<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Stephen H. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wa8lmf2@aol.com">wa8lmf2@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><div class="im">Due to the complex DSP required to process the multiple QAM tones in
real time, about the minimum PC that will run EasyPal is a 700-800 MHz
P-III with a true-hardware-based soundcard; i.e. not a "brain-dead"
software-based motherboard el cheapo sound system. It MAY be possible
to get the highest-powered netbooks, now that their processors are
pushing 1.5 GHz, to run EasyPal, but I haven't had the chance to try
this yet.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if an iPhone would work...has a camera, screen, and audio in/out interface...</div><div><br></div><div>I'll have to do some thinking. But it would be a handy "field" device to use for capturing a picture and displaying received pictures via radio. And costs of an iPhone (particularly a used one without cell service) aren't all that different from what the Kenwood box goes for.</div>
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