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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm pretty certain there are still plenty of people
on the list ready to help with development on a Pheonix style transceiver.
The major stumbling block I guess is the lack of a decision on the LO and
Control system to properly implement a multiband tcvr. No wants to play with yet
another flavor of monband Soft Rock as without the former thats what it will be.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think many of those on the list are like myself
and Luddites in respect of the control software, but we could push ahead if we
had the control signals out the back of the computor and a little documentation.
My person preference would to to go with the AD9951for the LO to allow an
off the shelf implementation with the I0CG boards and have the groups own
version of Power SDR with user selectable LO/Display ratio. Such an arangement
will then suit either Zero IF or Superhet tcvrs (Siren+Hmixer??)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An intersesting possibility on the control computer
is a cheap micro ATX board with Puppuy Linux <A
href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy300">http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy300</A>
I have been playing with this the last week as an easy intro to Linux. It runs
off a simple pen drive or CD which loads to a ram disk, fast and simple.
FLDIGI<FONT face="Times New Roman"> <SPAN class=a><A
href="http://www.w1hkj.com/Fldigi.html">www.w1hkj.com/<B>Fldigi</B>.html</A><FONT
face=Arial> is an nice add on package to try with
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=a>Shel
CT1IZU</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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