[ARC5] BC-348 tuning rate and article

[Bill Cromwell]

Actually the SDR software is not the same thing as an SDR radio. It 
requires real RF hardware.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 5/10/20 10:16 AM, Bob Groh wrote:
> Well, we can go even one step further.  Just use the SDR without the 
> BC-348!  Well, maybe you turn it on for the looks! Naw, that is a step 
> too far.
> 
> Bob, WA2CKY (old enough to know better!!)
> 
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:01 AM Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wrcromwell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I hope to not be excommunicated.
> 
>     I don't have one of those radios. I don't recall even seeing one in
>     person.
> 
>     Some of the radios with wide system passbands and/or fast tuning rate
>     can be 'tamed' with computer sound card DSP and computer sound card SDR
>     software. No mods are required in the radio, not even 'easily reversed'
>     mods. None. Zero. No mods are required to the computer or sound card.
>     Not even 'easily reversed' mods. Zero. None. The SDR software will take
>     care of the wide passband and to some extent the tuning rate. The SDR
>     software does a nice job with both.
> 
>     Forgive me my friends for I know I have sinned.
> 
>     Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers reading this and to all the
>     men's mothers and the mothers of their children:)
> 
>     73,
> 
>     Bill  KU8H
> 
>     On 5/10/20 12:11 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>      > On 10 May 2020 at 0:03, Hubert Miller wrote:
>      >
>      >> I wonder what you the readers
>      >> think about the BC-348 tuning rate and dial as - is. I tend to
>     think it's already adequate and perfectly usable.
>      >>
>      >> There was another article a few years later which did the same
>     procedure and so enabled 15 meters hamband
>      >> coverage without modifying any coils.
>      >
>      > I heartily agree, having used one which my Mother bought for me,
>     shortly after I got my
>      > General.
>      >
>      > I was very impressed with it.
>      >
>      > Ken W7EKB
> 
> 
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