So no sooner did I write about the "Knob Project" than did I start to receive email from others who have been involved in developing similar ideas.
James KS4JU editor of HamRadioScience wrote about development of computer cases with built in screens
His comment is that some of these cases also contain remote controllers
I can see the brain flashes going off all over radio land!!!
This morning before I even got my Latte I got a note from Tobias DH1TW about his project
This guy has developed a complete control surface for PSDR using a DJ console that is in Beta testing!!
I haven't had the chance to review either of these developments in detail, but I think its GREAT!! It shows the versitility of a plastic radio, that is a radio that can be molded by the user to fit the user's needs. In my case I wanted a radio station that was highly integrated. I wanted a radio station that would do my will and follow my needs without my having to do much in the way of knob twisting and button pushing. I wanted a radio station with a high degree of efficiency and I had a blast creating that all based around PSDR and DDUTIL. To acheive my goal I needed this
A 19 dollar board from Unified Microsystems and the support of K5FR and DDUTIL
I also wanted to try to bring to ham radio the promise of SO2R based in software as an extension of the automated station, and to a very large extent we have created this also using N1MM as the contest interface.
James is interested in a radio in a box kind of approach YET the radio looses none of its flexibility. It gives up nothing but gains in its individual expression of character. On the other end I have seen PSDR displayed on 40 inch TV screens at the Orlando hamfest
A few of us got together and built a Knob
as a foray into a different means of control for use in contesting and DXing, and the Knob was turned into a commercial product
And now other hams from around the world are revealing their own additions and variations and ingenuity!! What fun this hobby is!!
73
I haven't had the chance to review either of these developments in detail, but I think its GREAT!! It shows the versitility of a plastic radio, that is a radio that can be molded by the user to fit the user's needs. In my case I wanted a radio station that was highly integrated. I wanted a radio station that would do my will and follow my needs without my having to do much in the way of knob twisting and button pushing. I wanted a radio station with a high degree of efficiency and I had a blast creating that all based around PSDR and DDUTIL. To acheive my goal I needed this
A 19 dollar board from Unified Microsystems and the support of K5FR and DDUTIL I also wanted to try to bring to ham radio the promise of SO2R based in software as an extension of the automated station, and to a very large extent we have created this also using N1MM as the contest interface.
James is interested in a radio in a box kind of approach YET the radio looses none of its flexibility. It gives up nothing but gains in its individual expression of character. On the other end I have seen PSDR displayed on 40 inch TV screens at the Orlando hamfest
A few of us got together and built a Knob
as a foray into a different means of control for use in contesting and DXing, and the Knob was turned into a commercial product
And now other hams from around the world are revealing their own additions and variations and ingenuity!! What fun this hobby is!!73
