On Nov 25, 2008, at 12:06 PM, PAUL James wrote:

>  In a typical radio receiver


I think he said this, but just to make it clear:

He's not building a "typical radio"; he wants to digitize the actual  
RF signal, and do all the processing that would normally happen post- 
RF, digitally, in an FPGA.  I don't know exactly how one does this  
(especially WRT "tuning"), but it seems to be one of those "up and  
coming" things.  As someone else said, see "Software Radio."

BillW

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