX320 
combo.  Really slick set-up.   :-)

On 5 Jul 2012 at 13:22, Richards wrote:

> ER... um... despite my being a rooking builder, I thought
> the RX-320 is a Software "Controlled" Radio, and not
> a Software "Defined" Radio, per se.  Over on the RX-320
> reflector, they make this clear, but you guys would know
> better about what is correct.
> 
> So having stuck my scrawny neck out, I don my Teflon
> Suit and await flames of correction.
> 
>  (Just kidding, folks here are pretty
>  helpful without roasting ya for it.)    ;-)
> 
> 
> =============== Anonymous /  K8JHR  ===================
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/5/2012 2:39 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> 
> > In that process, I did some research and put together a list of
> > Ten-Tec's "Firsts":
> 
> >    . First software defined HF receiver (RX-320, 1998)
> >
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