[hpsdr] Where has all the power gone.

[Glenn Thomas]

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Hi Jeff.

We had a long discussion on this topic awhile back on another news 
group. The main question that came out of the discussion - without a 
soul-satisfying answer - is, what do you mean by "SDR"? For example, 
does a newer rice-box radio that does most of its processing at IF 
(ie. filters, detection, AGC generation etc) via software but is 
otherwise indistinguishable, including the difficulty of doing 
soft/firm-ware updates, from an all-analog rice-box radio still 
qualify as an SDR?

Sorry if this is borderline OT. It does seem to be a question that is 
of interest to the SDR community.

73 de Glenn wb6w
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At 01:29 PM 2/25/2009, Jeff Cook wrote:

>What kind of a response do the rest of you guys get when you tell 
>your contacts you're using an HPSDR transceiver?  Some of my British 
>contacts know what it is, but most of them have only a vague 
>awareness of the advantages of SDR.  I get the impression some of my 
>fellow hams have an almost phobic dislike of computers, however as 
>SDR moves closer to being a self-contained unit, and as proprietary 
>radios take on board more computer-based techniques, I guess at some 
>point in the not too distant future there will be a merger of technologies.
>
>Jeff Cook.


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