On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ... I'm not sure that a honking computer is required...
======= Naw, the client that displays the pan and controls the radio appears to be not too different from, say, Ham Radio Deluxe. Of course you can run lots of pans at once and increase the computing needed, but the radio part is all on the ARM chip inside. This is an interesting gambit on Flex's part. They absolutely have to get out from under PSDR, which has been a huge resource drain with no offsetting revenues. And they were facing obsolescence problems: a new version of Firewire, USB 3.0, new Windows OS, etc were making them run hard to stay in the same place with the old designs. OTOH, leaving the old designs and their installed user base in the dust kinda makes the claim that the radio can never go out of style sound a bit hollow -- their old designs are now orphans and that situation will only get worse. An HQ-110 still performs as it did 50 years ago, but a radio that depended on an Atari 400 or an Apple 1 would just be junk. That could be the eventual fate of the existing Flex radios, and this new design makes that point in a trenchant way. It's a very promising design, a huge upgrade, and a huge amount of addition by subtraction; but it illustrates the difficulties and dangers of SDR as a business plan. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
