[hpsdr] Fwd: Ozy Janus Jack and Linux

[Don Jackson AE5K]

AE5K Comment: This is being forwarded to the HPSDR list. It appeared on 
the dttsp-linux yahoo list and I believe it should be of interest to 
many on this HPSDR list, and I'm sure Bob, Frank and Bob do not mind:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [dttsp-linux] Ozy Janus Jack and Linux
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:20:30 -0500
From: Bob McGwier <>
Reply-To: dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com
To: dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com

This is much more important than is probably currently realized.

There is no suitable sound card at all for the playstation 3 for high
end work.   If this works on Fedora 8 on the playstation 3,  TAPR had
better gird its loins on the sales of Ozy and Janus because the breeze
of customers coming by might turn into a hurricane.

73
Bob
N4HY

Frank Brickle wrote:
> Yow! Outstanding! Excellent work Bob. Looks like you've done all the 
> hard part. It will only get easier and smoother from here.
>
> Many thanks and 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
>
> BTW no need to ask about using the code. You're exploiting in in just 
> the way we'd hope.
>
> On Jan 14, 2008 11:59 PM, bob4xv <joan-bob at bigpond.net.au 
> <mailto:joan-bob at bigpond.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I have been working on getting OJ working as a client to jack under
>     Linux.  So far I have a ozyinit script which will initialize OJ much
>     the same way as under windows.  It uses libusb and I think is
>     currently on Bill's Kd5tfd svn.
>
>     I also now have, all be it in a crude form, OJ running as a client to
>     jack and have been able to get OJ to ship data to sdr-core from my
>     softrock 6 rx/tx.  I have been able to copy 40mx ssb signals using
>     96000 sampling.  I run jackd up using the dummy driver and the
>     software registers all OJ inputs and outputs and does the bulk data
>     transfers to and from OJ.  I have included re-sampling so that the
>     48Khz channels in OJ are handled when running at 96000.  So at this
>     stage I run up jackd with qjackctl as above, start the OJ program,
>     start sdr-core and sdr-shell.
>
>     I have received a lot of help from Bill kd5tfd and Phill vk6aph
>     without this help I would not have got this far.  I also have used
>     some parts of code for the re-sampling from Dttsp for which I must
>     thank Bob McGwier and Frank Brickle and I hope they do not mind. (my
>     appologies for not yet asking)  I intend this code will go into the
>     general pool of SDR software as soon as I clean out a lot of
>     redundant
>      code.  By the look of things it should fit in with John's current
>     offerings.  (If only I could get my machine to keep up with his code.)
>
>     As I have stated before I am no programmer but an old H/W guy who has
>     let the smoke loose from everything from vibrating power supplies to
>     switchmodes.  I am far from knowing exactly what I am doing!
>
>     73's
>     Bob Vk4xv
>
>
> -- 
> ...not so much a writer as a serial killer of ideas. -- TRex