Frank and I differ. The ultimate capabilities are profoundly revolutionary, as revolutionary an impact on radio as say CW Skimmer is having on CW contesting/operating. That said, the opening salvos will be functional, not glitzy and the glitz will come with time.
Bob ARRL SDR Working Group Chair Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "Trample the slow .... Hurdle the dead" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Brickle Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:33 PM To: Tim Ellison (W4TME) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio? Tim is exactly right. And anyway, we're out of the closet in admitting that the highly-esteemed "new architecture" is really just some "old architecture" applied to a mildly novel problem. Calling the prototype VR the new radio might be just a sliver less pretentious than continuing to call it by a name that implies something profoundly revolutionary :-) 73 Frank AB2KT On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Tim Ellison (W4TME) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > No new physical radio, per se. When you match the new VR code with the > FLEX-5000 and the SDR-1000, you will have new software defined radios that > are going to be very different from what you have today with PowerSDR 1.x. > That is what was promised to have running for Dayton 09. In the software > defined domain of programmers, the hardware is not really the radio, it is > just a source and destination for I/Q data streams for some black box to > make RF out of. > > - Tim > --------- > FRS Internet Systems Administrator > W4TME > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kirb Nesbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:22 PM > Subject: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio? > > > > New Radio? Please step up and speak into the microphone, sir. :-) > > > > Frank, AB2KT said- > > " Sooner than you might think. We are moving very fast now towards an > > earlier > > exposure of alpha code for the new radio than we'd previously announced > > (Dayton next)." > > > > Kirb - VE6IV > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > > [email protected] > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > > Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > -- Travelling by airplane in the US is nothing more than mass training of Americans to the requirements of the coming police state. The whole point is to make you learn to acquiesce without question, en masse, to completely absurd directives by dull functionaries wearing uniforms. -- Digby _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
