Thanks Ed, I will have to take another look at their web page, looks interesting.
Andy K3UK On 9/7/09, ed_hekman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Andy, > > I built a Softrock RXTX V6.3 earlier this year. It does take some reading > to understand what is offered and what is required/available for each kit. > It is not really a business - the guys design the radios and offer the kits > for little more than the cost of the parts. I think it is mostly the work of > Tony Parks, KB9YIG. Limited runs are made of each kit depending on the > interest. > > Briefly here is what is "available": > - Softrock Lite II - single band receiver > - IF Special Softrock Lite - IF panadapter kit - You specify the IF > frequency of your radio. > - Softrock V9.0 Lite - All band receiver with plugin front end filters for > each band. Also includes an Si570 digital VFO that can be controlled through > a USB port or 1 of 16 preprogrammed frequencies can be selected with 4 dip > switches. There is also an electronically switched BPF filter board and a > 6M/2M converter kit available for this receiver. > - Softrock RXTX V6.3 transceiver - All band transceiver with 4 sets of > plugin BPF modules/PAs to cover all bands from 160 to 10 meters. Output > power is less than 1 watt. This includes the Si570 digital VFO with 16 > preprogrammed frequencies. A USB to I2C converter is available to control > the Si570 VFO through a USB port. Other people offer stand-alone controllers > for the Si570. I bought the one from Kees, K5BCQ ( > http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/Kits/Kits.html). There was a motherboard (MoBo > 3.6) for it that held the PA and all the BPF modules and had electronic > switching but that is no longer available. The next version, MoBo 4.3, will > be available later this year. Others offer PAs to boost the power up to 5 > watts, 20 - 40 watts or even 100 watts. > > Software that I am aware of includes: > - Rocky 3.6 - Transceiver with PSK capability - single line text display, > no macros or logging but it is the easiest to set up. I made several PSK > QSOs with Rocky. > - SDRadio - receive only > - WinRad - receive only > - KGKSDR - transceiver - I couldn't get this to work. > - PowerSDR from Flex-Radio - The most powerful and complex to set up. > - MultiPSK - It has an SDR front-end. This can do all the MultiPSK digital > modes with an SDR radio. > > I hope this helps relieve a little of the confusion. > > Ed > WB6YTE >
