Barry,
This is no different that the computer industry in 1990.
People (users) began demanding plug-n-play.
They wanted to be able to buy anything - disk drives, keyboards, mouse,
memory modules, anything - anywhere and have it play.
I was a member of one of the storage committees working on delivering to
this.
Windows 95 was the very first PnP operating system (and boy did it have
trouble).
But today, 25 years later, nobody thinks twice about this. It just all
works.
Perhaps my 10 years was a little optimistic.
It will begin whenever the first major transceiver OEM opens up its API and
allows 3rd party UKI vendors to build to them.
For reminder, UKI is the term I coined for User Knob Interface.
I'm referring to companies like Wood Box who make the TMate2.
The point is, UNTIL WE THE PEOPLE START ASKING FOR IT, it's never going to
happen.
Right now the OEMs are making a killing charging $300 for a tiny box with a
couple of knobs and buttons.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 11:13 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] pimp my eagle.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:52 PM, rick@dj0ip.de <Rick@dj0ip.de> wrote:
> John,
>
> One day within the next 10 years, ALL radios will be SDR black boxes.
>
> They will all be controllable by an open API and you can buy your User
> Knob Interface (UKI) from any of several 3rd party companies making only
UKI's.
> They work with any radio, regardless of make or model. Like a
> keyboard today works with just about any computer.
I hope you're right Rick but I'm skeptical. Where is the driving force,
toward API standardization by all the SDR radio manufacturers, going to come
from?
Barry N1EU
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