Re: [IRCA] SDR radios

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Powell E. Way III W4OPW" <w4opw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My friend Jack Jackson has one of the ones from RF
> Space in Atlanta that will be for sale soon. One of
> the most amazing things is  you can record an entire
> SWATH of spectrum, save it to the hard drive, and go
> back to that file, and with the software that tunes
> the radio, ACTUALLY "tune" the file as if you were
> using the radio real time.  Price for the radio isn't
> really bad, but you need one of THE fastest computers
> with a  GIANT hard drive, and memory to the max.  
> 
>

*** For those who have been around long enough to remember this, GPN
used to talk about the possibility of what he called "The Monday
Morning Recorder" which would have done the same thing but using
videotape to record the audio spectrum. 40 years leater, and we have this.

Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop

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