On 09/03/15 19:01, Michael Black wrote:
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Brian Reay wrote:

On 09/03/2015 08:28, AndyW wrote:
On 06/03/2015 19:04, Brian Reay wrote:

I've not used it much. I was curious and decided to try one. I don't
like radios you 'drive' from a keyboard or computer, I prefer the
traditional front panel.

For a self- coded radio it should be a breeze to add your own 'dials and
knobs' front end.
I have to agree that inputting a number or clicking the sweep button is
not the same and turning a heavy tuning dial but it does produce a hell
of a lot more useful data than an older radio.

Agreed but the attraction of SDRs is the 'tweakability' and, if you
build it all into a box with, say, a modest uP to handle the comms to
the dongle, drive a display, etc. etc. and run any other software of
course, 'tweaking', while still possible, is more of a faff. Not quite
the worst of both worlds but certainly heading that way.

But that is what's happening in commercial radios, it's just less a
visible process.



I appreciate that but that wasn't the point.

If I feel the urge to tinker with SDR SW then the obvious way is to
host it on a PC.

If I stick it in a box, I can 'tweak' it but it becomes more of a faff,
perfectly doable, but why make it a faff?