[hpsdr] Question on Mercury startup

[Graham / KE9H]

Jerry:

Dan, N7HQ  has kindly agreed to add the instructions for updating
Mercury and Penelope to the "Quick Start Guide."  It should be posted
in the next several days.

--- Graham

==

Jerry Flanders wrote:
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> 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:
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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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