Sverre Holm wrote:


down to 6 meters for his first whack and had no problems.


If they can be taken down to HF also, it would be very easy to make a CW tx
for 17 - 10 meters with such DDS-PLL chips. Right now that is not so
interesting, but by the time we approach the next solar peak (2008+?), there
may be many more such chips available also.

Yep, and in smaller packages too! :-) Those mentioned by xpyttl are in
TSSOP packages if I recall correctly: way too small to hand-solder!

Sometimes I am "frustrated" by the huge amount of useful ICs for HAM
homebrewing shipped in ultra-space-saving packages. :-(

Ciao,
Paolo IK1ZYW