<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I personally believe that the <i class="">Radio Amateur and Opensource Spirit</i> demonstrated<div class="">by Phil’s work on Minerva and Warren's work on Puresignal and John’s work on linux,</div><div class="">to name a few, is at an all time high!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BTW, you know you can buy a radio board from Apache Labs and build your own system?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jeff</div><div class="">K2SDR</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:08 AM, Isaac Weksler <<a href="mailto:iweksler@bezeqint.net" class="">iweksler@bezeqint.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br class=""><br class="">Friends,<br class=""><br class="">I joined the openHPSDR project in the beginning of 2010. I owned a Kenwood<br class="">TS-850 then but I got so excited by the new, SDR, era in HAM radio, that I<br class="">immediately decided to go for it. I purchased the hardware - then<br class="">Mercury/Magister/Penelope based - from TAPR and Hercules amp from Gerd<br class="">DJ8AY. This system - a complete SDR TRX with 100 Watts out on HF+6M - was<br class="">about $1500. All this on the "as is" basis - no warranty or support in<br class="">commercial sense. But instead we got the "open source" style support - by<br class="">the community - that has been great. I even got from TAPR a free replacement<br class="">for Metis that failed - never mind the "as is". That in my opinion has been<br class="">the real HAM and Open Source spirit. And not only in spirit but in fact SW<br class="">and HW has been completely open. Including Hermes offered by TAPR. But I<br class="">purposely went for Mercury/Penny as it kept open the perspective of<br class="">upgrading and experimenting with the system configuration (or so I thought<br class="">then).<br class="">And then Apache Labs has grabbed all this and turned it corporate. I do not<br class="">know what "TAPR NCL" license (mentioned by Bill KC9XG) means but a Hermes<br class="">based 100W output system in a nice enclosure became NON-OPEN and more than<br class="">double in price. Why? Probably "to make a reasonable profit..." quoting<br class="">Warren. And there went the Radio Amateur and Open Source spirit! Now it's<br class="">all about making money... I could go on with expressing my feelings, but the<br class="">moderator won't let me.<br class=""><br class="">So I'll just say: So long openHPSDR, it was great while it lasted.<br class=""><br class="">73 Isaac 4Z1AO<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: Hpsdr <<a href="mailto:hpsdr-bounces@lists.openhpsdr.org" class="">hpsdr-bounces@lists.openhpsdr.org</a>> On Behalf Of Scott Traurig<br class="">Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 2:28 PM<br class="">To: hpsdr <<a href="mailto:hpsdr@lists.openhpsdr.org" class="">hpsdr@lists.openhpsdr.org</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Where do I watch for Minerva/DFC [Solved]<br class=""><br class="">***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">HPSDR Discussion List<br class="">To post msg: <a href="mailto:hpsdr@openhpsdr.org" class="">hpsdr@openhpsdr.org</a><br class="">Subscription help: <a href="http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org" class="">http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org</a><br class="">HPSDR web page: <a href="http://openhpsdr.org" class="">http://openhpsdr.org</a><br class="">Archives: <a href="http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/" class="">http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>