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style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Folks<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Looks like the Atlas is nearing design completion. Anyone out there want to<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>take the ball and run on production of a board? I know Phil_C has had boards<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>done before, just by looking at his blog shows that. However, if we have<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>lurkers who have experience in producing circuit boards, it would allow Phil<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>to get to the Mercury without having to worry about it. Also anyone have any<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>suggestions about how we get from "Point A to Point B"? "Point B" being an<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Atlas in every shack?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Due to the stackup (4 layers with ground plane on the top layer), el
cheapo fab houses like ExpressPCB or SparkFun’s batch service won’t
do this board. PCBexpress will. It looks like their pricing would work out to
be 6 boards for $389 ($64.83 each) 10 boards for $488 ($48.80 each). As
the quantity goes up the per piece price goes down (duhhh!) to around $20 if
you are willing to buy 100 pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>Does anyone have experience with other fab houses that we might look at
for a quote that you’ve had good results from and have what you consider
decent pricing? It has been a while since I’ve investigated pricing
for prototype board fabs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>Ray WB6TPU<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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