Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] What's the story on hpsdr.org

[Robert McGwier]

HPSDR grew up on its on from "Friends of Flex Radio".   It was an 
organic happening.  It is borrowing heavily from Gnu Radio.  It does 
have a more amateur radio centric focus.  TAPR and AMSAT are both 
supporters but we are supporters of Gnu Radio as well.  Matt, Eric, and 
others belong to AMSAT projects.  Matt is the principal investigator on 
the digital communications package for our next spacecraft.  Lyle is 
personally much more interested in the embedded controller applications 
(DSP chips) than desktop.  He is a Flex Radio owner and user.  Frank 
Brickle and I do both Gnu Radio and HPSDR.  We are heavily involved in 
the Sasquatch,  Odyssey,  and other pieces.  If there is competition,  
it is friendly and not hostile.  I do not perceive any competition and I 
am close to both.  Eric subscribes to the HPSDR group and contributes 
comments on occasion.  I comment wherever I am, whether I should or not 
;-).   HPSDR is using the USB interface approach from Gnu Radio.  Hey!  
Why reinvent the wheel?

I suspect there will be some competition for customers for the USRP and 
the Mercury/Ozy.  When the latter becomes real,  we can guage it better 
then.  I hope Matt is doing a USRP-2.  I continue to support both 
efforts.  My feeling is your perception is incorrect.  I do suspect that 
GnuRadio will be easily adapted to Ozy/Mercury when that becomes 
available since HPSDR has borrowed so heavily from GnuRadio.

As you say, HPSDR is an open source open hardware happening and it 
serves up everything from source to gerber files in its svn server.

Bob


Marcus Leech wrote:
> Anyone here have any more info on www.hpsdr.org?
>
> This sounds like a competing open-source SDR effort.   It sounds like 
> Lyle and friends are either
>  not aware of Gnu Radio, or there's some politics I'm not aware of...
>
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