[hpsdr] Dayton Debrief

[Richard Stasiak]

Hi Kevin

I have a few pictures of our intrepid HPSDR enthusiasts and Hermes  
that I will send you direct.

73

Rick ve3mm

On 18-May-10, at 11:46 AM, Kevin Wheatley wrote:

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> Hi Jeremy
>
> Thanks for the report, it sounds like you had a 'ball'. I don't  
> suppose you have any pictures of the gang on the TAPR booth,  
> specifically with Hermes / Apollo in shot? I'm providing a Hermes  
> update to my local club next week and some pictures would be great.
>
> I read with interest you presentation, I wish I was there, one  
> question in the future directions slot, can you elaborate on the  
> 'Ichabod' the headless MacHPSDR?
>
> 73's
> Kevin
>
> On 18 May 2010, at 03:03, Jeremy McDermond wrote:
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>> First off, I'd like to thank all the folks who made my Dayton trip  
>> possible.  I was very honored to be asked to speak, and I had a  
>> very good time doing so.  I hope it was educational for all  
>> involved.  Hopefully I can make it back next year.
>>
>> I'd also like to say it was nice to meet John Melton, Rick, Dave,  
>> Scotty and the other TAPR folks during the Hamvention.  I hope John  
>> got back to England okay with the ash cloud issues.
>>
>> All in all I thought the event went well.  All of us at the booth  
>> spent quite a while answering questions and chatting with folks.  I  
>> hope that we get some folks interested in the project and signed up  
>> on the reflector to chat about things.  There was a lot of interest  
>> in Hermes, not only from the people coming by the booth, but from  
>> me as well.  I didn't get a chance to see if I could get MacHPSDR  
>> to run on it, but John had ghpsdr running on it fairly well.  I  
>> think there's a couple of bugs to work out, but it seems fairly  
>> cool.  I just looked at the packaging of Hermes and thought to  
>> myself that it would be really really cool to be stuffed in a bag  
>> with my laptop for a portable SDR setup.  Too bad it won't be ready  
>> for Field Day :)  I didn't think that I'd be all that interested  
>> since I already have a Mercury/Penelope pair, but I have to say  
>> that I think I'm hooked.  It was interesting that the Hermes form  
>> factor was much like the Flex 1500 that was released at Hamvention.
>>
>> The Flex presentation was very interesting, and it was educational  
>> to see some of their work in the commercial/government sector.  The  
>> big 32 receiver setups were cool looking.  Lyle's presentation on  
>> embedded SDR and the platforms to implement it put some interesting  
>> thoughts in my head, even if it isn't Mac stuff.  Scotty's  
>> presentation answered the question of Hamvention -- "Where's  
>> Alex."  John was very engaging, and we got along well.  I'm  
>> interested to connect with him more regarding the UI issues on a  
>> multi-receiver setup.  It's something that's been weighing on my  
>> mind as well.
>>
>> I only got a brief opportunity to walk the show floor, and only  
>> ended up with a coax stripper from DX Engineering that I had been  
>> lusting after for a while, an Excalibur kit, and a Pennywhistle  
>> kit.  I'll have some kits to build when I get back to Oregon. :)
>>
>> For folks that would like to look at the slides from my  
>> presentation, I posted them on my website at:
>>
>> http://www.nh6z.net/MacHPSDR/Dayton_Presentation.pdf
>>
>> Again, thanks to all who made Dayton possible for me, and I enjoyed  
>> meeting everyone that came.
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
>> Xenotropic Systems
>> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
>>
>>
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