[hpsdr] Hermes Interest

[Jeremy McDermond]

On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Abhi Arunoday wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> I put in the "Caveat"  as I do understand that this would be NO trivial exercise :),

I figured you did, but I wanted to make sure that everyone else did as well. :)  I could just see someone after Hermes is released saying that "Ahbi said that you could do it, when are you guys coming out with it!"

> There would have to be a single 122.88Mhz master clock and a  10Mhz reference source driving both the cards (adding a jumper wire with 122.88Mhz @ 1.5v PP is not a good idea if you have Penelane/lope anywhere near it), there is also the issue of correctly correlating the data from the two boards as you have already pointed out, in fact the thought of adding a second ADC on Hermes did accur to me when I was working on the PCB but trust me looking at the component density and crosstalk issues I immediately discarded the notion,
> 
> The idea of adding even one more resistor to the Hermes board for some reason does not seem to be very entertaining thought for some weird reason :)

Can't you just solder it directly on top of the first one? :)

> Regards,
> 
> Abhi


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