[Icom] White Paper on Software Defined Radio

[Tony Hwang]

Gi,
BITE, or redundant gate logic circuits, whatever, they're not 100% yet 
and maybe never will.
Still things needs human brain with good hands. Like by-gone EMP 
processor was on 96 layer
logic planar.  It ain't repairable, just replaceable. Upto half of logic 
circuits are dedicated to
self diagnostics and redundancy. But guess who designed it? Human is not 
perfect being to
begin with, hi, hi.
73,
Tony, VE6CGX
P.S. Spent ~30 years on systems engineering. Glad I am out if it now. 
New toys are no        
        fun and inhuman. When you have 100% QRM, QRN, QSB free copy what 
fun is there?
         When pushing a button does everything, your fingers get bored, hi.

Davies, Doug A FOR:EX wrote:

>Soon, there won't be any more "radio" in amateur radio.  Guess I'd better
>sign up for a computer maintenance course so I can work on my future "radio"
>if it needs repair. But  look on the bright side....won't have to worry
>about those miserable ice storms 'cuz there won't be any antennas to ice up!
>Ah, but what happens when the power goes off and there's no Internet, no
>IRLP, no I-Link......hummmm????
>
>Doug  VA7DD
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