[amsat-bb] ICOM 9700 9600 Baud Packet Question

[Jim Sanford]

ABSOLUTELY agree!

Jim


On 12/5/2020 7:29 PM, Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> On 12/05/20 16:23, Chris Thompson via AMSAT-BB wrote:
>> I also wanted one until I realized it did not support this.  As Alan 
>> says,
>> it is not really about packet.  A modern radio with an SDR at its heart
>> should support wideband digital signals.  It should ideally be as 
>> wide as
>> the IF in both directions.
>
> Chris,
>
> Indeed. Raw access to the digital IF, bidirectionally, would be ideal.
>
> *Soapbox warning*
>
> This example serves to highlight the reality of software-defined 
> radios where corporations, not amateurs, are writing the code within 
> the CPU/DSP.
>
> Used to be, if you wanted your rig to do something (with the RF/AF 
> path anyway), you could apply a soldering iron at the proper location 
> and make it so. Not so much with SDR (DSP) rigs, which have much of 
> that path in the software realm.
>
> The same thing is happening in many aspects of our lives: there is 
> less "hackability", in the true hardware hacker sense of the word, as 
> corporations realize that they need us to buy next year's model to get 
> the 1% functionality that wasn't in what we have now and have no way 
> to add it ourselves.
>
> It makes me less inclined to buy a shiny new box to do radio. I'd 
> rather build my own equipment that I can then modify, experiment, and 
> share with others.
>
> *Off the soapbox*
>
> --- Zach
> N0ZGO
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