[hpsdr] help please - getting started with secondhand HPSDR board set

[Laurence Barker]

Joe

Thank you for that. I haven’t had chance to run it again yet but I’ll look
forward to it all springing to life!

Does anyone know where the mechanism for ozy firmware updates is documented
– I’d like to understand the process involved. I understand mercury and
Penelope, because their firmware is held in a flash IC on the board. My long
term plans for this will include writing firmware – even if all I ended up
doing was coding myself something equivalent to what’s already there – just
so I can say I’ve done it.

(I did want to make a spectrum analyzer, and my design was going to use a
10.7MHz 2nd IF
. A tuner, variable bandwidth filter and detector would
achieve that nicely. I’ve seen the Cyclops plan has gone back to the drawing
board; mine might be less ambitious than theirs). 

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Laurence Barker
Director, CML Electronics Limited
Home of DCC & LocoNet Certified Accessories www.cmlelectronics.co.uk
 
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From: Joe Martin K5SO [mailto:k5so at valornet.com] 
Sent: 02 December 2012 22:25
To: laurence at cmlelectronics.co.uk
Cc: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] help please - getting started with secondhand HPSDR
board set

Hi Laurence, 

Congratulations on getting up and running!  

No, you don't need to run initozy11.bat each time you run PowerSDR, PowerSDR
runs it automatically and loads the Ozy firmware automatically.  Now that
you have it running you should be able to exit PowerSDR, power down the
Atlas bus, and things should come up normally for you when you re-power the
Atlas bus and run PowerSDR. 

73,  Joe K5SO

On Dec 2, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Laurence Barker wrote:

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Good evening
 
I have purchased a secondhand set of HPSDR boards. I have followed the
“quickstart” guide and gone through all of the steps successfully
 but I
didn’t get a working receiver at first.
 
The PowerSDR I got from following the guide displays the version in the
title bar “KD5TFD 2Feb11b – derived from V1.10.4+ BASE SVN 2025”
 
I have gone through the “firmware upgrade” procedures. All steps reported
completed without errors. I have mercury v3.3, Penelope v1.7 code. I had to
edit the batch file because the quartus code you can download is now v12.1,
but it was clear what I needed to do.
 
Guessing that the PowerSDR may be an older version, I downloaded v2.2.3 from
the “downloads” page. That installs and runs, and tells me I have invalid
firmware. “you have ozy:1.8 mercury:3.3 penny:1.6”. But ozy loads from the
PC at power up
. How do you set its version?
 
I read somewhere else that you need to run “initozy” every time you power up
ozy. I ran that and re-ran PowerSDR and the receiver sprang into life. It
now reports v2.4 for ozy 
 
 
So my question is
 what is the correct procedure to power up the hpsdr
boards so that ozy loads with the correct firmware please? Do I need to run
“initozy” every time – it’s not in the quickstart guide?
 
 
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Laurence Barker, G8NJJ
 


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