[hpsdr] Question on Mercury startup

[Steven Wilson]

Jerry,

Actually - one way of looking at it is that the project is living up to
it's original promise. It's high performance SOFTWARE defined radio ;-) 
As others have said - the system has had hardware and software
improvements since original release that will make for much less trouble
in usage AND have added features to boot! 

As an example - the original software was hard-wired for a 192K band
segment.  Well - many people had performance issues (and consequently
poorly running radios) at that level. One of the first increments in the
Software/hardware allowed for 192K, 96K or 48K segments.  My hardware
works best at 48K - and I've personally found that I like it at that
level better for usage reasons.

There is software/hardware changes a foot that might give you dozens of
receivers in just the little Mercury card!  Actually it is a really
exciting time to watch this project morph and grow.

Thanks to all of the developers!

Steve KA6S
Jerry Flanders wrote:
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> 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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