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Hi Scott<br>
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this is what i do whit the Centauri Project ;-) ,and it gatented
to not finish on Abie Hand <br>
Comercial use will require royalties , but Gerber and all file will
remain public for no profit use<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://alphatronique.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21">http://alphatronique.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21</a><br>
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but still have hard time to find FPGA guy for help me to complete
code porting to new platform<br>
so if some one have time ;-)<br>
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Best regard VE2PN <br>
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On 27/06/2018 7:27 AM, Scott Traurig wrote:
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<div class="gmail_extra">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">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).</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">73,</div>
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