On Fri, 28 May 2010 06:05:01 -0800, dave wrote:

wrote:

Grove announces price and availability for WR-G31DDC "Excalibur"
software defined receiver:
http://www.grove-ent.com/shortwavereceivers.html

Nice case. All the brains are in the user provided PC. The display and
control software is free.

They still need some fairly expensive analog components to prevent
overloading the A to D converter. For instance in the Perseus there is
an analog front end with a pre-selector, pre-amp, and attenuator.

Jim