[hpsdr] The Future of HPSDR?

[Paul Cecil]

I decided to stick my neck out and start a discussion. Where do we go 
with HPSDR in the future? Sometime soon the last of the boards needed to 
make a working HPSDR radio will have been completed. Is this the end of 
HPSDR? We tell folks that HPSDR is "an open source (GNU type) hardware 
and software project intended as a "next generation" Software Defined 
Radio (SDR) for use by Radio Amateurs ("hams") and Short Wave Listeners 
(SWLs)." It won't be long before the hardware that was used will be last 
generation. So should we start working on HPSDR II? We have a flexible 
system that will allow us to replace individual boards with upgraded 
boards. It would be easy to just upgrade our current boards with faster 
chips, but that is not necessarily next generation. Or, do we take-off 
on a new direction? Do we start looking at a way of merging hardware and 
software to make a more flexible radio as some have imagined? Wouldn't 
it be great to be able to upload new firmware and have the hardware 
rearrange itself to optimize the "radio" for the mode we want to use?

So fellow HPSDR enthusiasts... where do we go from here?

Paul Cecil
KA5FPT
Bath, Maine