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Folks This is just a statement of my motivation and the motivation
of others like Tony – KB9YIG, Phil VK6APH, Bill – KD5TFD, Terry
– W0VB and other idea contributors. Since there are quite a number of new
folks and I gather from some of the questions I have received for the D-44,
there are some misunderstandings. I will give some history. In the ‘early days’ when the ‘core group
of SDR enthusiasts’ gathered on Teamspeak and started tossing around
hardware ideas, the group who became regulars and fantastic creators who
assembled there, started ‘hitting’ on hardware ideas to ‘add’
to the of the SDR 1000 where we could. Kits like the QSD daughter card,
Universal Controller Board, Parallel Port Booster, 10 Watt Amplifier,
SoftRock40 and a few others resulted. Mostly Tony and I agreed that anything we
came up with would be offered to Gerald – K5SDR if he chose to market it,
or if not, we would produce a kit of parts and offer them at Zero cost to those
interested in purchasing. Tony’s brilliant design expertise has really
pulled all these ideas together and produced an end product which works. It was
a thrill for me to go through the design and commentary process, in spite of
the fact, I have little electronics expertise to contribute. I am basically a facilitator
spending my children and granddchildren’s inheritance, doing what I truly
enjoy! This IS to me, ham radio at it’s best! This is in keeping with the contributory nature of the
SDR-1000, which indeed, is a USER DEFINED RADIO. We the users have incredible
talent to add to this already fine product, and advance it beyond original
concept. Just the by-the-by in the past few days from Lyle Johnson, Dan Taloe,
Jim Lux, Ahti and others are an example of the folks interested in the edge of
technology. This IS to me, ham radio at it’s best! I figure that as long as I don’t have a $grand$ or 2
in motion, at any given time, I’ll just keep offereing stuff that I
would like to own, to others of this fantastic, leading edge community. If
it helps, or you feel it is worth it, pay, if not, keep it, and try the next
kit and pay for that one. Guarantees don’t get that much better than that! Thanks |
