[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Ronald Cox]

To all Sasquatch II hunters,

I am also one of the lurkers following the Sasquatch discussion with  
interest and also one that has all the HPSDR modules offered by TAPR  
running in the shack now or on order. I find it interesting and  
expected that with all the excellent talent working on these projects  
very little progress is evident with regard to mechanical engineering.  
All things mechanical seem to be on the back burner with little signs  
of life. Why is this important to Sasquatch? Well you are talking  
about buttons and knobs, enclosures and styling that are not the  
strong talents of this group. I have been building TAPR projects since  
the original TNC2 and have been a life member of AMSAT (# 185) for  
most of the years of its existence. I would really be pleasantly  
surprised if anything happens here with regard to buttons, knobs and  
enclosures. That said, what do we need in Sasquatch? I would say that  
a clearly documented and well publicized user interface so anyone  
inclined to develop a human interface of any kind could do so with the  
assurance that it will work reliably. What has been privately  
discussed is using an extension of the Kenwood (TS-2000?) "Computer  
Control Commands" which I understand to be a sort of de-facto standard  
among radio developers these days. PowerSDR already has implemented  
some of this, but I think it would be a real great step forward if  
such an interface could be defined in the early stages of defining  
Sasquatch.

Ron, W9KFB
Indianapolis, IN
On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Ahti Aintila wrote:

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> On 11/12/2008, Achim Vollhardt <avollhar at physik.uzh.ch> wrote:
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>> Dear Lyle et al.,
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>> I think I speak for quite a share of the lurkers in the background  
>> when
>> I say that SASQUATCH was one of my main reasons for going HPSDR. I  
>> have
>> collected all major modules so far and I would really love to use it
>> stand-alone rather than depend on a PC aside.
>>
>> Moreover, this (MERCURY+SASQUATCH) can be a good playground for DSP
>> developers in general.. I have some applications in mind :)
>>
>> 73s Achim, DH2VA
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