Interesting ideas. 

Personally, I was thinking it would be neat to have my own networked radios installed at various locations.  Several networked SDRs located throughout the U. S. at various family member's houses might be interesting.

You really should consider this, or even a budget rig like the FT-450D.  Set up a station and after you've gained some experience, add a SDR to your station.  I'm personally looking forward to adding the QS1R to my station someday.

True, in the default mode one can push the "CLAR" button and use the VFO knob to adjust the Clarifer (RIT).

Or via the Menu Mode, one can change the Clarifier control knob to the "DSP/SEL" knob.  I prefer this method.  When using this knob in conjunction with the Clarifier, remember to push the DSP button until the cursor does not appear in front of the various DSP functions, or the knob will control that particular function (Contour, Notch, DNR, or Width) rather than the Clarifier offset.

Blasphemy!  My radio is the one true and good radio!   

I don't want my rig to be too small, I might lose it.   

I've been doing it for years via Sprint and it works great.  The security of the wireless signal is not an issue with modern cell phone networks.  The signal between your wireless device and the cell site is encrypted.  And as W8JX said, you use standard internet encryption schemes just as one does when using DSL or a cable modem for internet access. 

There have been a few trolls who have created anonymous profiles in order to spew nonsense, so some members are leery of those who do not identify themselves with a callsign.  Of course there are a handful of trolls with callsigns, so it cuts both ways.

Welcome, and enjoy the site, you can learn a lot here.

73,

Indeed!  They confuse their opinion with facts, and you really can't have a meaningful debate with someone like that.

I don't know, the threads about theft of intellectual property have been interesting to me.   

Thank you for the links.  I enjoyed the SDR link very much.

Would your proposed modular design allow one to swap the panadaptor section of the rig with the section that contains the VFO knobs (so that they would be more centered on the rig)?

Ditto, I have learned a lot from Stan, Gene, and Brian (but haven't seen any posts from him in a while). 

I agree about the "rah rah forum" suggestion.  Although I don't own an SDR yet, I have learned a lot here and would hate to see discussion curtailed because of brand loyalty (or disloyalty).      We should be able to discuss the good and the bad aspects of SDRs without it becoming too personal.

The U.S. was very productive from 1950 to 1973 and then started a period of decline until 1990.  U.S. productivity rates have been rising since 1990, making us one of the world's most productive countries by many economist's measures.  Several companies are moving manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.  And as pointed out earlier, "Japanese" and "Korean" cars are being built right here in the U.S.

Meanwhile, China's economy seems to be cooling a bit.  Sooner or later they are going to have to deal with their currency issues and with a slowing economy.  The outlook is pretty good for the U.S., in my view.  Even though our labor rates are higher, our manufacturing sector has the advantage of high productivity rates and a weak dollar.   



 

I would not get too worked up because of an article on a conspiracy theory website.  And hundreds of above ground nuclear tests occurred between 1945 and 1963, when the Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed. 

So much for your post on May 17th where you put CJS on ignore.  Methinks someone is a bit fond of arguing.

LOL, good one!     They are impressive indeed.