[hpsdr] Documentation assistance required

[Joe - AB1DO]

Phil,

I must be nuts, but I'd be willing to (or help) put together the 
documentation you request. As you might know, I also pretty much 
collated/wrote/edited the FlexRadio SDR-1000 operating manual.

A warning up front though. Although I possess all the skills required to put 
together a professional, efficient document, I am pretty much a dunce when 
it comes to the Ozy and FPGA. I've been following this reflector and 
everything around the HPSDR pretty much since its inception back in the days 
when it started as a thread on the flexradio reflector, moved to the xylo 
reflector and later on became the hpsdr reflector/wiki/website, so I have a 
basic understanding of what's going on. But I will also admit there is many 
a time when I'm just hanging on by my finger nails.

The enthousiasm and excitement of those putting in the work is catching 
though - hey I've even put my money where their mouths are (told you I was 
nuts). Anyway, I have time to dedicate to trying to put together something 
sensible. And lets face it, given that I would need to start pretty much 
from scratch in getting to grips with this puppy once the boards arrive, 
maybe that's a good thing?

So if you and others are willing to submit to a barrage of very mundane 
questions (if you think I jest, ask Eric at FlexRadio) and also willing to 
put in the time to read over and comment/edit the nonsence I put to paper, 
then I'm willing to work towards writing an operating manual. I suggest that 
the manual source be in OpenOffice Writer (yes that will mean that you and 
others will need Open Office to read over and comment) and placed on the SVN 
server. "Publication" should be in PDF.

Let me know what you think.

73 de Joe - AB1DO

BTW: given that all I have at this stage is a couple of Atlas boards, what 
should I do and where should I start prior to receiving Ozy and Janus 
boards?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pvharman at arach.net.au>
To: <hpsdr at hpsdr.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 00:36
Subject: [hpsdr] Documentation assistance required


> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> It's really great the see the level of interest in the Janus and Ozy 
> boards!
>
> Whilst the level of documentation for the use of these boards with an SDR 
> will
> be relatively simple there is great potential for the Ozy board to be used 
> as a
> general purpose FPGA development system.
>
> For the hobbyist, student and even professional, the Ozy represents a very
> competitively
> priced way of learning and experimenting with FPGA development. An added 
> bonus
> is that all the software to develop code is either available under the GPL 
> or
> via free download.
>
> Apart from use with an SDR there are numerous other areas where an FPGA
> development board can be used. What is required is sufficient 
> documentation to
> be developed to enable an experimenter to make use of the board.
>
> All the information exists, it 'just' needs to be collated and formatted 
> in a
> useful manner.
>
> Is there anyone in the group who would like to take on this project - you 
> can
> be assured of lots of support and gratitude from Phil N8VB, Bill KD5TF, 
> Lyle
> KK7P and myself.
>
> 73's Phil....VK6APH
>
>
>
>
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