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OK, now I see the concept much
clearer than I knew before (with my apologies for having stressed the subject a
bit :-)).
All this stuff is very interesting
and promising, with very high perfomance/cost ratio and great scalability. I
think I will be seriously evaluating to homebrew a good SDR project in the
coming months (the only choice I can afford from a financial point of view
:-))
Cheers
D.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:13
PM
Subject: Re: LF: Probably not a new
question...
On 4/27/2010 2:25 AM, Daniele Tincani wrote:
Hi Alberto,
I'm quite familiar with
digital signal processing (I work in the embedded SW
area for a big manufacturer of telecommunications
equipments and digital streams of several Gbit/s are common on our boards),
nevertheless I know that analog conditioning of signals (before they become
"numbers") is at least as important as the digital treatment, unless you
accept to sample meaningless information (noise) at the ADC :-) Anyway I'm
sure this is dealt with perfectly in SDR's so I think we can stop here this
discussion.
Thank you for
clarifications.
Cheers
D, Hi
Daniele,
I wasn't specifically addressing you in my past
message, I was just trying to explain what is behind some diffidence that
often it is possible to hear or to read
about the SDR technology. And
the Softrocks are a mixed blessing... from one side they helped a lot with
their very low cost the diffusion of the SDR concepts
among the ham
community. But on the opposite side, their lackluster performance generated in
some the impression that SDR is a technology still much behind
its
classical analog counterpart, which isn't....
You are perfectly right
when saying that the analog portion in front of the digitizer is of utmost
importance, to not have to deal with meaningless numbers.
That's why the
tendency is to bring the digitization stage as close as possible to the
antenna... and, at least for the HF bands, this goal is almost reached
with
the QuickSilver and the Perseus SDR....
73 Alberto
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