[hpsdr] New Hermes 2M Board.

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Intriguing news Kjell.  I am not interested, but I wish you success.

I have been participating in OpenHPSDR since it was Xylo-SDR.  I 
was attracted by the open design and the stress on getting 
high-performance from the latest-available components.  I sold 
my other transceivers when I saw the difference in performance.

I have been soldering for 60 years.  I soldered my two Atlas 
boards, Excalibur, PennyWhistle, Munin, Blitzortung, etc.  I was 
not disappointed that Janus, Mercury, and Penelope were 
machine-soldered.  I would have paid some additional money to 
have the Atlas boards machine-soldered.  My hobby is not 
lead-smithing, and I have more interesting things to do with my 
time.  I solder when I cannot get something any other way and 
would not want to compromise a design to enable manual soldering.

Your project has different goals and that is good too.

73,
Mike - AA8K


On 05/28/2017 03:33 PM, Kjell Karlsen wrote:
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> 
> Hi All.
> 
> As Apache Labs has decided to stop the production of the Hermes 
> board, we
> have discussed to see if it is possible to get it produced by 
> others.
> 
> I have for a long time thought of the possibility to improve the
> construction and include some long wanted features. I am going 
> to describe
> the modifications I am thinking on. And of course we are open 
> for other
> ideas!
>