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

[Philip Covington]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Philip Covington <p.covington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Eric Ellison <ecellison at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
>> 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.
>
> Here is the correct history of HPSDR:
>
> I started the HPSDR project in the Spring of 2005.  I also coined the
> name "High Performance Software Defined Radio" - it was a project to
> design and build a modular SDR system with open source tools.  In late
> 2005, Ken Hopper, N9VV created and moderated the Open_HPSDR Yahoo
> group to support the HPSDR project.  Before the Yahoo group, most of
> the discussion of the HPSDR project took place on my blog at
> <http://pcovington.blogspot.com/> during 2005.  The blog journals how
> the project evolved.
>
> In March of 2006, Phil Harman, VK6APH proposed that we merge the HPSDR
> project and the Xylo group and continue to use the name HPSDR.
> Shortly after the Xylo list and the Open_HPSDR Yahoo groups were
> replaced with the HPSDR mailing list hosted by Don AE5K.   I
> registered and purchased the domain name hpsdr.org and Don created and
> hosted the HPSDR website.
>
> The HPSDR project's third birthday has already come and gone.
>
> --
> Phil Covington
> Software Radio Laboratory LLC
> Columbus, Ohio
> http://www.srl-llc.com
>

More History, the first HPSDR board:

<http://www.philcovington.com/SDR/hpsdr_fpga_usb_board.html>

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Phil Covington
Software Radio Laboratory LLC
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.srl-llc.com

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