----- Original Message ----- From: "jabauzit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: [soft_radio] Re: A/D Idea
> --- In [email protected], KD5NWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ........... There are people that argue >> that a DSP is not a computer, but they are plain wrong. > > Right. Can a radio with DSP be called a SDR? I have a FT-897, it has > an audio DSP with autonotch, noise reduction, different filters and > could be called a SDR, but a very primitive one. Myself I would not > call it a SDR. The fact I can control it by software to tune, change > band, mode ... does not make it a SDR either. IC-746 and up, Ten-Tec > radio are SDRs. For Ten-Tec you don't even have to send it back to > upgrade the firmware. I've got a DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) radio that does everything with a Blackfin DSP, so I suppose it's an SDR. It's got one or two annoying bugs in the software (it crashes occasionally) but I can live with them. They sent me another but it was just the same apart from another fault with a sticky switch, I haven't bothered to send it back and they seem to have forgotten about it. That was over six months ago so I might as well keep it for spares. 8-) 73, Leon ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soft_radio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
