Yes, but it's more expensive than XBees, larger, and not FCC certified.

I want them to do the XBee one better.  :)

Charles Craft wrote:
> 2/3 of it with a connector to the PIC of your choice.  :-)
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Timothy Weber <tw@timothyweber.org>
>> Sent: Apr 26, 2007 2:36 PM
>> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [EE] Microchip Zigbee
>>
>> Vasile Surducan wrote:
>>> http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/mkt/NewT071/Microchip/mrf24j40.html?dkcid=5338
>> I was looking at this one last week, and almost sampled it.  The key 
>> issue for me is still that they're not FCC certified like the XBee is 
>> (and probably can't be - though those new FCC regs seem to be moving in 
>> that direction).
>>
>> But for a high-volume application where you've got the institutional 
>> resources to do certification, this looks like a good way to go.
>>
>> I wonder whether Microchip will ever do an all-in-one, certified module 
>> containing transceiver + antenna + ICSP-programmable PIC...
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