[hpsdr] Hermes ?

[Chris Albertson]

I was about the write about the same thing.  That people who claim to
hate computers really only hate MS Windows.  They hate having the
computer exposed to them.

I just bought small Atom powered motherboard (It's $80 with CPU and
6.5 inches square)  and it will be wall mounted up in the attic. It's
job is to tend some receivers and send data over Ethernet.  (Placement
in Attic shortens coax feed line length dramatically)
That is another advantage of SDR, the RF part of the radio is small
and can be placed close to the antenna, far from operating position.
Cheap Cat-6 cable has 1Ghz bandwidth for moving data.  So while there
is good argument for building computer into the radio there is also
good argument for building the computer into the house and the RF
stuff into the antenna and the operator position "wherever".

Either way, I agree the goal should be to make the computer "disappear".


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Alberto I2PHD <i2phd at weaksignals.com> wrote:
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> On 12/22/2010 1:50 AM, Jeremy McDermond wrote:
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> Or at least you can present it as such to your friends who hate SDRs because they need a PC...  :-)
>> And I know a lot who think along these lines...
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> If they only knew what was inside a K3...
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> Oh, probably they know or suspect that... but the K3 doesn't need the user to start Windows, to install programs, to recover from
> system errors, the user is not requested to connect this to that with cables that are hanging on the station table, etc. etc.
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> These are the aspects that many OMs (at least those that I know) do not like of a solution where a PC is involved.
> If the PC is there, but is fully contained in the same enclosure as the radio, no extra cables, and when you power it on, automatically starts
> with a canned program, and can be used also from a user who think that Windows are those thing that you must open to have fresh air,
> then that is the radio that will receive a great acceptance also by that category of OMs....  :-)
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