[hpsdr] Hermes ?

[k5nwa]

Long term I hold out for some of the more powerful ARM chips that 
cost a few dollars and run on minuscule power, their processing power 
is not bad, witness video intensive devices like the iPad that run on 
them.  Make the CPU an appliance as far as the operator is concerned.

At 05:27 PM 12/22/2010, you wrote:
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>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:
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > If they only knew what was inside a K3...
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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....  :-)
> > --
> > 73 Alberto I2PHD
> > _______________________________________________
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>=====
>Chris Albertson
>Redondo Beach, California

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