Salut,
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 18:39:55 -0500
paul swed wrote:
> Just adding that this is home brew so no real boards. At the IF level thats
> both large enough and easy enough to add to a ground plane. So its
> reasonable to build the basics and add stuff as needed.
> The LNA
Attila sorry flipped some letters.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:06 AM, paul swed wrote:
> Atilla,
> Thanks you have read what I have written and further your experience
> aligns with mine for hacking these chips at least into the GHz range. I
> suspect it really falls apart in
Atilla,
Thanks you have read what I have written and further your experience aligns
with mine for hacking these chips at least into the GHz range. I suspect it
really falls apart in the 2-3 GHz and above region. But I have built a lot
in the 1.296 GHz region so have that experience at least.
These are a fairly nice and cheap hot air tool. The really nice thing is they
have been reverse-engineered and an open-source firmware is available. I have
one. Have also built a nice reflow oven out of a $40 Walmart toaster oven... I
used the temperature control PID code out of Lady
OSHSTENCILS.COM make excellent laser cut kapton solder paste stencils for dirt
cheap. I have had stencils in the mail the same day I sent them gerber files.
OSHPARK does good work for boards, but they can be expensive for larger boards
or quantities. I usually use gojgo.com (in China, but I
Mark
My thinking is to buy one from the guy who sold 2560 of them.
Others have a far lower count. So figured he was the right one.
Oh another project. Hack the solder station. Maybe I will wait a while on
that.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
> These are a