Ten Tec 506 and Arduino

[Mike O'Dell]

The anticipated price was right there on the web page:

I hope to review one once it is in production. Palstar expects the TR-30 
to be available August 2013.

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When I asked about the price, the told me a range of $1,500-2,000 US. (Gulp!

"Gulp" would seem to be an appropriate response.

     -mo



On 5/18/13 2:42 PM, wb4jfi at knology.net wrote:
> Mike, where did you see the price?  I looked on the Ten-Tec web site 
> last night, and could not find it.  After a Google search, I found one 
> mention of $199.  That's not too far out of line for a production 
> radio from a real company, although this rig is quite limited out of 
> the box.  Compared to a Softrock, the Rebel could be of interest to 
> beginners, for example.  I'm kind of surprised that Ten-Tec was the 
> company to come up with this.  They have been dinged in the past for 
> not providing software/code and other info for some of their other 
> radios.
>
> The 506 uses a chipKIT version of the Uno, which is made by Digilent, 
> the same vendor that makes the Nexys2 FPGA boards some of us have 
> played with. The chipKITt boards are not 100% Arduino compatible, but 
> are very nice. They have more resources than their Arduino 
> counterparts, and run faster (80MHz vs 16MHz).  There is more memory, 
> more I/O, etc.  They use 32-bit Microchip PIC processors rather than 
> Atmel processors.  The pricing is very similar to Arduinos.
>
> There are two chipKIT boards, the Uno32 (like an Arduino Uno)($27), 
> and the Max32($50), like an Arduino Mega2560.
>
> They claim to be mostly compatible with Arduinos.  This is based on 
> both the hardware I/O almost matching the Arduino footprint (allowing 
> many but not all shields to work) and mostly software compatible AT 
> THE IDE LEVEL.  A lot of work has gone into bending the Arduino IDE to 
> create PIC-able code instead of Atmel (or a mid-level interpreter?).  
> You can also program them using the Microchip PIC32 development 
> environments if you prefer that.
>
> These chipKIT boards might be of interest to those AMRADers that are 
> finding the Uno too tight to complete projects with (hint hint).  
> There are some incompatabilites with the Arduino line, both in 
> hardware and software.
> 73, Terry, WB4JFI
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Mike O'Dell
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:27 AM
> To: 'Tacos'
> Cc: wb4jfi at knology.net ; Gerald Wolczanski
> Subject: Re: Ten Tec 506 and Arduino
>
> The design is very clean and nice,
> but the price has too many digits in it
> unless there's some compelling info
> not apparent in that admittedly cursory
> blurb.
>
>     -mo
>
> On 5/17/13 7:05 PM, wb4jfi at knology.net wrote:
>> Thanks Gerald.  This looks rather interesting, depending on price.
>> Terry, WB4JFI
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Wolczanski Sent: Friday, May 
>> 17, 2013 4:44 PM To: 'Tacos' Subject: Ten Tec 506 and Arduino
>> http://qrper.com/
>>
>>
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