The Pegasus source code that is available is the old
16 bit code. How about releasing the new 32 bit code?
Dave, VE1ADH
--- "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales"
<sales@tentec.com> wrote:
> At 04:12 PM 9/23/04 -0700, you wrote:
> > I think TT has a moral
> >obligation to either make it all happen or let
> someone else have a crack at
> >it. There's no shame in this -- TT has not failed,
> rather they have led the
> >way. They fail only if they disappoint -- and I for
> one would be very
> >disappointed if they made a radio, wouldn't fix it
> and allowed no-one else
> >to fix it either. Hopefully they're much smarter
> than to let that happen.
>
> What is not understood about this discussion is that
> the DSP code takes
> a serious engineering effort to create and cannot be
> simply given away
> for anyone (including companies that compete with
> us) to use. We have
> lots of competition both in the amateur radio and
> non-amateur radio
> arenas; to simply give away our intellectual
> property would let others
> use our engineering effort to their advantage.
> Perhaps years from now,
> when current equipment is discontinued the
> possibility of making it
> available for use and experimentation could be
> discussed - but in the
> short term, there is no possibility of this
> happening.
>
> Leaving aside the entire discussion of what a
> project it would be to try
> to provide tech support for people troubleshooting
> their own version of
> our code to make their radio do something specific
> and/or modify the
> existing radio.
>
> We do custom engineering work all the time. There
> are customized
> versions of DSP radios that we sell as off-the-shelf
> items out in circulation
> right now - and there was a significant cost
> incurred for engineering time
> to create these items. The eventual owners of
> these custom radios
> paid a hefty price to use our engineering time to
> modify our intellectual
> property to get exactly what they wanted.
>
> Slightly different topic:
> I've been following the discussion about the recent
> lack of Jupiter updates
> with a bit of trepidation.
>
> We've taken a lot of heat over "look how many
> firmware updates
> there have been for this rig..." and the converse is
> "After three years,
> there haven't been recent updates coming for this
> rig..." - that's hard to
> win either way. Yes, updates for the Orion will
> continue until some
> future date. No, we haven't done any updates for
> the Jupiter since
> fall of '03 after three years of issuing them. That
> doesn't mean we
> won't do them in future, however.
>
> Scott Robbins W4PA
> Amateur Radio Product Manager, Ten-Tec, Inc.
>
>
>
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