[hpsdr] Hermes - Receiver excellent :)

[Kevin Wheatley]

Hi Dan

To be honest, under real world conditions, I can't 'see' or hear any difference switching between the two, there are however virtually no spurs within the ham bands (Hermes) , Mercury scored will here too, but I believe Hermes has a slight edge in this department.

73's
Kevin



On 30 Mar 2012, at 13:34, dan edwards wrote:

> hi kevin
> 
> do you have a Merc? just wonder how Hermes compares with a Mercury?  73, w5xz, dan
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 3/30/12, Kevin Wheatley <kevin.m0khz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Kevin Wheatley <kevin.m0khz at gmail.com>
> Subject: [hpsdr] Hermes - Receiver excellent :)
> To: "HPSDR (open)" <hpsdr at openhpsdr.org>
> Date: Friday, March 30, 2012, 12:07 PM
> 
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> 
> Update, following a junk box raid, I've now hooked up an antenna to Hermes, performance is outstanding:)
> 
> I can also confirm that Hermes works with Heterodyne wirelessly over my home network, in fact I'm sat here on the patio typing this note on my MacBook, while listening to my local radio station via Hermes, wirelessly, just the occasional drop out. 
> 
> Transmit will have to wait until some SMA to BNC adaptors arrive via eBay, in the mean time I'll drag out a PA & LPF's in preparation :)
> 
> 73's
> Kevin
> 
> 
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