[hpsdr] PowerSDR on Hermes

[Richard Grubb]

Hi Luke,

I was coming around myself to believing that the problem must be that 
the necessary hooks for the CW features are just not there, or do not 
work, in the current Hermes firmware. I can't see how anything in my 
particular setup could be responsible. I hate to seem to throw brickbats 
because the whole HPSDR project has been so enormously successful as a 
whole and with such a huge amount of effort by the individuals 
contributing the hardware design and software development. However there 
are clearly problems in the coordination of changes made to the 
firmware/software. It is called configuration control in my professional 
world. I know of another instance involving a VNA application where 
there was competition for space in the Hermes FPGA and one interface got 
dropped in favor of adding another feature without much coordination.

I have not really exercised RX2. Superficially it looks as though it 
works in my setup. My main interest actually is to play with the low 
speed digital modes like PSK31. The CW problem is not actually a show 
stopper for me. Just an unexpected finding.

You'd think Apache would want to take control of the configuration for 
the systems they sell. I see no evidence of that on their web site. 
However their most current hardware seems to be a development from 
Hermes and may be now on a separate software release path.

My Hermes, assembled by Apache about a year ago, did come with an 
earlier firmware release. I should reload that and check if that solves 
the CW problem.

73, Dick
W0QM

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Sent: 4/21/2017 6:55:17 PM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] PowerSDR on Hermes

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>Dick,
>
>I have OpenHPSDR Atlas system, and experience most of the symptoms you 
>describe with your Hermes.
>
>I found the problem with the transmit control and CW Options has 
>existed since the change in architecture that addressed the CW sidetone 
>latency issue – around two years. The CW sidetone is good on my 
>system. The change really made that work well, but the other issues 
>have been an irritation ever since. My system is workable, but the 
>transmit control (via the external PTT line out of Penelope) doesn’t 
>work properly.
>
>My system is otherwise stable, so I have been reluctant to move from 
>Power SDR mRx PS v3.3.9. Oh, and the Rx2 doesn’t work either, but 
>that really doesn’t bother me.
>
>73,
>
>Luke VK3HJ
>
>From:Richard Grubb
>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 4:52 AM
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>Subject: Re: [hpsdr] PowerSDR on Hermes
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>I have a Hermes card purchased from Apache about a year ago. I have 
>just  started to use it as a transceiver with the ANAN-10 PA as opposed 
>to a VNA and  just a receiver. All the receiver functions I have tried 
>work fine. However I  tried to set up the CW options in PowerSDR. None 
>of them take any effect. The  connection for a straight key remains 
>sleeve and ring and sidetone does not  work. I cannot turn off break-in 
>mode. I have the latest Firmware installed on  Hermes (3.2) and am 
>using the latest PowerSDR I can find (3.3.9). I am probably  doing 
>something stupid. Can anyone please suggest what it is. Thanks.
>>
>>Dick, W0QM.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/
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