[hpsdr] 2.6 experience

[Mark Amos]

W.B.

I created a directory called USBBLASTER and then did an SVN checkout of svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/USBBlaster-Binaries (same general process that you used to get the latest SVN release of PowerSDR.)

In the README.txt file that gets downloaded with the software are instructions to do it. 

There are some pre-requisites (downloading and installing Quartus II Programmer application, loading of the USB drivers, etc.) but these are documented in the README.txt file and I don’t recall having any problems downloading and installing them - though it does take some time to download Quartus II.

Give it a shot!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: wbr/wf4r [mailto:wbr at verizon.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:35 PM
To: mark at amos-family.com
Cc: hpsdr at lists.hpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] 2.6 experience

This is a "newbie" question, please have mercy.   I must have missed the procedure for loading the new firmware for Mercury.
What is the "USB Blaster"?  Will I need a special piece of hardware to load the new firmware? Or is this something that may be taken care of automatically during Start up of the Power SDR Software?
I am hoping that it will be as simple as getting the latest SVN release of PowerSDR.
Thanks for the help.  73, Bill

W.B.Runyon,Sr.
Amateur Radio WF4R (FM16ts)
Chesapeake, VA

Feb 11, 2009 07:23:13 PM, mark at amos-family.com wrote:


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	Phil,
	
	FWIW, no problems loading 2.6. My card order is now 
	6:Merc
	5:Ozy
	4:Penny
	
	And it seems to be working fine. I haven't tried any other board order since
	upgrading, but this is a different order than I was using before the upgrade
	to 2.6.
	
	The version # shows 26 in the Firmware Versions table. Other than the
	change in the Mercury status led's haven't seen anything unusual with
	v1.10.4+ BaseSVN 2025 version of the KD5TFD PowerSDR dated 11Feb2009.
	
	Is it still necessary to have only OZY and Mercury installed when we do the
	Mercury firmware upgrades via the USB Blaster method? 
	
	Also, is there any reason that the JP7 jumper shouldn't just stay shorted
	all the time?
	
	Sorry if these have been covered in the reflector discussions - I've been
	over in F land on business and wasn't able to keep up with the reflector
	discussions.
	
	Nice to see Alex getting ready to take off!! Thanks to TAPR for that
	present!
	
	Also, many thanks to the HPSDR developers for a superb job! Sure is a fun
	little radio!
	
	Mark
	W8XR
	
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	Message: 11
	Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:22:54 +0900
	From: "Phil Harman" <phil at pharman.org>
	Subject: [hpsdr] Mercury V2.6
	To: <hpsdr at hpsdr.org>
	Message-ID: <6083C2528C054937BECD9DF703AAFB98 at phil>
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	Mercury V2.6 is now available for Beta testing. Loading method is as before
	
	and you can obtain from
	
	< svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/USBBlaster-Binaries >
	
	It looks like V2.6 has fixed the card position issue of Mercury on the Atlas
	
	bus. It also fixes a small bug in the spectrum data that is sent to EP4.
	
	There will also be an new version of PowerSDR and Ozy_Janus.rdf - Bill, 
	KD5TF, will announce this shortly.
	
	As before, please test V2.6 and provide feedback to the reflector.
	
	73's Phil....VK6APH
	
	
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