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Jack Purdum
Howard: I wrote the assembly manual for 24 members of my club who have already built the kit. About 5 of those had never built anything before, so I feel that the board and the code are stable. QRPGuys are only selling the board, but they sold out the first shipment of 50 boards in 2 days. They have almost sold out of the second shipment of 50 boards. The PCB board is not really "new", but is the same one that my club members used. It's only "new" in the sense that I've had to reorder the board several times because more people have purchased it than we expected. I am not selling the board; only QRPGuys are. You would need to order all of the parts for the board yourself. You can read through the list of parts and the assembly manual, as those are free downloads from their site. That should help you decide whether you want to purchase it or not. 73, Jack W8TEE From: W6IDS <w6ids@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [BITX20] MAR-3SM+ and new display/VFO board coming Hi Jack,
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Forgive me, but as a newbe to the group, I¡¯m still playing catch up with
the BITX project and your own MAR-35M
and display board.
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I did go to the QRPGuys and look at the analyzer information.? I¡¯m now
assuming that? newbe can do the task
of programming because of the stable code.? It would have to be an
error on my part for it not to be done
properly.? I¡¯m speakng to the board assembly as well.
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Am I to wait for the release of your new PCB and code before
purchasing?? It¡¯s not an actual complete kit
per se, right?? Would the new boards be purchased from QRPGuys?
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I read where many current boards have been purchased for the
analyzer.? Are people assembling the unit, installing
the code for practice per se?? Then, when your code is released,
remove the analyzer code and install yours
for the digital display?
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Howard W6IDS
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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] MAR-3SM+ and new display/VFO board
coming ? Dennis Kidder (W6DQ and co-author of
the Arduino Projects book) is
the brains behind the changes we're making; I'm just plugging in the code. When
we're done, everything will be put into Open Source and the PCB will be
available, too. Farrukh is redoing the PCB to bring out more of the Arduino Mega
pins to headers to make hacking the system easier. We're working like crazy to
get everything done for the FDIM conference where it will be
presented.
Jack,
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