[AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"

[Robert Nickels]

On 6/19/2013 4:03 PM, Larry Szendrei wrote:
> one of the great things about this hobby is all the facets to explore 
> and enjoy. It's all good, folks!
Amen to that!   I've built working SDR front-ends using both transistors 
and tubes (with a DSP back-end, direct conversion isn't just for CW/SSB 
any more), and while no one is going to confuse them with a Flex,  my 
list of projects and ideas to try just keeps growing .    Seems to me 
this is how hams have always dealt with new technology, no matter which 
era, to borrow Larry's phrase, "floats your boat".     Looking at other 
hobbies, I don't see Corvette guys picking fights with the Model T 
restorers, or pianists arguing with banjo pickers - as Riley 
Hollingsworth continues to say , some hams just need to "lighten up"!

Whether it involves filaments or FFTs, why worry about what the next guy 
is doing when you can be making your own fun on the radio?

73, Bob W9RAN