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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Hello Joe, K5SO,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I read your message on the re-use of
your IC-7800 for HPSDR with a real Eureka feeling! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Can you give us more advice on that? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Any suggestions on what I’ll have
to do to break-in on my FT-990 to make it an HPSDR-990?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I have ‘First Light’ on my
HPSDR (Atlas, Ozy, Mercury, Penelope). But I can hardly wait to start
experimenting with Whisper, Olivia and Coherent CW with it. Also read a lot
about signal recognition with second order statistics. This digital receiver thing
really is exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>So the sooner I can get this little box
of miracles seaworthy, the better!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>And this might be a real fine shortcut
without sacrificing quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>73, Ben PA5BW<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:pa5bw@xs4all.nl">pa5bw@xs4all.nl</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><quoting K5SO><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:47:13 -0600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>From: Joe Martin K5SO
<k5so@valornet.com><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>To: HPSDR@lists.openhpsdr.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Message-ID:
<B6FF1802-3FE4-4D73-8BD0-6CC7EAB09628@valornet.com><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Dwayne,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>To chime in too, I also use the
OpenHPSDR rig (Ozy, Mercury, Excalibur, Penelope, Atlas) as my primary radio at
full legal power on the HF bands with external amps, and full legal power at
432 MHz and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>1296 MHz EME with it as well (with
external LNAs, amps, sequencers, etc). The performance is absolutely
astounding! The rig replaces my IC-7800 because it simply outperforms it,
hands down!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I use the HF amp section and T/R
switching section of the IC-7800 to provide up to 200W output to drive an external
linear amp to 1.5KW and using the pass band filters on the IC-7800 there's no
need for an Alex filter board at all. The 0.5w rf output from Penelope is
more than enough to get full legal power in that way. I've helped a
friend configure a similar arrangement with his OpenHPSDR rig using an old
Kenwood transceiver as the power amp, T/R switching, and band pass filtering,
too. It's very straightforward to do without mangling the original
transceiver in the event you desire to restore the transceiver to its original
configuration later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>A major advantage of the OpenHPSDR
approach is that you can literally make it do almost anything you wish by
modifying the software yourself to do so if you don't mind experimenting with
programming. That's especially true now that KISS Konsole software is
available; it's a simpler program than the complex but highly successful
PowerSDR program. KK is aimed at the novice programmer to allow him to
get his feet wet trying out his own ideas without being overwhelmed by the
complexity of PowerSDR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I'll never go back to analog
transceivers, that's for sure. OpenHPSDR units certainly are not a plug
and play items but if you're willing to get your feet wet learning something
new and have some initiative to do so it's well worth doing it in my opinion!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Good luck!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>73, Joe K5SO<o:p></o:p></p>
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