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I can get a TV card for my computer, I can get software to make my computer
a cd/dvd player, I can get hardware/software to replace my stereo, etc...--I, along with the rest of the world, have not gone this route yet--perhaps in the future... I am open to this... Warmest regards, John -- When Viagra fails to work--you are DOOMED!!! "Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... | 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? | | You can get a software defined radio. Front end, and pipe it into your | computer, and there ya go! Ten Tec also manufactured the Pegasus a few | years back, close to what you are thinking of. | | Personally, I don't think that the PC computer paradigm is any way to | go. It's just how PC's evolved. Despite years of progress, plug and play | is not universal, and just another PC promise. | | - Mike KB3EIA - |
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