Chas, I don't think that what the top DXers & contesters are using is necessarily a good judge of "performance".
At a recent meeting of the Hoosier DX & Contest Club, I got into a discussion with a couple of out-of-town contesters who were there to pick up a plaque for top score in the Indiana QSO Party. They steadfastly declared that it was impossible for the SDR-1000 to be any good because it did not have any roofing filters. "Without roofing filters you cannot have good image rejection." I could not convince them that because it is a direct-conversion receiver and all filtering is done using DSP that it did not need roofing filters in the IF, and that the filtering provided by the DSP was superior to the roofing filters that they were used to. It is this type of Neanderthal thinking that we have to overcome to fully penetrate the market with a software-defined radio. I guess maybe a few of us will have to start winning contests to make them sit up & take notice. 73, Ray, K9DUR _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
