[time-nuts] Price of LTE Lite GPSDO vs Trimble Thunderbolt.

Jim Sanford wb4gcs at wb4gcs.org
Fri Oct 17 20:13:31 UTC 2014


And, somehow I expect that my LTE-LITE will actually work, which my 
thunderbolt never did.  (Very noisy)  It continues to collect dust....
On 10/17/2014 3:49 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> First three cheers to LTE for making these available.
>
> It reminds me when Motorola made a developers kit for the then
> new 68HC11 MCU available for $68.11.
>
> I know of one design win they got that more then made of their marketing
> costs.
>
> Another that hit me is with inflation the LTE Lite is not much more then
> what many of us paid for our Thunderbolts.
>
> For those new to the list ...
>
> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2008-May/031100.html
>
> http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/tapr-tbolt/
>
> In 2008, $124, the LTE Lite in 2014 $195.
>
> With 'real' inflation (not the 11% you get online) the $71 difference is
> not much more.
>
> My two backup Thunderbolts cost me $145 each, just before they hit $200
> then became history.
>
> Again thanks to Said and JLT !!!!
>
> -pete
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