On 02/04/2014 03:16 PM, Robert A. Poff WB3AWJ wrote:

The PC's don't have to be all that expensive.

The P4's that I'm using on five of my nodes I bought on EBAY for $75 each (with shipping).

Do you have a goodwill store in your neighborhood?

make friends with a computer shop?

there always "extra" parts and pieces laying around that can be had for next to nothing, or even nothing...

Lots of options when it comes to 'older' computers if you aren't bleeding all over the 'cutting edge' of technology...

-Geoff/W5OMR