[hpsdr] new Pennylane causing problems with Mercury

Stijn Nestra stijn at pe1rks.nl
Sat Jan 21 04:32:47 PST 2017


Hi Steve,

As far as I know, Penelope and Pennylane use the same firmware. In this 
case v1.8

Good luck,

Stijn

Op 18-01-17 om 00:17 schreef Steve Mitan:
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> I have been using HPSDR for receiving for over a year with no 
> problems. I never had a transmit card. Recently (2 weeks ago), I 
> bought the Pennylane from TAPR. After installing Pennylane I have had 
> a receiving problem with Mercury. (I haven't tried to transmit.)
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> I hope this makes sense. Mercury now has what looks like a mirror 
> image on the panadapter and also distortion in the received signal. If 
> I center the station on the panadapter and then scroll up or down the 
> band, the panadapter signal splits into two signals. As I continue to 
> scroll the two signals continue to split further apart - one goes up 
> the band and one goes down the band.  If I remove Pennylane from 
> Atlas, the problem goes away. I tried changing every setting in 
> PowerSdr but nothing seemes to solve the problem. I moved the cards to 
> various positions on Atlas but that doesn't help. I removed the JP8 
> jumper on Mercury and updated PowerSdr - neither solved the problem. I 
> have spent hours trying to figure out what's wrong.
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> I am using
> Powersdr V3.3.9 (6/15/16)
> Metis 2.9
> Mersury 3.4
> Pennylane 25.5
> Alex
> Excalibur
> Atlas (obviously)
> Pandora (of course)
> Windows 10
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> Help!
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> Thank you
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> Steve
> WB3BRG
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