Spike wrote:

Don't hold your breath, as there seems to be a raft of projects ahead
of this one: his own XRC machine, an ATU made from discarded CDs, a
DSP project using an FT-707, and of course, the mathematical basis for
the Big-K approach to DSP to be proved, peer-reviewed, and then
published.

You also forget the gauntlet he laid down in the newsgroups to design a
transceiver that was roughly based upon re-inventing the wheel.

When people took his suggestion somewhat seriously, he backed away, and,
as it the case with all Bean-powered projects, let the subject die.