the idea would not be to design by committee, but rather to define a
feature set, and then a spec set.

the truth is, as i would be doing the design and paying for additional
devleopment tools, boards, etc, i guess the buck would stop
here....but if there aren't enough interested people in helping to put
it on track and answer questions about design decisions and
directions, this would just end up being another man's radio (which is
alright for me) , or another man's enhancements of an older radio....

someone suggested basing it on the r8....what i was talking about was
forgeting about all the previous radios in specific, and using your
vast collective experience with all those radios and the invested
years and years of sw listening to figure out what you really want....

my intent is a dx radio without compare and without the cost....which
is the reason for the laptop....displays and display related design
changes, software/firmware updates, these are alot easier with a
processor and a display interface already designed....it figure this
is going to take me about a year fulltime to get to a working
prototype, maybe a bit longer. i intend to cheat and use micro basic
to craft the display (there will be no signal processing on the
laptop, and an optical link to prevent xtalk). that means you can play
and have fun making your own pretty pictures. i was also thinking of
talking to friends at the mathworks so as to have a set of matlab
modules for display processing.. it may not be pretty but it'll work
well....



jimg
Oregon
USA