[hpsdr] Software direction for openHPSDR...

[Ken N9VV]

Hi Pete, one of the most useful things you could do is to abandon C#. It 
is a proprietary M$ language and is not portable to other platform. 
Please consider C++/Qt or C++/GTK+ or Java with C as John Melton has 
done. Perhaps you could select a portable IDE as well (like NetBeans. At 
least then there is some hope of portability for the many MAC/LIN/WIN 
members of OpenHPSDR.
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And then of course there is the Python/Qt engineering that Bob Cowdery 
G3UKB has presented to us.
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Dave KV0S has started the design of a software architecture for 
OpenHPSDR. I assume you have read his wiki page:
http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=ATHENA
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Of course you realize that John Melton also ported a data access channel 
for us using the *gnuradio* modules. I believe this was a breakthrough 
that could bring hundreds of USRP members into the OpenHPSDR camp. But 
for some unexplained reason, John has not received any recognition for 
his groundbreaking work. *Gnuradio-Companion* has a unique "Flow Graph" 
language that is fascinating and seemingly very powerful. I do not see 
any discussion or excitement about the delicious possibilities it presents.
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Leif Asbrink <leif at sm5bsz.com> has shown a passing interest in OpenHPSDR 
and that would give us an opening to his superb Linrad algorithms and 
modules.
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thank you for your consideration,
GN/GB
73 de Ken N9VV


On 8/2/2010 7:10 PM, n3evl wrote:
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> I was thinking of firing up the KISS s/w and possibly digging into the
> source code to see what's there and what makes it tick. It occurred to
> me that maybe instead, I should look at some of the other s/w such as
> the mods to PowerSDR or the ghpsdrx code.
> With all the variety of choices and their different stages of
> development, this got me thinking about the direction we hpsdr users are
> headed with respect to the software part of our wonderful radio. It
> strikes me that AFAIK, there has never been a purely software project to
> complement all of the various hardware items that openHPSDR has yielded
> to date.
>
> I'm also wondering what a newcomer to openHPSDR might make of this,
> having seen the available hardware offerings.
> Perhaps all we need is some consolidation of information on what's
> available for various platforms and an easy way to get at the associated
> documentation so anyone can find the binaries, source code, installation
> guides etc. - perhaps a dedicated section of the web/wiki?
> However, perhaps it is also time for some discussion about the
> possibilities and future direction with respect to the software, perhaps
> along the lines of a dedicated project that can define some goals and
> hopefully meet the needs of the diverse community with respect to
> function, languages, operating systems, servers, clients, etc. but also
> keep in mind the HP part of openHPSDR.
>
> In the meantime, I'd still like to grab the latest KISS code, so if
> someone can point me at the latest incantation I'd appreciate it.
> Pete, N3EVL
>
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