On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Stephen Prior <eastbrantw...@gmail.com>wrote:
> .... the more advanced RFSpace > offerings will give the K3 a good run for its money in receive performance > terms, but from my perspective, I'm afraid it's got to have knobs on! > ======== It's been observed by many on this reflector and elsewhere that the quality of programming of ham software has not come up to equal the quality of hardware design. I think this criticism is pretty valid. Moreover I don't see why there is any magic to having a PC do demodulation and DSP, tasks that are really better suited to dedicated CPU and DSP chips inside the radio. I've tried it both ways and I agree with Stephen about the knobs. IMHO, the KX3 design makes a heck of a lot more sense than a knobless image on a computer that you operate with a mouse. The ideal combo would be a knob-equipped radio that put out I-Q directly to a PC program that put up a clickable panadapter, just like the setup you get by using LP-Pan with a K3 except that the LP-Pan function would be brought onboard the radio -- as it is in the KX3. 73, Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
