Pro+ update

Folks

I have had some good news about CE certification and conformance testing. The R&TTE EN 301 783-1 testing has completed successfully, and EMC and safety are being carried out on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

I received the first ten units from the board assembler on Friday afternoon and this has shown up a fault in the device’s own calibration self-testing on some units, although on the comms test set all is good, so the limits need adjusting a tiny bit in the calibration success/fail parameters. A bit weird, because I made up ten units by hand and checked the calibration routine with all ten of those boards, and five of those boards used the exact same parts from the same reels that the assembler’s using.

There’s been just one minor change to the UHF paths and that is to slightly modify the attenuation in a pad that serves both UHF filters: this is a one resistor change, and it’s already in the pick & place machine’s brain. The 70cm path was showing a tad below specification, so I decided to fix it rather than change the specification itself 🙂

I am expecting some more units form the assembler tomorrow (Tuesday 16 October). Assuming these all check out OK, and the CE certification goes according to plan, on Thursday 18 October I will be sending out emails inviting those first who put their names down on the waiting list to “come on down”.

Many thanks, Howard