[hpsdr] ray of hope

[Marc OLANIE]

Hi Georg et all

As far as I know, the odyssey bare board is an "option". Fully assembled and tested board could be ordered to David via the dedicated mailing list. As he is a real "radio artisan", delays are a little bit long.. but that's the price to pay for affordable, fully open SDRs

... and we are hams, in other words we have to evolve to deal with up to date electronic and packaging... thus including bga handling. Buying "on the shelf" items is killing ham radio (but I admit, bga's are not easy to solder)

The red pitaya is the opposite of the Hermes project. It's a fully closed hardware, commercial board. By chance, many Russian hams did an incredible reverse engineering work to allow the use of the RP as a fully functional SDR. That means using illegal ways to reach a non-profit goal. That's not a "fair" and comfortable approach. By chance, Pavel Denim made a port of the HPSDR firmware -this is NOT a stemlab initiative, just have a look on their different apps and you will understand the quality level and skill of their devlpmt abilities. 
 
The development of the Hermes V2 project seems to be in sleep mode, let's hope is will awake sooner or later. It's a "voluntary" community project, I will never criticize the efforts of people who sacrifice their spare time for the community. What should we do to help and encourage them to keep on working ? We should ask this question ourselves (and they could probably give us some ideas :- ) ) 

Let's also hope that the "high end" evolution base on VK6PH Minerva project -which is, as far as I know, an incredibly sexy and still open source/ open hardware opus- will allow the development of "third party" pcb's that will escape the stranglehold of any commercial structure. See whatamean ? Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more, say no more. 

My 2 cts
Marc f6itu 

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De : Hpsdr <hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org> De la part de Georg Hieber
Envoyé : dimanche 25 novembre 2018 04:58
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Helmut,
a "story" usually is of public knowledge. The "Hermes II story" seems to be one of the best kept secrets on the planet. If you know any details (or where to find further information), any hint would be highly appreciated.

I first read something about a successor to the Hermes board being developed a bit less than a year ago, but ever since - silence. I secretly hoped to find something out in Friedrichshafen, to no avail.

The "red Pitaya" board hopefully appears in their shop before Christmas. 
The Odyssey 2 Board mentioned by 4Z1AO seems only to be available as bare boards with the cheap stuff assembled - the tricky BGA's are missing.

73, Georg, DK4SE

Am 23.11.2018 um 11:33 schrieb Helmut Oeller:
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