[hpsdr] Proposal

[Philip Covington]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Jeff Cook <jeffrie at talktalk.net> wrote:
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> Regarding Phil Covington's suggestion that the HPSDR website be tidied up, I
> think it has some merit but perhaps is unnecessary.  If the main reason is
> to render the site more informative to the SDR newcomer, then as far as it
> goes it's fine, but as most of the modules that go to make up the HPSDR
> project are unavailable, then, presumably the newcomer will soon head off to
> one of the other 4 or 5 SDR offerings that are currently commercially
> available.
>
> In other words the feeling I have is that HPSDR is rather a closed shop,
> closed that is to all but the initial several hundred of us that were
> attracted to the project at its inception.  There's nothing wrong with this,
> but imagine a newcomer to SDR having been bitten by the bug, and finding his
> way to the HPSDR website only to learn that all this wonderful kit is
> effectively only available on the secondhand market.
>
> So, to the initiated, (that's just about all of us), we know which projects
> have life and which are moribund, and so don't really need changes to the
> website.  To the newcomer the changes would no doubt be welcome but he would
> still end up frustrated at the lack of availability of current/past modules.
>  Hence my opening reply of feeling that Phil Covington's suggestion has
> merit but is perhaps unnecessary.
>
> Jeff Cook G0AFQ.

Hi Jeff,

You make some good points. If HPSDR is a "closed shop" then it does
not really matter what is on the website.

I was assuming that TAPR still wants to sell the remaining board that
they still do have in stock.  I can imagine someone first coming to
the website to figure it out and getting quickly frustrated.

Phil N8VB

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