[hpsdr] Mercury & PowerSDR

[Bill Tracey]

I've not looked at PowerSDR 2nd RX code, but I'd think one could do 
it if they were willing to write enough code.  There may be some 
issues with Mercury and an SDR1000/Flex 5000 working with different 
sampling clocks - I don't know if the Flex 5k's 2nd RX uses the same 
sampling clock as the other RX and the output DA converter.  Suspect 
they do  - historically PowerSDR has not liked the idea of mixing 
clock domains.

The other issues will be control and UI configuration issues.   You'd 
need setup panels that allow one to setup use  of X for RX1 and Y for 
RX 2, as well as control code for the variations of X and 
Y.    Doable, but probably a  fair amount of code in PowerSDR to 
handle all the different possible variations.

One could run two copies of PowerSDR one for Mercury and one for an 
SDR 1000 or Flex 5000.

This might be something better suited to implementing under the new 
architecture Frank Brickle is working on

Regards,

Bill (KD5TFD)


At 12:55 PM 5/1/2008, Thompson_Peter at emc.com wrote:
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>Since Flex have announced the second RX option for the 5000 and 
>PowerSDR now has the capability to support two receivers, I'm 
>wondering if it will be possible to treat Mercury similarly e.g. 
>have Mercury as the second RX in PowerSDR that is also connected to 
>an SDR-1000 or FLEX-5000.
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>Pete, N3EVL



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