Let us reset to reality here--before real myths are generated... actually
the system, in digital form--already exists in my home--and even most of
yours (unless you are webtv.)

A sw receiver card (order it off ebay) and a xmitter card (might have to
construct your own here) slapped into a PCI bus--appropiate connections to
antennas--and I am off into the ether.... the soundcard is my audio, both
xmit and recv, recv software is provided with the card--software for a
homebrew xmit card would need to be constructed and problems would exist in
interfacing software between the recv card and xmit card--all DO-ABLE...

The fact that it can be done easily has already been demonstrated--if you
choose to deny this, do this at the risk of having others doubt your
sanity...


Warmest regards,
John
--
Sit down the six-pack!!! STEP AWAY!!! ...and go do something...

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
| Decades have brought us moon landing, mars landings,masers, lasers, lets,
| fets, mosfets, computers, etc...
|
| But the shape of radio equip. has remained virtually stagnant.
|
| One "innovation" would be to just copy what the IBM clone has taught us.
|
| Build a radio of "cards." Just like the computer, a standard case which
you
| can plugin various power supplies, frontend board "cards", intermediate
| board "cards", buffer amp board "cards", IF board "cards", audio board
| "cards", xmitter board "cards", final amp board "cards", etc.... I think
| you get the pic
|
| One radio case can/could virtually be any radio you can imagine.... new
| design in a frontend? Plug in a new front end "card", new audio offering?
| Plug in a new audio board "card."
|
| Someone really should get off a dead duff somewhere and DO IT!!!!
|
| Kinda makes ya wonder why not? Doesn't it?
|
| Warmest regards,
| John
|
| --
| I AM ONE-IN-A-MILLION!!!!!
| Too bad the other 999,999 got there first.. frown
|
|

Well, a quick check of ebay turned up NO SW RCVR cards, naturally--here is a
like which describes the one I use...
http://www.thiecom.de/english/g313i/

Regards,
John
--
Sit down the six-pack!!! STEP AWAY!!! ...and go do something...

"John Smith" wrote in message
news | Let us reset to reality here--before real myths are generated... actually
| the system, in digital form--already exists in my home--and even most of
| yours (unless you are webtv.)
|
| A sw receiver card (order it off ebay) and a xmitter card (might have to
| construct your own here) slapped into a PCI bus--appropiate connections to
| antennas--and I am off into the ether.... the soundcard is my audio, both
| xmit and recv, recv software is provided with the card--software for a
| homebrew xmit card would need to be constructed and problems would exist
in
| interfacing software between the recv card and xmit card--all DO-ABLE...
|
| The fact that it can be done easily has already been demonstrated--if you
| choose to deny this, do this at the risk of having others doubt your
| sanity...
|
|
| Warmest regards,
| John
| --
| Sit down the six-pack!!! STEP AWAY!!! ...and go do something...
|
| "John Smith" wrote in message
| ...
|| Decades have brought us moon landing, mars landings,masers, lasers, lets,
|| fets, mosfets, computers, etc...
||
|| But the shape of radio equip. has remained virtually stagnant.
||
|| One "innovation" would be to just copy what the IBM clone has taught us.
||
|| Build a radio of "cards." Just like the computer, a standard case which
| you
|| can plugin various power supplies, frontend board "cards", intermediate
|| board "cards", buffer amp board "cards", IF board "cards", audio board
|| "cards", xmitter board "cards", final amp board "cards", etc.... I
think
|| you get the pic
||
|| One radio case can/could virtually be any radio you can imagine.... new
|| design in a frontend? Plug in a new front end "card", new audio
offering?
|| Plug in a new audio board "card."
||
|| Someone really should get off a dead duff somewhere and DO IT!!!!
||
|| Kinda makes ya wonder why not? Doesn't it?
||
|| Warmest regards,
|| John
||
|| --
|| I AM ONE-IN-A-MILLION!!!!!
|| Too bad the other 999,999 got there first.. frown
||
||
|
|

On Sat, 7 May 2005 23:47:00 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

Decades have brought us moon landing, mars landings,masers, lasers, lets,
fets, mosfets, computers, etc...

But the shape of radio equip. has remained virtually stagnant.

One "innovation" would be to just copy what the IBM clone has taught us.

Build a radio of "cards." Just like the computer, a standard case which you
can plugin various power supplies, frontend board "cards", intermediate
board "cards", buffer amp board "cards", IF board "cards", audio board
"cards", xmitter board "cards", final amp board "cards", etc.... I think
you get the pic

One radio case can/could virtually be any radio you can imagine.... new
design in a frontend? Plug in a new front end "card", new audio offering?
Plug in a new audio board "card."

Someone really should get off a dead duff somewhere and DO IT!!!!

Kinda makes ya wonder why not? Doesn't it?

Warmest regards,
John


They aren't all that, but do you remember the Atlas 180 or 10 radios?


Buck
--
For what it's worth.