[hpsdr] To kit or not to kit...............

[Eric Ellison]

Folks!

OK.... I am declaring myself the 'production manager' of HPSDR. I think Bob
N4HY says "Benevolent Dictator". I have enjoyed the responses, and seen that
the reflector is NOT the way to poll a group of 300 creative folks. I'll
work on that! In the meantime I WILL work on getting the hardware IP to the
3 to 4 hundred customers with TAPR (I am a TAPR) help. I'll try to cover
choices A thru D, but if not, Tough nuggits.... We WILL cover 95 to 98
percent of the customers, and try to pick up the roughs on an individual
basis. To be fair, I don't think we can get to the granularity of mounting
parts 1, 15, 72 and 367! One way or the other you will get your 'kits' or
'assembled units'. Assembled SMT + Parts, will be the primary option.  

Shel, you have been "spot on" on all your comments. Let's get back to the
technical discussion of "Low end RX/TX board for HPSDR". Also I AM looking
for the next installment of Proteus, Mercury, Sasquatch! That Is the
discussion at hand! Let Horst do the documentation and I'll do the
production with TAPR. 

Off to talk to Lyle about alpha->production! He just needs a lil more
confidence in the marvel he has produced. Likewise Phil_C! If it works let's
produce it. If it fails, try Red wires across the surface, If that don't
work, buy the next one! Life is a risk, especially when we are on the edge,
and we WANT something!

Shel, Rick, your floor to develop! We'll produce it!

Eric






-----Original Message-----
From: hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org] On Behalf Of
Don AE5K
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 4:36 PM
To: Jason Hitesman
Cc: hpsdr at hpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] To kit or not to kit...............

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Jason Hitesman wrote:

> Just a thought for those who want pre-assembled boards only.
> 
> You can always pay someone else to assemble a kit for you.  And with
> many projects that has happened in the past either with the original kit
> creator offering things pre-assembled as an option for additonal cost or
> third-parties who enjoy the assembly stepping up to the table.
> 
> In other words if you only offer a kit officially there is almost
> certinaly going to be an optional way to get a pre-assembled offering if
> that's what you want.
> 
> But if you only offer a pre-assembled board.  Then you leave out the
> people who want the experience of assembly entirely.
> 
> Officially offering only a kit (whether it be partial or complelte in
> parts or assembly) doesn't cut out options for anyone.
> 
> But officially offering only pre-assembled boards does cut out options
> for lots of people.

Do I read in the above we have an additional volunteer to kit 300-400
kits?  John will welcome the assistance.
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