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Pi4 at $50


 

Back orders being taken.?


says should ship soon.?


k7mhi?


 

Thank you for the heads up!.
I notice they also are expecting 3A+ 3B's and 3B+'s... With arrivial dates into mid Febuary.
I use them in ALLSTAR and other hot spots and the RPI4 4M RAM is way over kill for ALLSTAR and not needed.?
I am running 2 repeaters with just RPI2's and there is no issues. They have been on the air about 5+ years.

If anyone is wondering the founder of the RPI foundation noted in a commentary about August, they they were producing 1/2 million units per month but he decided that commercial buyers would be given presidence in purchasing because "They have families to feed"... Between the lines it read- To hell with a Million Hams, all the school aged kids, all the foreigner students that $25-50 is a fortune..?

The big quantity buyers were making RPI clusters to mine bitcoin...
1060RPI cluster for sale at a BITCOIN Convention

So since Bit Coin has been in the news, I'm sure those big quantity buyers are scaling back and RPI foundation is looking to make their money more conventionally as they did when they started.

Opinions may differ..
Merry Christmas

Larry W8LM


 

The 1060 Pi?cluster was an Oracle PR stunt. As far as I know it was not used, practical?or intended to be used for Bitcoin mining. Great that perhaps early next year Pi's will be more freely?available.

Nicolas?


On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 16:49, Larry Macionski via <am_fm_radio=[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you for the heads up!.
I notice they also are expecting 3A+ 3B's and 3B+'s... With arrivial dates into mid Febuary.
I use them in ALLSTAR and other hot spots and the RPI4 4M RAM is way over kill for ALLSTAR and not needed.?
I am running 2 repeaters with just RPI2's and there is no issues. They have been on the air about 5+ years.

If anyone is wondering the founder of the RPI foundation noted in a commentary about August, they they were producing 1/2 million units per month but he decided that commercial buyers would be given presidence in purchasing because "They have families to feed"... Between the lines it read- To hell with a Million Hams, all the school aged kids, all the foreigner students that $25-50 is a fortune..?

The big quantity buyers were making RPI clusters to mine bitcoin...
1060RPI cluster for sale at a BITCOIN Convention

So since Bit Coin has been in the news, I'm sure those big quantity buyers are scaling back and RPI foundation is looking to make their money more conventionally as they did when they started.

Opinions may differ..
Merry Christmas

Larry W8LM


 

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Kelly,

Thanks for the heads up on the Pi from Mouser. Their website says the Pi¡¯s are expected for tomorrow! ?I placed an order for three of them.?

Thanks again and 73!

Alan, W3AL?




On Dec 10, 2022, at 15:50, Kelly via groups.io <kellykeeton@...> wrote:

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Back orders being taken.?


says should ship soon.?


k7mhi?


 

Hi Larry,

You said
'I am running 2 repeaters with just RPI2's and there is no issues. They have been on the air about 5+ years"

Can I contact you off list to ask some questions about what repeaters and exactly how you're programming the Pis and what not?

73, Tim ka4lfp?


 

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:24 AM, Tim Reimers KA4LFP wrote:
Can I contact you off list

Sure- my email is----? am_fm_radio@.....
The repeaters are Vertex VRX-7000's (formally Yaesu, now Motorola- except Motorola bought the line to kill it)