<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Has anyone used a net book for APRS? How much ram and what program did u use? There are many netbooks out there and need some input before investing. Thanks</DIV>
<DIV>WA2WWK<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 12/12/10, Matti Aarnio <I><oh2mqk@sral.fi></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Matti Aarnio <oh2mqk@sral.fi><BR>Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS SDR<BR>To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig@tapr.org><BR>Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010, 11:05 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:03:16AM +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:<BR>> Hello<BR>> <BR>> I wonder if any work has been done in making a software defined APRS device ?<BR>> In that the hardware is common but the features and TX and RX are very much software derived ?<BR>> <BR>> - Andrew VK4TEC - <BR><BR>Lets see...<BR><BR>Old TAPR TNC2 did following in hardware:<BR><BR>1) (AX.25) HDLC processing<BR>2) Bell202 AFSK<BR>3) DCD<BR><BR>Radios were pretty much hardware too, even single frequency xtal rigs.<BR><BR>The AX.25 and above it (alike APRS) have always been entirely software.<BR><BR><BR>The HDLC processing hardware is rather rare in modern microprocessors,<BR>thus it is often done in software. SDR you might say.<BR><BR>Bell-202 modems used to be "hardware", these days they are often software.<BR>If Bell-202 is software, then DCD is trivial addition on that software.<BR><BR>There are several "DSP
TNCs" around.<BR><BR>Having a special SDR hardware that takes application bits in on one end,<BR>and puts IF/RF waveforms out on other is usually seriously more expensive<BR>approach. A mid-scale Xilinx Virtex-IV, and 100 Msps ADCs/DACs does cost<BR>several kilo-dollars, or more commonly tens of kilo-dollars.<BR><BR>Long ago there were 56kbps modems with early Xilinx FPGAs for waveform<BR>generation and detection. One could say that WA4DSY was "software defined",<BR>as the used hardware is software reconfigurable.<BR><BR>73 de Matti, OH2MQK<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>aprssig mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc1102.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aprssig@tapr.org" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</A><BR><A href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target=_blank>https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>