[hpsdr] In the Spirit of experimenters

[Tim O'Rourke]

I will concur that price verses performance is one of the best deals around.
Compared to Flex HPSDR is a lot less expensive especially when you take into account that HPSDR is Direct Digital Conversion and you do not need a sound card to operate.
Just my 3 cents worth. 
It is also possibe, similar to Elecraft, to buy a little at a time and gradually build a rig as you can afford it. Try that with a Yeawocom 1st class rig!
Tim W4YN


-----Original Message-----
>From: Luke Steele <mail10 at barefoothorse.com.au>
>Sent: Jul 13, 2010 1:51 AM
>To: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
>Subject: Re: [hpsdr] In the Spirit of experimenters
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>At 01:54 AM 13/07/2010 +0000, you wrote:
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>>Someone noted that HPSdr seemed to be very expensive
>
>For what it is, I consider the HPSDR to be very reasonably priced indeed.
>It is a bit hard to simply compare this type of radio with any particular
>commercial offering, and say that the HPSDR is equivalent or superior to
>XXX model rig on the market today, but what I'm seeing so far is quite
>stunning.
>Consider that it is leading-edge technology, with the attractiveness of
>homebrew (for those who like to build, that is).
>I looked at PicaStar, but was completely put off by the complexity of the
>assembly required. For what I paid for the three complex boards in HPSDR to
>be assembled and tested and ready to go, I saved in countless hours of
>microsopic work.
>The rest of the assembly and integration was well within my capability, and
>it wasn't long before I had a working radio on air.
>I have plenty of nice (old-fashioned)20th Century, Superheterodyne rigs
>here, so I decided that if I was to get another radio, it would be
>completely different. And that, the HPSDR surely is!
>Vy 73,
>Luke VK3HJ
>mainly CW op
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Tim O'Rourke 
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