Steve Benson, the designer of the Midnight Design rig you linked to is quite anaccomplished designer. I built one of his ~3 watt PSK31 mono banders back in the late 90s.
Paul Gacek W6PNG/M0SNA www.nomadic.blog > On Feb 22, 2021, at 6:45 AM, SteveL <[email protected]> wrote: > > This purpose-designed digital transceiver for FT8 (and other digital modes) > has received some attention recently: > https://midnightdesignsolutions.com/phaser/ > <https://midnightdesignsolutions.com/phaser/> > Not exactly revolutionary, but compact QRP design needing only a laptop - or > even something like a Raspberry Pi - to use with digital modes. > > And a number of years ago a fully self contained ultra portable PSK31 > transceiver was shown at Hamvention: > https://www.silentsystem.jp/handypsk.htm > <https://www.silentsystem.jp/handypsk.htm> > http://forum.radioamateur.ca/index.php?topic=8379.0 > <http://forum.radioamateur.ca/index.php?topic=8379.0> > > Steve > aa8af > >> On Feb 21, 2021, at 10:36 PM, Doug Millar via Elecraft >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have been wondering for some time- How will FT8 change ham radio >> equipment? Right off I imagine a radio and computer in one box maybe with >> the display. (FT8 should vastly simplify the first interface with the radio, >> with menus reaching deeper into its control. Most of today's designs are not >> well enough integrated and I think are hampered by preconceptions. Nor do >> they take advantage of graphic user interfaces that are common in say cell >> phones. I think it could be one box with voice and touch control with >> keyboard and mouse optional. How about an internal projector so that the >> screen can be projected onto another surface making monitors optional? If it >> is going to be worth it, It has to be not different but do things >> differently. >> Has anyone else had any thoughts? > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
