[hpsdr] [OT] Cognitive Radio ?

[Ken N9VV]

I remember that Frank Brickle AB2KT (brilliant Dttsp author with Bob 
McGwier N4HY) presented a paper about "Cognitive Radio". His interests 
were as early as 2007 and pre-dated our current crop of SDR software.

Could a "Cognitive Radio" automatically recognize the kind of modulation 
and center itself on the proper QRG for LSB or USB? How about 
automatically recognizing various Digi modes from their digital 
signature and automatically enabling a decoder for that mode? it might 
even be done for us dinosaurs operating CW <LOL>

Has anyone followed up on the research and development of Cognitive 
Radio for Hams? Frank imagined how it might be implemented in the 
Computer Language *Erlang* ;-) and how a Virtual Radio might be 
organized. Bob G3UKB was an avid Erlang experimenter at one time. But I 
have not heard anything for several years.

Ref:
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DCC Meeting 2007 Frank Brickle AB2KT
<URL: https://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2007-FSM-VR-Kernel-AB2KT.pdf
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2006 Scientific American
<URL? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cognitive-radio/
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thanks,
73 de Ken N9VV