[hpsdr] Thanks HPSDR group + all supporting organizations around it. Am very happy with all this.

[Riho Bergmann]

Hi all,

I'm still running 4 boards setup on Atlas - Ozy, Mercury, Penelope, 
Excalibur. I'm still extremely happy with my HPSDR.
It's all in my own custom box + linear PSU and 20W PA. Nowadays software 
is far better than it was in the beginning and
does a very good job today. BTW, it was 2006 back then when the very 
first HPSDR boards came out.  Thanks a lot!

Have fun!
73, Riho, ES7AAZ.


On 29.06.2018 8:42, Chris Smith wrote:
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> Amen to that Ben.
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> Chris G4NUX
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>> On 29 Jun 2018, at 00:24, pa5bw <pa5bw at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I like discussions, and I like the open expression of ideas. Not all is constructive, not all needs to be said, but the principle is good.
>> That said: I don't understand why people are complaining about the current HPSDR. I don't, on the contrary!
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>> I for myself am extremely happy, thankful and very impressed with everything that I have seen happening in and around this openHPSDR group. Just like so many others, I lived through the phases of getting my first receiver board working (I bought them, how commercial!), through marveling over the current possibilities of software+hardware. I now use a readily assembled box+boards, and that was my own decision. I feel in no way forced. Maybe that's the difference? Maybe by accepting my own choices, it does feel better? ;-)
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>> Before I discovered the HPSDR group, the best transceiver I could afford was a second-hand Yaesu FT-990. It has an excellent receiver. Yet, I did not touch it anymore since I listened to a Mercury. And that was way back, just before OM Gerd was so kind to take up commercial production of boards. The software has improved a lot since then, but so has the hardware! For scientific experiments I no longer borrow a $130.000 Rohde & Schwarz FSMR26 from work, but I use an $3500 ANAN-200D. It has more flexibility than the professional box and a dual channel (!) receiver. This has opened so many new possibilities for me, that I can only thank all the real developers on this reflector for all that they have done. And I do include the commercial guys that entered in some strange undefined symbioses with the hobbyists. Yes, also "that Indian". ;-)
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>> A BIG THANK YOU, GUYS!
>> AND A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THE PIONEERING YOU DID.
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>> Don't let all the criticism get to you. I'm just one person saying this, but there will be many more silent HPSDR fans that think the same. If mixing open source and volunteer work with other non-standard solutions does work, I embrace it. And I reckon that, if commercial firms will become too greedy, a hobbyist will stand-up and produce an alternative. But generally the guys that would do so would not be the ones shouting and complaining, but the silent, hard-working ones.
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>> I'm enjoying the excellent configurable waterfall display, diversity reception, very narrow no-ring filters, the noise blankers and PureSignal, and am impressed by the new software developments LinHPSDR and Protocol2 and I am very curious about the Minerva hardware. Will we be able to create a 3 antenna receiver? And a 2 antenna transmitter? Please? Yesterday? :-)
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>> I'll continue reading the creative technical posts, which I enjoy and which are why I am in the HPSDR group.
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>> 73, Ben PE5B, MoIJQ
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