[hpsdr] It Works!

[Thompson_Peter at emc.com]

I'm happy to report that my Atlas/Ozy/Janus combo is mounted in a PC
chassis (using the PC Power Supply) and is hooked up to my SDR-1000 and
PC.  The appropriate LEDs light up, initozy.bat runs, PowerSDR is
configured and running, RX audio is coming out the speaker and RF is
going out the antenna!

There were some initial problems with initozy.bat - running this with
atlas powered-up but the SDR-1000 connected but NOT powered-up produced
lots of errors but gave the impression it was configured.  On then
powering the rig and running PowerSDR, kept getting odd behavior such as
PowerSDR going into Xmit.  Redoing ozyinit with the SDR-1000 powered-up
seems to fix this.  Maybe the docs should be explicit about what to turn
on and when.

The USB driver update/install seems to work however, I already had an
earlier version of libusb installed (presumably from Flex at some point)
so I upgraded to the version that came with HPSDR via SVN.  I was
however prompted later for the driver (like the docs say for a first
time user, which I was not) and had to install it again.  Anyhow, the
libusb driver shows up as described and I presume will still work in the
event that I ever want to revert at some point to using the Delta44 card
and running PowerSDR via the USB/Parallel cable.

I think I have an intermittent connection between the ATX power
connector and atlas - need to trouble shoot this and see if it's the
connector soldered to atlas or the one on the end of the PS cable.  I'll
probably replace this power supply soon.

The combo is mounted in a PC chassis I had handy.  As others have
indicated, the standard card slots don't line up well and the two
boards, once plugged into atlas are taller than standard pc cards so I
had to resort to some surgery care of Mr, Dremel to eliminate the slots
and increase the height of the opening.  Both boards and their
respective connectors are now accessible.  I have the chassis positioned
such that atlas is horizontal and ozy and janus are veritical since I
did not want the weight of the various cables and connectors pulling on
horizontally mounted boards.  Is there an accepted way of mounting the
boards more securely than simply plugging them in to atlas?

I hope to have pics of the config on website soon.

Pete, N3EVL

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