{"id":37363,"date":"2019-05-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37363"},"modified":"2019-05-12T06:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:46:54","slug":"the-hermes-lite-sdr-an-open-source-hf-transceiver-based-on-a-broadband-modem-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-hermes-lite-sdr-an-open-source-hf-transceiver-based-on-a-broadband-modem-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hermes-Lite SDR: an open source HF transceiver based on a broadband modem chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-12-at-6.37.56-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37364\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-12-at-6.37.56-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-12-at-6.37.56-AM.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-12-at-6.37.56-AM-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-12-at-6.37.56-AM-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-12-at-6.37.56-AM-624x349.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to<em> SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Pete Eaton, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t know if you are familiar with this project, a full blown 5 watt HF SDR Transceiver for less than $300!<\/p>\n<p>No sound cards, DUC\/DDC architecture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the project description by Steve Haynal <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qlgq52IIUo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hermes-Lite is a low-cost direct down\/up conversion software defined amateur radio HF transceiver based on a broadband modem chip and the Hermes SDR project. It is entirely open source and open hardware, including the tools used for design and fabrication files. Over 100 Hermes-Lite 2.0 units have been successfully built.<\/p>\n<p>The FOSSi Foundation is proud to announce Latch-Up, a conference dedicated to free and open source silicon to be held over the weekend of May 4th and 5th in Portland, Oregon, USA. Latch-Up: a weekend of presentations and networking for the open source digital design community, much like its European sister conference ORConf. Produced by NDV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlgq52IIUo8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qlgq52IIUo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view this presentation on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating! Thank you for sharing, Pete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Eaton, who writes: Don&#8217;t know if you are familiar with this project, a full blown 5 watt HF SDR Transceiver for less than $300! No sound cards, DUC\/DDC architecture. Here&#8217;s the project description by Steve Haynal via YouTube: The Hermes-Lite is a low-cost direct down\/up conversion software defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43,158],"tags":[7766,6680,157,4087,7767],"class_list":["post-37363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-hermes-lite-sdr","tag-pete-eaton-wb9flw","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio","tag-steve-haynal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9ID","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38035,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hamvention-highlights-the-qrp-labs-qsx-10-watt-general-coverage-low-cost-hf-transceiver-kit\/","url_meta":{"origin":37363,"position":0},"title":"Hamvention Highlights: The QRP Labs QSX 10 watt, general coverage, low-cost HF transceiver kit","author":"Thomas","date":"June 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Each year at the Dayton Hamvention I enjoy checking out the latest radio products and services. 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His latest creation is called HackRF, and in less than a day, it has been fully backed on Kickstarter raising over $290,000 US with 25 days left to go in the campaign (at time of posting). Backers can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Manufacturers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Manufacturers","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/manufacturers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"HackRF prototype (Source: ossmann.blogspot.com)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hackrf-20120622-prototype-300x225.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38711,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/sdr-academy-presentation-videos\/","url_meta":{"origin":37363,"position":3},"title":"SDR Academy presentation videos","author":"Thomas","date":"July 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: Parallel to the Hamradio fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany, there are talks and whole conferences. Over the last years, the \u201cSoftware-Definded Radio Academy\u201d (SDRA) was one of them. 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