[hpsdr] Novice Help

Pat McGrath ka6tya at arrl.net
Sun Jul 11 22:23:34 PDT 2010


What can I do to fix this problem?

 
"Invalid Firmware level. Ozy >=16, Penelope>=12 and Mercury >=27 required"


The HPSDR is a Mercury board in J5 and a Magister board in J2.  Both
are mounted on an Atlas motherboard installed in a Pandora enclosure.
The power supply is a Turbolink 420Watt ATX supply. Both
the Mercury and Magister boards are recently purchased from TAPR, and
I assembled the Atlas board.

The SCL and SDA jumpers have been installed on the Magister board.

The USBIO driver has been downloaded from Flex-Radio.com and installed.

PowerSDR has been downloaded from the SVN site.

After applying power to the HPSDR and plugging the USB cable into
Magister, here is the condition:

The Windows Device Manager shows:
    LibUSB-Win32Devices
        OZY Host Assisted Firmware Load

The red LEDs on the Mercury board are:  D3,D9, and D10. The four green
LEDs shown in the Mercury Manual are also illuminated.

The Magister board shows activity on three LEDs.
    D2 - intermittant
    D7 - continuous
    D8 - intermittant

The Atlas motherboard is showing Green LEDs for 12V, 5V, 3.3V and -12V.

Now I run PowerSDR which shows
"(KD5TFD 7May2010) FlexRadio Systems PowerSDR v1.10.4+ BaseSVN 2025" in the
top of the window.

In the Setup window, HPSDR tab the Firmware versions shown are:

    Ozy FX2: n/a
    Ozy: 0
    Mercury: 0
    Penelope: 0

Mercury is selected for both clock sources.

After pressing the "Start" button an error window appears which says:

"Invalid Firmware level. Ozy >=16, Penelope>=12 and Mercury >=27 required"

Now the Firmware Versions in the HPSDR setup screen are:

    Ozy FX2: 20090524
    Ozy: 0
    Mercury: 0
    Penelope: 0

Now the Magister boards is showing the following Red LEDs:
    D2 - intermittant
    D3 - continuous
    D7 - continuous
    D8 - intermittant



Please Help. Thanks




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