[hpsdr] New HPSDRProgrammer with Gerd´s Mercury

[John Melton]

Hi Maximo,

The problem was that C5 and C6 are used on the TAPR Mercury board for
programming Mercury from Metis and Mercury-EU has a hardware difference
that makes these unusable.

the last message I saw from Phil was:

> It would appear that there are hardware differences between the TAPR
> Mercury board and Mercury-EU.
> 
> In which case Mercury_JTAG.rbf will need to be modified in order to make a
> version for EU boards.
> 
> If anyone would like to undertake this please email me directly and I'll
> provide the Quartus source files.
> 
> 73 Phil... VK6APH

I don't remember seeing any response to this but may have missed it.

-- John g0orx/n6lyt

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:14 +0000, Máximo EA1DDO_HK1H wrote:
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I can read on the HPSDR web page that the last HPSDRProgrammer version
> is good to update all cards.
> My setup is Metis (from TAPR) and Mercury-EU (from Gerd). A friend of
> mine has same as me plus Penelope (TAPR).
> 
> Is this update procedure working with Mercury-EU as well? 
> 
> I guess that there are a good number of Gerd´s cards around. I know
> that we can ask to Gerd about support or updates, but it would be much
> better if all improvements are good for all card versions.
> 
> What you think about?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 73, Maximo - EA1DDO & HK1H
> 
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