On 01/11/2011 07:16 AM, James Hall wrote: > back? > > Why is it that the USRP was $450, then discontinued to bring out the > USRP2 for $700 now it's being discontinued for a new design that will > be marketed at $1700? I predict that the next revision after that will > cost even more. Even if it's to pay for all the new technology in each > design, it's still troublesome that if I wanted the same capability > then I'd be forced into paying the ever raising price the longer I > wait to buy one. I doubt they're really for me though. Those prices > are for commercial companies where that sort of thing isn't even > pocket change. It's what they dig out of the couch cushions. That or > hams that can afford luxury radios in the $2-4k+ range. > You're confused.
The USRP1, which was *introduced* back in 2004 (6 years ago!) for $450, is now $700.00, and still available, and still very much in use. The USRP2 was introduced a couple of years ago for $1400.00, and is being phased-out due to the unavailability of a critical part, and is being replaced with the N210, which is $1700.00. The original $450.00 price for the USRP1 was likely introductory pricing--a very common practice in the industry to get your product "out there", without initially worrying about making a profit on it. But since Ettus Research is a *business*, rather than a charity, I have to assume that the price went up so that Matt could continue to eat and pay his rent. I think what comes out of this is that something like the Charleston SDR might fit the bill for "poor student/hobbiest experimenter". Someone needs to bug the developer of the Charleston SDR to get his GnuRadio support into the mainstream. -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio