[hpsdr] Where do I watch for Minerva/DFC [Solved]

[Scott Traurig]

Thank you for the excellent example, Marc!

If you feel that strongly about it, you have the resources. Indeed, you
probably have more resources to throw at this than any other ham on the
planet short of Apache. So why aren't you taking the open source schematics
and BOMs and producing open source Gerbers, including solder mask, updated
and correct BOM (perhaps even do some parts obsolescence updates), and
publish the entire CCA drawing package on the internet for anyone to use?

Put your Alphatronique in-house designer on it. It will probably only take
him about 80 hours, give or take, for an Orion Mk II. Certainly much less
for a Minerva. Not including any BOM clean-up. I'd like a few mounting
holes in the middle of the new Orion board, please, they are large boards
and would benefit from the extra support ;-)

You don't need to answer this, by the way, just making a point that anyone
can do this using commonly available resources. You can pay for it with
real dollars like any other project. Or you can find some philanthropic
engineer who does it for free. Or you can complain about the people who
went ahead and did it the way they wanted to, something which benefited a
substantially greater number of hams than the very, very few who want to
hand assemble their own boards.

73,

Scott/w-u-2-o


On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Marc Lalonde <mlalonde at alphatronique.com>
wrote:

> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> On 28/06/2018 6:49 AM, Jeff wrote:
>
>> BTW, you know you can buy a radio board from Apache Labs and build your
>> own system?
>>
> did you try it ?
>  it have and no past layer , schematic is outdated VS production Board
> ,many small error on it  ,same for Bill of material  ,no manufacturing file
> of any kind
>
> so even if i own and operate state of the art PCB assembly shop it finish
> to trow away the blank PCB i buy from Abie , it goal is to sell complete
> radio ,not kit or Blank PCB
>
> p.s. this is my SMT line in operation https://www.youtube.com/watch?
> v=TTiy93uJ830
>        it actually place any SMT part you may buy ;-)  even 0.4mm x 0.2mm
> 01005 resistor/Cap
>
> Marc VE2PN
>
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