European warehouse and Serit 4334 NIM
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:53 am
We are very pleased to share some good news about the BATC shop!
Firstly, Benno PA3FBX has volunteered to run a BATC shop warehouse in the Netherlands which will ship all orders to our members in the European economic union. This means there will be no customs clearance required for these orders - this will reduce the shipping time, sometimes by several weeks, and members will not have to pay any customs duty when they receive their orders.
Nothing will change when you place an order in the shop and you will still pay via Paypal or Bank transfer to the BATC in the UK. After that, the system will decide if your order should be shipped from the UK or from the Netherlands.
Benno will hold most items in stock but occassionally some items will be shipped from the UK.
Orders for the UK and the Rest Of the World will still be shipped from the UK and those shipped to outside the UK will still require customs clearance.
The second piece of good news is that BATC has managed to secure a large quantity of Serit 4334 NIMs - these have been supplied exclusively to BATC and are the absolute final buy from Serit as the STV0910a demodulator chip is obsolete and there are no more genuine stocks available.
Unfortunately Serit had to pay significantly more to secure the last stock of the STV0910a and the price of the 4334 NIM has had to be increased to £54 to cover this. Whilst this may seem a large increase, the 4334 NIM is still the only tuner guaranteed to receive DVB-S2 below 1Ms and to have frequency coverage down to 144MHz - even at this price it is still possible to build a DATV capable USB tuner for under £100.
To try and help offset the price increase, BATC has initiated a project to replace the FTDI USB module used on the MiniTiouner PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico. This new tuner design will be known as the PicoTuner and will not only give a siginificant cost reduction but will enable 2 seperate channels to be received at the same time when used with the OpenTuner software developed by Tom ZR6TG. An adaptor PCB to mount the Pico on the current MiniTiouner PCB will be available from the BATC shop - full details on this and availability of the PicoTuner PCB will be found on the BATC forum and full details will be published in CQ-TV 283.
Please note the Serit 4334 NIM will only be available to BATC members for non-commercial use through the BATC and orders will be limited to 2 units.
Firstly, Benno PA3FBX has volunteered to run a BATC shop warehouse in the Netherlands which will ship all orders to our members in the European economic union. This means there will be no customs clearance required for these orders - this will reduce the shipping time, sometimes by several weeks, and members will not have to pay any customs duty when they receive their orders.
Nothing will change when you place an order in the shop and you will still pay via Paypal or Bank transfer to the BATC in the UK. After that, the system will decide if your order should be shipped from the UK or from the Netherlands.
Benno will hold most items in stock but occassionally some items will be shipped from the UK.
Orders for the UK and the Rest Of the World will still be shipped from the UK and those shipped to outside the UK will still require customs clearance.
The second piece of good news is that BATC has managed to secure a large quantity of Serit 4334 NIMs - these have been supplied exclusively to BATC and are the absolute final buy from Serit as the STV0910a demodulator chip is obsolete and there are no more genuine stocks available.
Unfortunately Serit had to pay significantly more to secure the last stock of the STV0910a and the price of the 4334 NIM has had to be increased to £54 to cover this. Whilst this may seem a large increase, the 4334 NIM is still the only tuner guaranteed to receive DVB-S2 below 1Ms and to have frequency coverage down to 144MHz - even at this price it is still possible to build a DATV capable USB tuner for under £100.
To try and help offset the price increase, BATC has initiated a project to replace the FTDI USB module used on the MiniTiouner PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico. This new tuner design will be known as the PicoTuner and will not only give a siginificant cost reduction but will enable 2 seperate channels to be received at the same time when used with the OpenTuner software developed by Tom ZR6TG. An adaptor PCB to mount the Pico on the current MiniTiouner PCB will be available from the BATC shop - full details on this and availability of the PicoTuner PCB will be found on the BATC forum and full details will be published in CQ-TV 283.
Please note the Serit 4334 NIM will only be available to BATC members for non-commercial use through the BATC and orders will be limited to 2 units.
