[hpsdr] See you at Dayton!

[Eric Ellison]

Guys here are some of  the SDR going’s  on at Dayton. Look forward to seeing
you there!

 

Eric – AA4SW

 

Friday, 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

TAPR Digital Forum

 

Moderator: David Toth, VE3GYQ

 

Speakers:

The TAPR Open Hardware License - John Ackermann, N8UR TAPR introduces
version 1.0 of the OHL, a license designed to encourage Open Hardware
development along the lines of Open Source Software.  John wrote the
agreement and will explain how it works, and how you can use it for your own
projects.

 

The HPSDR Project Update -- Scott Cowling, WA2DFI and Steve Bible, N7HPR
Scott will show off the HPSDR Ozy and Janus boards which are now shipping.

 

USRP2 - Matt Ettus, N2MJI

Matt will show off his new USRP2 hardware.

 

 

Saturday, 8:00 AM -  11:00 AM

Software Defined Radio Forum

 

Open Source Software Defined Radios- the new wave in radio communications.

 

Moderator: Eric Ellison, AA4SW

The Future of radio is NOW and is moving forward at the speed of light!

Amateur radio operators are at the forefront of a technical revolution in
radio. In the foreseeable future, everyone will be able to configure the
'front panel' of a, radio, spectrum analyzer, VNA, oscilloscope, signal
generator and more, all with the same hardware! Groundswell open source
amateur offerings of hardware and software ranging in price from

$12 to several hundreds of dollars are available. Come see what this
International excitement is all about, and win a Software Defined Radio!

(You must be present to win at end of presentations.)

 

Speakers:

 

The µWave SDR Hardware and Software - Jonathan Naylor, ON/G4KLX (Remote
presentation via Internet) With the rise in popularity of SDRs for the lower
frequency bands, it is only right that the same techniques should be applied
to the V/U/SHF bands. The challenge of these higher frequencies shows itself
particularly in the hardware required. Highly integrated mixers and
fraction-N synthesizers are the chips of choice in order to reduce component
count and ensure that the hardware will be as inexpensive as is possible
while retaining high performance. The software is especially written for
this project, and has been designed from the beginning to be cross-platform
(Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) and to support multiple SDR types, including
the SoftRock

 

 

Introduction to the HPSDR Project - Lyle Johnson, KK7P Starting as a
discussion about an inexpensive evaluation board for an electronic component
in late 2005, the High Performance Software Defined Radio project was born.
This is a grassroots effort by volunteers to create hardware and software
building blocks for customized, user-definable, user-configurable and
user-programmable Software Defined Radios. This presentation will introduce
the overall HPSDR Project, the accomplishments of the group in its year and
half of existence, an overview of current developments and a look towards
the near future.

 

A Simple Approach to Learning Digital Signal Processing - Phil Harman,
VK6APH One of the problems a beginner faces in learning Digital Signal
Processing (DSP) is finding a simple tool to aid the learning process.

Whilst such tools do exist they are generally aimed at the professional and
come at a professional price. There is an urgent need to provide beginners
with a "crystal set" approach to learning DSP and with a similar price tag.
Phil Harman, VK6APH, will describe a technique for learning DSP that uses
freely available software that enables the beginner to build an extensive
array of digital test equipment - from a simple signal generator right up to
a high performance spectrum analyzer. The test equipment enables the
beginner to experiment with digital filters, modulation and demodulation
techniques - as they say, "to learn by doing".

 

Rocky, a View From Inside and Outside -  Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA This
presentation will focus on the differences between the hardware and
software-defined radios, using Rocky Software and SoftRock as an example.
The "Inside" part of the presentation will show that digital signal
processing allows the developer to implement many functions that are
difficult or impossible to implement in the hardware. However, the new
possibilities offered by DSP require new solutions. Attempts to build an SDR
as a model of a hardware radio do not work well. The "Outside" part, will
compare the user interfaces of hardware and software radios. While the
controls of the hardware transceivers are implementation-oriented (reflect
the internal structure of the radio), the interface of an SDR can and should
be made task-oriented: more intuitive and easy to use, optimized for the
maximum productivity of operator's work.

 

 

Evening Events

Saturday, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

FlexRadio Systems Informal Evening Event

 

FlexRadio Systems will hold an informal meeting beginning at 8:00 PM at the
Kennedy Union <http://campus.udayton.edu/~ku/>  on the University of Dayton
campus. Light snacks and refreshments will be served from 8-8:30 PM. The
Social (Half) Hour will be followed by a presentation with a Question &
Answer session by Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR. The evening will be capped off
with the annual "Flexi" awards ceremony.

 

The KU has plenty of free parking.  This event is open to everyone.  The
evening's festivities will be broadcast over the FlexRadio Friends TeamSpeak
server.  As an added incentive to "come on over" there will be assorted door
prizes for those in attendance.

 

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TeamSpeak BroadcastSchedule

TAPR Forum on Friday (Pending the confirmation of Internet connectivity) SDR
Forum on Saturday from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Pending the confirmation of
Internet connectivity) FlexRadio Informal Evening Meeting on Saturday at
8:00 PM EDT (For sure

 

 

 

 

 

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