[time-nuts] SDR Radio Opinion- Next Question...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Chris and all,

It seems to me that a lot of the new software is being developed by 
people who don't live in the real world or don't use the end product 
in the real world - or maybe not at all.  Maybe I'm just old and 
senile, but a lot of the stuff I'm seeing is not intuitive, stable or 
even consistent.

Is the State of The Art exceeding the state of the need?

Burt, K6OQK


>From: Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com>
>
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] SDR Radio Opinion- Next Question
>
>Funny that those "toys" that come with Linux pretty much run the entire
>Internet and every Android phone and almost every TV set top box and
>firewall/router.     But in the end as a developer you either follow the
>market and the dollar or you do what your boss pays you to do.   What tools
>are needed anyway but a few terminal windows and a text editor?
>
>Anyways the hot market now if you are chasing the dollar and customers is
>phone apps.  That is what users want and that is who the companies are
>hiring.   I'd really like to see SDR move to phones and tablets.   It would
>make them even more portable.   These phone now days have quad core 32-bit
>CPUs and GPUs that can be tapped for compting power for thing like FFTs and
>other DSP.
>
>As for development tools, there is no shortage.
>
>We also need some new ideas.  So muct SDR software tries to emulate a
>1980's radio.
>
>
>
>

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