[hpsdr] Roadmaps

Sun Sep 25 18:50:24 PDT 2011

Dave,

I assume you are responding to my email but perhaps you have me confused 
with Walter, GW4PEX, since his is the text you quoted?

In any event, I think you have missed my point!  My intent was not in 
the nature of a complaint and I am quite familiar with the volunteer 
nature of the overall HPSDR project and mindful of the time constraints 
under which the contributors operate.

My concern was the overall fragmentation of access to the available 
information. Most of that which I seek is no doubt already out there on 
the various web pages, wiki, etc.  I guess my confusion was in part due 
to seeing the occasional references to some new release of this or that 
on this reflector accompanied by statements like: "version 1.2.3.4 is 
available on svn..."  A specific example was a recent reference to 
PowerSDR 1.19.3.5:  In that particular case I could not determine what 
svn address to use and was puzzled regarding the significance of that 
particular version since it was not clear if it was specific to 
diversity use or more general use.  A search of the reflector did not 
yield the information I was missing.

My suggestion was that a roadmap giving details of each software 
component, including derivatives specific to some area might be useful 
to the HPSDR community.  Ideally this would document the name of the 
item, its reason for being, where the current binaries can be obtained, 
where source code can be obtained, related web-page(s), etc.

Perhaps what is needed is some mechanism by which contributors of HPSDR 
software can announce availability and updates to whatever it is they 
have, allowing the rest of us to go to one central location such as a 
web or wiki page and see what's new or changed that might be of interest.

If this resonates at all with the community at large, please let me know 
your ideas; if there is interest in putting together the type of roadmap 
described above (or someone has a better idea), I will gladly act as 
recipient of the related information (and glean what I can from what's 
already out there) and attempt to put together such an entity.

Pete, N3EVL

On 9/25/2011 6:32 PM, Dave Larsen wrote:
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> Pete --
>
> First, we are a group of volunteers each interest the the outcome of the
> the project as a whole but each with our special interests.  No paid
> employees or boss here.  we are not trying to sell products just have
> access to very up to date radio hardware and software.  I would say our
> radios are not set up for end users but some assembly is required. We
> are a group of experimenters.
>
> As for the road map, I would also recommend the block diagram on the
> (http://openhpsdr.org) webpage.
>
> Each word in the diagram is a link to a page that tells you more about
> that bit or piece.  On each of the website pages is a status sections on
> each hardware part.
>
> The software is a bit harder as the each program seem to go there own
> way.  powerSDR is a gift from Flex open source that has three ports. the
> simple one (Supported by Bill, KD5TFD) that works but is out of date,
> the the middle one that has more features and as is supported by Doug
> W5WC) and the diversity one if you have two mercury boards (supported by
> Joe K5SO). We also have Kiss Konsole for windows (maintained by Phil
> VK6APH) I use the ghpsdr and ghpsdr3 written by John G0ORX) on Linux and
> there is a MacOS (code written by Jeremy NH6Z). there are web pages
> describing each, which one you should use depend on what computers you
> have and what you what to do.
>
> The base version of the firmware are on the download page
> (http://openhpsdr.org/download.php ) along with links to all this
> software and the board firmware loaders.  Some authors have modified the
> firmware to suit their needs and they should tell you about that on
> there website.  We are a group of experimenters.
>
> The wiki pages are places for ideas before the get done or documentation
> detail of board or software development there are about 50 people with
> write access and any of them can change the pages.
>
> It all that is not enough I challenge you to jump in an help use
> document the project.
>
> Dave, KV0S
> An openhpsdr.org volunteer, with a full time day job
> web site and wiki manager
>
>
> On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 22:58 +0100, walter williams wrote:
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>> G’day all,
>>
>>
>>
>> (Pete, N3EVL)last week asked for a roadmap.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lots and lots of bits and pieces hear and there isn’t good enough.
>>
>>
>>
>> What versions of PowerHPSDR should we be using? And what versions of
>> firmware for the boards?
>>
>>
>>
>> We need a roadmap.
>>
>>
>>
>> Keep taking the tablets.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards, GW4PEX
>>
>>
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