‰ NOW 30 WPM ‰ TEXT IS FROM JANUARY 2017 QST PAGE 50 ‰ OPENS UP A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF RECEPTION. THE BILIF IS A BI DIRECTIONAL VERSION OF THE LIF BOARD THAT PERMITS SDR TRANSMISSION AS WELL AS RECEPTION. CONNECTABILITY THE MDSR SYSTEM CAN BE SET UP TO USE TWO SOUND CARDS ONE HIGH END 24 BIT CARD TO DO THE IF DEMODULATION, AND A LOWER 16 BIT ONBOARD SOUND CARD FOR HANDLING BASEBAND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE SUCH AS WSPR, JT65, AND JT9. THE MDSR SETUP IS A FREE PROGRAM. IT ALSO INCLUDES FLDIGI WITH ITS EXTENSIVE CHOICE OF DIGITAL MODES. PROGRAMS IN THE MDSR SUITE INCLUDE MDSR PROVIDES THE GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE THAT CONTROLS THE TRANSCEIVER VIA THE OMNIRIG CAT TRANSLATOR AND THE DSP ENGINE FOR AUDIO PROCESSING MDSR SA PROVIDES A FAST SPECTRUM ANALYZER, THE OMNIRIG SETUP UTILITY, AND PRESET FREQUENCY BANKS PM MANAGER THE PROFILE MANGER IS A BACKUP UTILITY THAT ALSO STORES PROFILES FOR DIFFERENT SETUPS, SUCH AS DIGITAL SETUP OR ANALOG SETUP. IT CAN ALSO BE USED TO STORE PROFILES TO CONTROL DIFFERENT TRANSCEIVERS. ONCE A PROFILE IS ESTABLISHED, IT CAN EASILY BE RECALLED OMNIRIG TRANSLATES THE CAT PROTOCOLS OF OVER 100 DIFFERENT RADIO MAKES AND MODELS SO THAT MDSR CAN CONTROL THEM REMOTELY ‰ END OF 30 WPM TEXT ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ