I can get a TV card for my computer, I can get software to make my computer
a cd/dvd player, I can get hardware/software to replace my stereo,
etc...--I, along with the rest of the world, have not gone this route
yet--perhaps in the future... I am open to this...

Warmest regards,
John
--
When Viagra fails to work--you are DOOMED!!!

"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
...
| John Smith wrote:
| Decades have brought us moon landing, mars landings,masers, lasers,
lets,
| fets, mosfets, computers, etc...
|
| But the shape of radio equip. has remained virtually stagnant.
|
| One "innovation" would be to just copy what the IBM clone has taught us.
|
| Build a radio of "cards." Just like the computer, a standard case which
you
| can plugin various power supplies, frontend board "cards", intermediate
| board "cards", buffer amp board "cards", IF board "cards", audio board
| "cards", xmitter board "cards", final amp board "cards", etc.... I
think
| you get the pic
|
| One radio case can/could virtually be any radio you can imagine.... new
| design in a frontend? Plug in a new front end "card", new audio
offering?
| Plug in a new audio board "card."
|
| Someone really should get off a dead duff somewhere and DO IT!!!!
|
| Kinda makes ya wonder why not? Doesn't it?
|
| You can get a software defined radio. Front end, and pipe it into your
| computer, and there ya go! Ten Tec also manufactured the Pegasus a few
| years back, close to what you are thinking of.
|
| Personally, I don't think that the PC computer paradigm is any way to
| go. It's just how PC's evolved. Despite years of progress, plug and play
| is not universal, and just another PC promise.
|
| - Mike KB3EIA -