Dear Robert/Bob, Now I know how you accomplish so much inspired remarkable work. There are actually *two *of you!
73 Ed W1PN On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Bob McGwier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Robert made a careless statement that is misinterpreted easily in his > enthusiasm. Bob will correct it! ;-). > There is one A/D in the 6500 receive system. That feeds one FPGA which > digitally gives us 4 slice receivers that can be sent to the DSP chip for > further processing. > The 6700 has two AD's in front of the LARGER FPGA. Out the door this > configuration will support up to 8 slices in a fantastic collection of > forms. I am like everyone else here. I am excited. But unlike many > here, this is the radio I knew could be done in the fullness of time. It > is here and it's ultimate potential is limited mostly by our imagination. > Sorry if the original was confusing and if there is still confusion, I > apologize. > David, the radio has a large and complex RF switching capability, > tremendous compute power inside, ethernet interface to your shack and > world. > I am so proud to be able to contribute on a brand new code base, doing > things we could only dream of before. > For the US friends, have a great memorial day weekend! > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid > > > -----Original message----- > From: Robert McGwier <[email protected]> > To: David Painter <[email protected]> > Cc: flexedge <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, May 25, 2012 04:07:53 GMT+00:00 > Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] [Flexradio] Differences between the 5K & 6K ? > > All slice receivers will be independent and the "SDR" which follows will > set the mode, etc. There is a software limitation on the subreceivers in > PSDR that has more to do the limitations imposed by the way audio was > delivered in the, system than, it had to do with the SDR code and the way > the control surface was implemented in the GUI. > > The limitations of the slice receivers are that in the 6700, four of the 8 > are hooked to one AD and therefore hooked to one antenna and the other 4 > are hooked to a different AD and to a separate antenna source. For > dynamic range and IP3 enhancements the two different AD can be hooked > together to the same antenna. > > The bottom line is the answer is yes, what I said is right and I hope the > elaboration helps and doesn't confuse. > > Bob > On May 24, 2012 5:59 PM, "David Painter" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Bob, >> >> That statement is only partly true...isn't it?? >> >> Its true that in PSDR we have a multiwatch facility but it does not >> support independent mode/filters etc. >> >> Will each of the 8/4 slices in the 6700/6500 be capable of supporting >> multiwatch/mutireceivers with independent mode/filters etc??? >> >> There is no multiwatch functionality in the second receiver at all, >> although its been promised for many years, let alone independent >> mode/filters etc >> >> G4PNX - David >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McGwier" <[email protected]> >> To: "Jerry Flanders" <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:03 PM >> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Differences between the 5K & 6K ? >> >> >> In the 6700, there are 8 slice receivers but each of those will be >> > capable > >> of supporting multiple sub RX as in PSDR. We have not decided how many >>> software receivers to run on the DaVinci per slice and if we did, how >>> >> you > >> might use them. >>> >>> Right now, I want one per slice to be perfect. >>> >>> Bob >>> On May 24, 2012 11:44 AM, "Jerry Flanders" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> OOPS! I just re-read the PDF brochure: "Slice Receivers allow you to >>> >>>> simultaneously visually and audibly monitor multiple frequencies within >>>> the >>>> same band or multiple bands ". Looks like we will have audio to use. >>>> Multiple means at least 2, and maybe 4/8. I don't see the hardware >>>> connection points, so maybe we will have audio streaming over the >>>> ethernet >>>> to the PC client. My error. >>>> >>>> Jerry W4UK >>>> >>>> At 10:10 AM 5/24/2012, Jerry Flanders wrote: >>>> >>>> At 09:51 AM 5/24/2012, Tony Estep wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:26 AM, W1JCW <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > ....wanted to know what significant gains there would be... >>>>>> >>>>>> ============ >>>>>> John, a significant gain is that the new design can receive several >>>>>> slices >>>>>> of spectrum at once. In other words, you can run a number of the >>>>>> lightweight display/control windows at the same time, each pointing to >>>>>> different frequency slices. They can be on different bands, modes, >>>>>> >>>>> etc. > >> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> We know that reception as panadaptor views of those 4-8 slices are >>>>> planned, but we don't know if we will have audio from 4-8 "receivers" >>>>> available for use in some worthwhile way. 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