On 3/15/2016 7:43 PM, Kevin Custer wrote:
On 3/15/2016 7:20 PM, Jim Aspinwall wrote:
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No - it's not a $2.00 FOB, but what's your time and money worth to buy products that are potted and unusable? Maybe the features of such a device like the RA-35 makes it worthy of the asking price? I'll let that up to you to decide. I am assembling a list of those interested. Email direct.
While I hold nothing against anyone who wants to hack at something to get it to work...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 either an already-constructed and proven device...or spend hours looking for a $3.00 part that I have to spend another 2 hours modifying with no guarantee (especially for pacific-rim sourced devices off fleabay) that it is actually useable (USB programming cables, anyone?). Done as an academic exercise...why not? 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 helped design and build a broadcast quality 1KW FM transmitter back in the day for a station. Passed all the proof tests. But, it cost, in the end, 2x what it would have cost to just issue a PO to Harris/Gates (at the time) for a manufactured rig with a guarantee. But, again, that's just me and my $.03. BB