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[Todd Mondragon]

Hi all,

Here are my thoughts.
HPSDR was never meant to be Cheap SDR. It was envisioned as High Performance
SDR.
If anyone got into this thinking it was going to be cheap to build a full
working system they deluded themselves.

And in the grand scheme of things, the performance level of this
experimental system IS cheap in comparison to what you'd pay to get lesser
performance from a commercial rig.

Yes, it will take some time for the individual components to be made
available, there are development times, component sourcing times,
manufacturing and shipping logistics and a myriad of other issue to be dealt
with. This project has been running for a couple of years as is so the
impatient would be well advised to go with a commercial solution for more
money or find their own solutions to the missing components if they can't
wait for the groups efforts to be realized.

As far as I am concerned the HPSDR working group has done an amazing job
creating what in comparison to the commercial solutions available is very
very inexpensive for the performance level. And the good people at TAPR have
otdone themselves with this complex and popular project, a huge thanks to
them and everyone involved.

In summary, if you are upset at the costs involved or the delivery times of
the solutions then you are participating in the wrong project. This project
is High Performance Software Defined Radio, not On The Cheap And Quickly
Produced Radio.

73,

Todd M0GLO
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