[Discuss-gnuradio] Windows Based Solutions and Linux Developer Hostility

[Joshua Hayworth]

Hello All,

Just a thought...

First, read the post below.

I am a 23 year old independent Microsoft developer and started my own sole
proprietorship called Hayworth Software Development.

I just got my FCC Amateur Radio Technician license maybe 4 or 5 months ago.  I
haven't eaven purchased my first radio yet.  I'm looking very closely at that
SDR-1000 as my first purchase.

I primarily use C# on the .NET platform, but I am slowly learning the inns and
outs of C++ using both Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Gcc on the Linux platform.
Needlesss to say, I haven't gotten that far yet.  I hope to help Mr. Rodd Judd
out in the process of converting GNU Radio to the win32 platform and maybe even
write a wrapper for .NET use.

I realize that this is a Linux based list and I may be starting a huge flame
war, but can somebody help me understand this massive hostility for Microsoft
and the Windows platform?

<shrug>

Maybe I'm just young and nieve, but I'm just not understanding how developing
for one platform can be any more difficult that developing for another.  It's
not like you don't have the documentation that you need
(http://msdn.microsoft.com, http://www.codeproject.com/, ... Et all).

Joshua Hayworth (KD7USN)
Camano Island, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of John
R. Ackermann N8UR
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:57 AM
To: Alberto di Bene; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RE: gnuradio based spectrum analyzer


Hi Alberto --

Thanks for the pointer.  I'm not insistent on a gnuradio solution, but 
having spent last Sunday at the Digital Communications Conference listening 
to Matt's seminar on SDR and gnuradio, I thought it might give me the 
building blocks to do what I need.

Re Spectran, I'll definitely look at it, but I am hoping for a Linux 
solution as all my fast computers run Linux rather than Windows these days 
(I have an Win2K box that I use for the Flex-Radio SDR-1000 console 
software, but having to keep that machine around makes me mad.  That's 
another story, though :-) )

73,
John

--On Friday, September 26, 2003 6:32 PM +0200 Alberto di Bene 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> "John R. Ackermann   N8UR" <address@hidden> wrote :
>
>> This is both a query for information, and a bit of begging for help.
>>
>> I want to put together a sound-card driven audio spectrum analyzer 
>> for a very specific purpose (measuring the frequency delta between 
>> two closely spaced RF carriers that have been brought down to audio 
>> via a receiver).
>>
>
> John,
>   give a look at the Spectran program available at : 
> http://www.weaksignals.com to see if it fits your needs. It is not 
> gnuradio based (sorry) and it runs under Windows, not Linux. If you 
> can accept these two limitations, maybe it can be of help for your 
> purpose. Also the Argo program there has been successfully used in the 
> past for the frequency measuring ARRL contest.
>
> 73  Alberto I2PHD
>
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