[soft_radio] Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Man, this is an active email group, but thats good, I got lots to read and very interesting, Ken brought up the question of whether you can notch the I and Q signals in the audio chain of a receiver? I have had receivers with i.f. notch before and as far as I understand the two phase

Re: [soft_radio] This is a good group!

2006-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Art: The expansion slot idea is good. I saw a receiver like that somewheres on the net. Dan _ Call Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere in the World - FREE! Free Internet calling from NetZero Voice Visit http://www.netzerovoice.com

[soft_radio] Re: [softrock40] SDR program for Macintosh

2006-04-04 Thread KD5NWA
Must have a bad fan, I can hardly hear mine, it's so quiet. At 09:17 PM 4/3/2006, Robert McGwier wrote: Today I installed a dual PPC Mac in my SDR lab at work. GnuRadio and DttSP and WSJT are all on the agenda. I helped get Portaudio going for GnuRadio and DttSP. PortAudio is a Portable Audio

RE: [soft_radio] Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread Ray Anderson
I'm wondering what the insertion of notch filters into the IQ channels will do to the quadrature relationship of those channels. While I'm sure the insertion of the notch filters will suppress certain narrowband frequencies effectively I think it would be most difficult to maintain a quadrature

Re: [soft_radio] This is a good group!

2006-04-04 Thread KY1K
Hi Dan, It's the obvious progression as the softrock and similar technology receivers become more sophisticated and as the quadrature transmitters become available. Since the computing power is available inside the same box, putting the transceiver there also is a good thing. Another user

Re: [soft_radio] I.F. Mixer Boards For Use With Any Receiver?

2006-04-04 Thread KD5NWA
You would not like the Quadrature clock to be at the frequency of interest, but you would want it about 10KHz to 15KHz away, the LO is often picked up along with 60Hz hum giving you a huge spike at the center of the pass-band. If you Quadrature clock is at 443KHz or 467KHz instead then your

Re: [soft_radio] Re: Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread KD5NWA
So where can one get the source so one could modify it? At 11:08 AM 4/4/2006, you wrote: --- In soft_radio@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Ken brought up the question of whether you can notch the I and Q signals in the audio chain of a receiver? I

Re: [soft_radio] I.F. Mixer Boards For Use With Any Receiver?

2006-04-04 Thread FRANCIS CARCIA
Dan, I built a homebrew board to plug into my RA6830 that converts 455 KHz to 7.625 KHz using a color burst crystal divided by 8. My converter is a double balanced tayloe and oscillator is a soft rock 40 copy. I put a 6 dB pad at the input so the input Z is forced to 50 ohms. It would be very

[soft_radio] Re: Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread i2phd
--- In soft_radio@yahoogroups.com, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So where can one get the source so one could modify it? Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com Cecil, I have already sent out the source code of SDRadio many times to those who requested it. If you want it, I can send it

[soft_radio] Re: Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread Ray Anderson
--- In soft_radio@yahoogroups.com, KD5NWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I and Q signals depend on their phase relationship in order for it to work correctly, something like a notch filter will mess up that relationship and render them useless. Besides the main point of a QSD receiver is for the

Re: [soft_radio] This is a good group!

2006-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Art: I have one receiver here a Philco Ford Sierra 128 A which has every single circuit board in a sheilded box, even the audio board and its the best receive I have. I do not get noise with it when I use it with the PC. So receiver shielding is certainly a plus on any design that might

RE: [soft_radio] Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ray: I am certain that there may be some trade off with the notch filter idea. If the circuit responce is good to 50 KHz which is not hard to achieve in audio circuits then the sinewave accuaracy and phase may be preserved. Of course this is theory until it has been checked out on the test

Re: [soft_radio] Re: I.F. Mixer Boards For Use With Any Receiver?

2006-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wolfgang: Yes, I think you would have to have pll control for DRM and I read that they do not recommend AGC on during DRM? So thats what I meant earlier when I was writing about turning AGC off. Dan _ Call Anyone,

Re: [soft_radio] I.F. Mixer Boards For Use With Any Receiver?

2006-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KD5NWA: Yes Rick Campbell explained that the isolation of the vfo or local oscillator is criticle when operating the circuit on the fundamental in the mixer scheme. And offset of the frequency is desirable to offset the center frequency when needed If one wanted too, they can use a panel

Re: [soft_radio] Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread Bernie Wright
No Dan! This is just so wrong. You cannot compare what can be done via DSP to what you will ever achieve in hardware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray: I am certain that there may be some trade off with the notch filter idea. If the circuit responce is good to 50 KHz which is not hard to

Re: [soft_radio] Notch Filters?

2006-04-04 Thread Robert McGwier
In the PowerSDR/SDR-1000 software there is a block LMS automatic notch filter that I should have enhanced with a manual notch a long time ago for CW in particular. That said, this operates on complex signals and produces a complex signal. It does not hurt the image and is the single most