[hpsdr] Happy Birthday HPSDR and New Penelope expression of Interest

[Eric Ellison]

Folks

 

This is the third anniversary of the VERY early stirrings of HPSDR! It began
as a casual conversation on Teamspeak between Phil Harman - VK6APH  Bill
Tracy, and the other's gathered there on that Saturday with the mention of
Xylo an inexpensive FPGA development board! It evolved to an e-mail list I
started, including Phil Covington - N8VB and then the Xylo group and finally
to Phil Covington's concept which became Ozy - Mercury and also his pursuit
to the QS1R.  Phil's site was adapted to this reflector  HPSDR.  

 

How very much we have accomplished as HPSDR in 3 years, with Open Thought,
Open Source, Open Hardware!!!!!! Voluntary contributions from MANY,
including the TAPR and AMSAT organizations. The physical proof is that is is
REAL and hardware is THERE for you to use, experiment and contribute back! I
don't think any group or area of ham radio can claim the same
accomplishment, except perhaps the Star Project. We have accomplished this
with no formal organization, no membership lists, no board of directors, no
peer reviews, no specific plans, no dues,  no asking for donations. Just
confidence and voluntary contributions of folks in many areas of expertise!
SDR and with HPSDR leading the way from all countries to the Future of
Radio!

 

With the help of Dale WA8SRA I have re-enabled the Penelope DUC interest
column. TAPR stocks of this fantastic transmitter have run out from the
initial build based on interest.  If you are a current member you can go in
and edit your current record to express a new interest in Penelope.  If you
are new to the HPSDR project you can join Hamsdr.com and click on Projects >
TAPR-HPSDR > Express Interest. 

 

Please note that Hamsdr Interests area is offered by Dale - WA8SRA and
myself purely to assess interest in an HPSDR project. It is independent of
both TAPR and HPSDR.  It is not a commitment for anyone to manufacture
anything, or imply any obligations to manufacture, including TAPR. However,
with good numbers in the interest area of this page, anyone can make good
decisions to actually produce some hardware of interest to the group.
Obviously the second offering, of Penelope, if any, will probably cost more,
however, this is the future of radio and will make an excellent transceiver
with Mercury! 

 

I have not changed the current header announcement on the page which
currently indicates the availability of Mercury production from TAPR.
PLEASE if you have expressed interest in obtaining a Mercury receiver go to
the TAPR website and pre-order. Order whether you have previously expressed
interest or not!

 

Viva HPSDR!

 

Thanks

Eric - AA4SW

 

 

 

 

 

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