[IRCA] 4. Re: SDR Recommendations? (Bruce Portzer)

[Anthony R Gargano <n2ss@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 12, 2013, at 9:16 PM, irca-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for the comments, Bruce. Since you have them both side by side, putting the UI issues aside, do you find one outperforms the other?
Regards,

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> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:43:06 -0700
> From: Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi Anthony
> 
> I've owned an Excalibur for the past two years, and very recently added 
> a Perseus to my radio collection.  Both are quite good receivers.   I'm 
> not aware of any Mac software to run either radio, although there may be 
> third party software I don't know about.
> 
> I've been generally happy withe the User Interface that comes with the 
> Excalibur.  I'm much less impressed with the Perseus UI, but I've only 
> been using it for a couple of days and may need to give it more time.
> 
> I haven't run into the recording issue Nick mentions.  I routinely use 
> the Excalibur to record 2 MHZ sections of spectrum (MW & SW) with no 
> problems.  That's with a quad core (i5) CPU in my PC. The problem could 
> nonetheless occur with older, slower PCs (single CPU and possibly some 
> low end dual core PCs).
> 
> Bruce
> 

Anthony R Gargano
n2ss@xxxxxxxx




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