I'm a USAF Rescue pilot looking for a simple, single channel very low power
AM transceiver in the 225-300 MHz range.

The use is for a training aid for a digital data burst communication device
that plugs into aircraft radios and uses their transceivers.

This way aircrew can sit around a table and practice with them instead of
having to use aircraft.

I am sure the defense contractors would want a thousand bucks a pop. Hell
they charge $600 just for cables.

I know that you can get transceivers in a single chip now, so the
engineering sure is simpler than it used to be, but I am clueless as to
where to look.

Thanks.


--
Robert Haston
Satellite Beach, FL

If you don't care about the specific operating frequency, you might want
to look at the FCC Part 15 low power transceivers being sold for garage
door openers, etc. NUTS and VOLTS magazine has several vendors of these
devices being marketed for robotics and short range data. Many are AM
type around 315 MHz. Complete transceivers can be obtained very cheap
because the use monolithic SAW devices. But if you need to interoperate
with a regular A/C radio in that band, you will have to roll your own.
Is there a "big" market for these?

Robert Haston wrote:

I'm a USAF Rescue pilot looking for a simple, single channel very low power
AM transceiver in the 225-300 MHz range.

The use is for a training aid for a digital data burst communication device
that plugs into aircraft radios and uses their transceivers.

This way aircrew can sit around a table and practice with them instead of
having to use aircraft.

I am sure the defense contractors would want a thousand bucks a pop. Hell
they charge $600 just for cables.

I know that you can get transceivers in a single chip now, so the
engineering sure is simpler than it used to be, but I am clueless as to
where to look.

Thanks.





--
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"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

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For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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