One more related question before this topic dies, if you don't mind. What about the other side of building: stuffing the boards. My GPSDOs have about 120 parts per board, plus some custom work on the SMA connectors. Is there a service out there that will populate boards with SMT components for small orders at a reasonable price? Small is 10 boards.
Bob - AE6RV ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GFS GPSDO list: groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GFS-GPSDOs/info -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 6/22/16, Clint Jay <cjaysh...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [time-nuts] RS232 / GPS interface/prototyping board To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com>, "Nick Sayer" <nsa...@kfu.com> Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 6:06 PM Life is so much easier now, dirtypcb is a great service, I have a pile of boards here from them which are far greater quality than anything I could hope to produce at home or even in the lab I used to have. They're also better quality than any of the local board houses I used in the past. Having said that, I did hand manufacture fifty single sided boards from photo laminate to completed product in one weekend using a Dremel drill press for somewhere around four thousand holes and hand soldering every component so it was definitely possible On 23 Jun 2016 00:01, "Nick Sayer via time-nuts" <time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.