[hpsdr] Question on Mercury startup

[Jerry Flanders]

Thanks to all who replied. I will start up with my existing 
programming and upgrade if/when "For Dummies" instructions are available.

Jerry W4UK

At 02:42 3/25/2009, Graham / KE9H wrote:
>Jerry:
>
>Your boards will work with the software out of the box, but there have
>been features added, and lots of improvement relative to the bus-position
>sensitivity issues in the early software.
>
>I recommend that you update your Mercury to version 2.6 and Penelope to
>version 1.1, and use the latest version of PowerSDR that is on the SVN,
>currently 28 February.
>
>You can update using your Ozy as the programmer.  You won't need any
>additional hardware.
>
>--- Graham / KE9H
>
>
>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


 1238004395.0