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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Magnus Lindahl</b> <<a href="mailto:sm4rwi@telia.com">sm4rwi@telia.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br> <br> <br> <br>Hello Jeroen,<br> <br> I share the same question.<br> <br> Magnus, SM4RWI<br> <br><br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: <a href="mailto:hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org</a>]<br>
On Behalf Of Jeroen Bastemeijer<br> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:57 AM<br> To: Scott Cowling<br> Cc: <a href="mailto:hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org</a><br> Subject: [hpsdr] Alex<br> <br> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br>
<br> <br>Dear Scotty,<br> <br> How are you? Very busy with the HPSDR-project, I guess. ;-) I don't want<br> to consume too much of your time, but I have one burning question (or<br> maybe it is more a remark).<br> <br>
Alexiares will only be offered as a ready build board. For some reason,<br> this doesn't seem right to me. Once we started the project, the general<br> idea was to build the boards ourselves. However, some people had<br>
problems soldering the big FPGA's with small pins and other tiny<br> components. Therefore the assembled versions were offered as well.<br> <br> At this moment we have a nice board (Alexiares), which could be fairly<br>
easy assembled. There are just a few 'easy' SMD components and a lot of<br> through hole components. Through hole components are easy to assemble<br> for hams and a nightmare for contract manufacturers. Therefore it is not<br>
clear to me why Alexiares is not even offered as a bare PCB and or as a<br> partial-kit. If The kitting would be easy, because, if I remember<br> correctly, the cores are already wound.<br> <br> The other advantage is that we could save money by assembling our own<br>
board. The contract manufacturer did a good job on the last boards, so<br> that's not the reason for not using his services this time. But at this<br> moment there is no real need for a manufacturer to build the boards.<br>
<br> We could have some real ham-spirit in the project again by assembling<br> our own boards, and we could save some dollars by building the boards<br> ourselves. These saved dollars could be used for other exciting parts of<br>
the HPSDR project, for example for the very neat Pandora enclosure.<br> <br> I know there was some discussion about it on the list, but no real<br> answers were given (at least I couldn't find any). Hopefully you have<br>
some time to answer this question. Or, even better, give an opportunity<br> to order Alexiares as a (partial) kit. ;-)<br> <br> 73 Jeroen PE1RGE<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> HPSDR Discussion List<br>
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