On 16/03/16 14:51, Kevin Custer wrote:
No - it's not a $2.00 FOB, but what's your time and money worth to buy products that are potted and unusable? [....] ...time is money...at least for me it is...so spending anything more than an hour at my contract rate, to me, and only me, quickly outweighs the $50-100 usd that it might cost to purchase [....]
Putting the bashed-together device into a commercial site? That's why hams get thrown out. That's just me, though. I'm sure the price of Kevin's device, the upgraded dongle from Repeater Builder, or Dave Kramer's URI in terms of being tested and proven working, when what your time is worth is considered, are actually cheaper.
I detect a shill, and a cleverly crafted release of a product. While I am able to plug a handful of two-dollar USB audio devices into an RPI3 and use the onboard I/O for signalling, I am probably going to go and do that. Good luck! Sounds like the millionaire hams love it already! Us poor church mice will stick with the <$100 solution - that is, for the entire node - not just for a single USB audio device! S