Re: Good bye all, it's been fun (building Softrock Kits)
Thank you Ben,
My overall health is quite good, it's mostly the RA in my hands. I had wanted to build the receivers to prove to myself that I could still do it, but it's very likely I might have
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Philip Atchley <ko6bb@...>
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#89301
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Re: Crystal wanted to change Softrock to receive Ten Tec IF output
What is the if freq of the tentec? I have a box of crystals for these, I may be able to help.
Ben
Ad8aw
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Ben Cherry
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#89300
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Re: Good bye all, it's been fun (building Softrock Kits)
Happy new year to you! Sorry to hear of your health issues.
Ben
AD8AW
73
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Ben Cherry
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#89299
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Website
Www.softrock40.com is the current website for the softrocks. I see the fivedash site is gone. There are still kits available. I still have stock of the multi and ensemble RX kits at the original
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Ben Cherry
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#89298
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Good bye all, it's been fun (building Softrock Kits)
Today I shipped out the two unbuilt kits I had left and want to wish everyone here a wonderful New Year.? I've been here for a long time but with my arthritic hands no longer able to build 'em.? I
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Philip Atchley <ko6bb@...>
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#89297
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Thank you...
73 de
-- Chris AD2CS
*GCARC Education Committee Chair*
*GCARC Membership Committee Chair*
*Member, GCARC Board of
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Christopher Prioli AD2CS
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#89296
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Thank you,
I've boxed the stuff up in a Priority Flat Rate box, including the construction manuals for both the LF and HF versions of the kit.? Note:? The extra toroid cores I ordered are in one of
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Philip Atchley <ko6bb@...>
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#89295
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Never mind. Looks like someone else came.
From his iPhone :
Guy Mengel
[email protected]> wrote:
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guy (at) eastroad (dot) org
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Guy Mengel N1GMM
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#89294
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
The problem with the 24 bit ADCs out there is that they have a 24 bit output format, but don’t actually give 24 noise free bits. The AK5394A, for me in my use case could give 20.6 bits (192khz) and
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Ed Marciniak
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#89293
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Phillip -- I will mail the PMO on Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning
depending upon when I can get to the Post Office. Thank you...
73 de
-- Chris AD2CS
*GCARC Education Committee Chair*
*GCARC
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Christopher Prioli AD2CS
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#89292
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Hi Chris,
OK, it's all yours for 135 shipped.? Please give me a good shipping address and I'll box it all up.? It is far better to sell it now rather than put the burden of it on my niece when I'm
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Philip Atchley <ko6bb@...>
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#89291
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Phillip.
Good morning. I will make them for you gratis for you to use. We have spoken before. I will be glad to help. If not then I will buy the from you a use them myself for ndb and listening
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Guy Mengel N1GMM
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Dave,
I was thinking of modern SDRs recently.
It you can make do with a small frequency range then it could be said modern ones have only just caught up with Softrocks:-)
A fair quality mid range
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#89289
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
<Phillip Atchley> If the kits offered for $135 via a PMO are still
available and unclaimed, I would like to buy them from you. Please respond
with availability...
73 de
-- Chris AD2CS
*GCARC
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Christopher Prioli AD2CS
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#89288
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Guy,
So there was a global semiconductor shortage a few years ago, around the time Tony quit, and the Si570 and the audio op-amps were basically unobtainable. I needed a few of the Lite II
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David Underwood
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#89287
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
I also still have some unbuilt softrock kits including at least one case.
If anyone is interested, let me know and I will get them out and post what
I have exactly.
73,
Tim
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Tim and Janet
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#89286
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Re: Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Hi Guy (My Uncle on my mother's side was named "Guy",
Hey a year or so ago I bought TWO of the Softrock Ensemble II receiver kits from Ben Cherry AD8AW for $79 each.? I've long been a Softrock fan
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Philip Atchley <ko6bb@...>
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#89285
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Costs of softrock units have skyrocketed
Hi All;
I have been working at home on the many softrocks I have obtained for a very reasonable price. Some still new from Tony in 2022. I was shocked to see the costs of softrock RXTX kits go up
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Guy Mengel N1GMM
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#89284
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Re: SR Lite v6.2 PCB - OOPS
OOPS!
I used 100 mils as the pin spacing of the SOIC chip.
Too many years with DIP chips.
Probably exactly a factor of 2 too big.
Sorry
David K0IMH
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David Underwood
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#89283
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Re: Crystal wanted to change Softrock to receive Ten Tec IF output
Sorry, I do not have a crystal. However, the later model Eagles have an amplifier just in front of the crystal filter.
There's a TMP connector on the board! You will see filter "suck out" at the
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Bob ah7i
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#89282
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