[AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"

[Bob Macklin]

I have been watching the SDR stuff for several years but everytime I tried 
to order a kit they were OUT OF STOCK!

I finally got one ordered this morning and in a couple of weeks I should 
know if I like it or not.

Maybe I will build a QRP transmitter to go with it! Ramsey?

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <manualman at juno.com>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"


> There are probably many more amateurs who enjoy the virtues of
> plug-and-play and SDR-type radios because it gets them to do what they
> want to do - play radio and make contacts. They have no interest in
> constantly diddling with knobs, watching multiple meters, venting
> periodic smoke, and screwing around at the workbench for endless hours
> trying to make something work for more then an hour. Great AM listening
> and great AM transmitted audio can be had with the majority of these
> modern radios. If your hobby goal in life is to hold a soldering iron in
> your hand for hours every day, more power to you, but I prefer the ease
> of getting on the air quickly and making contacts when ever I want
> without the constant diddling with knobs and meters and smoke.
>
> Change is good and refreshing; wallowing in how it was back in the "good
> old days" is never a healthy exercise - "you can never really go back and
> repeat the past".
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:39:23 -0700 (PDT) CL in NC <mjcal77 at yahoo.com>
> writes:
>> This question was asked in a comment.  I have, and found it to be
>> rather boring.  Sure, there is a lot of things you can do on RCV
>> with all the displays and bandscopes, I'm impressed that it can,
>> with the right software, decode every CW and data transmission from
>> 14.0 to 14.1 and display them all at once on  the screen.  But, as a
>> person who still likes to do 'radio', if I just discovered Amateur
>> Radio and this was my only option, I would not be interested.  I'm
>> thankful SDR's and computer based comm has not covered us like a
>> virus so far, even though the ARRL seems to hope it will.  Hopefully
>> when this new generation of hams gets bored with hamming as  just
>> another 'app' to load into their computer, they might rediscover the
>> history and pick up where the passing breed left off, keeping legacy
>> gear running, enjoying radio communications the way it was created.
>>
>> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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