[TenTec] New Radios in the Future

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Geoff, you know this technology better than I do, but IMO, you can't now and
perhaps never will be able to do all the work in a PC because the amount of
and speed of data needing processing is way beyond that which a PC can
handle.

In addition to the ADC,s we would need a lot of FPGA's in the PC as well,
and then the cost of the PC would be very high.

I'm interested in what's gonna happen in my lifetime, not in the distant
future.

The ham transceiver world is transitioning and will eventually be totally
different than what we know today.
If we don't make the transition in small baby steps, we may find ourselves
in a position where eventually one giant leap is necessary, and then it will
be too late to learn.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of geoffrey
mendelson
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 11:21 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Radios in the Future

On 11/3/2014 11:59 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> So it seems to me a great contest radio on a shoestring budget is 
> going to be an SDR, like it or not.
> The good radios with knobs just cost too much.
>
Until someone locates high quality HF analog to digital converters, puts
them in a PC and develops DSP software that is far better than anything on
the market and charges appropriately. :-)

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.

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