[hpsdr] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

[Alex]

Bob,
Thanks for the information it is a lot of good information than we had before (especially for the folks who were not at Dayton).
I agree with you that there is a distinction between what each group is heading.

I believe HPSDR is taking the open software / open hardware approach. This type of activity has worked in the past to develop a significant number of innovations. There is a business model that works in the open environment - you charge for packaging and for service-after-the-sale for those folks who don't like directly using open source products.

Personally I would urge Flex-Radio to extend the open model to the hardware, not just the software.

With that said, there's room for everyone (Flex-radio, HPSDR, USRP, uWSDR) who wants to build a better mousetrap.
Some groups will work closer together than others, some work close in certain areas, but not in others. No value judgements are made.

So I'm ready to keep plugging along HPSDR so long as everyone realizes that the end result is to build a top-notch SDR, but that we will strive to provide a way for the SDR-1000 owners to take advantage of the work we are doing (since there are a number of them out there).

Alex, N3NP

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at comcast.net>
To: Alex <harvilchuck at yahoo.com>
Cc: Open High Performance SDR Project <hpsdr at hpsdr.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**

No, this would not be correct.  Gerald is aiming at strictly using a new 
variant of the QSD/QSE.  He and I talked about using high efficiency 
versions of things for the transmitter two years ago.  As of now,  
Gerald's high end radio project, which is  under development and not for 
sale, hasn't a single FPGA in it.  That is a pretty clear separator 
between the two.   Lyle is leading part of HPSDR to stand alone through 
DSP chips.  Gerald is going to do stand alone and remoting, etc. by 
fully implementing the embedded computer and running your favorite OS 
(Windows, BSD, Linux) on that embedded micro.  Just like HPSDR,  and 
(say) OZY/Sasquatch,  Gerald's Evening News/Morning Star projects 
(RX/TX) will need an external display or control panel. In the case of 
Gerald's radio in its natural configuration, you will plug in a keyboard 
and monitor and boot it up. Gerald said amateur versions are planned 
for  NEXT year's Dayton.  Gerald is clearly developing a product for 
commercial and government use that will allow for an amateur version.


Bob



Alex wrote:
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> Sounds a bit like what we are doing   : )
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ken N9VV <n9vv at sbcglobal.net>
> To: FlexRadio Reflector <FlexRadio at flex-radio.biz>; SDR-1000 users group <SDR-1000 at yahoogroups.com>; Open High Performance SDR Project <hpsdr at hpsdr.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:08:31 PM
> Subject: [hpsdr] **replay of Sat night Flex announcement at Dayton**
>
> thanks Alan for this opportunity to listen again to Gerald's exciting 
> announcement about the new "SDR-blade".
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