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Old January 5th 11, 11:10 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Joel Koltner[_2_] Joel Koltner[_2_] is offline
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Default Impedance of passive mixer's output

"K7ITM" wrote in message
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As you think about all this stuff, it becomes easy to see why nobody
has yet built the perfect receiver. ;-)


Hey, I was at a conference some five years or so ago now where some high-level
muckety-muck from Intel got up there and claimed that within a few years we're
be connecting antennas straight to ADCs and radios would henceforth be 100%
digital... :-)

Of course, it is a bit easier to build a good radio when you're operating in,
e.g., the cell phone bands and by law you control the spectrum (no big
intereferes), you manage the power of all the transmitters dynamically
(limited self-interference), etc.!