[hpsdr] Why?

[Graham / KE9H]

All:

Having been involved in three different projects, I can only say that
I have never felt that the web hosts and administrators tried to
limit or control me or the projects in any way, and they have been totally
supportive of any thing I asked of them.  I am grateful to them for
their volunteering and the investment of all of their time.

Someone asked if any of the players in the arguments had a commercial
interest in SDR.  The only one I am aware of is Phil C.

This really seemed to break into full "flame" about the time that
the Hermes project was posted on the Wiki as an upcoming
project.  Read the emails.  Some people were for it, some
people were against it. 

Read the emails.  You be the judge.

--- Graham / KE9H

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John Miles wrote:
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>> John, you stated: "I'm one of the people who was involved in the events.
>> We don't really know what led Phil to take the action he did; it came
>> out of the blue, which was one of the troubling aspects."
>>
>> What I find more troubling is that from what you are saying, it appears
>> that you (and maybe others) made these decision without all the facts to
>> hand...
>>     
>
> I have no dog in the fight, being on the list to keep abreast of any
> interesting technical work being done, but wanted to raise a couple of
> points:
>
> 1) Phil, part of your (helpful) explanatory page says "I will post the
> emails that I sent to the website administrator where I gave them warning
> that the hpsdr.org domain would be changed and why this decision was made."
> Are these emails available yet?  They would seem to address the
> all-important question of who fired the first shot.
>
> 2) I've known and/or corresponded with both John Ackerman and Bill Tracey in
> the past, and consider them both to be selfless, helpful people of (AFAIK)
> impeccable character.  Nobody at TAPR is getting rich off of this project or
> others; as John indicated earlier, they only want to avoid getting soaked.
> I am personally aware that JohnA in particular puts a huge amount of unpaid
> personal time into developing and refining projects that TAPR then makes
> available at ridiculously low cost compared to similar offerings from other
> vendors.  From my point of view, anyone who tries to convince me that the
> TAPR representatives are angling for financial power or political influence
> has a hard job ahead of them.  They get the benefit of the doubt until we
> can see the whole story, which we haven't yet.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
> (full disclosure: TAPR member and occasional volunteer, no official position
> or financial interest, and I don't own any HPSDR gear)
>
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