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What is a DDC receiver see Mercury?

April 26, 2017DDC mercury receiver

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What is a DDC receiver see Mercury?

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A. To learn all about Digital Down Converter technology, please purchase DVD #6 from (Amateur Radio Video News) in which Phil Harman VK6APH teaches us the practical details in his wonderful presentation at Dayton-2008. The DVD consists of almost 6 hours of education in DDC by Phil Harman. There is no better presentation of the DDC fundamentals. DDC is the abbreviation for the term Digital Down Conversion. DDC receivers are able to finally fulfill the dream that has been expressed in Ham Radio magazines for 50 years – to place the digital processing of analog RF information closer to the antenna. The OpenHPSDR Mercury receiver accomplishes that goal. In the OpenHPSDR Mercury and Hermes projects, the antenna is connected to a modern integrated circuit chip. The chip in this case is a very fast Analog to Digital conversion device called the LTC2208. The Mercury and Hermes designs are designed to be supplemented by bandpass, attenuation, and pre-amp circuits.