[hpsdr] Hermes check out

[Joe Martin K5SO]

Jeremy, 

Thanks for posting the photos of your gorgeous Hermes finished product.  After seeing the photos of yours I immediately ordered one too.  Nice!  

This evening I took the advice posted earlier about using a common radial arm saw to cut the case down a bit.  I put a new carbide blade on the radial arm saw and simply sawed about 0.082" off the end of the case and covers so that I can use the black plastic bevels on mine with the Hermes board.  Worked great!  Cuts smooth, looks great, no problems.  

Since Hermes was working fine sitting open on my desk I doubt that the plastic pieces on the case will cause any problems whatsoever but if I discover that they do I'll post something to that effect.  The Hermes housing with the plastic pieces in place matches the Antec enclosure that I use for the Atlas-based HPSDR setup very well, so I just couldn't leave them off.  

Thanks again for the heads up!

73,  Joe K5SO


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jeremy McDermond <mcdermj at xenotropic.com>
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Hermes check out
> Date: April 5, 2012 4:42:16 PM MDT
> To: phil at pharman.org
> Cc: HPSDR HPSDR <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
> 
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
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> I have some notes after getting to the mechanical parts of Hermes after the MicroHams conference in Seattle.
> 
> I ordered a Hammond extruded enclosure from Digikey because I didn't want things getting damaged around my shack.  Sometimes things are rather perilous.  I ordered Hammond part number 1455Q1601, DigiKey part number HM1171-ND.  
> 

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