"Highland Ham" wrote in message
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Why don't you rough out a plan and design a few of these "biscuits" and
publish them on a website or maybe in one of the various journals that
support the hobby.

Well,...Eamon Skelton ,EI9GQ is doing exactly that already..in his
HOMEBREW column in ........... RADCOM.

and George Dobbs , G3RJV has a similar column in Practical Wireless.

I am sure G4SDW knows that.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

Maybe he does know it but that doesn't mean the idea is not a good one.
Truely new ideas are few and far between. I've come across it before as a
suggested way to cope with component obsolesce issues in long service life
applications- a chap I used to work with coined the idea of "tokens" (as I
recall). Basically the idea was a library of circuit building blocks that
could be assembled to make a larger circuit. If a particular part could no
longer be obtained, a new "token" could be designed with a defined interface
and functionality.

A sound idea but not an easy project. However, if Gareth can get something
rolling, maybe expanding on Eamon's and/or George's ideas, so much the
better. I'd not knock the idea, quite the converse.

So get rolling Gareth, let us see some of your ideas on the web or in Sprat,
etc.

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73
Brian, G8OSN
www.g8osn.org.uk

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