[hpsdr] Mercury and Magister Now Under OHL

[Dave Larsen]

Dwayne --

  No published plan of the openHPSDR group we are very informal group.
However we have not stopped working.  there are several new board that
will be coming out in the the next 6 months to a year.  

The TAPR organization has publicly state they are not interested in
being a longterm board vendor.  They fund the advancement of technology
in Amateur Radio.  To that end they when asked provide support of the
development and test of new boards.  This expense can be in the tens of
thousands per board.  If TAPR supports a board they ask that they have
the right to produce one run of the board to recoop the investment. then
this money is reinvested in other TAPR projects.

With the Open Hardware License anyone willing to invest in the board
manufacture can make a run of boards.  The intent is to encourage people
to continue to produce boards and we know that they work as expected if
built as described.

As volunteer experimenter the openHPSDR team continue for develop new
ideas and make improvements based what we learn form various projects.
Be assured that there will be more boards.  This is a process so just
jump in and try to find a place where you can contribute.

Dave, KV0S    

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 09:05 -0700, Dwayne L wrote:
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> Irony is my middle name, I had purchased a backplane and a decent soldering station. I was waiting on all the misc tools and supplies so I could solder without disaster.
> 
> Is there an actual published plan of intent for the project? I'd hate to pursue a dead end, or something that as maintained as a legacy project for the means of calming the masses.
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> --- On Tue, 9/21/10, Scott Cowling <scotty at tonks.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Scott Cowling <scotty at tonks.com>
> > Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Mercury and Magister Now Under OHL
> > To: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
> > Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 12:58 AM
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> > Hi Dwayne,
> > 
> > Never fear, plans are in the works to continue the
> > backplane-based 
> > HPSDR system for new folks.
> > 
> > 73,
> > Scotty WA2DFI
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > At 09:26 PM 9/20/2010 -0700, you wrote:
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> > >so is this the work of hermes, or is something
> > replacing the mercury 
> > >as well? I am a bit bummed out, I didn't know TAPR was
> > running out.
> > >
> > >--- On Mon, 9/20/10, Jeremy McDermond <mcdermj at xenotropic.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Jeremy McDermond <mcdermj at xenotropic.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Mercury and Magister Now
> > Under OHL
> > > > To: "SDR (open)" <hpsdr at openhpsdr.org>
> > > > Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 6:39 PM
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> > > > Thanks to Lyle and Phil for their contributions
> > to the
> > > > project, and thanks to those that coordinated the
> > release of
> > > > the specs under OHL.
> > > >
> > > > I hope that we can get some US based
> > manufacturers to make
> > > > these boards so that we can get reasonably priced
> > parts into
> > > > the hands of folks wanting to get started.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
> > > > Xenotropic Systems
> > > > mcdermj at xenotropic.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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