Thanks much for your comment Cecil, and especially for pointing out the benefits of making a serial driver in PowerSDR to control the IQ-VFO board, which in turn could drive the KK7B Binaural Receiver project. I think that would make a dandy front end for an SDR receiver ... once the various levels of the clock and audio interfaces are adjusted, I think it would work pretty nicely.
Indeed, getting spun-up in C# software would be an interesting path to take for developing this IQ-VFO serial driver. I'm currently in the process of installing the IDE and runtime modules for C#, per the links on Phil Covington's page, so I too will be doing some customization. Perhaps together with guidance from Bill Tracey KD5TFD (who did the PowerSDR driver mods for the SoftRock) and Craig AA0ZZ (designer of the IQ-VFO), we might be able to get such a project off the ground. 73, George N2APB ======================== On Thu Sep 15 23:01 , "wa6rdy" sent: >Hi George > >Kudos to all those involved with the SoftRock project! > >I have been playing with Bill's PowerSDR software using by homegrown >version of KK7B's Binaural Receiver to get warmed up for when my SR- >40 kit arrives. It works out well by telling the software that I am >using an external oscillator - actually the IQ-VFO so that the >software serves as the IF channel/detector, etc. I am looking >forward to playing with the QSD detector (was that redundant?). > >Looks like we are going to have to write a serial DDS interface for >the PowerSDR software so it can talk to the IQ-VFO's 9854 (the >default interface is parallel for the SDR-1000). I guess it is time >I try some C#. > >Cecil - WA6RDY >
