But isn't that the point? The KXn family ARE SDR, with I and Q outputs ready for excellent pandapter display with the PXn.
Just want VHF/UHF instead of HF and it's all there. Andy, G8TQH Sent from my iPhone > On 25 May 2016, at 09:43, David Anderson via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I was active on the linear transponders of AO6 through to AO13 I never > used a satellite duplex radio, always separates. We had much better > satellites then, in decent orbits like AO-10. So Yaesu in particular brought > out lovely expensive duplex radios. Great! However then the linear sats > gradually died and were replaced by digital radio sats. Some FM one channel > toy sats, but nothing like the old wide linear transponders. > > Only recently with FunCube and the Chinese Sats have we started to get linear > voice transponders back, but again in low fast moving orbits. > > Many are now making use of SDR dongles or other SDR receivers as their > receiver for sats, because they have many advantages over the old way of just > being able to listen to your own receive channel. With an SDR and panoramic > can see all of the passband of the transponder or transponders on multiple > satellites at once. You can point and click on a signal of interest. Record > the whole pass and play it back and see who you missed in the very short > pass. You can run the SDR on a tablet computer in the field, and have more > capability than your old FT-736R of olden days. > > In short, until we have high orbit transponders on VHF UHF like AO-10/13 no > manufacturer is going to produce an FT-736R replacement. Any plans for a > geostationary satellite would not use VHF UHF, but microwave to get the > bandwidth required for a third of the world trying to access it at one time > all the time. > > Things have moved on, a single duplex box isn't what is needed. A > transmitter CAT coupled to an SDR panoramic receiver is much better. Point on > the screen on the signal you see and with Doppler corrected software set the > transmitter you have via CAT to the uplink frequency. It is also magnitudes > cheaper. > > > 73 from David GM4JJJ > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
