Guys,
Just a quick note to say that I will be selling some of the second run of beacon kits at the Friedrischaven hamfest this Friday-Sun. I will be on the SDR-Kits stand Its in the main Hall A1 stall E43.
The price will be 12 Euros if you pre-order your kit and provide me with your callsign so I can program your keyer chip before I leave home on Thursday morning. The discount is so i do not have to go through the process of programming the keyers at the rally - its always hectic!
If you buy on the day the price will be the regular rally price of 15 Euros. The additional 3 euros goes towards helping towards the cost of the stall.
For those of you who cannot make the rally please don't panic. We have enough boards and parts to meet our current and predicted committments and for those of you who have already asked for a kit to be reserved that has been done.
When i get back from my holiday, in the second week in July, I will post ordering details here.... Apologies for the delay. Hans and I decided that in order to streamline the process I would program the Keyer chips. So I installed the latest version of the WinAVR/AVR Studio Toolset on my Windows 7 laptop to start work only to discover that Hans had used an earlier version of the compiler and whilst the compilation was clean with the latest version of the compiler the code wouldnt "Beacon". It took us a couple of days to figure out that we needed to revert to the old version of the compiler rather than battle wit the source code. And to think I thought I had left all this stuff behind when i retired from my job in IT. In my day compilers had to cope with legacy code!
72/3 to you all,
Steve G0XAR (and Hans G0UPL)
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It is vain to do with more that which can be done with less.
