[hpsdr] Atlas payment address

[Eric Ellison]

Frank

 

Yes, my address will be on the packaging. I am also good at ARRL and QRZ.
I'll also publish the address here. I should have put it in the Terms and
Conditions Document.

 

Eric Ellison

5276 East Shore Drive

Conyers, GA 30094

 

It was my feeling as I watched this marvelous project unfold that it would
have difficulty if we did not have some mechanism to get to the first base,
which is the Atlas. Group buys, take a long time and are difficult to
manage, so I decided to upfront the initial board cost of about $2000. I
didn't expect 400 boards, but am thrilled at that many, so it upped the ante
to about 2400 give or take. In keeping with the open source nature of the
project, I didn't want to 'hide' anything so published the actual cost of
the boards.

 

I'll have about $200 in packaging, and trans shipping costs. I expected that
I would be carrying som inventory at the 400 order level, but we already
have 382 ordered, so inventory may be nil.

 

I am also sponsoring the Alpha boards for the project leaders, up to about
$700 dollars in personal funds, which I had 'laying around' in my PayPal
account. Although the $51 dollars per board for alphas probably would not
'break' the Project Leaders bank accounts, they ARE supporting the entire
additional cost of prototyping and development. I felt it my part as a
'user' of their dedication and productivity to support that in the name of
the 'user'. When I pay Lyle for the Janus alpha I will have about $365 in
the alpha's. It is to this account, I will add back any accrual, to continue
the support.

 

This is a great project and great people, it the true spirit of amateur
radio! Many people are contributing to make it work.

 

Thanks

Eric

 

 

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From: hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org] On Behalf Of
FRANCIS CARCIA
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:20 PM
To: hpsdr at hpsdr.org
Subject: [hpsdr] Atlas payment address

 

First I want to say $10 sell for $6 cost is quite fair in my book and Glad
to pay a little extra for everyone's effort. I'm in the middle of building a
new QTH so don't have any free time to be more than a lurker.

Am I to assume there will be a return address on the package to send a
check. I do not have pay pal and want to make sure i do the right thing.
Frank WA!GFZ 

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