Eventually id like to see a modular version of PowerSDR that will allow us to write our own modules or 'plugins'. Then we can start porting or rewriting software for the digital modes that would be intimately tied in. Virtual audio and serial port cables will eventually become a thing of the past. They are important at this stage of the game because they allow us to use existing software not specifically designed for PowerSDR. In addition to digital modes, modules for logging and station control could bring everything you need to one screen.
Id like a GUI that is more customizable. I would customize it in such a way that I could setup different 'tabs' along the top of the PowerSDR screen for different modes of operation. If I click on CW, I get skimmer like functionality, if I click on SSB id have access to more filter and eq settings. For contesting I would have a different configuration than for DXing, or just tuning casually around the bands. Id setup buttons for each antenna. If the antenna didn't work on the band that I currently had selected, it would be 'greyed out'. Or maybe only the applicable antennas would show up. The rotor for the selected antenna (if applicable) would then be controllable from some buttons that came up in the 'antenna controls' portion of the screen when that antenna was selected. I would also like to see graphics card acceleration for the waterfall display. I would like to have the waterfall pan with the VFO as I tune around. That way I don't get 'lost' when I click on a new station to work. (I understand that nothing will show up on the frequencies that were out of the pass band) I would like features such as CW skimmer, the Bandmap feature from N1MM, and even DX spots to be embedded directly over the waterfall display in different layers that can be turned on or off. (like google earth) I would like real time 'DVR' type abilities, so I can jump back in time by a few seconds and decode the station that I saw start transmitting 10khz below me. Do I expect to see any of this for this year's holidays? Of course not. But I do suspect we will see this sort of thing in the future. I haven't completely figured out what Deep Impact will be all about, but I have a feeling it will be a step in the right direction. Until then, I'll keep cobbling everything together using 30 different programs and hundreds of windows all over my screen. It is fun to watch this evolve. Greg, N2GZ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Ellison Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 6:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FlexEdge] What I want as my upcoming holiday present... I want a software based TNC that is *not* AWGPE. I want it to be open source. And best of all, I want it to be conversant in I/Q in addition to AF so that I can feed it and receive complex data in the digital domain. I want it and my SDR software to talk the same language without the need of an interpreter or a virtual Rosetta Stone. The best of both worlds would be a modular program where the foundation layer was I/Q based and abstracted from the service layer so you could plug different modem modules into it to do digital modes and one of them would be an APRS enabled packet modem. (YES. I am frustrated getting a VHF/UHF SDR operational on packet and having to resort to surgically attaching a hardware TNC to my SOFTware defined radio. I have "Borged up" my beautiful SDR and none too happy about it.) -Tim ----- W4TME _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3259 - Release Date: 11/15/10 _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
