From: Nick Hall-Patch<nhp@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR software
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 6:43 PM
--
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
from http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/:
Ensemble All-Band RX II
The SoftRock RX Ensemble Receiver Kit is essentially the
Ensemble RX, but has an
extra option allowing the user to build the HF or the LF
version of the receiver.
In the first option, the Ensemble RX kit provides coverage
of ham bands from
160-10m, in four different optional "super bands" (each
with underlap and
overlap within the parameters of the associated bandpass
filter):
1. 160m - Continuous coverage from 1.8 to
2.0 MHz
2. 80m and 40m - Continuous coverage from
3.5 to 7.3 MHz
3. 30m, 20m, and 17m - Continuous
coverage from 10.1 to 18.168 MHz
4. 15m, 12m, and 10m - Continuous
coverage from 21.0 to 29.7 MHz
In the second option, the Ensemble RX II provides coverage
of LF frequencies
from approximately 160-10m, in four different optional
"super bands" (each with
underlap and overlap within the parameters of the
associated bandpass filter):
1. Band 0: 1000m - Continuous coverage
from 180 kHz to 480 kHz
2. Band 1: 500m - Continuous coverage
from 400 kHz to 800 kHz
3. Band 2: 250m - Continuous coverage
from 800 kHz to 1.6 MHz
4. Band 3: 160m - Continuous coverage
from 1.6 MHz to 3.0 MHz
..............................................................
Quoting Russ Edmunds<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>:
Looks like the Softrock 160m version tunes only 1.8 to
2.0 mHz.
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80& Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15';
Grundig G8
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot
--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Nick Hall-Patch<nhp@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: Nick Hall-Patch<nhp@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR software
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio
Club of America"
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 3:00 PM
If you're willing to do a fair bit of
work (and learning and experimenting)
yourself, then I suspect you can SDR for
peanuts:
http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/
http://homepages.wightcable.net/~g4zfq/Si570.htm
This is the Softrock kit, versions of which can
cover MW
apparently. I have no
experience of these, but the very capable
Sdr-radio
software can run them (no
cost)....prices under $100 for the hardware
kits...when
available.
best wishes,
Nick
--
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Quoting "HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS"<DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>:
Agree - For me $850 may as well be $1000 or
$2000. I have never owned
an expensive rig for any bands that I DX
on.
Look at the Sony HD Tuner
for FM DX'ing. It competes against tuners
costing five times as much.
I can justify a $70 purchase but not a $400
one, just
to DX the FM band.
Plus, I now have a decent tuner for general
listening.
I am hoping that some less expensive SDR
units
eventually come to the
marketplace. And when I mean "less
expensive,"
I'm talking below $250.
Obviously since these are not consumerist
offerings,
there is no mass
market discounts. Unless somebody can try
to
mass market these as
something like "Tivo for radio" or some
other way of
generating mass
interest beyond DX'ers, the prices will
probably stay
above $500.
73,
Dave in Indy
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 11:44:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Russ Edmunds<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio
Club of
America
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR
software
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Thanks Chuck and Nick, although in the one
case, we're
quibbling over $2
<g>.
Even so, I have trouble justifying $850
though. I
don't think I've spent
that much cumulatively over my years in the
hobby,
considering two
HQ-150's and two ICF 2010's. For the record,
I bought
my first HQ-150
used in 1969.
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80& Onkyo T-450RDS w/
APS9B @15';
Grundig G8
AM:? Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot
--- On Sat, 1/8/11, Nick Hall-Patch<nhp@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: Nick Hall-Patch<nhp@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Testing New SDR
software
To: "Mailing list for the International
Radio
Club of America"
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 1:50
PM
Excalibur is $850 at Grove,
Russ....http://www.grove-ent.com/excalibur.html???Detailed
review
appeared in DX Monitor just
recently...and of
course, none
of the
analog receivers covered the full BCB
either!?
Mine
cover one channel
at a time, and they need a separate
audio
recorder for that
channel...
A bit more later.???This is an
interesting
topic, and I'm surprised
how few comments there have been on
Mike's post
so far.
best wishes,
Nick
At 15:00 08-01-11, you wrote:
I was ( although I didn't say so )
excluding
the SDR-IQ
completely
on account of that very big
limitation. If
you want to
cover the
full BCB, it isn't happening today
for under
a grand so
far as I know.
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80& Onkyo
T-450RDS w/ APS9B
@15';
Grundig G8
AM:? Modified Sony ICF 2010's
barefoot
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