Aeaeaeargh.
Some friends have challenged me to design a working ham transceiver I can make an actual QSO with, with a damn one euro (1€) component BOM, from LCSC.
Thankfully excluding shipping, so don't have to build something like 25 or 50pcs to hit the price point. :D
But it's going to be a real challenge, as I don't actually know CW.
And I want a synthetized rig for some band VHF and up. Quite possibly 2m.
As 23cm seems to require a 1,5€ or 2€ BOM to pull off.
@ftg Can you get a 5V regulator, some sort of reference crystal, a 74HC4024, some 1N4148s, 74HC4060 and 74HC4046 for that price? I reckon even that minimal synthesizer, which will still need multiplier chain or mixer to hit 2m, will be past a single €
@ftg You may be able to do a 1MHz VFO mix synth for less