Radware DSP100 "software" Transceiver
			 
			 
			
		
		
		
			
			I fired up my old 486 PC and tested a Radware DSP100 transceiver. 
 
The DSP100 was an early attempt at a transceiver with a digital IF and 
modulation/demodulation 
stages. It was a direct conversion transceiver.,built on a plugin ISA board, 
with a PLL/DDS synthesizer that 
drove a Quadrature Mixer. Te two outputs of the quadrature mixer fed the 
left and right channels of the computer sound card 
which did the filtering and demodulation/modulation. 
 
It was produced by Comer Communications in the 1980's. The hardware and 
software was developed by two brothers, Alan and Brian Comer. 
 
The sensitivity was fair and the software I have has some bugs, but it was a 
gallant attempt at the first 
generation of "software defined receiver". 
 
Does anyone have one or know what happened to Comer communications or have 
any experiences with the DSP100? 
I have software versions 1.19 through 1.22. Does anyone have any later 
versions? 
 
 
73, 
 
Mike N2MS 
 
 
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
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