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Good point! Wild rumors don't help anyone make good decisions. I also
see a big budget problem with the rumored pricing, but then I never
expected it to be too cheap. I'll just have to skip a few lunches out
with the club to make up the funding. Let's see what the real bill is
before putting our Atlas boards up on Ebay..<br>
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73 de AD5FU<br>
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This whole thread started out with "I've heard it's going to be in the neighborhood of $500 for the two." which is an un-attributed source. Might I suggest we put aside the discussion until we actually hear from TAPR what they expect the cost to be. That way we can all get excited about the real numbers!
Steve KA6S
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It seems to me unrealistic to think that the boards should be much cheaper.
Quality 24bit sound cards alone are quite expensive despite the advantage
of mass market volumes. We could wait a few years I suppose until complete
SDRs are on a chip - boring.
Murray
VK6HL
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Woh! I hope you are not correct with that $500 estimate. I also hope
there are bare boards available for those of us who prefer to build our
own. $500 is way out of my price range.
With samples, I expect it should be more like $100 if you build your
own. I don't have a good idea of what it would be without samples
though.
Using a temperature controlled toaster oven, it is pretty fast to build
these boards, and the solder connections are so much better than
anything I can do by hand. Here I have the capability to make solder
stencils as well. I could make a few of them, and then builders could
use them to put the solder paste on, and then mail them to the next guy
on the list who would do the same. All the folks would need to have
their parts all on hand when they do the solder paste application,
because the paste doesn't stay nice for too long after you apply it.
(You need to bake it the same day.) My assembly language class project
this quarter is to make temperature controllers for the cheap toasters
found in WalMart to use them for soldering. The total parts cost is
around $100 for those. Wouldn't it be more fun to build your own
toaster oven soldering station, and then build your Janus and Ozy boards
with it than to purchase Janus and Ozy already built already by TAPR or
whoever?
I noted that the original Atlas boards that were distributed by
volunteers were much cheaper than the ones from TAPR. I guess we are
now paying for the packing and kitting hassles by going to TAPR.
73,
Rob, KL7NA
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Hi All,
I have Atlas and Pinocchio at the ready, and understand from looking at
WiKi that Janus and Ozy will be ready during the first quarter of 2007,
but haven't been able to find any estimate of price for those two
assemblies, has anybody any idea. Rather relieved that they will only
be available as completed assemblies. Great stuff and thanks from Jeff
Cook G0AFQ.
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hope not, that is so far away from the initial goal of this group.
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E.F. Cross School of Engineering
Walla Walla College
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(509) 529-3585
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