[hpsdr] Metis rocks!

[Steve Bunch]

I'll ditto that!  Finally got time to bring up Metis this weekend, and it works 
well.  The dropouts that I used to see with USB are gone.

I downloaded the HPSDRProgrammer zip file for Mac from the OpenHPSDR downloads 
site, unzipped it, but it didn't run.  Turns out the executable file (which is 
buried several folders deep, in Heterodyne.app/Contents/MacOS/Heterodyne) lost 
it's 'x' bits somewhere in the process.  Turning them back on with a shell 
command (chmod +x Heterodyne.app/Contents/MacOS/Heterodyne) fixed it.  After 
that, it worked as advertised for updating Metis, Mercury, and Penelope.  This 
is on a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.6.6, with the Mac and Metis connected to a 
1Gbit switch, and a router providing DHCP.

I haven't yet gotten Heterodyne to work for me, though it's getting closer, so 
I'm testing using a Windows machine.  I downloaded KK and PowerSDR from the 
downloads site (I had only used the svn in the past) and they work fine, though 
the PowerSDR screen skin is weird -- the "Start" button is the same color as the 
background, and it took a while to find it.  Did I put the skin in the wrong 
place?

Anyway, it's all up and running now, and I'm going to give a talk about SDR 
tomorrow at the Motorola amateur radio club meeting in Schaumburg and will take 
it along for show and tell (and probably to listen to the neon sign transformers 
at the BBQ restaurant... ;-).  My main laptop's a Mac, and the screen on my 
Windows netbook is awfully small, so I'm going to try to get Win7 on Parallels 
to run PowerSDR and see how it goes.  Someone's bringing a Windows laptop just 
in case.

Thanks for all the hard work that's been put in on the hardware, firmware, and 
software!

73,
Steve, K9SRB




----- Original Message ----
From: roland etienne <roland.etienne at free.fr>
To: Richard Stasiak <richardstasiak at gmail.com>; hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 12:29:26 PM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Metis rocks!

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Hello,
 
The same, here in Normandy, where Metis landed last Friday ! Installation went 
smoothly on Win 7 machine and CPU usage of Power SDR drop down to 7-8 %, really 
nice job, as usual !
 
Thanks all involved !
 
73, Roland F8CHK.
 
 

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De :hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org [mailto:  
hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org ] De la part de Richard Stasiak
Envoyé : lundi 14 mars 2011 14:53
À : hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
Objet : [hpsdr] Metis rocks!
 
I've playing with Metis since I received it on Friday. As usual, it is a great 
work of hardware and software art.  It is going to be fun running the hardware 
remotely. A great big thank you to all who were involved, for all of the hard 
work that went into it's development, production, testing and distribution.

Some notes that may help others:

I wasn't paying attention to the location of all the info on the Metis related 
software and it took me a while to figure out that it is all nicely summarized 
on the download page of openhpsdr.org/download site rather than being in the 
wiki.  

I also had trouble with discovering Metis on a mac PC running XP in bootcamp.  I 
finally disabled the two of the three adaptors and things started to play.

The Mac OS version of the Metis programmer would not start for me on a intel Mac 
running v10.6.  It aborted with a message saying the program would not run on 
this machine.  I am not sure what the problem is.
I ended up loading the latest Metis code using a windows machine.

73

Rick ve3mm

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