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

[Richard Grubb]

I echo that. Thanks everyone.

Dick
G3FNL, W0QM

------ Original Message ------
From: "Riho Bergmann" <riho.bergmann at gmail.com>
To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Sent: 7/3/2018 2:57:01 AM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Thanks HPSDR group + all supporting organizations 
around it. Am very happy with all this.

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>Hi all,
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>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.
>>
>>Chris G4NUX
>>
>>>On 29 Jun 2018, at 00:24, pa5bw <pa5bw at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>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!
>>>
>>>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? 
>>>;-)
>>>
>>>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". ;-)
>>>
>>>A BIG THANK YOU, GUYS!
>>>AND A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THE PIONEERING YOU DID.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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? :-)
>>>
>>>I'll continue reading the creative technical posts, which I enjoy and 
>>>which are why I am in the HPSDR group.
>>>
>>>73, Ben PE5B, MoIJQ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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