On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 12:19:06AM +0200, Thomas M. wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Cyron Green wrote:
>
> > I bought mine from Astro-radio in spain. It took about 5days to get to me.
> > Astro was easy to deal with, and I love the spanish stamps.
> > www.astro-radio.com it was about $120 assembled and after shipping.
>
> Urgh, that sounds expensive! I think my YAM costs me arround 25$, the
> chip is arround 15$ here in denmark, in small quantities (i bought 2 of
> them) the pcb is also fairly easy to make your self. Where is the HAM
> spirrit? (Buying ready to go radios, and modems, instead of making them
> yourself?)
The FPGA was about $20 Australian here. The whole modem cost me $30-35
which is quite good, the parts for a Baycom cost me at least that.
I wouldn't say that the YAM PCB is trivial to make yourself, though.
We had to draw it up again because we need HPGL format to make the board.
Hamish
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