Well, one thing you can be certain of. We'll keep the wacky ideas coming. Egg-nog.
Rick On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Stephen Hicks, N5AC <[email protected]>wrote: > It's funny, when we have conversations like this inside the company, since > we are all hams we think about what we would want or what would be neat to > have first. We dream just like you were doing and then we all stop > ourselves and say: OK, now could we actually sell this to someone else and > what would it cost to do it? There are so many good ideas of neat things > that can be done -- some from internal sources and some from external. If > only someone could give us 48 hours in a day to do them all ;-) > > Steve > > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Rick McClelland, AA5S < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi, Steve; >> >> Thank you for responding to my note, that really wasn't necessary since I >> was just speculating/dreaming about something really groovy to do with the >> 6700 series radios. Furthermore, presuming that this point isn't already >> obvious, my thoughts about combining a 6700 and 6700R for improved receive >> performance were completely without a technical basis for understanding how >> such a combination would be made possible. >> >> However, it seems from your response that there may be, at least at some >> point in the future, a possibility of this becoming reality. I'm pretty >> confident the receive performance of a stand-alone 6700 would meet the >> needs of most amateurs (case in point, my Flex 1500 seems to be suiting my >> needs just fine.) I was thinking of this from the view of a stake-holder >> in the company, wouldn't it be groovy if instead of selling a single radio >> to the high-end amateur, Flex could sell two or four? That would have to >> be a positive outcome for all involved, including those of us still >> happily puttering around with 'legacy' radios. >> >> Rick >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Stephen Hicks, N5AC <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Rick, >>> >>> There are many forms of combining signals for better reception. In the >>> 6700(R), the two SCUs are completely synchronized (ALL LOs are >>> synchronous). This is not a trivial assertion -- there are very few radios >>> that can make this assertion and no other commercially available amateur >>> radios. This gives rise to some exceptionally easy combining that gives >>> immediate benefits in terms of sensitivity and dynamic range. >>> >>> The 6000 series also has an optional GPS module that is designed to help >>> in the synchronization of receivers that are or are not next to each other. >>> Combining signals that are generated with a separate LO/sampling clock, >>> that have not been synchronized is a harder problem. The GPS makes this >>> easier, but also allows us to send signals across the Internet and combine >>> signals knowing both where and when they originated. The benefits from >>> this will come later as the software is developed. >>> >>> Incidentally, our CDRX-3200 is a blade-architecture receiver that can >>> synchronize 32 receivers. It also costs in the mid-five-figures. The cost >>> of developing and build a blade-architecture system is significantly more >>> than what we came up with in the 6000-series. We did consider a blade >>> system, but every time we added up all the connectors, separate PCBs, >>> hardware and sheet metal we would realize that the ME's in the office were >>> getting more than their fair share of the product cost. We want product >>> cost to stay in the EE/SW side of the house. And we wanted the radio to be >>> as affordable as we could make it. ;-) >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> Stephen Hicks, N5AC, AAR6AM >>> VP Engineering >>> FlexRadio Systems™ >>> 4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150 >>> Austin, TX 78728 >>> Phone: 512-535-4713 x205 >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Web: www.flexradio.com >>> >>> >>> >>> *Tune In Excitement™* >>> PowerSDR™ is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Rick McClelland, AA5S < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Well, we can ignore that part of my posting (it was 2 am, after all), >>>> I'm >>>> curious as to whether there would be any real, tangible benefit to >>>> lashing >>>> together a 6700 and a 6700R? This is certainly within the reach >>>> (economically) of a fair number of hams. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Dan Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> > You just described what they already make for the government :) >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Dan >>>> > >>>> > On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:08 AM, "Rick McClelland, AA5S" < >>>> [email protected]> >>>> > wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > I notice in the Flex 6700 brochure: >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > Each of the two Spectral Capture Units allows simultaneous >>>> reception from >>>> > > their own respective antenna or the two can be optimally combined to >>>> > > deliver increased dynamic range. In addition, dual SCUs provide the >>>> > > capability for diversity reception, >>>> > > >>>> > > beam steering, noise mitigation, and multi-antenna monitoring. >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > If we can combine two SCUs for increased dynamic range or diversity >>>> > > reception, etc., how about combining a Flex 6700 with a Flex 6700R >>>> such >>>> > > that a single client utilizes four SCUs, two optimized for dynamic >>>> range >>>> > > and two for diversity reception? Of course if we can do that, let's >>>> > ditch >>>> > > the 6700 form factor altogether and put two SCUs in a half height >>>> blade >>>> > and >>>> > > the same with a 500w transmitter module and stuff these into a HP >>>> c7000 >>>> > > series enclosure. We could have sixteen 500w transmitter modules >>>> and 96 >>>> > > SCUs in a single rack for the ultimate 8kw transceiver. >>>> > > >>>> > > Just a thought, I guess I should stop dreaming and get back to bed. >>>> > > >>>> > > -- >>>> > > Rick McClelland, AA5S >>>> > > Fort Collins, CO >>>> > > _______________________________________________ >>>> > > Flexedge mailing list >>>> > > [email protected] >>>> > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz >>>> > > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It >>>> is >>>> > used for posting topics related to SDR software development and >>>> > experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Flexedge mailing list >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz >>>> > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. 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