[hpsdr] Someone has to be last.

[Jeff Cook]

I've been watching this list with growing excitement as Mercury was 
reported as having been seen in the Arctic Circle, Australia, Latvia, 
Italy, and just about everywhere else.  Now I can have the pleasure of 
reporting to you all that Mercury has landed in Liverpool, someone has 
to be last and I think that someone is me.

What a smashing piece of kit, apart from a little fussiness as to what 
position the modules like to be placed in Atlas, it worked straight out 
of the box.  So along with all the others that have expressed their 
thanks may I also expressed thanks to the Design Team, the TARP people, 
Construction and Dispatch, and to anybody else involved in providing me 
with this gorgeous piece of cutting edge technology.

I followed Phil Harman's instructions on programming the EPCS16 and have 
installed Mercury Code version 2.3 without any problem, (why has 2.4 
been given the cold shoulder)?  Now instructions really have to be 
foolproof for me to get it right first time, so congratulations to Phil 
for producing such an easy to follow guide.  I guess that my using XP 
helps in this respect, I gave up on Vista a long time ago.

I would concur with those whom carried out the finger test on the A/D 
chip and grew a blister, I too now have an index finger blister. Francis 
Carcia has mused that he may well fit a heatsink to his chip, I have a 
suggestion here, I would almost certainly destroy Mercury if I tried to 
do such a thing, however even I have managed to rig a small fan close-up 
to the A/D chip, and now if I wish I can place my finger on the A/D chip 
all day and all I would suffer would be boredom.

I really am enjoying this.

Jeff Cook G0AFQ.