[Premium-Rx] KF6DX 'Advanced Technology' talk on the web

[w3sz]

Hello, All,

Some on the list might be interested in downloading a wmv video file of a  
talk that Doug Smith gave at the Georgia Institute of Technology in May  
2003 on 'Advanced Technology in Amateur Radio'.  In this video he  
discusses [to a general Amateur Radio audience, I believe] among other  
things his receiver design philosphies and goes thru block diagrams of his  
two best known receiver projects, the Kachina 505D and the TenTec Orion,  
and discusses the design tradeoffs, limitations of dynamic range in analog  
and especially digital stages, the role of roofing filters, the  
appropriate use of [and potential problems with] analog AGC to try to  
compensate for the limits of digital dynamic range, etc.

The file is about 77.5 MB zipped, and once expanded is about 79.6 MB.  The  
talk runs about 110 minutes.

As everyone on the list probably knows, Doug in addition to doing both the  
Kachina 505D and the Orion projects is also the Editor of QEX.  I think he  
will be hosting the ARRL Technology Forum at the Dayton Hamvention this  
year, on Sunday at about 10:15 am.

Doug's webpage that has the downloads for this file is at:
http://www.doug-smith.net/index.htm

The ZIP download itself is:
http://www.101science.com/QEX_MED.zip .

You can also watch it in streaming format:
http://www.101science.com/Doug_Smith_QEX_LOW.wmv
This is however low resolution, and the 'slides' [yes I know they are not  
really slides anymore ;) ] are difficult enough to see on the medium  
resolution version so I don't know how they would look on this version.

I downloaded and saved the 77.5 MB zipped medium resolution version of the  
file in about 12 minutes.  I really enjoyed the talk.  Doug always does a  
great job!

73,

ROger Rehr
W3SZ



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Roger Rehr
W3SZ
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