I'm wanting to play with the MRF49XA transceiver from Microchip, but I 
kind of like the module approach that Vitaliy used on the bluetooth 
board.  I'm thinking of designing a board to play with the transceiver 
that matches the I/O arrangement of that module so that I can drop it 
into the same board - and using RP assignable pins, talk to either the 
bluetooth module or the MRF49 module.  Is anyone designing or selling a 
module based on the MRF49 that has or plans to have FCC approval?  If 
not, does anyone have any thoughts on "modularizing" an add-on like this 
(interface pinout, connector type, physical size, antenna options)?  
What would a modular transceiver based on this part be worth if it were 
pre-certified?  Would anyone on-list have an interest in using it?  I 
probably couldn't make enough profit on development boards to pay for 
the FCC testing (unless I got it put into distribution), but it would 
help spread the cost a little and I can think of several places I might 
be able to use it.  Of course, it won't be long until M/C is marketing a 
pre-certified module using this chip for $9.95, but I don't want to wait 
that long.

Thanks,

Tony

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