[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Bob,

Just because we are using DSP, SDR, and microcontrollers doesn't mean we 
have to abandon our command sets. Just because we like the command sets 
doesn't mean we have to abandon DSP, SDR, and microcontrollers. I have 
been known to attach silicon googaws to legacy (archaic) radios to get 
amazing performance boosts. The old radios are still the same as they 
always were. The signal sorting and presentation is dramatically 
different - better. Pulling one plug gets me back to 1945. I wonder what 
would happen if I put the googaws *inside* the radios. <running, 
ducking, hiding full throttle>

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 08/25/2016 05:56 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> On 8/25/2016 8:12 AM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
>> The young experimenters I know are into software projects, not 
>> hardware these days.
> The Arduino and Raspberry Pi are leading a new revolution.   MAKE 
> Magazine is the new Popular-Whatever, but with much broader range of 
> applications than ever.
>> I don't blame them. Hardware modules are cheap today and it isn't 
>> easy working with surface mount devices.
>
> Absolutely right.  Hardly a day goes by without my ordering components 
> or modules from Chinese vendors and the selection and value is 
> amazing.   It's up to us to figure out clever things to do with these 
> inexpensive mass-produced building-blocks. Kickstarter has become the 
> engine that drives the best ideas out of the basement and into the 
> marketplace, for example there's another $5 Linux computer called 
> Omega 2 that is one-quarter the size of a credit card, and which just 
> raised $672K.   I know this isn't the place to talk about making 
> radios using software, but there's no doubt that "makers" are 
> combining software with this kind of inexpensive hardware to do lots 
> of incredible things.
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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