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Colin,
Keep an open mind. I have a Winradio G31 SDR. I have never used the recording
feature (I'm strictly a real time listener), love it's features, have found it
to be great for portable operations. And I'm retired. :-) I previously had a
thoroughly modified Icom R75 and it took a lot (A LOT!) of soul searching to
make the change, but no regrets. I miss the tactile finger tip and visual
experiences, but my ears are happy.
Bob Coomler W7SWLTucson, AZ
From: R. Colin Newell <coffeecan...@gmail.com>
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Cc: Mark Connelly <markwa1...@aol.com>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] drake r8a for sale
All good comments - my current reluctance to join the SDR crowd is the expense
of buying a Perseus and then getting a laptop with enough horsepower to operate
it...
For me, another strike against is the whole concept of scooping a swath of
spectrum and “listening to” or searching it “later on...”
I work - and I have zero time for hunching over a laptop and snooping through
WAV files looking for DX that happened 8-12 hours earlier.
Maybe when I’m retired.
I am amped about getting a BeagleBone webSDR up an running from my QTH but was
choked when I looked at how expensive it was to get one to CANADA.... around
twice the price of one in the USA.
I’ll revisit that soon - the idea of having a self contained web receiver with
a dedicated processor is appealing. Having an SDR that is dépendant on the
whims of Bill Gates and Windows holds ZERO appeal. Unlink thé receiver concept
from a Windows O/S and I’m in.
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
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