--- In [email protected], FRANCIS CARCIA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill I'm doing the same thing with a Racal RA6830 but built a homebrew board that does the same thing as a SR6. I'm also involved in HPSDR looking for a SDR that will outperform my hot rod RA6830. I still like a front panel and tuning knob. I guess it is a buzzard thing to the computer wiz kids. The spectrum display function is very nive in either demodulation mode.
Hi Frank, I do not think it has to do being a wiz kind or not. I am not that young and worked all my life with computers starting with the kind using a TTY as a console, programming the bootstrap via the switches of the front panel to load a loader via the TTY punch reader which in turn loaded the operating system via a high speed punched tape reader. After that it was the glass TTYs and eprom bootstrap. Next was the first graphical workstations like Lisa - the precursor of the Mac - and the Apollo using the first optical mouse costing $300.00. I can say that I am at ease with the new graphical interfaces but nothing can beat knobs and switches. Clicking on the spectrum display to tune a frequency is nice but you still have to fine tune and a knob is much better. Switching VFOs is a lot easier by pressing switches and going into transmit with a foot pedal is the best. I think a SDR should incorporate both interfaces which are complementary: some things are easier with the mouse and others with old style knobs and switches. Jean-Claude PJ2BVU
