Star is an acronym for Software Transmitter and Receiver.
It was developed by Peter Rhodes (G3XJP) several years ago. The original project articles appeared in Radcom and were a full description of building an HF multiband transceiver. I decided to tackle this project once I came across it in 2009 and thanks to boards produced professionally by VK3PE (Glenn), a steep learning curve and the enormous help from the STaR community, I was able to complete my STaR transceiver without too many difficulties. Anyone interested in S.T.a.R. are directed to do an internet search on the topic. This project is now somewhat "old" and I would suggest that it may be difficult to replicate this project unless you had already previously sourced the components. Although technology moves at a rapid rate, Peter has continued to develop the "code" at the heart of this transceiver. Having owned the "flag ship" transceivers from Kenwood, Icom and Yaesu I can confidently state that the STaR's receiver still outperforms all in side-by-side comparisons especially when dealing with weak signals. For this reason I still use my STaR routinely on HF
Over time I have built 3 separate STaR trasnceivers. The core DSP unit and STaR topology has remained the same, however the implementation in construction and as final standalone transceivers has varied as seen in my STaR pictures
