[hpsdr] Direction Finder using Dual-Mercury Diversity Operation

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Perhaps we could use two HPSDRs?

They could be synced by two Excalibur's running on the same 10 
MHz std.

No Atlas socket or FPGA limitations, and we could also do 
transmit beam forming.


Mike - AA8K


On 09/22/2011 01:28 PM, Joe Martin K5SO wrote:
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> Hi Abhi,
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> On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Abhi Arunoday wrote:
>> Another thought......if we are looking at putting multiple
>> receivers inside one FPGA why not try this with Hermes and use
>> use a secondary card for the additional hardware or I could
>> design a board with a FBGA FPGA ( this would have more than
>> enough IOs) and multiple ADCs on the same PCB ?
>>
>
> At first glance using Hermes sounds very messy to me in that you
> must either using inter-board cabling to ensure the multiple
> receivers are coherent or try to find Atlas bus lines that will
> do the job for inter-board comm. While I suppose it could work I
> would opt for a completely separate board from Hermes, I think.
> I'm not saying I wouldn't want to play if Hermes with an add-on
> board was selected but it wouldn't be my first choice since
> Hermes really wasn't designed for multiple ADCs and we'd start
> right off patching up things which often leads to a
> messy/unreliable final configuration.
>
> Joe K5SO
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