[hpsdr] Mercury-EU and Mercury what is the difference?

[Steve Doyle]

The pcb layout is different but i believe they are functionally identical.Gerd should be able to confirm 

Cheers

Steve
G1ylb


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On 14 Oct 2010, at 11:21, "Peter n Di" <pedroj at bordernet.com.au> wrote:

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> Thanks Steve for that but it is obvious even to me that Mercury-EU is quite
> different to the TAPR board just by looking at a sample of a finished board.
> So I pose the question again, what are the differences between them?  I am
> primarily concerned of backing myself into a corner with a different board
> and ending up with a goose as I have no experience with HPSDR and only have
> the WIKI and the mailing list for guidance.
> 
> Gerd (DJ8AY) is about to do another run of Penelope (234.5 EUR) in November
> some time and would appear to have most of the others available.
> 
> Peter vk5pj
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Doyle [mailto:steve_doyle at o2.co.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 5:10 AM
> To: Peter n Di; hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Mercury-EU and Mercury what is the difference?
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> TAPR typically does one run of boards and then stops. At which point anyone 
> can manufacture them. Gerd Loch is currently manufacturing several boards at
> 
> the moment Mercury-EU  being one of them.
> Mercury-EU is identical or near identical to the TAPR produced board. I'm 
> going to be purchasoing a new Mercurymyself so I can try out Joe's diversity
> 
> work :)
> 
> 73s
> 
> Steve
> G1YLB
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Peter n Di" <pedroj at bordernet.com.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:02 PM
> To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
> Subject: [hpsdr] Mercury-EU  and Mercury what is the difference?
> 
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>> Hello,
>> I have been reading the list for a while now and looking to get
>> involved with HPSDR but find a few things quite confusing, like why is 
>> there
>> two versions of Mercury and what are their differences?  Does the same 
>> code
>> work on both or is there a different stream of code for Mercury-EU?
>> 
>> As completed boards seem to have dried up from TAPR and my confusion about
>> Mercury-EU, I have not jumped in.  Sorry if this question has been posed
>> before but I could find no answers in the WIKI or other resources
>> 
>> I must say thanks to Phil (vk6aph) for his recent presentation on HPSDR in
>> Adelaide recently
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Peter Sumner, vk5pj
>> 
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