[Premium-Rx] better receivers.

[John P Ceresole]

Hi Paul

The USB-GP-IB Converters are available from National Instruments for ~ 1000 
US$ (in the UK) less if you have an old PC GP-IB card (NI of course) to 
trade in.

I have a friend - nay ex-colleague who wrote software that drove Receivers 
using DOS 5.00/6.22 using GP-IB.  He has modern versions of this software 
that he has written that will run in Win98/XP.  The software was written to 
allow EMI testing and other forms of interactive testing allowing the 
sucking off of Rx frequency and using the sucked off frequency to tune a 
signal generator or synthesiser eg a Tx.  I am trying (it's hard work) to 
get him to market a version of this software (I have talked with him a bit 
already about the list and our needs for controlling Receivers/Txers) 
software writers are like artists they need cajoling to deliver!!!!!

I am going to speak with him some more on the subject.  It's midnight here 
in the UK and I need to go to bed but I will do a bit of an expose of what 
I had in mind in the next few days and see what features list members would 
like to see - you never know I might be able to persuade my friend to write 
the software (it actually exists already but it is specific to something 
else - but he tells me that it would not be difficult to change it slightly 
for Rx control use)  It's mainly the drivers that would be the problem as 
we would need the command nmemonics for each type of receiver.

73s

John G8BSD