[hpsdr] Penelope and Mercury-EU available

Sat Apr 2 07:26:58 PDT 2011

Dwayne,

if you can live with Penelope it is available from my stock.
A new batch Mercury-EU is actually in production and will be available in
about 1 week.

Gerd, DJ8AY

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:08:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dwayne L <wraithx at yahoo.com>
To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: [hpsdr] re-production and the pennylane
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I apologize for this, I hate sending requests like this but in scanning
through 
my emails from the last few months I didn't find much.

I remember a gentleman mentioning that they were trying to get another run
done 
of the mercury and possibly the penelope (or maybe it was the pennylane).
Did 
anything ever become of that, or is it?filed away with the "I have several 
important things to tend to, and that one is losing on my priorities"
category.

Speaking of the pennylane, there isn't much on the site or the wiki about
it. I 
was wondering what actual improvements there were.

My big thing, is that I wish to get 2 of everything (maybe more to play with

diversity). My dad is?also interested in the technology, so I thought I
would 
get him on board. He's also much better explaining the theory to me when I
ask 
my questions in jibberish. :)

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary, and those who don't 

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:45:29 -0700
From: Lyle Johnson <kk7p at wavecable.com>
To: Dwayne L <wraithx at yahoo.com>
Cc: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] re-production and the pennylane
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> Speaking of the pennylane, there isn't much on the site or the wiki about
it. I
> was wondering what actual improvements there were.

Two improvements:

1) better power output on 6 meters due to cascaded amplifier stages 
rather than a single stage;

2) better output s/n due to varying the reference voltage on the DAC 
rather than just having fewer bits of the DAC being used as power output 
is decreased.
---

Both of these improvements were tested out in an early generation Hermes 
prototype.
73,

Lyle KK7P

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:27:20 -0700
From: Pat McGrath <ka6tya at arrl.net>
To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: [hpsdr] HPSDR Antenna Switch Board
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Wanted HPSDR Antenna Switch Board?

Anyone have for sale?

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:55:17 -0700
From: Chris Day <scotstramp at msn.com>
To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] re-production and the pennylane
Message-ID: <COL117-W10A464DA89765CBFE32E5C7BE0 at phx.gbl>
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I also have a vague memory of a reproduction notice. I'd be very interested
in a Pennylane or Penelope.

Chris Day
AE6VK

> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:08:44 -0700
> From: wraithx at yahoo.com
> To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
> Subject: [hpsdr] re-production and the pennylane
> 
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> 
> I apologize for this, I hate sending requests like this but in scanning
through 
> my emails from the last few months I didn't find much.
> 
> I remember a gentleman mentioning that they were trying to get another run
done 
> of the mercury and possibly the penelope (or maybe it was the pennylane).
Did 
> anything ever become of that, or is it filed away with the "I have several

> important things to tend to, and that one is losing on my priorities"
category.
> 
> Speaking of the pennylane, there isn't much on the site or the wiki about
it. I 
> was wondering what actual improvements there were.
> 
> My big thing, is that I wish to get 2 of everything (maybe more to play
with 
> diversity). My dad is also interested in the technology, so I thought I
would 
> get him on board. He's also much better explaining the theory to me when I
ask 
> my questions in jibberish. :)
> 
>  -----------
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
> those who understand binary, and those who don't 
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 02:21:19 +1030
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf at ping.net.au>
To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Cannot flash Mercury-EU with Metis and HPSDR
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G'day,

Many thanks to all of you who responded to my email in support.

Here an update and the conclusions to the above problem for the benefit of 
those who are facing the same dilemma:

TAPR Mercury vs Mercury-EU FPGA pin assignments
================================
The design of TAPR Mercury and Mercury-EU differ to the extend that some of 
the otherwise unused FPGA pins are assigned to different locations on the 
ATLAS bus, including signals C5 and C6 utilized by Metis to communicate with

the target board. This caused HPSDRProgrammer to fail to flash the
Mercury-EU 
card. lt will require a special version of Mercury_JTAG file to work around 
this problem. My feeling is that the purpose of unused pins of the FPGA were

not part of the original design specifications of the Mercury board.

As Mercury-EU is produced outside of TAPR, the problem remains of finding 
someone with the expertise and time to produce a modified version of the 
Mercury_JTAG file for Mercury-EU.

My solution
========
I rediscovered my old ByteBlaster and used the Altera programming
application 
to upgrade the Mercury board to version 6.4. I've ordered a Mini USB
Blaster, 
available for under US$13.00 on eBay including shipping, as PCs with
parallel 
ports are getting harder to find.

73, Berndt
VK5ABN

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:00:16 +0100
From: John Melton <john.d.melton at googlemail.com>
To: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf at ping.net.au>
Cc: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Cannot flash Mercury-EU with Metis and HPSDR
Message-ID: <1301673616.2352.29.camel at john-H55-64bit>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Hi Berndt,

Great that this has been resolved. At least the problem identified if
not fixed yet.

I have one of the mini USB Blasters and it works great.  Even supports
NIOS II which my older USB Blaster did not.

-- John g0orx/n6lyt

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 02:21 +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> 
> G'day,
> 
> Many thanks to all of you who responded to my email in support.
> 
> Here an update and the conclusions to the above problem for the benefit of

> those who are facing the same dilemma:
> 
> TAPR Mercury vs Mercury-EU FPGA pin assignments
> ================================
> The design of TAPR Mercury and Mercury-EU differ to the extend that some
of 
> the otherwise unused FPGA pins are assigned to different locations on the 
> ATLAS bus, including signals C5 and C6 utilized by Metis to communicate
with 
> the target board. This caused HPSDRProgrammer to fail to flash the
Mercury-EU 
> card. lt will require a special version of Mercury_JTAG file to work
around 
> this problem. My feeling is that the purpose of unused pins of the FPGA
were 
> not part of the original design specifications of the Mercury board.
> 
> As Mercury-EU is produced outside of TAPR, the problem remains of finding 
> someone with the expertise and time to produce a modified version of the 
> Mercury_JTAG file for Mercury-EU.
> 
> My solution
> ========
> I rediscovered my old ByteBlaster and used the Altera programming
application 
> to upgrade the Mercury board to version 6.4. I've ordered a Mini USB
Blaster, 
> available for under US$13.00 on eBay including shipping, as PCs with
parallel 
> ports are getting harder to find.
> 
> 73, Berndt
> VK5ABN
> 
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