[hpsdr] Where do I watch for Minerva/DFC [Solved]

[Marc Lalonde]

Hi Scott

this is what i do whit the Centauri Project  ;-)   ,and it gatented to 
not finish on Abie Hand
Comercial use will require royalties , but Gerber and all file will 
remain public for no profit use
http://alphatronique.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21

but still have hard time to find FPGA guy for help me to complete code 
porting to new platform
so if some one have time ;-)

Best regard  VE2PN


On 27/06/2018 7:27 AM, Scott Traurig wrote:
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
>
>
> My understanding is that for the Hermes derivative designs: Angelia, 
> Orion, Orion MkII, and now Minerva, everything is open source except 
> the Gerbers (PCB design). The owners of the original Hermes/openHPSDR 
> intellectual property rights required the derivative designs to be 
> that way. Schematic, BOM, firmware and software are all open source. 
> So anyone is free to do their own board layout and produce the 
> resulting bare boards, or produce finished CCAs for that matter, 
> either with the design as is or as a modified, derivative design.
>
> It's funny how you can never please everyone. When people had to do 
> their own board layouts, joining the "SDR club" was *quite* an 
> exercise in exclusivity. When people started to design, produce and 
> sell bare boards that lowered the bar for entry and some people who 
> were in the previous, more exclusive club didn't feel so exclusive 
> anymore. The same thing when someone decided to produce and sell 
> completed boards. And then when someone decided to produce entire RF 
> subsystems. Finally, the cherry on top was that those RF subsystems 
> became popular, and a lot of people who bought them thought they were 
> buying "radios" and expected them to be a stable, finished product in 
> the way an Icom or Kenwood radio might be. Of course nothing could be 
> further from the truth. Since 90% of the radio is in the software 
> (PowerSDR, linHPSDR, et al), that company only really owes you 
> hardware that works, although they do everyone a favor by pre-loading 
> open source firmware on the hardware and providing extensive support 
> to the open source community, both developers and consumers.
>
> So if you are unhappy with the state of the current market for 
> hardware, do reach out to the developers and obtain the schematics and 
> BOMs and get cracking on your own board layout. No doubt there will be 
> a market for it, although it might be tiny. And the design is so new 
> that there is plenty of opportunity to add your own innovations (I'd 
> be particularly interested in a method to phase lock multiple Minervas).
>
> 73,
>
> Scott/w-u-2-o
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> HPSDR Discussion List
> To post msg: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
> Subscription help: http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org
> HPSDR web page: http://openhpsdr.org
> Archives: http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/attachments/20180627/5530dcd0/attachment.html>