[hpsdr] HPSDR Update

[Don - ki6fom]

Is anyone else as upset by this as I am? Mercury is an expensive board 
and one
of the things that convinced me to spend the money was that it could 
also be used
to provide me with a piece of test equipment that has always been beyond 
my reach.
When I saw that if I wanted to have the spectrum analyzer function I 
have to spend
another $360 dollars for a second instance of a board I had already 
ordered (in addition
to cyclops) I almost choked on my coffee.

Perhaps I was being naive but I'd like to understand why it worked out 
this way as
it pretty much puts the spectrum analyzer out of my budget. Phil, can 
you be a little
more specific on the trade offs involved?

Thanks
Don - KI6FOM


Phil Harman wrote:
>
> 1. I have a prototype of Cyclops working and the performance looks very
> good. I'm using Mercury at 96MHz as the second IF. To do so I bypass the
> 55MHz LPF on the front end, this is a permanent by-pass and not somthing
> that is switchable - believe me we tried hard to make it switchable 
> but this
> introduced a number of issues that we wern't willing to compromise 
> on.  If
> you are interested in possibly adding Cyclops to your HPSDR boards in the
> future then a dedicated Mercury board could be a wise investment.
>


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