Thanks to all of our early adopters! The response to DRAWS has been overwhelming.
The first units have shipped, but it will take a couple more days to work thru the backlog. You will receive an email when your order ships along with the tracking number.
We have initiated the next build and will open up ordering again, once we have a target date to ship.
Thanks for your patience.
Early adopters can purchase the DRAWS board for $129.95, a $20 discount, along with the companion GPS/LNA Antenna for $9.95, a $5 discount.
Here’s the Brochure:
Digital Radio Amateur WorkStation
The production run arrives this week as well as cases and power connectors. We will ship next week once the units have passed test.
You will need to provide a 12V nominal PS (9-15V will work).
The cases will require modification to access the power and USB.
After shipping existing orders we will have a few additional units for sale.
This is a custom build for the XLX team, using their design found at https://github.com/LX3JL/usb-3006 and we will warrant the hardware from defects for 90 days.
All software and configuration support is from the XLX team at https://github.com/LX3JL/xlxd and community at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/xlxd-star/info
Today is the last day to order an XC-3006 6 Channel AMBE Vocoder. We’ve received 22 of the 25 orders required for an assembly run. We need 3 more to make the run.
If you are one of the 30 Kickstarter Backers and you haven’t received your discount coupon please email me.
Thanks,
Bryan K7UDR
NW Digital Radio team members will be presenting at The Northwest APRS Summer Gathering in North Bend (WA) on September 9th.
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Presentations will be posted on the web after the gathering.
Note: NW Digital Radio team members will not be presenting at TAPR DCC in St. Louis this year.
We get frequent inquiries about using the UDRCTM for DMR. The problem is, DMR requires a license from Motorola, the cost of which is prohibitive for the Amateur Radio market.
We all know of products that seem to indicate that it’s not really a problem, until it is …
The new supplier has shipped cases so we’ll fill all of our backorders this week.
The price has increased to $15 for new orders.
Thanks for your patience.
We received the first article from the new supplier and the design needs tweaking so that the tabs will assemble correctly. We have a new sample in process and I’l keep you apprised.
Just back from Orlando Hamcation. Nice to meet many of our existing customers and chat with some new ones.
The UDRX made it thru initial bring-up and I drove them to Oregon, while Portland was being slammed with snow. Jeremy has completed the updated Drivers and PLD code and shipped the first unit to Dennis for IQ audio and RF path analysis.
No significant problems were found at this stage.
I’ll be working on the PA and RX/TX switch while Dennis fine tunes the IQ/RF.
I’ve also been working with CMs and it looks like we’ll be be able to meet our production cost goals at this point. There is still ambiguity on the Heat Sink Extrusion and enclosure cost.
I’ll post approximately monthly as we continue to make progress.
Bryan K7UDR
The Pi cases were designed and supplied by Budd Churchward, WB7FHC. Budd laser cuts the acrylic at a local DIY cooperative here in Washington.
Over the holidays the coop moved and they’re not back on line yet so we are working on alternative suppliers. We should have a first article next week and will be back in stock mid February.
If you have a case on backorder or order one now with a UDRC-II, it will be shipped for free as soon as they arrive.
