[hpsdr] PowerSDR & OZY/Mercury/Penelope updating

[Joe Martin K5SO]

Hi Conrad, 

I haven’t seen any response on the list for your inquiry so I’ll respond.  I wonder if you are using the current USBBinaries-Blaster folder?  It can be found at

http://svn.tapr.org/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/USBBlaster-Binaries/

If not, please get the latest folder and give those files a try.  Even if you do already have the latest USBBlaster-Binaries folder the message below seems to indicate that the files may be corrupted somehow.  Therefore, in this case too, I’d download a fresh copy of the USBBlaster-Binaries folder and try them to see if that will work for you.  

I just checked the current USBBlaster-Binaries/Program-Mercury-EPCS16.bat file in the USBBlaster-Binaries folder to verify that it has options for the current Altera Quartus II v13.0 version and Mercury_v3.4; it does, so it should work I would think. 

73, Joe K5SO

On Aug 9, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Conrad Walker wrote:

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> Hello all
>  
> I decided to update my Ozy/Mercury/Penelope HPSDR on WinXP to v2.7/v3.4/v1.8 with PowerSDR v3.2.17.0.
>  
> Try as I might, I could not flash Mercury with v3.4 firmware via Ozy with USB-Blaster & either Quartus 9.1, 10.1, 12.1 or 13.0. Quartus 9.10 &10.1 gave an error "file Mercury-v3.4.jic corrupted"  - unknown argument "Mercury-3.4.cdf", refer to help for legal arguments. Quartus 12.1 and 13.0 gave a "device not ready" error. I was able to flash Mercury v3.3 with Quartus 9.1 & 10.1, and all Quartus versions successfully flashed Penelope v1.8.
>  
> I was able to run PowerSDR v3.2.17.0 with Mercury v3.3 and Penny v1.7 but found that the CW setup option to use Ozy/Hermes for CW keying no longer exists, and so can no longer run CW with my present setup, My earlier PowerSDR installation worked fine.
>  
> Any ideas on sorting this out would be most appreciated.
>  
> 73,
>  
> Conrad Walker ZS6BQQ
>  
> 
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