PIC-A-STAR: a Software Transmitter And Receiver

摘要

One of the delights of software control is that once you have all the hardware elements, integrating them into a working transceiver is very quick, given the lack of system cabling. See WWW for some websites where you can see pictures of other STAR implementations. The less-good news is that you do still need hardware to run all this software on; but from now on the constructional pace picks up and you will be lucky to keep up! A few words on Beta testing, since many have asked. All the engineering diagrams for this project (eg circuit diagrams, PCB artwork etc) as published in RadCom are the actual master drawings which several people have used to verify the build. In other words they were neither produced retrospectively, nor were they redrawn for publication. These drawings are therefore extremely valuable, especially if you are building hardware you may not completely understand (and therefore can't instinctively spot any errors). The same principle applies to the software. You can either use mine, supplied and tested, build your own, or migrate over time. The self-education opportunity is obvious.