Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MicroTune Tuners

[Paul J Zawada]

I believe what they did was sample them to me and I paid the FedEx
> fee from Singapore or the Philippines (wherever they are
> manufactured). In actuality, I don't think they are made anymore. One
> place to find them is in old set-top boxes. You may score one of
> those from a satellite TV installer. Another place to look is Nuts &
> Volts magazine--as a Ham you should be familiar with it.

I had the same experience a few months ago.  Microtune swore up and 
down that the tuners we are interested in were still in stock and gave 
me a verbal quote for their minimum order. (50 tuners, a good number of 
which would have been made available to folks on this list...)  They 
sent me a free sample, but when it came to trying to get a hard copy 
quote via email, fax, or post so I could get a purchase order written,  
I could not get their manufacturer's rep to do it.  I tried for weeks 
by playing phone tag and talking with the guy on the phone.  He kept 
saying he'd do it, but it never happened.  I finally gave up; a pity 
since that was a pretty neat solution.  (I consider myself lucky that I 
got the sample...)

I have heard unconfirmed reports that the Microtune tuner in question 
can be found in certain Cisco cable modems, but I don't know which 
ones...

--zawada



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