[Discuss-gnuradio] Chassis ideas for USRP.

[Lamar Owen]

I finally have put my USRP (#216) in a chassis.  Pictures on my photo gallery 
at http://www.lamarowen.net/pgallery/album?album_id=2060&page=1

The chassis was made from the case and side panels of an old analog/digital 
trainer I built at DeVry years ago that had self-destructed.  The front panel 
was a sheet of aluminum from a Hull marine radio.  Plumbing the receive 
inputs of the Basic RX done with 0.141 semirigid and some SMA extensions and 
a bullet (per channel), and the transmit channels with a pair of Astrolab 
flex jumpers.  The TVRX is plumbed with a short F male to chassis mount F 
female jumper scavenged from an old satellite radio (C Band) receiver.  Yes, 
that is a 6 volt lead acid battery in the chassis; portable USRP here, with 
the option of plugging it in.

I'm planning to put a Minicircuits RF amp and directional coupler on the blank 
space of the front panel for various connections.  I'm also planning on 
integrating the charging circuit in the chassis.  So far works fine!

For PARI, we put our USRP in a rack mount chassis; pictures of it will have to 
wait since it is in a rack at the moment.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu