On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:10 AM, David Painter <[email protected]> wrote: > For almost five years FRS has been making announcements about a New > Architecture/Deep Impact development which, it was claimed, would permit > implementation of enhancements such as independent mode/filter etc selection > on the Multiwatch VFO;
I understand and appreciate David's point-of-view. I also understand and appreciate Neal's point of view. So, yes we are getting new features like the tracking notch filter. It is nice. It is progress. But the flip side is that the limitations of the architecture of PowerSDR mean that whole classes of new features are not possible. Example: RX2 is identical to RX1 ... in hardware. Unfortunately, due to the architecture of the software it is not possible to bring RX2 to a separate output (even via VAC) so I cannot truly use RX2 as an independent receiver. Flex got clobbered by people who were disappointed by an apparent lack of progress and became actively hostile to Flex. Those of you who read eHam know what I am talking about. I understand their trepidation to go back to that open style of discussion of futures for fear of bringing back the problem. But IMHO Flex has gone too far in the other direction. Now they will no longer even TALK about futures, let alone make any promises. Certainly they are correct, if they don't talk about it at all no one can beat them over the head. OTOH, it prevents people who understand the process from making any guesses even about future capability. Personally, I would be happy to hear from Flex that they have a plan and that it includes continuing to develop the new architecture that we have come to know as DI, but that they are also going to continue making incremental improvements to PSDR. In fact, many of the things that go into the development of DI could have a positive impact on PSDR too. But without any sign of this from Flex I am beginning to fear that thing that has kept me going for so long, i.e. Deep Impact, is dead and that all they are doing is making incremental and relatively inconsequential improvements to PowerSDR with no hope of an expandable architecture upon which to build new and interesting features. I sincerely hope I am wrong about this but without any sign from Flex I don't see any other way to interpret events. And you have no idea just how disappointing that is because, right now, Flex is the only company of any stature in ham radio that is doing anything new. I *desperately* want to see them be successful and long-lived (like TenTec). But without a good, flexible, growable architecture based on an open and documented messaging protocol between modules, I can't see that happening. <sigh> -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.767.617.1365 (Dominica) +1.916.877.5067 (USA) _______________________________________________ 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.
