"Think of a "smart" contesting SDR"

At the contesters forum this year at Dayton they were all zigged up about CW 
skimmer.  This will really get there undergarments in a perpetual wad.

Just think about it.  The control op just need to be in "control" of the radio, 
not actually operating it (e.g. repeaters) so you could setup your station, 
fire up a C/SDR contest application, "control" its operation via Wi-Fi enabled 
tablet computer and then just sit around on the beach with your friends in 
Aruba steaming oysters and drinking cold ones by the fire for 24 hours while 
you win first place high power all-band SO2R "assisted".

-Tim

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To: Robert Dennison
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Subject: Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio?

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Robert Dennison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> A thinking SDR should be fascinating...
>

The word "cognitive" is kind of misleading. By convention, a Cognitive Radio is 
one which, without operator intervention, will reconfigure itself based on its 
current signal environment. That's a very limited sense of Cognitive as far as 
modern AI is concerned. In a lot of ways, the CompSci term "introspective" 
captures the more restricted SDR idea better.

A full-blown Cognitive Radio might be better thought of as primarily an 
autonomous agent -- a particular chunk of software -- that happens to have RF 
transducers attached to it. The "radio" capabilities extend far beyond merely 
reconfiguring the transducers and protocols, which is all that's implied by the 
conventional name. In particular, a full-up C/SDR is also capable of, say, 
defining for itself completely innovative sequences of actions based on, not 
just the signal environment, but also on the payloads of selected signals which 
are identified by probability models of unconnected systems, etc.

Think of a "smart" contesting SDR. It's doing a lot more than what's usually 
contained in the conventional definition of a Cognitive Radio.

73
Frank
AB2KT

--
Travelling by airplane in the US is nothing more than mass training of 
Americans to the requirements of the coming police state. The whole point is to 
make you learn to acquiesce without question, en masse, to completely absurd 
directives by dull functionaries wearing uniforms. -- Digby 
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