[hpsdr] Cheap USB Blaster Clone

[Chris Smith]

On 11 Jan 2009, at 07:06, Kirk Weedman wrote:

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> I heard there may be a cheap USB Blaster clone.  Could someone point  
> me in the right direction and tell me how much it is?
>
> Thanks
> Kirk Weedman - KD7IRS


Kirk

See         http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=110321686265

$45 + shipping and it looks as if its the real Altera device.

Thanks to Steve N5EN for finding it.

73
Chris G4NUX

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Hi Chris

I needed one as I'm building Penelope from scratch. I was so happy  
when it worked on Mercury as I couldn't justify paying $300 for the  
one from Altera.  The only 'very' minor issue with this unit was that  
the ribbon cable didn't have a red stripe on the pin 1 line.  I just  
oriented the cable like the picture in the ebay ad (which does have a  
red mark), and it worked.  I then used a red marker on my cable to  
identify line 1 for future use.

73
Steve N5EN

--- chris at vspl.co.uk wrote:

From: Chris Smith <chris at vspl.co.uk>
To: Steve Niles <n5en at wt.net>
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Terasic USB Byte Blaster - Problem resolved
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:10:48 +0000

Steve

Thanks for the steer, I've ordered one of these. They seem to be the
real thing at a fraction of the price.

73
Chris G4NUX


On 9 Jan 2009, at 21:29, Steve Niles wrote:

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> I was able to program my unmodified Mercury board with this
> programmer:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=110321686265
>
> 73
> Steve N5EN

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