[hpsdr] Janus & Ozy.

[Bob McGwier]

Achim:

Wie geht es?  

We had an overly active (and speculative) session during the TAPR annual 
meeting where some unfortunate speculation was done.   This set of off 
the cuff remarks has led to rampant "stuff" flowing all over the place.  
NONE OF IT is based on anything real at all.   TAPR and AMSAT are not 
normal business places.  This you should know well from you AMSAT-DL 
work!   TAPR does not follow the "we have to charge 5 times costs to 
live" model.    We are doing the alpha2 versions of Janus and Ozy now 
and from my perspective,  the speculation is mostly wrong.

Now Janus, Ozy, and Atlas  taken all together might cost as much as 
really good professional sound card (not $1000 but say on the order of 
$500).   BUT,  if it does cost on the order of $500,  one must ask 
oneself the question does it have this much value?    Since Ozy and 
Atlas will be useful coupling to Mercury, and Odyssey and Sasquatch . . 
. . . . . . .,     the money I put up for Ozy and Atlas to support the 
Janus card must be spread across all of the applications to which I will 
apply the Atlas/Ozy combination.

Any prices contained here are to be taken as examples.  They are not 
based on knowledge of the actual costs.  Any real pricing numbers for 
the TAPR buy will come from TAPR.  I am a member and not an officer or a 
director of TAPR so all I can engage in is speculation ;-).

Bob
N4HY



Achim Vollhardt wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I am checking the following mail:
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> http://lists.hpsdr.org/htdig.cgi/hpsdr-hpsdr.org/2006-June/001179.html
>
> Which lists for Janus under 30$ for parts when buying 100 units. 
> Certainly, this does not include board production nor assembly, but from 
> personal experience, this would not increase the board cost to 500 USD.. 
> my *guess* would be between 100-200 USD, maybe even less.
>
> But I think we should just have faith and wait for firm numbers.. after 
> all, we want high performance. This comes with a certain cost, which I 
> truly believe will still be a bargain when taking into account, what we 
> will get.
>
> 73s Achim, DH2VA
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