Bug#655662: ITP: quisk

["A. Maitland Bottoms" <bottoms@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "A. Maitland Bottoms" <bottoms@debian.org>

* Package name    : quisk
  Version         : 3.5.11
  Upstream Author : James Ahlstrom, N2ADR
* URL             : http://james.ahlstrom.name/quisk/
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: Python, C
  Description     : A Software Defined Radio (SDR)

Using ALSA sound drivers or PortAudio Quisk offers these capabilities:
    * Quisk can control the HiQSDR.
    * As a receiver it can use the SDR-IQ by RfSpace as a sample
      source.  There are several decimation rates available.  The
      screen shots below were taken using the SDR-IQ.  The QUISK
      receiver will read the sample data, tune it, filter it,
      demodulate it, and send the audio to the sound card for output
      to external headphones or speakers. 
    * As a receiver it can use your soundcard as a sample source.  You
      supply a complex (I/Q) mixer to convert radio spectrum to a low
      IF, and send that IF to the left and right inputs of the sound
      card in your computer.  The demodulated audio goes to the same
      soundcard for output.
    * Quisk can control SoftRock hardware for both receive and transmit.
    * As a transmitter it can control my  SSB/CW exciter  and my
      transceiver using Ethernet.
    * As a transmitter it can accept microphone input and send that to
      your transmitter for SSB operation.  For CW, QUISK can mute the
      audio and substitute a side tone.  Quisk can send transmit data
      to your sound card for use with SoftRock or similar.  If you are
      not using SoftRock hardware and not using Ethernet, then you can
      modify the C code in microphone.c to connect to your hardware.

I've been listening to NOAA Weather Radio with a Funcube Dongle
(controlled using qthid-fcd-controller) and demodulated with
a preliminary package of quisk.

-Maitland