[hpsdr] Penelope Update

[Alfred Green]

Lyle Johnson wrote:

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>Penelope bares all!
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>Photos of bare PCBs are now on the wiki.
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>Caution: Full frontal nudity - viewer discretion advised.
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Thanks for the warning! I had to make sure that my puppy-dogs were out 
of the room before I opened that page. I wouldn't want to corrupt my 
pitbulls.

The board looks really good, and this is also the first time I've seen 
the complete Verilog and block diagram together. This looks like it will 
be a perfect fit to drive my V/U/uW transverters.

I originally bought my SDR-1000 for that purpose, but I have been so 
impressed with its performance on HF that it is pretty much a permanent 
fixture there. My only beef with Flex, which I have stated publicly, is 
them dropping the low power version of the radio. It looks like 
Penelope, along with a suitable rx module, will fill that niche.

Any ball-park estimates of cost yet? I see that TAPR is featured on the 
board; is there an agreement with them to support this? I hope so, I've 
been a TAPR member ever since they got involved with HPSDR and it looks 
like a good match.

73   Alf  NU8I
Scottsdale  AZ  DM43an
160m > 10Gigs

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