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Folks Production FCDs thus far have all been shipped with firmware release 18b. This has been through months of proving both before and after production release. This firmware has been in existence since October 2010, and there have been four … Continue reading →

Folks There was a recent question about a block diagram for the FCD, and I must admit I thought there was one here already on the site but I can’t find it – there was certainly one over on funcube.org.uk … Continue reading →

Folks I am indebted to David Barber’s work on providing a number of guides for the FCD on the downloads page. Today we’ve placed some updated WRplus documents there. Thanks again to David! Howard

Folks I had a question recently about the close-in phase noise around the zero IF, where many FCD and Softrock users will see a peak in the middle of passband. Although you can correct for DC offset, phase noise is … Continue reading →

Folks, (*** see updates here and here) As you are aware one of the key features of the FCD is its wide frequency range of operation. While this is great, the compromise with wide band receivers are that they can … Continue reading →

Folks While producing the posting labels on Saturday we discovered that Paypal has now removed their Airsure option, so we have used their International Signed For for all non UK deliveries. The alternative was to manually cut and paste each … Continue reading →

Folks. I placed 120 units in the Paypal inventory for the 10pm sale, although Paypal oversold again so a total of 135 units were sold, although one was cancelled, so it’s 134 really. The oversold inventory expired at 22:00:49. We … Continue reading →

Folks The next sale will be on Friday 4 February 2011 at 22:00 UTC. Sorry, sold out again. The next sale will be in the next couple of weeks, I’ll let you know on the site exactly when it is. … Continue reading →

Folks This year is not what I expected. I’ve worked for myself for twenty years, and until a few short weeks ago my working life and career has always been providing design and troubleshooting services for financial trading systems. My … Continue reading →

OK, so I got up at 5:30am today and it’s midnight now, but in an effort to get as many boards ready as possible for the next sale (around 4/5/6 Feb) I had a marathon session today. 3,000 parts is … Continue reading →