Topband: SDR radio for 160

[Chuck Hutton]

> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:42:06 -0500
> From: n4zr at contesting.com
> To: n6pe at yahoo.com
> CC: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: SDR radio for 160
> 
> Readers should be aware of some complications -- the amqrp.org link is 
> well out of date - like about 4 years. For a time, 
> www.softrockradio.org was the place to go for information on the 
> softrock series of kits, but that site is now a mishmash of parts 
> offered for sale, with no particular link to the kitter, KB9YIG. There 
> is a site, www.kb9yig.org, that purports to have prices and availability 
> information, but it appears to have been static for 6 months or so, with 
> almost no kits listed as available. The softrock40 group on 
> groups.yahoo.com still appears to be active, and has a lot of 
> information in its files section, but nothing on availability of kits 
> since last May, and nothing by or about kb9yig since then either.
> 
> I always found Tony, KB9YIG, to be the soul of conscientious service and 
> reliability - it would be a shame if this effort is going offline. I 
> hope Tony is OK, but have no clue.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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Pete:

 

All is true except for the kit availability part - Tony usually posts weekly updates about availability and shipping in the Yahoo Softrock group.

 

And to double emphasize Tony's work: he has been tireless and accurate in shipping thousands and thousands of Softrocks over the years. I'm tempted to say the number has hit 10,000 but if not, it's still a remarkable effort.

 

 

Chuck

WD4ELO