SoftRock 40 & Reorganized website

SoftRock 40

I got Tony Park's SoftRock 40 playing today with Bill KD5TFD's modified PowerSDR console. It is amazing what can be done with such a small board. I want to revive the SharpDSP enabled console for use with the SoftRock 40. I will strip out all of the unneeded controls and functionality in the PowerSDR console to make it specific to the SoftRock 40. This will clear up some screen real estate so I can widen the Panadapter window to show all 48 or 96 kHz of bandwidth at once in the Panadapter.

When the PCM2900 codec boards become available I will modify SDRAudio to correct for the sample offset problem in the PCM2900.

Website

I reorganized my website today. The website notes were archived and links to the various software projects were rearranged to make it easier to find a specific item.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Hi Phil
Its great what you are doing, and the
SoftRock project sound real good.

You did indicate some teaching a while back, and I wonder if the SoftRock project would be a good place to start!

Thanks for what you have already done

Bruce K3CMZ

9:39 PM

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