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

[pa5bw]

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