Re: [IRCA] Housing the RF-Space SDR-IQ

[Brett Saylor <bsaylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 5, 2007, at 5:27 AM, Mauno Ritola wrote:

> Why don't people here consider more the third alternative for the  
> transition
> period: using both the conventional and SDR rx? SDR-IQ with  
> Spectravue is
> relatively cheap (and takes minimum space on the desk!), so one can  
> still
> keep also the conventional receiver. Spectravue is admittedly (still)
> cumbersome in real time listening, but it works fine with playback  
> of the
> 190 kHz span recordings. In that respect some say it is handier  
> than Power
> SDR? So I use AR-7030+ for real time DXing and SDR-IQ ONLY for 190 kHz
> recording and playback.
>
> 73, Mauno


That's my mode of operating... I use the R8 for digging out DX, and  
the SDR for wide-band recording and visual identification of  
interesting signals. It's a good combination of technologies,

Brett Saylor

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