Peter, I just bought the TS-2000 and my neighbor obtained an SDR-1000 recently. I think for purely cutting edge features, the SDR-1000 would be the rig that would give you "more". I decided not to buy it because I would have likely needed a further investment of $1000 to upgrade to a professional sound card and a PC with enough RAM and CPU power. Software support for the SDR-1000 in digital modes is growing but there are still some that lack the full support you usually see for other rigs. In the SDR-1000 forum I saw a post that suggested that one should view the SDR-1000 as a "work in progress", an evolving experiment. That was a year old post and I think it has evolved quite well in the past year.
Andy K3UK On 2/12/07, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter, IMHO, the SDR-1000 has some of the best specs. out and is the most configurable transceiver on the market. I have seen the insides of the transceiver several times and the construction looks good. But note that it is only controllable using MS NT (maybe), W2K, XP but I understand that there is a problem controlling it with Vista. According to Felx Radio there is third party software to control the SDR-1000 with Linux but I'll be darned if I can find anything that gives steps 1, 2, 3, to take, to download, compile the application or configure the radio. If a manufacturer claims that there is 3rd party software but can't tell you where it is, then I think they should not claim that there is such software and let it go at that. For that reason I am leery of buying hardware that makes such claims. I have seen demonstrations of the SDR-1000 and I have used the TS-1000/2000 series radios and the SDR-1000 is most impressive against the Yaesu radios. 73, Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com <digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>[mailto: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com <digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>]On Behalf Of Peter G. Viscarola Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 1:30 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com <digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: [digitalradio] Can I get a rig with MORE? I work digital modes (PSK, RTTY, MFSK, Olivia, etc) almost exclusively. I also have a pretty low noise environment, living out in the country and with my antenna (a dipole) almost 100' from the nearest RF noise source. Note that upgrading my antenna system is really not an option at this point for a whole lot of reasons. I presently have a TS-2000 and I like it a lot. I like the ability to use the IF DSP to narrow the passband from each side to isolate the signal I want. I've been pretty successful with it, too. Given my modest setup I'm rapidly closing-in on my first 100 for DXCC, after being on HF for only about 4 months. Could I gain some sensitivity/selectivity/better filtering by upgrading my rig? What rigs might folks suggest? How about the SDR-1000? Better? Worse? Something else? I'm relatively new to HF, so I'm looking for some elmering I suppose -- Is my rig doing as well as any? Or, is a significant step up possible? Again... I'm interested strictly in digital mode performance. And, again, while I'd *like* to put up a tower with a beam (and I *know* the old adage about 1 dollar spent on antennas is worth 100 spent in teh shack), that just can't happen (for any price I can pay) given my location. Thanks for your opinions, de Peter K1PGV __
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