Gene,

Might be of interest:
https://wiki.myriadrf.org/LimeSDR-Mini
$149 in parts

What used to be so hard to build and expensive in analog is often
replaced by software.

On 5/1/19 9:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 May 2019 21:09:11 bari wrote:
>
>> There are some younger versions still around, we just don't like to
>> bragĀ  :)
>>
> Hang out a shingle then. Radio people are getting desperate.
>
>> Back in the early 80's I wrote antenna design software for microwave
>> in Basic using Dos 2.1 on 8MHz PC's. It would take hours days to print
>> out results on a dot matrix printer. I came across and old copy of it
>> and it ran in seconds on a modern PC.
>>
>> On 5/1/19 7:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> But they've all died off and no one has taken
>>> their place.
>>> Somehow I've seen there can be another career in doing this antenna
>>> tuning with a new and different computerized bridge that can draw
>>> this chart in 5 to 10 minutes that used to take those guys all night
>>> to gather the data, and half the next day to plot it, making sense
>>> out of the readings.
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett



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