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>>> At the time this was developed SDR's were not very plentiful for the amateur market and the few available most often did not come with software; the buyer had to "roll his own" (e.g. be a software designer). <<< The Koolaid drinking is becoming Intoxicating around here! I got me a couple of questions 1) Anyone remembers the "Kenwood TS- B2000"? - The very first so call KNOBLESS RADIO 2) Anyone remembers what the "Acronym" DSP stand for? 3) Anyone remembers the "Kenwood -TS 850S with the DSP-100" (((73))) Milverton. >________________________________ > From: Edward R Cole <kl...@acsalaska.net> >To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 2:24 AM >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] I've been thinking! > >Gary, VK1ZZ: > >Not sure what you mean by "front end", but Elecraft chose to design the K3 >with the digital signal processor included (embedded) in the radio. They also >developed the software which defines operation of the radio (SDR= software >defined radio). At the time this was developed SDR's were not very plentiful >for the amateur market and the few available most often did not come with >software; the buyer had to "roll his own" (e.g. be a software designer). >This held down the appeal of SDR for a good while. The K3 came complete with >software and processor included which required no external computer. Elecraft >chose to call the software "firmware" as it was downloaded into non-volatile >memory. Thus is was firm until a new version was downloaded. > >However, Elecraft did not provide external connection to the IQ data stream or >baseband so no second-party sw could be used using a computer. That was both >good and bad: good such that the radio was stabile since firmware was under >Elecraft product reliability control, but bad for use of any other sw programs. > >In the KX3 they have provided external IQ baseband output so one can try any >number of SDR programs with the KX3 (caveat is you may need a bit more >understanding of computers to actually get many to work with it). I suspect >that there will be many sw gurus that will come forward with versions to work >with the KX3. Of course one will need a computer with good soundcard to run >them. > >In time I will probably play with trying other sw with the KX3. JT65 and JT9 >probably the first. They will not provide full access to the control panel, >though. Maybe PowerSDR can be modified to work with the KX3? Drivers must be >developed for each radio that one uses a sw radio program (and that is hard >part). > >73, Ed - KL7UW > >______________________________________________________________ >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 > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
