Time for all SDR, all the time.
I guess. Buy the company Fred!
Misfit Crystal Company.
Time for all SDR, all the time.
I guess. Buy the company Fred!
Misfit Crystal Company.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
If I wanted phase noise and the requisite DSP follow-on stages to clean it out of the passband, there's a number of candidate rigs which could replace my analog stuff.
One thing I've been considering - if a DDS chip with sufficiently minimal spurious products across its spectrum can be sourced - is the redesign of the HET oscillator section of a few rigs I have kicking around the shack. Rather than using discrete crystals for each band range, a DDS w/ control lines that utilizes existing band switch wiring could be used. Peaking/filter circuits could be implemented for each band, similar to that which is used for the purpose in the crystal oscillator designs. A rig such as the SB-104 will lend itself readily to this approach as the entire HFO assembly is located on one board. Others...might be more challenging.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.