This
talk will focus on superhet type receivers in comparison to SDR receivers, both
of the QSD and fast RF A/D sampled architectures. The talk
will also look at where the performance of SDR receiver might go in the future.Receiver Performance vs. Superhets
Dan Tayloe, N7VE
This
talk will focus on superhet type receivers in comparison to SDR receivers, both
of the QSD and fast RF A/D sampled architectures. The talk
will also look at where the performance of SDR receiver might go in the future.
Biography:
Dan Tayloe started in ham radio over thirty years with the call WNØNVB in Cambridge, Iowa. His first homebrew transmitter was a 10w 6T9 tube transmitter built from an article in "Understanding Amateur Radio". Dan likes to build more than he likes to operate. Over the last year, Dan has spent only a few hours working a handful of QRP contests, but has spent several hundred hours listening to his pair of 8640b signal generators exploring new mixer designs, receiver sensitivity, blocking dynamic range, and third order intercept on his receiver creations. For the last few years, he has been work on a series of low power, high performance, image rejection DC transceivers. In his spare time he works for Motorola as a cellular telephony systems engineer. Dan is married to a very understanding XYL, Vicki, who can usually be found negotiating for him at hamfests. They have three children who are all currently in college.