[hpsdr] Question on Mercury startup

[Todd Mondragon]

Hi Jerry,

Reprogramming them with the latest firmware is a good idea.

These items were programmed when they were manufactured, in the case of
Penelope quite a while ago, and there have been a significant number of bug
fixes and enhancements that have come along since then. In some cases it
seems that a code mismatch on the boards will keep them from functioning
together.

I am not sure why it wasn't written into the manuals as it was pretty much a
given that updating the firmware would be part of the process. Perhaps that
should be corrected.

73!

Todd M0GLO

2009/3/25 Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>

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> I will be taking the Mercury I purchased from TAPR out of the box soon to
> get it going.
>
> I see a lot of discussion going on here about reprogramming it, and how to
> accomplish this. But I have not seen any discussion of why they are being
> reprogrammed.
>
> I did a cursory read of the startup documentation, but didn't find any
> reprogramming notice - maybe I missed something.
>
> Will my TAPR Mercury need to be reprogrammed before I use it? How about my
> TAPR  Penelope?
>
> Jerry W4UK
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