[hpsdr] New protocol , new apache hardware?

[Joe Martin]

An additional, personal comment:  The OpenHPSDR project is by design a dynamic effort to explore the highest performance available at reasonable cost; that’s why most everyone in the project joined in the first place.  It seems rather self-defeating toward that goal to force ourselves to be locked to older schemes forever going forward.  I view the overall project as an evolving effort and given the limited resources available to us it would seem to me that at some point we should realistically and periodically review our efforts to ensure we are doing as well as we can in the effort.  If this is true then it would seem to me that at some point, not today perhaps I think but sometime in the not too distant future, I for one will lose interest in supporting lower performance platforms.  I do not speak for anyone else of course but if every developer begins to feel that way I can’t see why or how others should object to anyone focusing more on higher performance platforms and less on lower performance platforms.  Eventually it seems natural to me that support for the Atlas based systems should become less  and less important to the overall project.  

This is only my personal opinion, of course, and does not in any way reflect any “official” position of the OpenHPSDR project but on the other hand my opinion does naturally guide me as to what I wish to personally contribute to the OpenHPSDR project. 

73, Joe K5SO