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Thanks Scotty for the update. Very much appreciated.<br>Enjoying my HPSDR immensely. Great job by all.<br>73, Bill <br><br><br>W.B.Runyon,Sr.<br>Amateur Radio WF4R (FM16ts)<br>Chesapeake, VA<br><br>Aug 6, 2009 05:28:02 PM, <a href="mailto:scotty@tonks.com" class="parsedEmail" target="_blank">scotty@tonks.com</a> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(102, 153, 204);">***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****<br><br>Hi all,<br><br>Just a quick update on where we are with several new boards to help <br>alleviate information vacuum syndrome and help get you through the <br>dog days of August.<br><br>Pennywhistle:<br>All parts are on order. Estimated arrival of all parts except PCB and <br>heat sink is Aug 21.<br><br>Heatsinks are 8 weeks out (they must be cut, drilled and tapped), or <br>about the end of September.<br><br>The plan is to have the parts kits and PCBs ready to go so that we <br>can begin shipping when the heat sinks arrive at the end of next month.<br><br>Production run will be 500 kits, so we held the cost to the original amount.<br><br><br>Excalibur:<br>Parts are being ordered now. I don't have an estimate yet for <br>completion, but it is likely to be about a week after Pennywhistle, <br>or the end of August.<br><br>If there are no long lead time items (I don't know of any), we should <br>be ready to kit early next month and ship toward the end of September.<br><br>Production run will be 400 kits.<br><br><br>Alex:<br>I have not been able to get the toroids built in a cost effective or <br>time effective manner, so you get the privilege of winding your own.<br><br>We will build the boards without the toroids installed. The boards <br>will be partially assembled, either just the SMT parts or SMT plus <br>relays and connectors, depending on how good a deal the CM makes us <br>on the assembly. We will supply the cores and wire for you to wind <br>your own coils.<br><br>We are in the process of re-costing Alex to determine if we need to <br>adjust the price. Unfortunately the raw cores actually cost more <br>than the pre-wound ones that our Chinese CM promised (but could not <br>deliver), so the price may increase slightly. I am trying to make it <br>as inexpensive as possible, but be prepared.<br><br>If the cost increases significantly, we will do another show of interest.<br><br>I know that we are all impatient for Alex, and it has taken too long. <br>Keep in mind that I am just as impatient as you are. :-) We're doing <br>the best that we can.<br><br>I'll post more info as I get it...<br><br>73,<br>Scotty WA2DFI<br>ex-Toroid King<br>ex-Toroid Queen<br>TAPR HPSDR production flunky<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>HPSDR Discussion List<br>To post msg: <a href="mailto:hpsdr@openhpsdr.org" target="_blank" class="parsedEmail parsedEmail">hpsdr@openhpsdr.org</a><br>Subscription help: <a href="http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org" class="parsedLink" target="_blank">http://lists.openhpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org</a><br>HPSDR web page: <a href="http://openhpsdr.org" class="parsedLink" target="_blank">http://openhpsdr.org</a><br>Archives: <a href="http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/" class="parsedLink" target="_blank">http://lists.openhpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-openhpsdr.org/</a><br></blockquote></body></html>
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