[hpsdr] HERCULES

[Dave Larsen]

Hercules is a 100 PA that was designed by Gerd  a hpsdr Commercial Vendor
in Europe.  This project did not go through the same process of development
and community testing that the other boards have.  Gerd just made it and
started selling the board.  The reports are the the board works fine.

There is another 100 PA that is a openhpsdr project call Munin by Kjell,
LA2NI in Norway.  This project has made a set of development boards and
tested them. It should be ready for production and this project is in the
que but Hermes is the next board to be produced.

http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=MUNIN

There is also some development interest in getting the Thor project going
again.  This a higher watt E class PA

http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=THOR

Remember we are a group of experimenters and these board get build based on
someone that takes on the project and moves it forward and also the
available funds for testing and development.  If the project is funded by
TAPR the funds are driven by the sale of the previous built boards. We are
in at the end of two complicated board projects that have had delays. Alex
which is now available and Hermes, which is a Pennylane, Mercury and Metis
all on one board and should be produced in the next month or two.

Please buy the available boards as they help fund future development.

I hope this helps explain how things work and what is available and
potentially available.

Dave, KV0S






On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Mark Leone <midnightjava at verizon.net>wrote:

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> On 1/30/12 2:13 AM, John Westmoreland wrote:
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> Travis & The Group,
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>  I don't see the Hercules module discussed on the home page.
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>  What modules is this?  It isn't Hermes - correct?
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>  John,
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> There's a Hercules wiki page at
> http://openhpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hercules. I guess it's not
> prominent on the HPSDR site pages. I think I first discovered it when I was
> getting started with HPSDR and it was mentioned on a quick start page for
> beginners. It's a 100 watt PA designed to work with Penny/PennyLane. It has
> some overlap of capability with Alex (LPF) but also has something Alex
> doesn't have (HPF/pre-selector). If you use it without Alex, Gerd also
> sells an Antenna Switch to use with Hercules. Gerd told me in an email a
> week or so ago that he hasn't yet looked at how Hercules can play with
> Alex. He's going to look into that and get back to me. I'll be glad to
> share with the group what he tells me.
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> Mark - K4XML
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Columbia, MO, USA
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