Re: [Flexradio] A bit of light entertainment

[Bob . Cowdery]

Michael   Pleased to know you are joining the Squeakers.   > I downloaded squeak and have started playing with it. Way cool! > I spent 7 years programming java, but got tired of it, but squeak looks > like where I want to spend my time. It is refreshingly different and a lot of fun. I am a great believer in horses for courses and this horse is right for what I have in mind. I am involved in two projects at work at the moment and for the first Python has worked really well, for the other which is much larger Java is the only choice for the backend tiers but I am using Ruby on Rails for the Web Application. In both cases I think I have the right horses but it's always a difficult choice. > My goals: > 1. I would like to run the sdr1000 on my mac. I've had it about 6 months > and just can't go back to windows. You might say that I have a severe case > of Windows Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (WPDST) :-) > Besides, my stepson absconded with my Intel box that was dual boot >  linux/windows. It would be nice to see at least the GUI on a Mac, and that should be pretty straight forward. Linux is a good host for the DSP and my preferred mode is to have the DSP on it's own machine as I can then mess about on the machine running the GUI and run lots of stuff without any danger of causing a hiccup. > 2. I'd like to contribute what I can to a aqueak port of sdr code. That would be great if you could. As each component is very loose coupled, it should be easy to write new components without in most cases touching anything else save maybe adding an entry to a map and implementing any new methods in the components you link to. I haven't really stopped to think about how things should link together yet. I think the basic philosophy is going to be each component deals with its own responsibilities. So for example the DSP client and server components know the state of the DSP and should reflect this in software LED's. etc. But things like how to arbitrate between all the frequency displays that you could throw on a screen, do A<>B, C<>D etc, IRT/ITT and IF shift, multiple receivers (jsdr supports 4) etc etc is still up for grabs. At the moment I am thinking about a persistency addition to the framework using the Magma package which I have started playing with. As with the connection management I want it to be completely transparent to component writers. > 3. And finally, I am interested in 3d sound. The idea, for cw, is that if youto > can move the sound 3 dimensionally to improve cw copy. I've tried this > (by moving speakers) and when I get it just right (above the plane of my > head and about a foot in front) for me the code just seems to make letters appear > automatically. That sounds more like DSP work. I do hope that eventually the DSP can be implemented as components that can be wired up in the same way as the rest of the application. There is a PortAudio port going on at the moment which will open up those possibilities. As you say, lets see what can happen. > Look forward to seeing what can happen. 73 Bob   On 12/29/05, Cowdery, Bob [UK] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perfectly feasible in that squeak runs on Mac OSX. I can't speak for how it runs as I don't have a Mac. The SDR1000 controller would have to be changed to use the Mac way of getting to the parallel port which I guess is the same as nix. More importantly the jsdr implementation would have to run and I don't think that has been ported, but I could be wrong.   Bob   -----Original Message----- From: Michael Doherty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 December 2005 12:35 To: Cowdery, Bob [UK] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] A bit of light entertainment   Is it feasible to run this on mac (OSX)? 73's, Michael kd5wby On 12/29/05, Cowdery, Bob [UK] < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > You're too modest, Bob. This is exactly what I (personally, from a very > jaundiced point of view) want an SDR to be. I never blow my trumpet too hard Frank incase it falls apart! I hope this effort will have a longer life span and I think maybe it will. I made a few small updates to my web page so text wraps, had to cut the pic in half (must be a better way). Added the installation info. 73 Bob -----Original Message----- From: Frank Brickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 December 2005 10:26 To: Cowdery, Bob [UK] Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] A bit of light entertainment [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok guys. I think a bit of real information is called for here. 73 Frank AB2KT *** Confidentiality Notice *** Proprietary/Confidential Information belonging to CGI Group Inc. and its affiliates may be contained in this message. 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