FT-450 Based SDR?
As you know, I am into Software Defined Radio (SDR). I own a Flexradio SDR-1000 and hope to upgrade to a Flex-3000 within the next year. However, I also own a Yaesu FT-450 which I am quite taken with. For the small price this really is a lot of radio. I find myself using it more and more.
You might imagine, then, how excited I was when I learned that Boris Njegic, 9A5ATY in Croatia has successfully interfaced the FT-450 with PowerSDR software by extracting the 24 KHz IF and bringing it to the PC sound card where all the DSP and filtering is done in the software. This allows the FT-450 to have 24 KHz panaromic and waterfall displays as well as all the filtering and DSP provided by the software.
Needless to say, I am excited about experimenting with the FT-450 and SDR. If you are interested, Boris has created a web page to document his experiments. This could get real interesting, real fast!
Posted: May 3rd, 2010 under Uncategorized.