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At one time it was thought that a 2M multimode could be pressed into service
as
an all-bands RX by a transverter with a synthesized oscillator climbing in
steps
of 2MHz, but now that approach has been overtaken by the various dongles
pluggable into PCs.

How the march of progress in the world of computers is changing
radically what counts as good ideas in radio!

The time cannot be far away now when anything with analogue stages,
other than in the intial RF amp for an RX, or the PA for a TX,
will seem to be positively pre-diluvian and vastly oversized.

So, where is the homebrewer in all this, for Gerald Youngblood was
just that before he started selling his own designed SDRs.?

For how much longer can rigs be sold for hundreds of £ / $ when all
that will be inside them is a bit of digital electronics little more
complex than a pocket calculator available for a tenner?

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