[hpsdr] Alex

[Mike Coles]

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On 3/10/09, Magnus Lindahl <sm4rwi at telia.com> wrote:
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> Hello Jeroen,
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> I share the same question.
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> Magnus, SM4RWI
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> On Behalf Of Jeroen Bastemeijer
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:57 AM
> To: Scott Cowling
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> Subject: [hpsdr] Alex
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> Dear Scotty,
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> How are you? Very busy with the HPSDR-project, I guess. ;-) I don't want
> to consume too much of your time, but I have one burning question (or
> maybe it is more a remark).
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> Alexiares will only be offered as a ready build board. For some reason,
> this doesn't seem right to me. Once we started the project, the general
> idea was to build the boards ourselves. However, some people had
> problems soldering the big FPGA's with small pins and other tiny
> components. Therefore the assembled versions were offered as well.
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> At this moment we have a nice board (Alexiares), which could be fairly
> easy assembled. There are just a few 'easy' SMD components and a lot of
> through hole components. Through hole components are easy to assemble
> for hams and a nightmare for contract manufacturers. Therefore it is not
> clear to me why Alexiares is not even offered as a bare PCB and or as a
> partial-kit. If  The kitting would be easy, because, if I remember
> correctly, the cores are already wound.
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> The other advantage is that we could save money by assembling our own
> board. The contract manufacturer did a good job on the last boards, so
> that's not the reason for not using his services this time. But at this
> moment there is no real need for a manufacturer to build the boards.
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> We could have some real ham-spirit in the project again by assembling
> our own boards, and we could save some dollars by building the boards
> ourselves. These saved dollars could be used for other exciting parts of
> the HPSDR project, for example for the very neat Pandora enclosure.
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> I know there was some discussion about it on the list, but no real
> answers were given (at least I couldn't find any). Hopefully you have
> some time to answer this question. Or, even better, give an opportunity
> to order Alexiares as a (partial) kit. ;-)
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> 73 Jeroen PE1RGE
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