[hpsdr] HPSDR / PowerSDR hardware selection

[Bill Tracey]

Would it be possible -- yes.  The code is not really setup for it at 
the moment -- one would have to take a crawl thru it looking for all 
the (if CurrentHardware == ... ) clauses and changing them to  ( if 
CurrentTXHardware == ...) and ( if CurrentRXHardware == ... ) 
.    There's also potentially a bit of work if the xmitter and 
receiver are in different clock domains - at the moment I don't think 
PowerSDR has code to deal well with moving samples from one clock 
domain to another.

I wonder how transient a requirement this type of setup is?  Once 
Mercury emerges how much interest will there be in running with 
something other than Mercury+Penelope as a transceiver pair?  I 
suspect there may be some desire to run Mercury as an aux receiver 
with an SDR 1000 or Flex 5000, but not sure how much long term 
interest there is in running arbitrary combinations of recv and xmit hardware.

Something I will keep in mind, but honestly no commitment for it at 
this time - just have too many other things that I need to work on at 
the moment.

Regards,

Bill (kd5tfd)


At 04:45 PM 5/21/2008, Michael White wrote:
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>
>>Hi
>
>Would it be possible to split the hardware selection under PowerSDR
>into two groups, ie RX and TX.?
>
>As the hardware options are growing the possible combinations seem to
>be getting beyond the hardware selection system.
>
>e.g RX -
>Softrock via OZY / Janus
>Softrock via Soundcard
>Mercury
>SDR1000
>SDR5000
>
>Tx
>
>Penelope.
>Softrock via Soundcard.
>SDR1000
>SDR5000
>
>By splitting these groups all the viable combinations could be catered
>for
>
>In my case I need RX Softrock via O/J with Tx via Penny. But that will
>change as experimentation advances. Mercury etc.
>
>Only a thought. saves fussing with the hardware setup when switching
>from TX to RX.
>
>Regards
>Michael G3WOE



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