It was so much simpler when all I had to do was clip the end of one lousy diode to open my TS-440 up from DC to Daylight... The Alinco 2/440 dual-bander did the same with one zero-ohm resistor removal. On 09/21/2015 01:54 PM, wirelesswarrior@safe-mail.net wrote:
Since the early days of open SDR these devices have been sold as test equipment which does not require onerous type approvals or certifications by the manufacturer or importer. The FCC now seeks to change this
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/06/2015-18402/equipment-aut...
and require product features which block software changes after manufacture. This, of course, is the very heart of SDR and its prohibition would be nothing short of effectively banning SDR and any open source experimentation with RF signal processing beyond the theoretic.
WW