[Elecraft] SDR-IF and I/Q questions

[John Ragle]

      Just a short, curmudgeonly, comment from one who has used many 
(almost all) of the extant SDR software packages...

     These all seem to be excellent examples of "software-gone-wild." 
Apparently the authors received requests from various sources, and in an 
attempt to include something for everyone, they have proceeded to 
include something for everyone.

     The computers are not the weak link -- almost every recent computer 
will provide +/- 192 kHz of spectral width if equipped with the 
appropriate fast stereo sound card. The problem is that the software 
packages are horribly cluttered, non-resizeable, collections that do not 
take advantage of, e.g., modern Windows capability, in short, BAD 
software. The reason is not hard to find...it is historical. At some 
point, SDR software authors need to break free of these efforts, stop 
patching and grafting onto earlier efforts, and proceed to write 
something new, clean, and utilitarian.

John Ragle -- W1ZI

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On 11/8/2011 3:36 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
> IMHO, The weak link in this SDR thing is the computer and software.