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Greg:: When I was a design engineer for a company in California known as SBE, we entered the "CB" business, to our regret, and shortly thereafter faced inevitable bankruptcy. In an attempt to stay alive, I had designed a 5 inch deep, NAV/COM that fit into a 3 1/8' instrument cutout. We already had all the parts for manufacture, we were the leading designer of PLL circuitry with proprietary chips in the inventory, but Management turned me down for a manufacturing bid due to a limited market. Of course it might have been due to a recent recall of 500,000, 40 channel sideband CB units that had been inadvertently passed through quality control and placed on the market with no workable on/off switch, but that's a story for a later date! Just an illustration why technology is so slow to arrive in Avionics. Wayne Woollard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] IFR item list > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > advice in this forum.]---- > > > At 07:28 PM 10/25/2004, Wayne wrote: >>Most of the equipment you will come across is 11 inches deep and in an >>Alon you can only get two units 6 1/4 inches wide on the right side of the >>panel to go under the tank. > > Yeah, what's up with that, anyway? Do they just give these guys a box and > they fill it? I've been messing around with electronics since I was a > 7-year-old, and have never seen so many discrete components where > ICs could be used and such needless complexity and size as I have > in avionics. > > I might understand it a bit in legacy Nav-Coms, but in a GPS-COM? > Those things should be four or five inches deep, max. > > Greg > > > ========================================================================== ==== > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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