[hpsdr] Orientation.

[Ben Hall]

Larry Taft wrote:
> Yes, yes, YES!  The connectors are on the FRONT edge of the card.  I'm 
> tired of having climb on the bench to reach behind the "old style" PC 
> boxes to reach cables, connectors etc.

Hi Larry,

Boy I hear you.  I loathe working on my computers that have the masses 
of cables in the rear.  Even with a slide-out arrangement (a piece of 
plywood on top of two buckets) it's still hard.

> What I did is take a smallish ATX box and swap the CD and Floppy drive 
> tray with the power supply.

Tell me more about this case.  Was the case designed to allow the power 
supply to exchange with the floppy/cd tray?  Was this a modification? 
How hard of a mod was it?  Do you have a name/model on this case or a 
link to specs?

> Got it?  Connectors/cables are the FRONT.  Just like military and old 
> timey broadcast stuff.

The data acquisition products we use at work are like this too.  Cables 
in front, all that is in the rear is the power cord.

 > Since we don't have any more need for knobs and
> meters on the radio/computer lets make it convenient for us old farts 
> with gimpy knees.

But is the no knobs/meters assumption a good one?  I'm asking this not 
as a challenge to your planned HPSDR experience but as an open question. 
  To me, it seems that the intent of the Sasquatch card is to allow an 
HPSDR experience with knobs/meters.

Perhaps we need two flavors of cases and one case might not be a 
one-size fits all?

-- 
Thanks and 73,
Ben, KD5BYB


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