[hpsdr] Mercury & PowerSDR

[Phil Harman]

Hi Peter,

Subject to someone making the necessary changes to PowerSDR then that 
should be quite possible. I can't see any immediate reason why we can't 
run a Janus card on an SDR1000 and Mercury at the same time. We will 
need to alter the protocol that is used over the USB link to the PC but 
that should be quite straight forward.

I would also expect that PowerSDR could be modified to run a FLEX5000 
and Mercury - but that may be a reasonably complex modification to the 
PC code.

On the subject of multiple receivers, a future feature of Mercury will 
be the ability to run multiple, independent, receivers. The limiting 
factor will be that these are all sharing the same ADC and hence the 
same antenna. If you use a multiband beam say, or trapped vertical (or 
rhombic!)  then you could monitor multiple bands at once. Alex provides 
numerous antenna switching options so using a wideband Rx antenna(s) 
but transmitting on a monoband one will be supported.

Again a future feature will enable multiple Mercury boards to run 
together which will provide full independent receive capabilities in a 
cost effective manner.

The real limiting factor is a volunteer(s) to make the changes to the 
PC software to support these features since both Bill KD5TFD and I are 
fully occupied with rolling out Penelope, Mercury and Alex.

73's Phil...VK6APH



<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.

Pete, N3EVL>



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