Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arie de Muijnck Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: A lot to be said for modern technology - even if it's Chinese! Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 11:44:46 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:44:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b12b5e1b093b6dd92dedcedb58b448b9"; logging-data="3216096"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+a6kag1XjyARsyrf5pY3KbG/EF7/ABrao=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:b7t8RUJL7jC9Xond3gYdT8ZDvVU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: nl Bytes: 2455 On 2024-04-01 19:21, Cursitor Doom wrote: > The Chinese have certainly come on quality-wise from the crap they > used to churn out a couple of decades ago. I didn't expect much at all > from these two items I got off Ebay; less than 100 bux the pair, they > were. However, credit where it's due, they've worked wonders for the > paltry sum of money they want in return. > This photo shows a TinySA in RF generator mode outputting a claimed > -23dbm and some other Chinese gadget - an RF power meter - agreeing > with it to within 0.1dbm. Not only that, but both test as in spec with > my HP RF power meter. Not only *that* either, but they both go down to > -60dbm and agree all the way whereast the HP bottoms out at -30. And > the Chinks have done all that without recourse to the very expensive, > heavy and bulky thermistor head the HP unit requires. Respect is due, > here, I'd say. (we should still nuke 'em over Corona virus, but that's > another matter). > > https://disk.yandex.com/i/CVMa6sDNc2X1Nw > The TinySA and TinySA Utra designs are not Chinese but Dutch, see https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php It is produced (and sold) in China by Zeenko, see https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Buying The rest of the offers on Ali or Amazon are mostly clones that do not meet the spec and will fail FW upgrades (aka chinese crap). Arie