[AMRadio] Off AM topic inquiry

[Rob Atkinson]

My impression is most SDR ops don't write or modify any code.  If they
don't like something they P&M about it and one of a minority of hams
who have the knowledge and computing resources needed, will make a
change if the P&Ming is loud enough.   This usually happens on one of
the manufacturer fan club email lists.

Two reasons I don't do any SDR operating--I have no interest in
software (unless I'm being paid for it and it would take a lot for me
to spend my free time on it) and I doubt if I could troubleshoot
anything with pc cards holding black cubes having 100 leads.

This is why I have quit buying anything new and don't even know
anything about the new rigs.  I can't work on them so I don't want
them.   The latest snazziest hottest ham rig today will only do what a
SX28 and BC610 will do:  let you have a QSO with someone.  But as I
have said before, if a ham can fix the new gear fine have at it.
Every time I ask a SDR op if he can fix it if it breaks, he doesn't
bother to answer the question.  And everyone I know (I include myself
on this one) with a plastic radio loaded with 100 buttons, only uses
maybe 1/10 the functions of the rig.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:00 PM, CL in NC <mjcal77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> While I am primarily a boat
> anchor fellow,  I do have one modern but now 30 year old rig, a
> TenTec Omni V.  I would like to know if any of you out there use the SDR equipment,  and if you actively write or modify the programs that run
> them.  I have read a lot about how you can mess with the software, write your own, what ever, but do not recall ever seeing an article, like a
> construction article for a real radio, that deals with a fellow
> describing the software he wrote for some SDR and how lit improved it's
> operation.  Is all the smoke on manipulating and rewriting the op system for this gear, just that,smoke?  Or is their a world out there that
> does not make it into the likes of QST where people are buggy over
> writing SDR software?  My train of thought goes along the lines of all the  mods folks suggested for every piece of tube gear made and were routinely published in CQ, QST, 73, and Ham Radio back in the day.  Are their folks who suggest changing a line of code in an SDR program to add a feature equivalent to  adding a pot and switch to a 32S3 to make it work on AM?
>
> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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