Hi - New to the list as of last night - much more activity than I expected. As an introduction, my name I Brent, and I work mostly in the subsea world, although prior to that, in the RF/microwave test equipment world.
I expected to lurk for a good 6 months before chiming in, but what the heck. Done it before: yes Done it in the last 2 years: yes Setup to do it in the basement: yes, in a hack sort of way Would I bye one? No Would do in a reasonable amount of time: No. Not to confuse the issue, but the "No's" at the end are because of my doubts in what can be accomplished given the limitations of my own skills (which are not bad) and the limitations on the design imposed by that. Hand soldering chips is doable, but you are limiting the design to not having any BGA's, which I think is unrealistic in today's world and still expect a decent level of performance. Many of the chips I work with today aren't offered in anything but BGA's. To me, there'd be a lot more value in putting people's algorithm and coding skills to use (of which, mine aren't so good). Design a robust platform based on an FPGA, get a group buy together and get the thing built in a real board house. Spend the effort in developing a high quality/high feature system that is built on sound and reproducable hardware. The GNU radio project and others come to mind. Then I might be interested.. Hope I didn't detract from/dustract the conversation. Many thanks in advance for the good information I have already gathered and will certainly gather in the future. Best Regards, Brent KD4VMM _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
