[hpsdr] Heterodyne for iPad Update

Mark Leone midnightjava at verizon.net
Fri May 25 09:22:46 PDT 2012


Hi Jeremy,

Do you have any plans to back-port the iPad Heterodyne capabilities to the
OSX version?

-Mark K4 XML

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> From: hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-
> bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy McDermond
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:36 PM
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> Subject: [hpsdr] Heterodyne for iPad Update
> 
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> 
> I just wanted to make a quick announcement for folks who may have not
> noticed or haven't been following.
> 
> The Monday and Tuesday before Hamvention I made the first releases of
> Heterodyne for iPad through TestFlight for people to try out.  It's by
> no means perfect yet, but there is at least basic SSB transciever
> functionality right now.  This was all running on the iPad 3, and was
> on display at Dayton.  I did have a little bit of problem with the
> wireless at the show because of the nasty RF environment, but I think
> we have most of that solved by now.  If iPad-less people are curious,
> there is a short video on my youtube page at http://youtu.be/PnQzfI-
> Zugk  Please note because of the way this is recorded the sound and
> video are a little bit jumpy.  It's a lot smoother in person.
> 
> In other news I have borrowed an iPad 1 to do some testing with.
> Initially because of some issues with the differences in maximum OpenGL
> texture sizes on the different platforms, the waterfall wasn't working.
> I've poked at the code a little to make it more dynamic about how it
> figures out texture sizes and I've gotten an iPad 1 to successfully
> display the application.  There are still a few bugs to work out, but
> it's looking good about having code to make the iPad 1 work.  That
> being said, unlike the iPad 3, the iPad 1 isn't fast enough to handle
> 192k datarate from the hardware.  It seems to do much better on 96k and
> that platform will use that datarate.  In a couple of days I'll
> probably release another build that will include iPad 1 support.  If
> you'd like to try this out, sign up on TestFlight http://bit.ly/HGVq3u
> Please do not sign up unless you intend to test the app and give me
> some feedback.  I only have 100 devices a year to which I can send out
> test code, so I really don't want to waste these slots unless they're
> going to do some good.
> 
> Thanks for everyone's support, and please let me know how it's working
> (or more likely not working) for you.
> 
> --
> Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
> Xenotropic Systems
> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
> 
> 
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